01-08-2013, 09:10 AM
Charles at 137 above excerpts from page 568 Into the Nightmare:
"The shot from behind the retaining wall in relatively close proximity to President Kennedy may not have been a particularly difficult one, but hitting its target was crucial to the success of the plot. The accuracy of that shot that most likely was the one that blew out the back of Kennedy's head attests to the lethal expertise of the gunman who fired it. J. D. Tippit's unusual skill with firearms, from boyhood, was attested to by his father, and it was furthered in his U. S. Army service during World War II and his years with the Dallas Police Department. That expertise could help account for why he may have been chosen for the job of Badge Man [.]"
While I am certain Lee Oswald was not present when Officer J. D. Tippit was shot four times, I have a number of objections to the chain of reasoning in the excerpt.
I don't find the discussion of Badge Man to be any more credible than the game of Cat's Cradle in Vonnegut's tale of the same title.
I don't see a "shot from behind the retaining wall" or as it is framed, "the shot from behind the retaining wall"--this is simply argument to facts not in evidence.
That Tippit had "unusual skill with firearms" seems at odds with his being perforated without drawing his gun.
Robert Tosh Plumlee apparently convinced Richard Belzer and David Wayne that Officer J.D. Tippit was part of "an extraction team" but now we have an implication that Officer J.D. Tippit was Badge Man making the easy shot which. . .what. . .entered the president's right upper parietal and exited the right occipitoparietal, QED a satisfying denouement in the third act.
Except the temple shot didn't come from a shooter who wasn't there, no matter that Pappy said the boy could shoot.
Now, regarding Vince lauding Bugliosi, it's a puppy wetting the linoleum thing.
We don't need twenty-seven hundred pages of Bugsy pounding the witness rail with his fist.
We've got Vickie Adams and Sandra Styles and the Stairs That Didn't Creak.
And as for Ultimate Sheesh How Many Times Have I Read This Paragraph and Dozed Off
I chucked that
it really was too big for a paper weight
and too slippery for a door stop
Peter
I think Tom Wilson had his hits and his misses. My favorite part of his book isn't his technique--it's Dan Rather refusing to see his stuff
because there "isn't a scintilla of evidence of conspiracy"
Everyone talks about the Big Bang
but what about the Big Pop
when Dan Rather
pulls his head
out of his
(navel)
"The shot from behind the retaining wall in relatively close proximity to President Kennedy may not have been a particularly difficult one, but hitting its target was crucial to the success of the plot. The accuracy of that shot that most likely was the one that blew out the back of Kennedy's head attests to the lethal expertise of the gunman who fired it. J. D. Tippit's unusual skill with firearms, from boyhood, was attested to by his father, and it was furthered in his U. S. Army service during World War II and his years with the Dallas Police Department. That expertise could help account for why he may have been chosen for the job of Badge Man [.]"
While I am certain Lee Oswald was not present when Officer J. D. Tippit was shot four times, I have a number of objections to the chain of reasoning in the excerpt.
I don't find the discussion of Badge Man to be any more credible than the game of Cat's Cradle in Vonnegut's tale of the same title.
I don't see a "shot from behind the retaining wall" or as it is framed, "the shot from behind the retaining wall"--this is simply argument to facts not in evidence.
That Tippit had "unusual skill with firearms" seems at odds with his being perforated without drawing his gun.
Robert Tosh Plumlee apparently convinced Richard Belzer and David Wayne that Officer J.D. Tippit was part of "an extraction team" but now we have an implication that Officer J.D. Tippit was Badge Man making the easy shot which. . .what. . .entered the president's right upper parietal and exited the right occipitoparietal, QED a satisfying denouement in the third act.
Except the temple shot didn't come from a shooter who wasn't there, no matter that Pappy said the boy could shoot.
Now, regarding Vince lauding Bugliosi, it's a puppy wetting the linoleum thing.
We don't need twenty-seven hundred pages of Bugsy pounding the witness rail with his fist.
We've got Vickie Adams and Sandra Styles and the Stairs That Didn't Creak.
And as for Ultimate Sheesh How Many Times Have I Read This Paragraph and Dozed Off
I chucked that
it really was too big for a paper weight
and too slippery for a door stop
Peter
I think Tom Wilson had his hits and his misses. My favorite part of his book isn't his technique--it's Dan Rather refusing to see his stuff
because there "isn't a scintilla of evidence of conspiracy"
Everyone talks about the Big Bang
but what about the Big Pop
when Dan Rather
pulls his head
out of his
(navel)