The Magic Tonsillectomy or Armstrong's Voodoo Science?

[Jim Hargrove]

1. Scars do fade. Mastoidectomy scar was three inches at enlistment down to one inch at detachment. And I have explained why it became visible again when exhumed.

And John Armstrong spent a thousand pages and reproduced more than 800 documents and photos to explain that the more likely interpretation of all this evidence is that there were two young men sharing the same identity.

2. The gunshot wound was very superficial, but I will need to look at the autopsy report and forensics from exhumation to refresh my memory on what was said.

According to the medical reports, Oswald carried the slug in his arm for a week. The entry wound was stitched and allowed to heal, and then a separate incision was made to remove the slug. From Dr. R. Guthrie's "narrative summary:"

"This 18-year-old male accidentally shot himself in the left arm with a side-

arm, reportedly of .22 caliber. Examination revealed the wound of entrance in

the medial portion of the upper left arm, just above the elbow. There was no

evidence of neurological, circulatory, or bone injury. The wound of entrance

was allowed to heal and the missile was then excised through a separate inci-

sian two inches above the wound of entry. The missile appeared to be a .22

slug. The wound healed well, and the patient was discharged to duty."

Doesn't sound "very superficial" to me.

3. If he was clearly in Somosa and Japan simultaneously, why is it that no one else can see it except Armstrong and his supporters? I don't see a lot of people jumping on board because of it - which should be the case if it was so clear cut. Or are you just being hyperbolic about how clear it is?

More than 20 thousand unique visitors have been to the Harvey and Lee website just this year. Plenty of people seem to be jumping on board.

The evidence for Harvey Oswald aboard the U.S.S. Skaggit bound for the South China Sea, followed USMC unit diary listing him in Ping Tung, Taiwan, all while Lee Oswald was being treated repeatedly for VD in Japan, has been reproduced on this website at least once, and probably twice before. If you want to see it again, it is here, about a third of the way down the page:

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The evidence is SO GOOD, it required a denial from the highest source!

4. I agree he was impersonated in Mexico City -- but none of the photos seem to depict anyone who fits as an Oswald Doppelganger.

That's true, but there sure is a lot of impersonatin' going on in this case. Do you also agree that Oswald was "impersonated" in and around Dallas in the weeks leading up to the assassination?

5. The trend I see is a trend of bending and twisting the evidence and around a pre-ordained theory, particularly zeroing in an anomalies that can by massaged into shape, as well as every single Oswald sighting in the records as valid, all propped up by the wackiest bunch of witnesses since Jehovah was knee-high to a prophet.

Eyewitnesses were important for John's research. For example, Linda Faircloth and especially Palmer McBride were critically important helping John understand how Pfisterer Dental Lab helped prove the existence of two Oswalds.