This newsletter is full of information for your research, your library, or any interest. It is always good news when studies by experts such as Don Thomas and
Orlando Martin are published. JKF Lancer's NID has had the pleasure of Don's presentations on the acoustics of the shots on Elm Street and look forward to Orlando joining us soon with his material on the shots in Dealey Plaza. Please visit their book websites for more information and how to buy their books. Doug Horne has also updated his blog with a further analysis of why the autopsy report was destroyed and rewritten.
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Mary Ferrell Foundation Press Publishes Searing New Indictment of Kennedy Assassination Scientific Experts
In HEAR NO EVIL: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM & THE FORENSIC EVIDENCE IN THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION ($29.95; Softcover; 793 pages; Mary Ferrell Foundation Press), respected scientist Donald Byron Thomas demolishes the methodology and findings of the government's hand-picked "experts" who have investigated the Kennedy murder throughout the decades.
In 2001, Thomas published a peer-reviewed article which re-ignited the debate over the 1979 House Select Committee's finding that there had indeed been a shot from the infamous "Grassy Knoll" in Dealey Plaza, caught on a police dictabelt recording. The Washington Post said, "The House Assassinations Committee may well have been right after all."
In HEAR NO EVIL, Thomas explains the acoustics evidence in detail, placing it in the context of a thorough analysis of all the major scientific evidence in the Kennedy assassination. Revering no sacred cows, Thomas lays waste to myths promulgated by both Warren Commission adherents and conspiracy advocates, presenting a controversial new re-interpretation of the "single bullet theory."
HEAR NO EVIL: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM & THE FORENSIC EVIDENCE IN THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION is available from the Mary Ferrell Foundation website at http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/MFF_Store and at Amazon.com. For more information, please visit the Mary Ferrell Foundation's HEAR NO EVIL resource page at http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/Hear_No_Evil.
About The Mary Ferrell Foundation The Mary Ferrell Foundation (MFF) is a non-profit 501(c)3 group engaged in an ongoing effort to bring accessible and interactive history to a new generation of critical thinkers. With a focus on the political assassinations of the 1960s, including those of John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., as well as the Watergate scandal and the intelligence agency investigations of the 1970s, the MFF's vast digital archive at http://www.maryferrell.org contains over 1.5 million searchable pages of documents, government reports, books, along with extensive multimedia, introductory material, and interactive resources.
New Book "JFK: Analysis of a Shooting"
"JFK. Analysis of a Shooting," is an expert, detailed and
comprehensive analysis of the assassination of President Kennedy. The
work takes into account all the elemental factors that lead to a
complete understanding of the shooting, and which will eventually serve
to establish the undisclosed facts behind the tragic event. In its
process of discovery the writing scrutinizes each shot taken at the
motorcade. Additionally, it considers the caliber of the rifle used in
the shooting. It takes into account the relative speed (in feet per
second), and the inherent power of the bullets fired at the President.
It analyzes the position of the alleged gunman and its relationship to
his target. It also explorers the extent of every bullet wound, as it
relates to the shot that caused it. In addition, the work probes the
Zapruder film, as a visual record of the event, to denote the crucial
frames that expose previously unrevealed facts of the shooting. And
finally, the work reviews the trajectory of every single shot taken at
the motorcade, from point of impact back towards the suspected point of
origin, and their angles of entry into their targets. The book denotes,
through conclusive interpretation of the evidence gathered, logical
reasoning, and concrete ballistic principles that a total of five shots
were fired at President Kennedy. Additionally, it also explains why it
can be concluded that none of the shots fired at the President actually
originated from the Texas School Book Depository Building, Oswald's
alleged sniper position.
$17.00 / Perfectbound ISBN: 9781608443154 208 pages Also available at fine bookstores everywhere
RETHINKING the Question: "Why Was the First Draft of
JFK's Autopsy Report Destroyed?"
UPDATE BY DOUG HORNE: At the time I drafted this chapter it seemed obvious to me that public
knowledge of James Tague's wounding, and therefore of a missed shot
which had struck the curb on Main Street, had forced Humes, et. al. to
abandon the 3-shot, 3-hit scenario arrived at inside the Bethesda morgue
in front of Richard Lipsey late Friday evening (after the FBI agents
had departed at 11:00 PM).
It is now apparent, as a result of an
astute question asked of me by a friend, that the James Tague wounding
could NOT have been the proximate cause, or stimulus, for junking the
first draft of the JFK autopsy report. WHY? Because as James Tague
clearly stated in his own book, published in 2003, there was no widely
available public mention of his wounding until newspaper journalist Jim
Lehrer published the results of his interview with Tague in the Dallas
Times-Herald on June 5, 1964. This was followed by an FBI interview and
subsequent Warren Commission testimony. While it is true that Deputy
Sheriff Buddy Walthers spoke to Tague about the wounding on the very
afternoon of the assassination, and photographer Tom Dillard
photographed the curb strike (and Tague himself) the afternoon of the
assassination, there is no evidence that this information was publicly
available on November 23rd, or that it was known within the confines of
Bethesda Naval Hospital by Humes, Boswell, or Canada. Read More Here
Inside the Assassination Records Review Board
by Horne, Douglas P.
Publisher:
Douglas P. Horne, 2009
ISBN: 978-0-9843144-0-9
The following link has a video of the public forum last week at National Archives where the JFK assassination records were the most commented topic. (Click on "View the Video" on the right side of the page).
National Archives is accepting public comment on their prioritization plan at this e-mail address: [email protected]
I have commented that the new National Declassification Center should undertake a review of all withheld JFK assassination records as a matter of highest priority, and they should be released well in advance of the 2013 fiftieth anniversary.
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