02-02-2018, 09:41 PM
The interesting thing about Wagner is that although he is a fan of Bugliosi, unlike the late prosecutor, he does not stand by the SBT.
Which leaves him with a big problem: namely the same one Hoover had, the Tague hit.
Hoover did not buy the SBT, so he literally tried to erase the Tague hit. He had it carved out and then cemented over. But too many people had seen it prior to that. And so the WC got letters from the local US attorney about it. So they had to include it.
This is one reason why the WC did not include the FBI report in the volumes. It would have been a really jarring difference that could not have escaped notice.
What Wagner tries to do, as Martin Hay outlines, is he tries to say that the Tague hit was caused by a ricochet. As Martin writes, ricochet of what? Cannot be CE 399, since that is almost intact. If its the bullet inside the car then the center of that bullet is supposed to be embedded in JFK's skull. Therefore, how could a fragment that tiny eject all the way out of the car, across the street, and strike the curb with enough force to eject a chuck of concrete out and project it five feet upward and cut Tague's face with it? Ludicrous I think.
If its a missed shot, then where is the copper? The FBI said there was none found on the curb. Which may be one reason Hoover wanted it gone. No one who has seen the WCC bullets for that rifle can say that if it was a miss there would be no copper found.
So this is the problem Wagner now has.
Which leaves him with a big problem: namely the same one Hoover had, the Tague hit.
Hoover did not buy the SBT, so he literally tried to erase the Tague hit. He had it carved out and then cemented over. But too many people had seen it prior to that. And so the WC got letters from the local US attorney about it. So they had to include it.
This is one reason why the WC did not include the FBI report in the volumes. It would have been a really jarring difference that could not have escaped notice.
What Wagner tries to do, as Martin Hay outlines, is he tries to say that the Tague hit was caused by a ricochet. As Martin writes, ricochet of what? Cannot be CE 399, since that is almost intact. If its the bullet inside the car then the center of that bullet is supposed to be embedded in JFK's skull. Therefore, how could a fragment that tiny eject all the way out of the car, across the street, and strike the curb with enough force to eject a chuck of concrete out and project it five feet upward and cut Tague's face with it? Ludicrous I think.
If its a missed shot, then where is the copper? The FBI said there was none found on the curb. Which may be one reason Hoover wanted it gone. No one who has seen the WCC bullets for that rifle can say that if it was a miss there would be no copper found.
So this is the problem Wagner now has.