General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: Why has the JFK anniversary meant a push to get total buy-in on the Warren Report? [View all]Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)Because all of the evidence supports the conclusions of the Warren Commission.
All of the ballistics evidence supports it. The bullets were fired by Oswald's rifle, to the exclusion of all other weapons.
All of the forensic evidence supports it. The nature of the wounds clearly shows that the shots came from behind, from the TSBD.
All of the witness evidence and circumstantial evidence supports it. Multiple people saw a rifle in that sixth-floor window; several people saw the shooter. One gave a description to police that fit Oswald. Oswald's rifle and three spent cartridges were found on the sixth floor. Oswald was the only TSBD employee who went missing that afternoon. Oswald shot a police officer and was seen by multiple witnesses.
Reconstructions and analyses of the assassination using computer modelling and techniques unavailable in 1963 support it. The "magic bullet"? Not magic. Hypothesised locations of other shooters? Not possible. (A shot from the grassy knoll would have killed Jackie as well.)
On the other hand, there's no evidence whatever that contradicts the conclusions of the Warren Commission. For the Warren Commission to have gotten it wrong would require that there was another shooter--which, considering the forensic evidence of the wounds, the photographic evidence of the Zapruder film, the evidence of witnesses, is not possible; or would require that all of the evidence was fabricated or planted--would require, for instance, that the Zapruder film was altered, as has been asserted by some conspiracists; that the autopsy photos and X-rays were altered, would require that, as asserted by David Lifton, Kennedy's body was altered to disguise the nature of the wounds; would require that Oswald's rifle was planted, that the bullet fragments recovered from the limo, and the intact bullet recovered from Connally's stretcher, were planted, at a time when the Dallas Police had yet to recover Oswald's rifle from the place he'd hidden it, and therefore would further require that shadowy conspiracists seeking to frame Oswald had access to that rifle well in advance...or would require that Oswald had close contact with conspirators in the four days prior to the assassination, since the motorcade route wasn't finalised until 18 November, something for which there is, again, no evidence.