Oswald watching at street level rather than shooting?
Yes it’s time for the ever popular, Name That Conspiracy! The ‘Was Oswald The Lone Shooter?’ category is a classic always at the ready for conspiracy hounds, serious researchers and anyone else who has some time to kill, so to speak. Funny thing is, this apparently is one item where the conspiracy nuts may have been right.
FBI Now Admits Evidence Used to Connect Oswald to Kennedy Assasination Was Bogus
The front page of the Sunday Washington Post features, “FBI Forensic Test Full of Holes.”
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As early as 1991, the FBI conducted studies on the reliability of the “bullet-lead” analysis used to connect bullets found at the scene of a crime to bullets in the possession of a suspect. The studies found that lead composition of bullets in the same box didn’t always match, which should have been a sign that the test was completely unreliable. Further analysis discovered that bullets packaged 15 months apart in different areas of the country in different boxes, unexpectedly matched – a gap the forensic testing originally claimed had different bullet lead make-up.
Seems a lot of people in prison are there solely because of this faulty test. Thousands of them. And the test was cited as ‘proof’ the bullets taken from JFK matched ones Oswald had.
Here is an interesting website debunking the JFK conspiracy.
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm
Cheers
#20, Chris,
What is sometimes lost in all the conspiracy bantering about, is that three assasinations [sic] in the space of 5 years, …
Think about it.
OK, I thought about it. So what is your point?
The JFK Conspiracy raised some very serious questions. Some later debunked. Some not. The most unfortunate part of the conspiracy theory is the resulting questioning and automatic conspiracy attached to any other epoch making death.
It took only a couple of years for the information on destroyed torture tapes to appear, even less for the Downing Street Memos to come out. In the past 45 years, why hasn’t someone involved come forward to say they know what happened to JFK? In the past six years, why hasn’t someone come forward to say they planted explosives inside the WTC at night. Why hasn’t someone come forward to say Foster wasn’t depressed and was killed to cover up the crime of Hillery’s missing nail polish?
When a scientific basis for finding guilt is used, it should be based upon scientific rigor and proof. Not slap happy guesswork or wishful thinking. I disagree that there might be evidence that could also convict many of the same people this phony science was used for. The use of false evidence sworn to be true and accurate is quite capable of convincing people that other, less convincing evidence, suddenly fits into the scenario better.
The same situation has recently developed with fingerprints. Experts are increasingly being forbidden to say conclusively that fingerprint evidence is infallible. Not that fingerprints themselves aren’t unique. Rather that the science of gathering, copying, and matching the crime scene prints is too inexact.
Other situations occurred because eyewitness swore this was the person. There was at least one occasion where eyewitness testimony was later shown to be wrong as the person was found to be in a jail cell in another county. Another case of where one witness said it was the person even though a different witness said it wasn’t because she knew the accused personally and it wasn’t him.
Oswald hitting the president from the book depository window can’t be any more miraculous than all the mystery shooters firing at Kennedy and managing to make all the bullet evidence look like it could have come from patsy Oswald.
RBG
#22
“OK, I thought about it. So what is your point?”
John Kennedy, in a speech at American University a few months before he was murdered, indicated a shift in policy regarding the Viet Nam war. He previously had commented that he did not understand how he could have been so poorly advised about the Bay of Pigs. He was learning not to trust the military, and in particular, the top people in it. After his death, he was replaced by Lyndon Johnson, a war-mongering Texan (do you see an emerging pattern here?). Johnson later stepped aside, largely because he saw the popular tide rising against that Viet Nam policy. (I wish that our current president were half as honorable). Domestically, he was probably one of the greats, but no one remembers that.
Bobby Kennedy died while campaigning for the presidency against the “establishment” Democrat, Hubert Humphrey. Humphrey basically endorsed LBJ’s war policy. Bobby did not. Although it is hard to predict who would have won the primary had Bobby lived, the whole process was turned upside down by that murder. Bobby was very charismatic (although not as much as John) and stood a very good chance of becoming president.
As to Martin Luther King Jr., the African-American community lost the best leader they ever had. His work was not finished. In his absence the movement became chaotic and disorganzed.
In a democracy, ballots are supposed to decide who leads, not bullets.
Chris
25. I believe that’s called pareidolia.
http://www.wordspy.com/words/pareidolia.asp
RBG
Oswald was arrested while he was purchasing a soda from a vending machine. Thats what guys who shot a governor and a president do…they calmly walk to a soda machine and grab a coke afterwards.
# 23 There is also a case where three Guantanamo suspects were shown video ‘proof’ of them at an Al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan (with Bin Laden & Mohammed Atta) that was recorded at the same time one of them was reportedly in custody in Britain. Look up “Tipton Three”.
Also the one witness to the Port Arthur shooting that knew the accused could not identify him as the shooter and another claimed the shooter was wearing the clothes that the accused appeared in on the front of Australian news papers (before the witnesses were questioned and with the caption ‘THE KILLER’) which the shooter was apparently not wearing on the day.
# 26 You can see a devil image, for example, in a picture and it can be a simple coincidence. You can also see a devil image in a picture that has been deliberately put there. “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you.”
By the way, how would you diagnose people that see official government plans to commit false flag terror attacks against their own country, who still believe their government would never commit false flag terror attacks against their own country? Oppositional anti-reality delusional psychosis? Wow, I just invented a new disorder (can I have a Rockefeller grant? Someone call Pfizer, I think we can make some money from this).
# 27 He was seen after the shooting in the TSBD building buying soda by a cop but was not arrested there. The significance supposedly is that he wasn’t flustered and therefore could not, in the short time between the shooting and the encounter, have gotten there from the sniping position without being noticeably out of breath, for the (dvorak.org/blog, dvorak.org/blog, dvorak.org/blog) record I think this is a relatively weak argument.
Finally, if you see a storm with your own eyes, get drenched by the rain and struck by the lightning but are not a certified meteorologist, are you qualified to call it a storm?
27 LDA. Must have been sweating and had a dry mouth.
RBG
#28,
Finally, if you see a storm with your own eyes, get drenched by the rain and struck by the lightning but are not a certified meteorologist, are you qualified to call it a storm?
Ha, ha, ha, excellent but, define storm.