Watch it. http://video.pbs.org/video/2365118537/ The bullet passed through Kennedy and tumbled for the 3ft between he and entering Connally.
An obvious "drop" done by conspirators after the fact. No damage at all. Had it even went through a pop can it would be drastically altered, and were it tumbling on impact it likely would have ripped a large entry and been lodged in it's first target.
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I don't see the benefit of trying to maintain such an elaborate conspiracy fifty years later. LBJ is long dead, so are the mafia guys,and whoever. Did ya hear Hoover was a cross dresser? That was kept secret for years, but nobody really cares at this point in time. Heck, Hoover spied on lots of people he had no business spying on, much of it completely outside of constitutionality. Corporations? We know many big brands were Nazi supporters. Whatever "crime" they committed is not going to carry much penalty at this point. Occams Razor says JFK was a sickly man who suffered from back pain. He was almost certainly hopped up on pain pills and other medication. That is what the family likely wanted to hide.
http://news.msn.com/us/why-are-the-jfk-files-still-sealed-after-50-years?ocid=msnnws Nearly all relevant evidence of the crime is still being illegally withheld by the CIA. Of the 2 "official" investigations the Warren Commission rubber-stamped the cover-up without batting an eye. Their members included Chairman Gerald Ford who was rewarded with the Vice Presidency for guiding the "acquittal", and later the Presidency for illegally granting Nixon clemency for crimes of treason before he was even charged. Another crucial member was former CIA director Allen Dulles. The House investigation concluded there was likely a conspiracy, and that the CIA was withholding evidence that would likely support their involvement in some way.
From Maris' own link: Those revelations would be overshadowed, however, by the House committee's JFK conclusion: That sound impulses recorded on the microphone of a Dallas police officer amounted to evidence of a shot from the infamous "grassy knoll" in Dealey Plaza, and thus of an additional gunman besides Oswald firing from a building window. Kennedy, the committee's final report said in carefully tempered language, was "probably assassinated as the result of a conspiracy. The committee is unable to identify the other gunman or the extent of the conspiracy." Subsequent analyses have cast doubt on the acoustic evidence, and the issue is considered unresolved.
Smoke and mirrors. Bit players, pawns and propaganda. The CIA is where you should be casting your gaze. The Bush (CIA) (Texas) family, whose determined scheme to hand over control of America to The New World Order was unthinkable as long as any Kennedy was available for the Presidency, is where all the arrows point when you're speaking of people who had the means and desire to kill JFK and Bobby. Decades of treasonous crimes, abuse of office, misuse of our armed forces, hits on US citizens and reporters, all still going on as I type these words 50 years later. It wasn't simply an assassination, it was a coup. And the folks that pulled it off have been ruling you for 50 years.
Yeah, I read them. Subsequent analyses have cast doubt on the acoustic evidence, and the issue is considered unresolved.
Five decades after President John F. Kennedy was fatally shot and long after official inquiries ended, thousands of pages of investigative documents remain withheld from public view. The contents of these files are partially known — and intriguing — and conspiracy buffs are not the only ones seeking to open them for a closer look. Some serious researchers believe the off-limits files could shed valuable new light on nagging mysteries of the assassination — including what U.S. intelligence agencies knew about accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald before Nov. 22, 1963. It turns out that several hundred of the still-classified pages concern a deceased CIA agent, George Joannides, whose activities just before the assassination and, fascinatingly, during a government investigation years later, have tantalized researchers for years. "This is not about conspiracy, this is about transparency," said Jefferson Morley, a former Washington Post reporter and author embroiled in a decade-long lawsuit against the CIA, seeking release of the closed documents. "I think the CIA should obey the law. I don't think most people think that's a crazy idea." Morley's effort has been joined by others, including G. Robert Blakey, chief counsel for a House investigation into the JFK assassination in the 1970s. But so far, the Joannides files and thousands more pages primarily from the CIA remain off-limits at a National Archives center in College Park, Md. "There is no question that in various ways the CIA obfuscated, but it may be they were covering up operations that were justifiable, benign CIA operations that had absolutely nothing to do with the Kennedy assassination," said Anthony Summers, a British author whose sequel to his JFK book "Not In Your Lifetime" will be released this year. "But after 50 years, there is no reason that I can think of why such operations should still be concealed," Summers said. "By withholding Joannides material, the agency continues to encourage the public to believe they're covering up something more sinister." To understand the attention to the Joannides files, it's necessary to go back to 1963 and to review what's known about Oswald that put him on the CIA's radar. It's also important to recall the differing conclusions of the two official investigations of the JFK killing — one denying any conspiracy, the other suspecting one — and how much or how little cooperation investigators received from CIA officials, including Joannides himself. ... Still, plenty was learned about Oswald after the shooting in Dallas. And, it's now clear, he was not unknown to the U.S. government before that. Assassination investigators learned that Oswald had formed a group in New Orleans in the summer of 1963 that ostensibly supported Cuban leader Fidel Castro (Oswald was the only local member) and had been involved in a street altercation with anti-Castro demonstrators that was captured by a local television station. Pamphlets Oswald had in his possession bore an address of a local anti-Castro operation connected to a former FBI agent with ties to organized crime, investigators discovered. That and other information has led researchers to believe that Oswald may have been part of a counterintelligence operation to discredit the group he had joined, the Fair Play For Cuba Committee, and that the street scene was a setup. If so, who would have overseen such an operation? Declassified documents show that Joannides, while based in Miami, was the CIA case officer for the anti-Castro Student Revolutionary Directorate (DRE), the group involved in the street fracas with Oswald. What did this all add up to, if anything? Official investigations of the Kennedy assassination were not able to provide complete answers. The Warren Commission, which concluded in 1964 that Oswald acted alone and was not part of a conspiracy, was never told about the CIA's possibly relevant anti-Castro activities, despite the fact that former CIA director Allen Dulles was a Warren Commission member. Warren Commission staff counsel Burt Griffin, now a retired judge, calls it "an act of bad faith" by the CIA. "I think they had an obligation to tell the chief justice (Earl Warren, commission chairman) about that, and then that decision would have been his and the commission's to make," Griffin said. Kaiser, the historian, has postulated that Oswald, long seen as a devout leftist, was in fact being manipulated by right-wing and mob elements in his final months and that his visit to the Cuban and Soviet embassies in Mexico City in the fall of 1963 was part of an attempt to reach Cuba and kill Castro. Release of documents held by those governments could be revealing, Kaiser said. By the time the House Select Committee on Assassinations convened in the mid-1970s to probe the Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. killings, other congressional investigations had exposed the CIA's activities in the early 1960s, including plots to assassinate Castro. ... That evidence was, of course, only part of the mountains of material considered by the committee, some of it from the CIA. And the CIA's liaison to the committee was none other than George Joannides, by then retired from the agency. Blakey, the committee's chief counsel, recalled how the CIA brought in Joannides to act as a middleman to help fill requests for documents made by committee researchers. "He was put in a position to edit everything we were given before it was given to us," Blakey said. But Blakey didn't learn about Joannides' past until Morley unearthed it in files declassified years later. "If I'd known Joannides was the case officer for the DRE, he couldn't have been liaison; he would have been a witness," Blakey told The Associated Press. Blakey added: "Do I think I was snookered, precisely like the Warren Commission was? Yes." http://news.msn.com/us/why-are-the-jfk-files-still-sealed-after-50-years?ocid=msnnws
Smoke and mirrors, baby. Acoustical evidence never carried any importance at all in this investigation, nor did the number of shooters. Oswald was a plant groomed by the CIA. That much is obvious from the facts unearthed by the press back in the 60's and 70's (when we still had a press). The conspiracy has already been proven. The rest is just names and numbers.
