Those who demand that everyone "just ACCEPT that Oswald did it"...

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66. Er, because they made a mistake.

Not only that, but their mistake is falsified by their own criteria for believing the Dictabelt proved a fourth shot.

In short, the scientists who gave the Dictabelt testimony stated that the shot was recorded by a police motorcycle driven by Officer HB McLain, and that his motorcycle was located at the corner of Elm & Houston when the 4th shot was fired. The scientists averred that were McLain's motorcycle NOT in that position, it could not have recorded the supposed 4th shot. Officer McLain testified to the HSCA that he was NOT at that position when he was supposedly there. The HSCA chose to ignore his eyewitness testimony, and instead, accepted the theory of the scientists.

Since then, it has been proven beyond any doubt that in fact there were NO police motorcycles in the area that the Dictablet scientists said a motorcycle HAD to be to record the supposed 4th shot. The video evidence proves that Officer McLain himself was a few hundred feet BEHIND the designated area when the shot was supposedly recorded. Apparently, the testimony he gave to the HSCA that they chose to ignore was the absolute truth.

By syncing various video tapes taken from different perspectives, researchers have proved beyond any doubt that no motorcycle was in the position the Dictabelt scientists themselves said it had to be to record the shot, let alone being as specific as to identify McLain's motorcycle.

Therefore, their "evidence" has been completely and utterly falsified, and falsified by the HSCA's own criteria.

Unfortunately, the HSCA finding of a 4th shot being fired - which is based ENTIRELY on the now-falsified Dictabelt "evidence" - remains in the books until and unless the HSCA is reconstituted to issue a retraction...which probably won't be happening any time soon, as some of the HSCA members are long dead.

Fortunately, science doesn't need to wait around for politics to catch up with the revelation of scientific truth. As intelligent beings, we can either accept that science has now falsified the claims of the HSCA based on the HSCA's own criteria, OR, we can grab and the now-vaporized HSCA conclusion of a conspiracy and pretend that it means something. It doesn't.