Re: On the other hand . . . .
bobbysamd said:
Good documentary, though.
Bobby, Bobby, Bobby,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Please. Good documentary??????????????????????????
I always thought that a documentary contained documents. The Jennings piece was a typical, major media, piece of disinformation that documented NOTHING. It showed a cartoon that supposedly "proved" that the shots came from the book depository, and then went into showing that Oswald was a nut. Jennings stated that the cartoon was of type that would be admisable in a modern court because of the technology that made it. I say, "garbage in, garbage out". Here's why, the cartoon was based upon the Zapruder film, but we don 't know which version (of Zapruder) it was based on. Yes the film has a interesting history, and according to Robert Groden, the House Assasinations Committee's photo expert, it has been altered. As an aside, I wrote earlier that most everything we see about the whole topic is disinformation and I seriously believe that. Back to Zapruder, Abraham Zapruder gave the undeveloped film to the FBI almost immediately. The FBI drafted a local developing firm into an overnight development and allowed a select few to view the movie the next morning. One of those six happened to be Dan Rather of CBS news who was a New Orleans based regional CBS reporter at the time. Interestingly enough, even after seeing the original film, withing 18 hours of the event, Rather still reported an account contrary to what the film seems to show.
(I'm going off of twenty year memorys here on some details here, and I don't really have the time to re-research this issue, but I belive that most of this info was written by either, Harrison Livingston in a book named High Treason, or a book written by David Lifton named Best Evidence.)
The film was not publicly shown for about twenty years and then only pirated copies were shown. These copies apparently came from Robert Groden, like most other details of this case, the details are fuzzy. In a book he co-wrote, Groden claimed that the original was clear, but it would never be published. In his own book, written later, Groden implies that the frames he was publishing were the "clear" frames. They still look fuzzy to me.
Back to the specific topic, the film, as shown on television as of late, has serious flaws. One of which is that it no longer shows that the limo stopped. The Warren commission published the film frame by frame, but apparently published the frames out of order, so that a sequential viewing would show a forward head movement at the fatal shot (As reported by Rather). The moving picture version shows a rearward movement. The bottom line on Zapruder is that it is interesting, but until we see the original, undoctored, un-enhanced version, we won't know what it showed.
So, I say, gargabe in, garbage out. The Jennings cartoon was cool, but it is not based upon a known. Period. I also suspect, that the techinque used is considered valid, but only if based upon known bullet tracks. JFK's autopsy did NOT establish bullet tracks, that is a matter of record from everyone involved, therefore we and everone else, including the cartoon maker, is forced to speculate and infer.
If anyone has made it to here, I've got a new tidbit to pique your interest.
On KLIF570 this morning, the auto industry expert and news/talk show host Ed Wallace who is also a historian, reported that all of the eye witnesses to the murder of DPD officer JD Tippet stated that the murderer entered the library branch just down the street. When investigation officers reached the library, they were denied entry by men showing Secret Service badges. People, this is a matter of record. The Dallas Police report of the murder of officer Tippet contains this bit of info. The DPD responded to the officer down call at full speed, yet somehow, the SS beat them to the scene???? I think not. DPD investigator James Leavell, in charge of the Tippet investigation, when asked about the report of SS in the library, only said, "in 1963, everyone in the DPD knew what a legit FBI badge looked like". There's an answer in that statement. Ed Wallace concluded his history piece with this, "the murder of officer Tippet is still unsolved, when we prove who murdered Tippet, we will find JFK's killers". I tend to agree.
I remember that I was in the seventh grade when Mr. Kennedy was shot. It was during lunch hour when some kid came out and said, "the President has been shot." I did not believe it. Then, I came home from school to see the TV on and Air Force One arriving from Dallas.
Where were you?
I was 18 months old and living twenty miles north of Dealy Plaza on I35. My father worked in a building just south of Parkland hospital and watched the motorcade enter the hospital area.
regards,
enigma
Probably not. The Bobby Kennedy connection was more likely. Didn't he have something to do with flipping Joe Valachi?
