Dead Wrong: Straight Facts on the Country's Most Controversial Cover-Ups (27 page)

“The reason I
knew
that Oswald could not have done it, was because
I
could not have done it.”
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(emphasis in original)

As a professional sniper, Lt. Colonel Roberts knew the moment that he looked at the target angles from the 6th floor window that the shooting wasn’t all done from there.

“I walked away from the window in disgust. I had seen all I needed to know that Oswald could not have been the lone shooter.”
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“Roberts places at least one shooter on the infamous grassy knoll overlooking Elm, ahead of Kennedy and to his right. He places another in the building across Houston Street from the Book Depository: the Dal-Tex Building, as it was in 1963.”
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Roberts has also studied the entrance/exit transit of the head shot and has concluded with absolute certainty that the final shot came from the front.

“Some of the supporters of the Warren Commission ... stated that the bullet came from the rear because the eruption of brain matter and blood came out of the front of the president’s skull. I saw something else. In a head shot, the exit wound, due to the buildup of hydrostatic pressure, explodes in a conical formation in the down-range direction of the bullet. Yet in the Zapruder film, I could plainly see that the eruption was not a conical shape to the front of the limo, but instead was an explosion that cast fragments both up and down in a vertical plane, and side to side in a horizontal plane. There was only one explanation for this: an exploding or ‘frangible’ bullet. Such a round explodes on impact—in exactly the manner depicted in the film.”
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“With his extensive combat experience, Roberts is scathing about the mysterious ‘jet force’ that supposedly blows Kennedy’s head backwards, towards Oswald, in the famous Zapruder home movie of the assassination. ‘In that film,’ says Roberts, ‘we see Kennedy take a shot from the front.’”
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The alleged rifle was such a piece of junk that it was also very difficult to fire succeeding shots. As former Governor Jesse Ventura, an Expert Marksman and Navy UDT (Underwater Demolition Teams, now known as Navy SEALs), established beyond doubt in a 2010 shooting re-enactment, it is impossible to get off three shots with that rifle in six seconds, as is officially alleged.
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An exhaustive scientific study that was recently published confirmed Ventura’s opinion; it concluded categorically that the rifle cannot be re-fired in 1.6 seconds, as the government officially claimed. The same study also confirmed that the head snap of the President was evidence of a frontal shot, with autopsy evidence of that as well. It also concluded that the government clearly acted in a pattern that established their need to arrive at a non-conspiracy conclusion, and that Oswald cannot be placed as one of the shooters.
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So, bear in mind, that’s if Oswald was even
there—as
the Chief of Police said:

“We don’t have any proof that Oswald fired the rifle and never have”
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—Jesse Curry, Dallas Chief of Police

The task of the shooting, therefore, for one lone shooter would have been impossible, even for an expert marksman. And Oswald was nothing close to an expert marksman. His fellow soldiers, in fact, recalled that he was “a relatively poor shot.”
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Furthermore, Oswald’s rifle wasn’t even
sighted in
(lined up correctly), which means that a person shooting it wouldn’t even hit what was lined up in the sight! As historian Walt Brown puts it:

“It would also have made a difference if the expert rifleman was using an expert rifleman’s weapon of choice, not a piece of war surplus Italian junk whose inadequacies were massively compounded by the conclusion that the weapon was assembled and fired without ever having been sighted in. Ask your friend, the hunter. He’ll tell you
it can’t be done.”
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TOO MANY BULLETS NECESSITATE MULTIPLE SHOOTERS

“There had to be more than three shots, gentlemen.”
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—Official testimony of Roy Kellerman, U.S. Secret Service Special Agent-in-Charge White House Secret Service Detail, Dallas trip

(Based on the work of Walt Brown, Ph.D., Robert Groden, Douglas Herman, Craig Roberts, and Wim Dankbaar: Groden, 1993, Harvard Science Center; Herman; 2005; Dankbaar, 2006; Roberts, 1994. Also see “The Shots in Dealey Plaza,” William Orchard, 2010.
http://theshotsindealeyplaza.com/?

Ballistics expert Orlando Martin reached much the same conclusions in his 2010 study that has been termed the “Preeminent Ballistics Analysis of the JFK Assassination”:
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•At least five shots were fired;

•From three shooters in three different locations;

•With bullets that were different loads and weights.
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It has been scientifically established that
different
bullets were used, meaning that they had to be the product of multiple weapons. While most of the bullets were normal rounds, the bullet from the fatal frontal shot was clearly a “frangible” bullet, known as a “hot load” or exploding ammo. Physics,
not
the Warren Commission,
proves
conclusively that it was a bullet of this type that struck President Kennedy’s forehead. The lack of copper in the bullet that missed the motorcade and hit the curbstone, also indicates that a weapon other than Oswald’s alleged rifle
had
to have been used that day.
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Professor James Fetzer is also a former Marine Corps officer who supervised recruit training and marksmanship instruction at the same rifle range and depot where Oswald took his training. His 2000 study of the science of the assassination brought together an amazing collection of highly qualified research:

“The contributors whose work has been brought together in this volume include the leading authority on the Secret Service (Vincent Palamara); the most knowledgeable student of the Presidential limousine (Douglas Weldon, J.D.); a leading expert on the medical evidence at Parkland and at Bethesda (Gary Aguilar, M.D.); the single most highly qualified person to ever study this case (David W. Mantik, M.D., Ph.D.); the Senior Analyst for Military Records for the ARRB (Douglas Horne); a legendary photoanalyst who advised the House Select Committee during its reinvestigation (Jack White); a world-famous philosopher who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950 (Bertrand Russell); a prize- winning director and playwright, who has produced a brilliant chronology (Ira David Wood III); and a philosopher of science who has published more than twenty books and 100 articles in his fields of expertise (James H. Fetzer, Ph.D.).”
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That study concluded that:

“An absolute minimum of six shots had to have been fired during the assassination, where the total was more likely eight, nine, or even ten.”
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There are other very credible reports of additional shots; one striking the chrome trim strip of the limousine’s windshield and one striking the freeway sign on Elm Street (see Roberts; 1994). There were, in fact,
so many
gunshots, that their precise reconstruction proves very difficult. That is why the Secret Service agent in charge on the scene described the event as:

“ ... a flurry of shots”
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—Roy Kellerman, U.S. Secret Service Special Agent in Charge, White House Secret Service Detail, Dallas trip

A rarely publicized fact is that substantial bullet fragments were retrieved from
inside
the limousine:

“Gerald Posner, writing in Case Closed, wrote that over sixty
grams
of fragments were recovered from inside the limo. That is a hell of a lot of fragments.”
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The man in charge of the White House Secret Service Detail at ground-level in Dealey Plaza that day was Roy Kellerman. He was riding in the front passenger seat of the Presidential limousine, in front of President Kennedy. In his testimony for the Warren Commission, Special Agent Kellerman was very challenging toward the quickly-conceived conclusions of the Commission. His summary of the event is that they suddenly thought they had driven right into an ambush because they were taking fire from all directions as “a flurry of shells came into the car.” He didn’t
think
there were more than three shots, he
knew
there were: