05-09-2013, 07:31 AM
Gordon Gray Wrote:Sheery Fiester suggested a reason why the Z film doesn't show the reward ejecta is that it would have had a greater velocity than the back spatter that we do see. It may not have registered on the film at the speed of 18 fps. As to the front vs rear, these terms are not specific enough, IMO. What we see on the Z film is a fracturing and blow out of the scull in the temporal region, which is above the ear and slightly to the front of it, but still on the side of the head. I always took Jackie's expression to mean his face was intact. I find Horne's evidence of the two events at the NPIC in conjunction with the accounts of the "other film" to be persuasive as to alteration. For me the question is to what degree and to what intent. If the technical facility was present to remove the evidence of rear ejecta, a full limo stop, and two distinct head shots, why was the obvious rearward head snap left in? Was the purpose of alteration to fool the people at Time, the WC, or the public? Those involve three different time frames; 12 hours, two months, and 10 years, respectively.
Gordon, Sheery Fiester is so off base it is laughable. It might be possible for a piece of bone to travel at a very high velocity so as to be missed by the camera, if the bone was directly hit by the exiting missile. But peripheral tissue, esp blood and brains? No chance. The ejecta was removed because the rear wound, as seen at Parkland, had to be removed from history. Let us be very, very clear about this. The alteration of the film to remove evidence from a frontal shot went hand in hand with the removal from the autopsy camera's eye of the rear exit wound seen at Dallas. Notice the autopsy photos hide the Dallas wound. Now to answer your question: the plotters were not magicians. The cost of removing the considerable amount of blood and brains exiting the back of Kennedy's head was the " head snap." Should the film ever come to light, and at the time the plotters may have thought this eventuality would never come to pass, the head snap could be explained away, precisely because there was no evidence of ejecta exiting the back of the President's head. Neuromuscular reaction or some other nonsense. The film hides the limo stop; but even more, it hides the fact that blood and brains left the President's head in a spray that was visible to everyone except the extant Z-film. See Debra Conway's groundbreaking interview with Toni Foster, the running woman, in KAC summer 2000, for her eyewitness view of the ejecta.