JFK Conference: David Talbot named Allen Dulles as 'the Chairman of the Board of the Assassination'

[Spider Jerusalem]

158. Okay then, let's presume for just a moment that the conspiracy version is correct.

So: There's another shooter. In the Dal-Tex building, on the triple overpass, or on the grassy knoll. Two separate bullets hit Kennedy and Connally. For the wound in Kennedy's throat to be an entry wound and not an exit? The bullet would have had to pass through the windshield of the car (which no bullet did), and where was the shooter? Standing in a manhole? Which also leaves a problem: where's the bullet? Did it just vanish? Explainable if Kennedy had two entry wounds (back and front) to the torso, but...where are the bullets? If the back is a separate entry wound, we're supposed to believe he was struck with a bullet which didn't pass through his body and also vanished? And Connally. He's struck from behind by a bullet that is somehow tumbling (as it must've been, based on the shape of the entry wound), that also just vanishes. That leaves no "bullet wipe" on his clothing (there WAS "bullet wipe" on Kennedy's clothing, around the entry wound on his back). Then you have the supposed headshot from the grassy knoll. Which somehow magically doesn't disrupt the left hemisphere of Kennedy's brain at all, despite passing from right to left through his head, and leaves no exit wound on the left side. But wait, this is explained by the alteration or substitution of the body. Except all of the autopsy photos and X-rays are verifiably of JFK (verified by forensic anthropology, by comparison to pre-mortem X-rays, dental records), and they all confirm the wounds described in the autopsy report and that the headshot came from behind, not in front (and there's no way that Kennedy's body could have been altered, that's the stuff of science fiction, it's impossible to alter a corpse like that without leaving traces, it'd be noticed; it's impossible to have taken the body, the casket was attended the entire time between Dallas and Bethesda).

And the conspirators somehow contrive to plant fragments from a 6.5mm Carcano bullet fired from Oswald's rifle in the limo (a 6.5mm Carcano bullet that's fragmented in the exact same way a Carcano bullet actually fragments after striking a human skull, in fact), and to plant a bullet on Connally's stretcher at Parkland, while the whole time they can't know another bullet won't be recovered in the autopsy that might queer their pitch. Meantime just after the shooting you have some very busy conspirators; you have one up on the 6th floor of the TSBD, planting a rifle and three spent shells, and planting faked photos of Oswald, along with negatives, in his seabag in the Paine garage out in Irving for the police to find (and while they're at it somehow planting a copy of the same photo with Oswald's own handwriting on it among George de Mohrenschildt's possessions, while he's away in Haiti). And you have agents shooting officer Tippit, so they can pin it on Oswald. And suborning witnesses to get them to identify Oswald in a lineup. And suborning Marina to get her to testify that it's Oswald's rifle and that she took those photos. You have conspirators arranging for Oswald to die in custody; he would have been shot at the Texas Theatre if there hadn't been a crowd. So they go to Jack Ruby. And Ruby misses Oswald's transfer (announced over radio and television for 10am on Sunday), and just happens to go to a Western Union office across the street from the police station in time to be there to shoot Oswald when they're actually moving him, despite not having any way of knowing in advance.

The conspiracy version of events is a vast and intricate Rube Goldberg operation with a hundred little things that had to go exactly right in order for it to be pulled off. It's very very improbable. The evidence is all against it.