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Experts Now Say JFK Bullet Analysis Was Wrong
Spy Handler writes "Researchers analyzing bullet fragments from the 1963 Kennedy assassination using new techniques say that the government's 1976 conclusion that the bullets came from only one gun (Oswald's) is wrong. 'Using new guidelines set forth by the National Academy of Sciences for proper bullet analysis, Tobin and his colleagues at Texas A&M re-analyzed the bullet evidence used by the 1976 House Select Committee on Assassinations, which concluded that only one shooter, Oswald, fired the shots that killed Kennedy in Dallas. The committee's finding was based in part on the research of now-deceased University of California at Irvine chemist Vincent P. Guinn. He used bullet lead analysis to conclude that the five bullet fragments recovered from the Kennedy assassination scene came from just two bullets, which were traced to the same batch of bullets Oswald owned.'"
Back.....And to the right.
Anyone who spends some time looking at the evidence in the Kennedy killing will quickly realize several things:
.000001 to 0. Not exactly a big surprise.
1) The evidence, such as it is, isn't good enough to show who did the killing, how it was done, or even what Kennedy's actual wounds were.
2) Before even considering the bullet analysis evidence that TFA is referring to, the probability that Oswald did it is about 1 in a million. Not impossible, but unlikely for sure. The bullet analysis evidence, if it doesn't get quickly discredited (as is usual for Kennedy stuff), would make it impossible for Oswald to have done the killing so the probability has gone from
3) There was never any sort of official investigation like there would be for any random murder on a city street. There were a lot of reports and studies and commissions and such but none of these ever rose to the level of a real criminal investigation by a real law enforcement agency. The closest thing was probably a brief FBI investigation in the first week or so after the shooting that was quickly halted when the FBI agents started to close in on two of the secret service agents who were guarding Kennedy.
4) The guy with the biggest motive to kill Kennedy was Lyndon Johnson, the guy who was president after Kennedy, and he was opposed to any sort of criminal investigation.
Bringing up things like some NORAD exercise or Operation Northwoods or all kinds of tenuous, ridiculous, and (co)incidental information about some pilot who worked some particular place 25 years ago is irrelevant and meaningless.
What about the Lone Gunmen episode about the Military Industrial Complex crashing a remote controlled airplane into the WTC to increase defense spending?
Why didn't we have access to the Octium IV chips that could have been used to prevent the disaster?
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
Oswald did it. He acted alone. He used a magic bullet.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
Because this is all too boring to bear (and too unrewarding for book authors with large egos), people invent themselves a parallel universe in which all of the above is an illusion carefully crafted by the CIA, large corporations, scientists or the government.