more thoughts on Dallas...
I've been following the thread, and I wonder how many remember the "Bill Curtis" investigative reports several years ago? I believe they were on A&E. Anyway, he had a 2 or 3 part series on the Kennedy assassination. They didn't just pick a theory and pursue it, they looked at the thing from several angles, motives, etc. I had already formed a strong opinion based on the circumstances and facts of the case, even as a 17 year old high school student, but there was one part of these reports that put the lid on the jar for me. They were interviewing wittneses that had not been interviewed by the authorities for what ever reason. One was a fellow who had reported hearing rifle fire from the area to the rear of where he was standing. He was a young man in the Navy at the time, and was slated to ship out the next day, and figured he'd go see the president. He was standing in front of what came to be called the grassy knoll. As they talked to him, he described what he heard as a "hunting rifle type sound," like he had heard growing up around hunting and guns. He was not aware of it, but they had been able to find a photo of him that day, in his uniform. They asked him what he had done when he heard the shot, and he said that he reacted to it in a reflexive manner by jerking his body over to one side away from where he perceived the shot was comming from, over his shoulder. Then they showed him this photo of a guy doing exactly that, dressed in a navy uniform. Nasa had come to be in the interim, so they could do a lot more with the film then they could at the time of te shooting, and you could see the large flame extending from the rifle. When they worked on the photo with the then new photographic technology, there was the silhouette of 2 men, one aiming the rifle, and the other facing him as a spotter would tend to do. The navy guy could be seen really flinching to the side as this thing went off. As this gentleman looked at the photo, you could see the whole of what was comming to light all these years later sweep over him. He realized where he had been and what had happened, and I think that he realized that who ever did this knew who he was now. He was visibly shaken. The shooters were wearing hard hats like you would wear around construction, etc. I have seen most of the investigations, and read many of the reports, and they have never answered some of what I considder the salient questions surrounding this event-there are a bunch of them. Just as on previous poster wrote about Oswalds employment a week before there was any general knowledge about the presidents visit to Dallas, and much more. Am I a "conspiracy theorist?" Maybe, but conspiracy is a crime, not a theory, and I considder it a lack of illusion, not a conspiracy theory. Flapjack.
