Phantom Shot

[Bob Mady]

Over at Amazon, I stumbled across a book released last year that I hadn't heard of - Phantom Shot by Mike Majerus. It supports the official story, except that it proposes there were only two shots fired. The third was a car backfire or something. Of course it's nonsense, but has anyone else read it?

I used to try and read all of the lone-nutter books back in the 1990s, but I finally stopped because they were so repetitively stupid and numbingly deceptive.

Why waste time on this non-sense.
There were over 129 witnesses that claimed to have heard three or more shots.
This includes 19 sheriff deputies guarding the front steps of their station house located just outside of DP, all heard three rifle shots.

A Person who would propose a phantom shot does not understand all of the evidence available or has failed to put it in context and only concentrate on the few claims of having heard 'firecracker' or 'noise' or 'backfire' which alternately each claim can be provided with more logical and reasonable explanations than reverting to a phantom shot.

As ridiculous as it now is three shots can't explain all of the wounds, two shots certainly does not help to make the scenario any more evident.

I am not sure which witnesses you are referring to but there are a significant number of witnesses that if you trace their statements back to the first one; they originally reported hearing just two shots. What is interesting is the 19 deputies hearing three shots. Their boss, Sheriff Bill Decker, stated he heard only two shots in his statement. He was riding in a car in an open grassy area directly in front of JFK's limo on Elm Street. The deputies were on Houston street standing in front of a tall building. Generally the later the date on an statement the more likely it will state three shots being fired. Even later statements from people who originally stated hearing just two shots then state they heard three shots. The original statements of Jackie, James Altgens, Clint Hill, Paul Landis, DPD James Chaney, DPD Bobby Hargis, and 30 to 40 other eyewitnesses is that they not only heard two shots but also describe the two shots. Two shots can explain the whole assassination; three shots and the timing of the shots with the carcano rifle does not.

Jack, out of 201 witnesses that provided statements:
137 reported 3 shots
13 x 3+ shots
17 x 2 shots
4 x only talked about hearing a shot did not disclose how many
26 x ? FBI never asked or recorded how many shots these witnesses heard (the most extensive murder investigation of all time)

Are you implying it is justified to disregard 150 witnesses in an attempt to justify the reports of 17 witnesses?
We may disregard 19 SD because the Sheriff only heard 2 shots.

What about the many witnesses that reported the second and third shots to have occurred almost simultaneously, could this account for 17 people hearing two shots?
Also of the people that heard two shot, some were in the process of ducking, like NEWMAN and SUMMERS or like CLINT HILL running to the limo.
Of these 17 witnesses 3 of them reported multiple 'firecracker' like sounds...?