Thanks for dredging all that up, MinM. I nearly drowned in it, but I'm still here!
A few points:
- Fetzer is still, in 2009, pestering people on discussion boards about the JFK assassination? What a toad he is.
- Malcolm Kilduff’s statement is worth zero as far as I’m concerned. If his arms were attached to him back to front, he would have pointed to the
back of his head when indicating that Kennedy was shot in the head, and none of the conspiracy theorists would be concerned. But as it happens, his arms were attached to him in the normal fashion...
- I’ve thought about it some more, and I can’t at the end of the day rule out the possibility that the head shot came from the Book Depository (TBD). I was thinking it far more likely that it came from further to JFK’s left – e.g. from the court house building – and still do, but I can’t rule out the TBD. Here is what I wrote yesterday before I came to this conclusion:
“I'm not arguing what Peter Jennings was arguing. I don’t think the shot came from the grassy knoll, but I think it’s much more likely that the bullet
didn’t come from the Book Depository but instead came from somewhere more to Kennedy’s left, from the rear. I can give a line of reasoning which follows the OP (should we call it the
compression/recoil theory?), but finds
against the likelihood of a Book Depository kill-shot.
A bullet from the TBD may have been able to do the same damage that we see done to Kennedy's head (i.e. right, mid/rear) in the Z film, but I think it’s very unlikely that it would have thrown his head the way it was thrown in the Z film. A recap, the way I'm seeing it: Kennedy is slumped forward and his neck is pretty much fully extended forward, and when the bullet hits (from the rear) it wants to push his head
even further forward, violently, and this is what provides the recoil back-and-to-the-left motion after the initial down-and-to-the-right movement caused by the bullet impact. The down-and-to-the-right-then-back-and-to-the-left motion
could be caused by a bullet from directly behind (i.e. from the TBD), but, basically, it probably would have had to take a chunk off of the
left side of his head to do it. If shot from directly behind, taking a chunk off of the right side of Kennedy's head, his head would/should have initially been forced down and to the left, and then it would have recoiled back-and-to-the-right. I'm basically relying on Newtonian billiard-ball physics for this - if you want to put a ball in the right hand pocket, you hit it at a point on its left hand side with the cue ball.
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What changed my mind was remembering that JFK was slumped forward and leaning
to his left somewhat, and I’m still thinking about it, but that seems to make a TBD shot more possible, to my mind. It seems to make it more likely that a shot from straight behind could generate the back-and-to-the-left movement that we see.
- Maybe the film was altered to (among other things) include the hint of compression/recoil, in order to disguise the fact that the shot came from the grassy knoll, and to convince people like me that the shot must have come from behind like the official story maintains it did. But even then, the brain spillage flopping over his right temple looks like an exit wound, not and entrance wound – which points to a rear shot, not a front shot.
- So to me, based on an analysis of this little portion of the Z film, the back-and-to-the-left-grassy-knoll-shooter theory looks like a big wrong-turn dead-end. And the spooks would certainly be quite interested in encouraging it, if it were wrong. Why would Hollywood be allowed to make a movie which contained both a true conspiracy theory,
and accurate details about how the conspiracy was carried out? Much more likely is that the people be shown a true conspiracy theory, but the story be mired down in hopelessly incorrect details.
There’s a whole lifetime of research to do re. the JFK assassination, but in this thread the little thread I’m picking up is the not-widely-acknowledged compression/recoil movement. Others may find other stuff is relevant to this, and I’d like to hear about it, but I don’t have a lifetime to devote to this stuff, so I won’t be attempting to address every unexplained mystery to do with the assassination here.
