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In reply to the discussion: JFK Conference: Mark Lane Addressed the Secret Government’s Role in the Assassination [View all]mother earth
(6,002 posts)39. Dr. Cyril Wecht believes it was a coup d'etat too.
http://www.dailytribune.com/general-news/20131030/forensic-pathologist-kennedy-assassination-was-the-overthrow-of-the-government-with-video
Ask Dr. Cyril Wecht what happened in Dealey Plaza on Nov. 22, 1963 and he doesnt hesitate.
There were two shooters. One shooter was behind the picket fence on the grassy knoll, he said Friday before lecturing at Oakland Community College. The second was from the rear.
There were two shooters. One shooter was behind the picket fence on the grassy knoll, he said Friday before lecturing at Oakland Community College. The second was from the rear.
The 82-year-old forensic pathologist and attorney said the majority of Americans dont believe the single shooter, single bullet theory in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, but it could take another generation or two before the country can comfortably accept a conclusion about his death.
We understand and we accept and we label it for what it is when these things occur: The overthrow of the government. Coup détat, Wecht said. We have met the enemy and he is us. And the enemy was us, baby, and thats why this case has yet to be resolved.
At the time of his death, Kennedy was preparing to withdraw ground troops from Vietnam and was at odds with the countrys military and industrial powers, Wecht said.
The CIA hated Kennedy, and Kennedy was out to destroy the CIA.
A half-century after Kennedys death, the audience still gasped when the Zapruder film was shown on the screen behind Wecht on Friday.
Wecht narrated as the frames flashed by on the screen.
Think of the force exerted, and now look at the movement of his body. Backward. Backward. Backward. Backward.
Wecht said Kennedys autopsy was performed by two naval pathologists who had never dealt with a gunshot case.
He described his visit to the National Archives more than 40 years ago to examine evidence from Kennedys death, only to discover that the presidents brain was missing.
We understand and we accept and we label it for what it is when these things occur: The overthrow of the government. Coup détat, Wecht said. We have met the enemy and he is us. And the enemy was us, baby, and thats why this case has yet to be resolved.
At the time of his death, Kennedy was preparing to withdraw ground troops from Vietnam and was at odds with the countrys military and industrial powers, Wecht said.
The CIA hated Kennedy, and Kennedy was out to destroy the CIA.
A half-century after Kennedys death, the audience still gasped when the Zapruder film was shown on the screen behind Wecht on Friday.
Wecht narrated as the frames flashed by on the screen.
Think of the force exerted, and now look at the movement of his body. Backward. Backward. Backward. Backward.
Wecht said Kennedys autopsy was performed by two naval pathologists who had never dealt with a gunshot case.
He described his visit to the National Archives more than 40 years ago to examine evidence from Kennedys death, only to discover that the presidents brain was missing.
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Octafish
Nov 2013
OP
I see. You're the type of person who argues that you can't prove George Washington really existed.
stopbush
Nov 2013
#69
More boring cut-n-paste from Octa who refuses to answer why they believe the HSCA
stopbush
Nov 2013
#98
Please look at YOUR post #7 in this thread: "CIA Director Bush helped destroy HSCA investigation."
stopbush
Nov 2013
#105
Blakey believes the mob was involved and will probably go to his grave believing that.
stopbush
Dec 2013
#172
Don't understand why certain DUers don't appreciate the BFEE connections to Dealey Plaza.
Octafish
Nov 2013
#106
Odd is how that same George HW Bush in Dallas Nov. 22, 1963 shows up to head CIA 12 years later.
Octafish
Nov 2013
#145
Like your exchange with Jim DiEugenio? You did all you could to drive him off.
Octafish
Nov 2013
#149
Speak plainly, sir. Are you accusing me of being here under false pretenses?
Bolo Boffin
Nov 2013
#150
Or leave these foolish games and Meta distractions aside and start dealing with the evidence already
Octafish
Nov 2013
#151
No, I have not been 'payed' or paid to write about the assassination of President Kennedy.
Octafish
Dec 2013
#179
There's a good analysis of the Parrott memo in Russ Baker's book 'Family of Secrets'
Mc Mike
Dec 2013
#186
I'm sorry that you sometimes take so much flack and displays of antipathy for posting good info.
Mc Mike
Dec 2013
#190
The problem for them is that no matter how they try to discredit ANYONE who doesn't march in
sabrina 1
Nov 2013
#53
journal.. feh. you're no REAL journalist man... you've never even been in a shootout!!1111
dionysus
Nov 2013
#57
E. Hunt was such an upstanding man. Now I'm convinced, Hunt denied it, therefore it must be true.
sabrina 1
Nov 2013
#55
"So much effort to prevent people from speaking their minds on this historical tragedy."
zappaman
Nov 2013
#56
Most of us, a majority of the people, want to see bullshit countered and don't everything their
sabrina 1
Nov 2013
#65
E Howard Hunt planted fake cables in WH safe to make it look like JFK ordered Diem assassination...
Octafish
Nov 2013
#141
CIA caught red-handed in HSCA safe, a pattern of obstruction of justice in JFK assassination.
Octafish
Nov 2013
#142
Wow, thank you for that. Tampering with evidence. Yet nothing was done about it, and some wonder why
sabrina 1
Nov 2013
#144
I don't know what Brehm said, but Lane interviewed him on videotape. It's on You Tube.
Zen Democrat
Nov 2013
#109
You've got the wrong book. The CIA went after Lane's idiocies in in his POS book
stopbush
Dec 2013
#153
Guilt by association is un-American. Lane is an attorney who represented two clients.
Octafish
Nov 2013
#28
It's easy. Mark Lane says we don't know the whole truth, but it looks like CIA conspiracy.
Octafish
Nov 2013
#38
I watched the 'Firing Line' debate between Lane and Buckley on YouTube the other day
KurtNYC
Nov 2013
#6
It doesn't matter, but I believe Mark Lane is Jewish. He also is an attorney...
Octafish
Nov 2013
#41
Mark Lane's involvement with Liberty Lobby references the JFK assassination.
avaistheone1
Nov 2013
#50
I'm pretty new to all the JFK conspiracy stuff, about the past 6-7 years or so. I was only 9 months
Ghost in the Machine
Nov 2013
#73
YOU are a DU treasure, Octafish, keep the info coming. I look forward to your next reporting.
mother earth
Nov 2013
#47
And yet when he was a part of the HSCA investigation, he agreed that the head wounds
Bolo Boffin
Nov 2013
#51
Looks like you've got a host of Hugh Aynesworth wannabees in this thread Sir-K&R, NGU
bobthedrummer
Nov 2013
#44
I finally got around to reading Lane's Rush to Judgment in the mid-70s. I usually save books but
struggle4progress
Nov 2013
#75
Seems after forty years, Lane's still working to get more than two pebbles in a straight line
struggle4progress
Nov 2013
#115
A spoon of barley tossed into a barrel of water makes mighty thin gruel. Here's the testimony
struggle4progress
Nov 2013
#129
The Chicago Plot involved a tipster named ''Lee.'' And the DIA harrassed Edwin Black.
Octafish
Nov 2013
#132
Apparently, Veciana's death was misreported, according to Vince Palamara.
robertpaulsen
Dec 2013
#193
Mr. Lane credited himself on that one! Said it should've been called 'The Mark Lane Bill.' LOL!
Octafish
Nov 2013
#120
It was, indeed, Oliver Stone's "JFK" that got Congress to pass the "JFK Act"
red dog 1
Nov 2013
#125