Douglas Horne versus Fred Kaplan

[David Josephs]

Agree completely Marc....

After reading Horne's Vol.4 I went straight back and reread the autopsy chapters in BEST EVIDENCE. Lifton's work in explaining the procedures that MUST have taken place and the very real contradiction of "life-saving" procedures such as blood and a trach given the condition of the head as first seen after 8pm. The explanations of the detailed autopsy descriptions into laymen's terms and the impossibility of the wounds resembling PARKLAND after 8pm is very well spelled out.

Many feel that a 30+ year old book cannot have the most up to date info.... Nothing since explains the goings on in Bethesda (of the KEY players) as well as sets the stage for the ARRB discoveries.

I expect most have read B.E. by now... yet if not recently I highly suggest the last third of the book's focus on the procedures and results of what transpired in the morgue at Bethesda.
And then O'Connor's statements...

Burns me up when CNN can have people stare blankly at the camera and ask where the other bullets went when we have the photos and testimonies of those who knew exactly where those bullets had "disappeared" .... The manhole cover bullet, the Connally bullet that drops out, this bullet found in the intercostal, a bullet that was discovered behind the right ear... that's four completely unaccounted for bullets that make up to 7 shots very realistic...

One of the great travesties here is the lack of attention on the ARRB/Horne results... where is THAT on CNN...

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I don't know who Fred Kaplan is. Apparently, he's someone whose opinions are supposed to matter. SLATE published him.
But he has distinguished himself in one way. He's written the most condescending, patronizing, poorly-reasoned and poorly-sourced article on the assassination I have ever read. it's here:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_p...ingle.html

I'm just a novice. But I'm reasonably well-educated. I know the difference between facts and unsupported conclusions.
Unsupported conclusions are apparently what Mr. Kaplan's writing is all about.

544 Camp Street is a fact. Mr. Kaplan from what I can see, has never heard of it. JFK's missing brain is a fact.
That too, must have also escaped Mr.Kaplan's attention.

I read his piece shortly after watching Douglas Horne's devastating take-down of the JFK autopsy - here:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?p=PLAu2-ycDOa...ature=plpp

I have to admit, I was shaken up after listening to Horne's conclusions. I had no idea about this.
Then, I spotted Kaplan's piece and decided to see how persuasive his position was relative to Horne's.
What I found was pure dreck - unsupported conclusions and opinions.

So I concluded based on the fact of his article, that Fred Kaplan wasn't even worth a cursory GOOGLE search.
Then I searched Summers' book, NIYL, for any references to Horne. I found none.
i found one note in 'Destiny Betrayed' and over 30 references to Horne in 'Reclaiming Parkland'.

So I'm starting on 'Reclaiming Parkland' ahead of schedule. I look forward to it.
Horne's deconstruction of the autopsy was nothing less than astonishing.