The Head Wounds Revisited

[David Lifton]

Sorry, Daniel, I'm not going to waste time arguing about the authenticity of the Zapruder film.

Remember that Zapruder himself, interviewed on TV shortly after the assassination, described seeing the right-front of the President's "head practically open up..." The back of the head is in deep shadow and you likely wouldn't see a hole there during the few frames it is visible in the film.

Tracy,

I interviewed the Newmans (in November 1971) at their home. They were just two of the approximatley 5 witnesses I personally interviewed who said the car stopped. Furthermore, Bill Newman said without any equivocation that the shots came from directly behind him.

I also interviewed a slew of the Dallas doctors by phone in the time period October 1966-January, 1967; and then in person in January, 1983, and then on camera in 1989. There was never any doubt in the minds of those I interviewed that there was an avulsive blowout at the back of Kennedy's head.

You may choose not to "waste time" arguing about the issue of Zapruder film authenticity, but in fact it is one of the keys to the entire case.

This case is not (and was not) just about a "conspiracy of shooters." From the outset, this plot involved a plan to falsify evidence to create the appearance that all shots came from the so-called "sniper's nest."

And, because of the way events unfolded that day (e.g., the unexpected shooting of John Connally) it was impossible to create that appearance by simply putting a rifle near a false sniper's nest, and then firing some shots from the Dal-Tex Building. That's a nice (almost benign) hypothesis, but it doesn't fit with all the evidence. No way does that explain what happened in Dealey Plaza that day.

So I agree with Prof. Daniel Gallup's comments.

DSL
6/23/13; 5:40 PDT
Los Angeles, California