About JFK: Didn't Peter Jennings do a report showing the computer graphics of the convertible

[LaydeeBug]

and how they were seating? I remember being VERY unsatisfied with his supposedly proving Oswald did it alone.

I dug up this link:

I was not born during this time, but my Daddy always told me "they" were behind killing JFK and I wouldn't know about it until I was an old lady.

What say you about the Peter Jennings ABC report?

[econoclast]

1. Re: Single bullet theory

I have said this before:

The single bullet theory is one bit of the story that actually makes sense.

Oswald was a good shot. Every Marine is a rifleman first. If the Marines can teach you anything its how to shoot. His marksmanship scores are available. He did very well except when shooting fron a standing, unbraced position. Oswald was a little guy and the M1 a long heavy rifle. But shooting from positions with a brace or rest he shot very well.

The Carcano was a fine rifle. The families of many dead British soldiers who faced those rifles in North Africa will attest to that fact. It was inexpensive after WWII when lots of them hit the private market, but low price should not be confused with it being a POS.

Kennedy's limo had 2 jump seats between the front and rear seats. They were lower than the other seats and located a coupl'a inches inboard - to allow access to the rear seats. There are pics of the interior of the car out there. Look for yourself. JFK & Gov C. Were indeed lined up. No loops or turns in the bullet trajectory needed.

The bullet is a full metal jacketed military round designed to Geneva Convention specs NOT to "mushroom". It performed to spec.

There is lots to question, but the single bullet theory is one piece of the story that indeed hangs together.

[LaydeeBug]

2. I remember watching the Jennings doc and HATING it, but it was much more plausible than

the Warren Report.

But then there are the two or three men who were all in Texas, but 'don't remember' where they were when JFK was shot: Bush Sr. being one of them

They've shown computer images of a single bullet trajectory and I *still* think something's afoot

[HooptieWagon]

4. Yes, the documentary supports the Warren Report.

Maybe its time to consider that the Warren Report was correct?

[MinM]

5. The Peter Jennings piece has been thoroughly debunked.

...Peter Jennings, the first Canadian reporter on the ground in Dallas, Texas 11/22/63. It's hard to believe Peter Jennings was rubbing elbows at the station with folks like Lee Harvey Oswald, Marina Oswald, Jack Ruby, Will Fritz, Jessie Curry, Roger Craig, Henry Wade, (Remember the landmark abortion case Roe vs Wade? Well, that is Henry.) Peter Jennings, our 10th grade dropout, clearly rose to the highest levels in news broadcasting. And unlike Bob Schieffer, it wasn't enough to just stay quiet and keep a low profile about JFK.

Peter is guilty of narrating in my opinion, one of the worst TV specials ever on the JFK case, Beyond Conspiracy. This documentary was actually organized by Gus Russo, whose name was taken off the piece when ABC was alerted to the fact that Russo misrepresented his mythological ‘Pulitzer Prize nomination’. It featured such witnesses and experts as Nicholas Katzenbach. Gerald Posner, Robert Dallek, Hugh Aynesworth, Priscilla Johnson, Ed Butler, Dale Myers, and Ruth Paine among others.

The computer-generated recreation of the assassination by Dale Myers must rank near the top of the most pathetic pseudo-scientific attempts of grasping at straws to hold together the Warren Commission Report in history. Jennings, of course, held the top anchor job for ABC until his death from cancer in 2005. Looks like 2005 was a bad year for Dan and Peter. (Click here for CTKA’s methodical demolition of this sorry program.) ...

http://www.ctka.net/2011/journalist_&_JFK_King.html

"I Don't Think Lee Harvey Oswald Pulled the Trigger" Dale Myers

http://www.ctka.net/abclies.html

[LaydeeBug]

6. Oh wow. Thank you for this. But the 1st sentence of the 3rd paragraph you posted is a bit

over the top. It looked pretty convincing back then when I saw the report (aside: I knew Peter Jennings was sick with lung cancer and I watched more because of that because honestly, it was preaching to the choir regarding JFK's assassination…I *always* thought there was something else afoot *and* that there's a Bush connection. Really)

I remember feeling very unsatisfied, but maybe resigned that it could have happened that way.

I had no idea the connection of Gus Russo. None whatsoever. This is telling.

[HooptieWagon]

3. I would say that's accurate.

It is a fact that the seats of the two men weren't exactly aligned...Connally's seat was a folding jump seat that was several inches inboard, and several inches lower, than Kennedy's seat, The positions of the men were recreated from the Zapruder film. 50 years later, it still appears the Warren Commission got the essential facts correct.