JFK Assassination Documents to be released this year

[Fiver]

One I heard today was that if the CIA and FBI knew about Oswald well before the murder. That is confirmed. Did they screw up by not keeping track of Oswald or was he a Patsy.

The FBI has long been known to have lost track of Oswald multiple times. They only knew about Oswald's Mexico trip because the CIA told them.

Seems odd that they would lose the fact that Oswald was in the Book Depository and then 30 minutes after the assassination have a full APB on the guy.

The Dallas police never had an APB that identified Oswald by name.

12:45pm - "Attention all squads. The suspect from Elm and Houston is reported to be an unknown white male about thirty, slender build, five feet ten inches tall, one hundred sixty-five pounds, armed with what is thought to be a 30-30 rifle. No further description at this time, or information. 12:45."

12:47pm - "Signal 19, involving the President. Suspect: white male, thirty, slender build, five feet ten inches, one hundred sixty-five pounds, believed to have used 30 caliber rifle. Believed to be in the old School Book Depository, Elm and Houston, at this time."

12:49pm - "No clothing description. A white male, approximately thirty, slender build, five feet ten, weighs one sixty-five."

12:55pm - "Do you have any clothing description?
No. White male, approximately thirty, slender build, height five ten, weighs one sixty-five, is all the information."

1:08pm - "Got any clothing description yet? All we have is a white male, thirty, slender build, five feet ten, a hundred and sixty-five pounds, armed with a 30 caliber rifle."

1:18pm - "General Broadcast - All squads, we have a report that an officer has been involved in a shooting in the 400 E. 10th. 1:18 p.m."

1:22pm - "We have a description on this suspect over here on Jefferson. Last seen about 300 block of East Jefferson. He's a white male, about thirty, five eight, black hair, slender, wearing white jacket, a white shirt and dark slacks."

1:24pm - "Wanted for investigation for assault to murder on a police officer: A white male; approximately thirty; about five foot eight; slender build; has black hair; a white jacket; a white shirt and dark trousers. The suspect last seen running west on Jefferson from 400 East Jefferson. 1:24."

1:26pm - "White male, thirty, five feet eight, black hair, slender build, white shirt, black trousers. Going west on Jefferson from the 300 block."

1:28pm - "Stand by. Notify 1 that officer involved in this shooting, Officer J.D. Tippit, we believe, was pronounced DOA at Methodist 1:28 p.m.
Is there any indication that it has any connection with this other shooting?
Well, the descriptions on the suspect are similar and it is possible."

1:30ish - Roy Truly notices that Oswald is missing from the TSBD.

1:33pm - "White male, thirty, height five foot eight, very slender build, black hair, a white jacket, white shirt and dark slacks. 1:33."

1:34pm - "I got an eye-ball witness to the get-away man. That suspect in this shooting is a white male, twenty-seven, five feet eleven, a hundred sixty-five, black wavy hair, fair complected, wearing a light grey Eisenhower-type jacket, dark trousers and a white shirt, and (. . . ?). Last seen running on the north side of the street from Patton, on Jefferson, on East Jefferson. And he was apparently armed with a 32 dark-finish automatic pistol which he had in his right hand."

1:46pm - "We have a man we would like to have you pass this up on to the CID to see if we can pick this man up. Charles Douglas Givens, G-I-V-E-N-S. He's a colored male, thirty-seven, six foot three, a hundred sixty-five pounds. He has an ID number in the Sheriff's Department, 37954. He's a porter that worked on this floor up here. He has a police record and he left."

Givens had been outside the TSBD at the time of the shooting and police had refused entry when he tried to return.

1:52pm - "We have apprehended a suspect in the shooting at the Texas Theater."

[Fiver]

I would add General Curtis LeMay and the MOB to the list of Kennedy haters.

Neither Curtis LeMay nor the Mob were on the Warren Commission.

LeMay's beef was with the Secretary of Defense, McNamara. LBJ kept McNamara and forced LeMay into retirement. so LeMay gained nothing from JFK's death.

The most important government official anyone in the mob ever considered assassinating was Thomas Dewey, who was a special prosecutor for New York County. Dutch Schultz was the man who proposed a hit on Dewey. The Mafia Commission unanimously rejected Schultz and put on a hit on Schultz to make sure he didn't try to kill Dewey.

Any mobster stupid enough to try to kill the President of the US would be killed by the mob.

[Fiver]

First of all I guess I should have clarified who on the WC hated Kennedys guts so for the record it would be Dulles ( the real Power in the CIA ), Hoover ( FBI) and LBJ.

Hoover and LBJ weren't on the Warren Commission.

The Republicans and Democrats then as now had opposing views and Agendas. Civil Rights was being changed by MLK more than either Party. To think Republicans were fond of Kennedy is naive. The American South was very different back then but Republicans were ultra conservative. Not Liberal like Kennedy.

You have a fundamental misunderstanding of the politics of the 1960s. Both parties have drifted on position and become more polarized.

Lets look at the Civil Rights Act of 1964
In the House of Representatives, 37% of Democrats voted against, compared to 21% of Republicans.
In the Senate, 31% of Democrats voted against, compared to 18% of Republicans.

Most of the people who hated JFK's Civil Rights stance were Democrats.

[Fiver]

WC apologists are used to engaging with everyone who criticizes the mediocre autopsy. and so there is a knee jerk reaction to defend the autopsy.

So far as I know, everyone believes it was a mediocre autopsy. What we contest is the Conspiratist claim that it was a fraudulent autopsy. That would require the Army, the Navy, the FBI, the Secret Service, and JFK's personal physician to be part of the fraud. And the autopsy evidence has stood up to repeated independent testing.
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[FISHY1118]

Gainesville man recalls JFK autopsy

GAINESVILLE - What Paul O'Connor of Gainesville saw on the autopsy table the night of Nov. 22, 1963, was not what is shown in some photos of the body of John F. Kennedy.

"One picture of the back of his head shows a complete skull and the hair is untouched," said O'Connor, who as a 22-year-old Navy corpsman at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland assisted in the autopsy of the assassinated president. "But it was all blown away."

Forty years later, O'Connor remains filled with doubt about what happened in Dallas. But the passage of time, he said, has convinced him that in his lifetime neither he, nor anyone else, will ever know what really happened that day.

"They'll be talking about JFK a hundred years from now just like we're still talking about Lincoln today," said O'Connor, a Vietnam veteran who moved to Gainesville in the early 1970s to earn a degree in audiology at the University of Florida.

He was one of the last people to touch Kennedy's body before it was interred.

After the autopsy was completed, he helped dress the body and place it in a casket. A Secret Service officer in the room assumed, correctly, that with a name like O'Connor, the young corpsman must be Catholic. The agent gave him a rosary, O'Connor said, and told him, "Put it in his hands like Catholics hold a rosary."

"I put it in his hands, but there's no special way Catholics hold a rosary."

Afterward, he said, he was "left with a mess to clean up." After going off duty at 9 the next morning, he slept for 12 hours and then joined the rest of the nation watching television coverage of the tragedy.

The last couple of weeks, as with most milestone anniversaries of the assassination, O'Connor's phone has rung off the hook with calls from news media and others wanting him to retell his experience. By the 40th anniversary it is getting a little tiresome, he said, but he still obliges.

"After the autopsy, we were called into the captain's office and had to sign orders that, under the threat of a general court-martial, we wouldn't talk about it at all," he said. "Then when the Freedom of Information Act came out, everybody started calling me - the nuts and honest people."

One of the Kennedy researchers he said he felt good about, William Law, has written a book in which O'Connor served as a consultant. "Eye of the Historian" was scheduled to come out this month, O'Connor said, but a problem at the publisher pushed its release to early 2004.

"It should be a good one because (Law) got hold of people who have never talked before," he said. "I decided to go one last time and help bring this book out and see if we can't shake some people up with it."

In countless interviews and television appearances, he has told what he knows to be the truth, from his own eyes.

"I wanted to get it off my chest," said O'Connor, 62, who was wounded in Vietnam and for the past 30 years has been disabled from a back injury.

Among the things he witnessed was what he calls "the casket switch." While he and the autopsy team were receiving a shipping casket bearing Kennedy's body, he said, Jackie Kennedy was arriving in Washington on a plane with another casket.

"The casket he was put in in Dallas was not the same one he came to Bethesda in," he said. "And I understand from talking with people at the emergency room in Dallas that he was not placed in a body bag. When he got to us he was in a body bag."

When Kennedy's body arrived on O'Connor's table, it was in a body bag. Unzipped, the bag revealed a gruesome sight.

"I looked at it and said, 'My Lord in heaven.' It looked like a bomb went off inside his head," he said. "My primary role was to get the body in and log it in, which I did, and then I was going to remove the brain. But there was no brain. Most of it was blown out."

Over the years, he said, he has talked to doctors and others who were at Parkland Hospital in Dallas when Kennedy was brought in. But he got little information.

"I remember thinking, somebody has got to those guys and scared the hell out of them," O'Connor said. "One doctor, who is dead now, told me he was told by higher-ups that he'd better keep his mouth shut if he wanted to continue working in medicine."

He said he's been criticized by some people who say he was just a young technician who didn't know what he was looking at during the autopsy.

"But I was a hospital corpsman on my second hitch in the Navy, and going to medical technology school," O'Connor said. "I knew anatomy and physiology. I had participated in 60 or 70 autopsies before Kennedy came in, so I knew what I was doing. All I tell (critics) is that I was there and they were not."

Although he tries to discuss only those things he personally witnessed and knows to be true, O'Connor has for years speculated on what killed JFK. And, he said, it wasn't a bullet.

"I've always said that what killed him was his back brace," he said. "And damned if it didn't come out on TV last night in one of the JFK specials."

"Kennedy had a bad back and he wore this rigid metal back brace, and when he got hit in the neck, the brace propped him up," O'Connor said. "If he didn't have the back brace, he would have fallen forward and wouldn't have been hit a second time. The neck wound wouldn't have been fatal."

"He was wearing something that was supposed to help him," he said, "and it killed him."

"They'll be talking about JFK a hundred years from now just like we're still talking about Lincoln today."

Paul O'Connor

Former Marine

Wow , Look what we have here another liar? perhaps , another idiot? surely not , mistaken i hear you say? , not likely , Maybe paul o,conner just plain never existed ?.

Truth is ,just like all the rest of them mentioned in this thread who saw and witnessed the back of JFKS head blown apart, this again is more proof the Warren Commission is an Utter Lie and a con job, that has fooled the gullible masses for 62 years , when will they ever learn .


Go on Fiver, show me where he changed his testimony [if he ever gave one ] to the warren commission 6 months later, like you seem to like to do

[scottnapa]

Cooper died in 1974 - either an accident while cleaning his gun or suicide. Cooper's wife, two daughters, and a granddaughter ere in the apartment when the shot was heard from the bedroom and his wife rushed in.

Such a wet blanket you are.
I am telling a story about people. I am presenting artifacts from a family history. It’s the granddaughter that showed me the photo.
It was interesting to hold something that has touched others. Interesting to listen to family stories.
Joe Cooper is one of many who got caught up in things. I have met others like him.
His life changed forever. I consider him a victim of the assassination.

Some suicides are suicides and some are “suicides”

Hank Killam jumped or was pushed thru a first floor glass window. And crawled 40 feet and died on the sidewalk. The police called it “suicide.”
In Russia, they toss out of a tall buildings. An accidental death. Sure.
Most lists of the mysterious deaths lack a clean definition of mysteriousness,
But Hank Killam, Jim Koethe and Bill Hunter those are mysterious. That would be another topic.

[Fiver]

More from Joe Cooper --

Even Jim Garrison didn't find Cooper credible enough to use as a witness at the Clay Shaw trial.

Cooper died in 1974 - either an accident while cleaning his gun or suicide. Cooper's wife, two daughters, and a granddaughter ere in the apartment when the shot was heard from the bedroom and his wife rushed in.

[FISHY1118]

Long stories defending the Warren Commission conspiracy mean diddly squat when we have proof the autopsy photo of jfks head were faked .

More to come on that .

[Herlock Sholmes]

I was perhaps a little surprised that Mac Wallace got a couple of votes of confidence on here recently considering that he usually only gets support on the outer edges of conspiracy fantasy world. His ‘story’ gets an outing in the book The Men On The Sixth Floor by Glen Sample and Mark Collom (which is a waste of paper) so let’s have a recap for the benefit of those of us that have tried to wipe this tissue of nonsense from memories already overloaded with unbelievable conspiracy theories. And for those that, quite remarkably, give this s*** a seconds credence.

Lawrence Lloyd Factor (known as Loy) from Oklahoma was a Chickasaw Indian and WWII veteran who had been declared ‘incompetent’ in 1948 by the Veteran’s Administration. This meant that this man had to have a Legal Guardian appointed before the government would pay him his $66 a month disability pay. So a great start.

Then, in 1968 he strangled his wife Juanita and was convicted the next year of First Degree Manslaughter. By 1971 the now one-legged diabetic was being treated for Hepatitis in Oklahoma State Prison. This upstanding citizen decided to tell a story to another Infirmary inmate, Mark Collom (co-author of the ‘book.’) So..are you sitting comfortably?

Apparently, in November of 1961 Loopy Loy decides to take his wife and kids to see President Kennedy in Bonham Texas where he was attending the funeral of a Senator called Rayburn. As he was waiting on a crowded street a Spanish speaking man sidles up to him and asked him how good he was as a marksman (nothing unusual about that of course)? According to Loy this was our Mac Wallace who, after Loy told him that he was a keen hunter, immediately gave him $20 and told he to take his family for a nice dinner (perfectly normal behaviour of course - although rarely on earth)

Now on to 1962, and with Loy having no further contact with Wallace apart from the once in Bonham, he turns up on his doorstep out of the blue (no phone call, no letter, nothing). Loy proceeded to demonstrate his expert marksmanship to Wallace by pinging bottles with a deer rifle. Wallace is so impressed that he immediately offered him $10,000 to do a ‘job’ for him but he didn’t say what (obviously no one in Bonham could shoot bottles like Loy). Wallace and his ‘people’ would pay him $2000 up front followed by $8000 when it was done (frankly I’m surprised that he could work out that 10000-2000=8000 but perhaps I’m being cynical?) Loy immediately agrees (who wouldn’t?)

A few days before the Kennedy assassination a young Hispanic girl called Ruth Ann turns up with a young Hispanic guy at Loy’s (if you want to add authenticity to a Kennedy conspiracy theory it often pays to throw in an Hispanic person or two) to take him on a drive to Dallas. Apparently Loopy Loy had by now twigged that they wanted him to kill someone but, as he told Collom, he was too scared to back out and needed the cash (probably to buy more bottles to shoot). They arrived at a small house and Wallace was already there waiting and for a few days they just sat around discussing the assassination of the President (Loy played no part in the planning though) and then guess who shows up…you guessed it…Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby (all the usual conspiracy theory ingredients are being put together in this recipe for waffle (not waffles) Don’t worry people, it gets even better.

Ruth Ann drives him to Dallas and led him up the stairwell to the 6th floor (yes, that’s right folks…two complete strangers just walk in unseen and carrying a rifle no doubt - probably disguised as curtain rods) Wallace and Oswald were already there (so make that three complete strangers entering unseen) Oswald and Wallace told Loy that he would be the back up should they miss (how poor were these two with a rifle?) Loy refused. No matter, Loy was sent to the southwesternmost window while Mac was two windows east whilst Oswald was in the Sniper’s Nest. Apparently Ruth Ann was on a walkie talkie (with other shooters on the Knoll) telling them when to fire. Loy claimed that he ejected a cartridge but he didn’t fire it.

One of the things that convinced the author Sample of his genuineness was that he said that he’d seen a table saw on the 6th floor. How could he have known that (this author is clearly easy to please when it comes to evidence - like most conspiracy theorists). Unfortunately for the theory an assassination researcher called Dave Perry and Gary Mack, the highly respected Curator of the Sixth Floor Museum, went through all photographs and film footage and hardly surprisingly there was no table saw on the sixth floor.

Loy said that after the assassination he and Ruth fled down the stairs (not only did no one see them enter or climb the stairs, no one saw them descend the stairs or leave the building [and with rifles I assume] Not one employee mentioned seeing a single stranger that day and, completely bizarrely, Factor claimed that he saw no one going in or coming out (he must have missed all those employees standing around the doorway - easily done I guess) She then drove him to the bus station and handed over the $8000 (even though he hadn’t fired a shot making that the most expensive ejected cartridge ever) Around an hour or so later, for some unexplained reason, Ruth Ann, with Wallace in tow, arrive at the bus station to find Loy still there! They said that they had to get him away from there as the heat was on.

According to Loy:

“We was headed up through Mead (Oklahoma) when the car broke down, right outside of Mead. I think the clutch went out.”


So he got out and hitchhiked. Who knows what Ruth Ann and Wallace did. Probably picked up by black helicopters and taken to Area 51 I’d imagine.

Interestingly, in the books acknowledgments, the authors thank everyone who “not only allowed us our fantasy but encouraged it.”

We are asked to believe that LBJ encouraged Wallace to do it as he was a part of LBJ’s inner circle. Not much is known about Wallace who died in a car accident in 1971 although he may actually have met LBJ at some point. He was a University graduate and one-time Washington economist for the Department of Agriculture and he was a murderer. He killed a golf pro in 1952 who had been having an affair with his wife. He got a 5 year suspended sentence and this had conspiracy theorist licking their collective lips when they found out that his lawyer John Cofer had been a lawyer for LBJ in one case. Why the light sentence? Naturally this is seen as evidence of conspiracy but, let’s face it, what isn’t seen as evidence of conspiracy? In 1986, D. L. Johnson (no relation to LBJ - don’t get excited) was one of the jurors in the Wallace court case. He was the only juror for acquittal and he forced the guilty-with-a-suspended-sentence verdict by threatening a hung jury. How a lawyer could supposedly have arranged this is beyond explanation of course.

The authors also tried to prove that Wallace killed an official for the Department of Agriculture called Marshall with a shotgun. This journey into insanity claimed that Marshall had to be ‘silenced’ because he could connect LBJ and an aide with the illegal activities of Billy Sol Estes, who was a Johnson supporter and fundraiser. Estes was certainly a crook who was convicted in 1963, parole in 1971 then convicted for another crime in 1979.

In August of 1984 Estes Lawyer, Douglas Caddy, said that Estes was willing to testify that LBJ had ordered the killing of Kennedy and that Wallace had been used. He also claimed that Johnson had ordered 7 other murders (unless he’d mistaken Johnson for Charles Manson of course) One of the alleged victims was…wait for it…LBJ’s own sister!

In 1998 conspiracy author Walt Brown said that a latent print examiner from Texas called Nathan Derby had been given a copy of the only unidentified print from the cardboard cartons in the Sniper’s Nest. He said that it matched the left little finger of Mac Wallace at 14 points. Problem? Actually yes…according to Loopy Loy, Wallace wasn’t ever in the Sniper’s Nest so how could his print have been on a carton? Any more problems? Actually yes…a whopper.

Enter Conspiracy theorists favourite Vincent Bugliosi (one of the countries most respected prosecutors and author of…by a thousand miles…the best book ever written on the case [which strangely most on here appear unwilling to read]) He contacted Darby in 2001 and told him that he was a little concerned about his matching the only unidentified fingerprint with Mac Wallace. “Why,” said Derby. The answer…the unidentified latent print on the 6th floor was a palm print and not a fingerprint. The completely honest Derby immediately accepted that he’d been taken in. Not all conspiracy theorists are dishonest of course. Only a lot of them (I’ll stress again that I’m not accusing anyone on here of that)

Then Barr McClellan surfaced. He was another Lawyer whose firm had, at one time, represented LBJ. He said that Wallace put together a three man team with Oswald firing two from the Snipers Nest, Wallace firing one from the third window over and someone called ‘Junior’ firing from…you guessed it..the Grassy Knoll. McClelland reckoned that LBJ was behind eleven murders with a possible nine more (almost the Ted Bundy of arranging murders - it’s a wonder that he had time to be President) He even added a bit of detail for colour in that a coworker entered the sixth floor and Wallace was about to kill him when he turned around and left…phew! McClellan of course offers no evidence for any of this but hey..it’s a conspiracy theory..who needs evidence. It’s only a pity that he waited a full thirty years to spill this particularly unsavoury beans. Could it get worse? Yes, of course it can, we’re in conspiracy world.

A colleague of McClellan’s called Don Thomas allegedly heard LBJ confess on his deathbed to being behind Kennedy’s murder. It gets even worse…he asks Thomas to tell the world after he and his wife had died. And why would he want the world to know this? It’s an absolute gem…LBJ said that his reputation was bad and so if he confessed “..my damned legacy just might improve. Hell. Might just improve my reputation, you know.” !!!!! And people believe this kind of stuff. How?!

After this contemptible balderdash appeared on an episode of the fantasy documentary ‘The Men Who Killed Kennedy’ the History channel received floods of angry letters. Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter both protested to the channel so they set three historians to the task of investigating McClellan’s story and, unsurprisingly they found not a shred of truth in the accusations. The absolute most that could be said was that there was a chance that LBJ might have met Wallace at some point during his Presidential duties.

People actually believe this stuff and then have the unmitigated gall to express amazement that non-conspiracy theorist ‘just don’t get it.’ Well I certainly don’t want to get this appalling tissue of fantasy. I’ll leave the final word to former President Jimmy Carter who continued to complain even after the History channel apologised for screening such inaccurate, poorly researched bilge:

He said that it was one thing for an independent like McClellan to produce such “despicable….trash, but a reputable media organisation, which the public trusts to give accurate, unbiased information (was) swept into this frenzy. Who or what is next? Will I be inducted into the JFK assassination ring when I am no longer able to defend myself? America needs to get a grip on this hysteria.”




I couldn’t agree more Jimmy.

[FISHY1118]

So you believe in a Conspiracy that:
* Got Ginny Randle to initially identify the package as about 3 feet long.
* Created a fake package big enough to hold the rifle.
* And was able to plant Oswald's prints on the fake package.
* And was able to plant fiber evidence on the fake package.
* And was get Oswald to take a package of curtain rods to the TSBD on the right day.
* And was able to get Oswald to leave the TSBD without his curtain rods.
* And was able to disappear the curtain rods without anyone noticing.
* But wasn't smart enough to tell a 38" package from one that was 27".

And that's more credible to you than a man who said "I didn't pay much attention" nine different times in his testimony, might have misjudged the size of the package?

You you believe in the Warren Conspiracy that show the fake autopsy photos of the back of jfks head all intact?

"Clue" . Parkland Doctors. Clint Hill, Jackie Kennedy, Audrey Bell ,that say otherwise.

The warren commission lied . Its as simple as that .

The fact that you and other dismiss the above as liars is deplorable.

[Fiver]

They couldn't tell a 38" package from one that was 27".

So you believe in a Conspiracy that:
* Got Ginny Randle to initially identify the package as about 3 feet long.
* Created a fake package big enough to hold the rifle.
* And was able to plant Oswald's prints on the fake package.
* And was able to plant fiber evidence on the fake package.
* And was get Oswald to take a package of curtain rods to the TSBD on the right day.
* And was able to get Oswald to leave the TSBD without his curtain rods.
* And was able to disappear the curtain rods without anyone noticing.
* But wasn't smart enough to tell a 38" package from one that was 27".

And that's more credible to you than a man who said "I didn't pay much attention" nine different times in his testimony, might have misjudged the size of the package?

[FISHY1118]

So you believe in a Conspiracy that:
* Used an automatic instead of a revolver.
* Used an automatic that multiple witnesses did not see eject shells like an automatic.
* Used an automatic that multiple witnesses saw the shooter break open like a revolver.
* Used an automatic that multiple witnesses saw the shooter manually eject spent shells from like a revolver.
* Used an automatic that multiple witnesses saw the shooter manually insert live rounds into like a revolver.
* Left these wrong shells to be collected by random civilians over the course of the next few hours.
* Trusted to blind luck that none of these civilians could tell a .38 auto shell from a .38 revolver shell.
* Let multiple police officers see the wrong shells.
* Let the police mark the wrong shells on site.
* Trusted to blind luck that none of these police could tell a .38 auto shell from a .38 revolver shell.
* Somehow replaced the wrong shells with the right ones without anybody noticing.

And you think that's more credible than one police officer who had been told the shooter had manually reloaded might have misspoken on the radio?

Your playing the "why would they ,why wouldn't they" game again fiver . It does work.

Your missing the point of the entire debate. !!! "Clue" below , see if you can work it out , its not hard

Ive given you the facts "on the day" of the assassination from dozens of witnesses who contradicts the w.c.findings.

There is so much more, so stand by ,the next one a gem .

[Fiver]

They couldn't tell a ".38 auto" shell from a ".38 spl"

So you believe in a Conspiracy that:
* Used an automatic instead of a revolver.
* Used an automatic that multiple witnesses did not see eject shells like an automatic.
* Used an automatic that multiple witnesses saw the shooter break open like a revolver.
* Used an automatic that multiple witnesses saw the shooter manually eject spent shells from like a revolver.
* Used an automatic that multiple witnesses saw the shooter manually insert live rounds into like a revolver.
* Left these wrong shells to be collected by random civilians over the course of the next few hours.
* Trusted to blind luck that none of these civilians could tell a .38 auto shell from a .38 revolver shell.
* Let multiple police officers see the wrong shells.
* Let the police mark the wrong shells on site.
* Trusted to blind luck that none of these police could tell a .38 auto shell from a .38 revolver shell.
* Somehow replaced the wrong shells with the right ones without anybody noticing.

And you think that's more credible than one police officer who had been told the shooter had manually reloaded might have misspoken on the radio?

[Patrick Differ]

First of all I guess I should have clarified who on the WC hated Kennedys guts so for the record it would be Dulles ( the real Power in the CIA ), Hoover ( FBI) and LBJ. The Republicans and Democrats then as now had opposing views and Agendas. Civil Rights was being changed by MLK more than either Party. To think Republicans were fond of Kennedy is naive. The American South was very different back then but Republicans were ultra conservative. Not Liberal like Kennedy.

I would add General Curtis LeMay and the MOB to the list of Kennedy haters. These were powerful forces at work at that time and they ALL benefited significantly from Kennedys murder. The relationship between the CIA and the MOB was disturbing. Oswald was known because of his defection to Russia and work in New Orleans. The Feds knew him and the FBI kept some track of his movements.

Curtis LeMay was the poster boy for the Military Industrial Complex. He was behind the Carpet Bombing of Japan in WW2 and was all for using Nukes against N.Korea in that conflict. After Kennedy was murdered he and LBJ escalated Vietnam into yet another major War. LBJ and LeMays cronies at Halliburton were big winners in the Vietnam War and every War since.

I stand by my distrust of that government and their conclusions based on probabilities at the time. Therefore I fall on the side of " show us everything". I am very skeptical about the Leaders who were behind the WC. Specter only gets attention in my view because of his single bullet theory. A theory that does not appear to match the Zapruder film. If Kennedy showed a reaction at Frame 225 for example, why didn't Connally? It was a high velocity jacketed bullet. Or maybe my eyes are bad.

Will there be any revelations in the 80000 new documents? One I heard today was that if the CIA and FBI knew about Oswald well before the murder. That is confirmed. Did they screw up by not keeping track of Oswald or was he a Patsy. Seems odd that they would lose the fact that Oswald was in the Book Depository and then 30 minutes after the assassination have a full APB on the guy.

What did Oswald say in the Dallas jail? " they knew I lived in the Soviet Union". They who? FBI,CIA?

in truth I would have no interest in the bit players on the WC. I guess their biographies interest some people. Did they all hate Kennedy? I guess that was a poor choice of words. But the men in real Power absolutely did !

[Fiver]

You can believe the lies of the Report or you can go by the evidence.

To believe WC apologists, the witnesses all suffered from color blindness, being unable to tell the difference between white, blue, gray, and tan.

Apparently, they couldn't read either.

They couldn't tell a 7.65 Mauser from a "6.5" "made in Italy".

So you believe in a Conspiracy that:
* Couldn't tell a 7.65 Mauser from a 6.5 Carcano.
* Planted the wrong rifle in the TSBD.
* Gave several police officers the chance to see the wrong rifle.
* Let the police take photos of the wrong rifle.
* Let the police eject a round from the wrong rifle.
* Let the police dust the wrong rifle for prints at the scene.
* Let the police record the serial number for the wrong rifle at the scene.
* Let the police scratch "J. C. Day" on the stock of the wrong rifle at the scene.
* Let the news take film of the wrong rifle at the scene.
* Let multiple newspapers take still photos of the wrong rifle as it was being taken out of the TSBD.
* Managed to switch rifles without anyone noticing.
* Managed to switch the ejected bullet without anyone noticing.

And you think that's more credible than three police officers who glanced at the rifle might have been mistaken?