CORRECTING
DR. JAMES REESE
HOMELAND SECURTIY
OPINION
Evidence Still Points to Oswald as President
Kennedy’s Assassin
BILL
KELLY NOTES:
This article is especially disturbing because the author is a teacher (of
athletics) at the American Military University and it is posted/published in a
Homeland Security web site. Certainly the assassination of President Kennedy
was a severe breakdown in our national security, and was an attack not only on
the man but the entire government and the nation. But it is scary for a
military man not to be aware of the military implications of the assassination
and to attempt to confirm the Phase Two Cover Story, that a deranged lone nut
case killed the President by himself, and using the same debunked arguments
that were debunked decades ago. (1)
November 21, 2018 Dr. James Reese
President Kennedy's Assassination: If there were
multiple shooters or a conspiracy, where is the credible evidence that has
surfaced since Nov. 22, 1963?
BILL KELLY: The evidence of multiple shooters
and a conspiracy is there, Dr. Reese just ignores it. And if Lee Harvey Oswald - the former Civil Air Patrol cadet, USMC, Russian language speaker, Soviet defector, who associated with David Ferrie, Guy Bannister, Clay Shaw, George deMohrenschildt, Volkmar Schmidt, David Atlee Phillips, Carlos Bruinguier, Silvia Duran, Michael and Ruth Paine; practiced covert intelligence procedures, and was implicated in the assassination of President Kennedy and Officer J.D. Tippit in any way, then whatever happened at Dealey Plaza was a covert intelligence operation even if it was the work of a lone gunman. And those responsible for HOMELAND SECURITY should recognize that the assassination was a terrorist attack not only on JFK the man but the entire government and nation, as well as our system of government. (2)
James Reese
Program Director, Sports Management, American Military University
Program Director, Sports Management, American Military University
JR: Fifty-five years ago this Thursday, President
John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, as the president’s motorcade
traveled through Dealey Plaza. I recently visited Dealey Plaza and the former
Texas School Book Depository building (now the Dallas County Administration
Building) from which Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy.
BILL
KELLY NOTES:
Reese and Gerald Posner and Max Holland and Phil Shennon and Brian Latell and
all of the Deranged Lone Nutters can keep saying Oswald shot Kennedy a thousand
times in print in posts or shout it as loud as they want and it won’t make it
true. The testimony of multiple witnesses at the scene and Oswald’s own
statements clearly place him on the first and second floors before, at the time
and in the immediate aftermath of the shooting (3)
And
the forensic evidence supports his contention that he was framed as the Patsy,
though there was a Third Class Sniper in that window, who wore a white shirt
(Oswald wore brown) and who had a very distinct bald spot on the top of his
head, a distinguishing characteristic not shared with Oswald. (4)
JR: As I rode the elevator to the sixth floor, where
Oswald fired the fatal shots,…
BILL
KELLY NOTES:
Oswald didn’t fire any shots, and the fatal shot to the head did not originate
from the Sixth Floor Sniper’s Nest Window (5)
JR: …..people around me were still debating the
assassination. Was it a lone gunman or a conspiracy?
BILL
KELLY NOTES:
There is no debate, those who claim that Oswald was the lone gunman refuse to
acknowledge the facts, the evidence and the truth, and continue to promote the
Warren Commission lies that have been proven false and are not accepted by 80%
of the public. There are dozens of serious, independent researchers who are
working full time on this case and will solve the murder to a moral and legal
certainty in the next few years. (6)
Hollywood Film ‘JFK’ Leads to 1992 Assassination
Records Collection Act
Oliver Stone’s 1991 film “JFK” did a huge disservice
to the public by debunking the single gunman theory introduced by the Warren
Commission Report.
BILL
KELLY NOTES:
By debunking the single gunman theory – and a debunked theory is all it is, was
not a disservice, but just the rational and objective review of the evidence as
it was known at the time.(7)
JR: The film’s one positive influence was that
public response to it led to the creation of the President John F. Kennedy
Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992. This law mandated the release of
records related to the death of the president after 25 years.
BILL
KELLY:
That didn’t happen, the law was totally subverted by President Trump, who
tweeted many times that he was going to release all the records, when at the
last minute – on October 17, 2017, the 25 anniversary of the signing of the
act, he related to pressure from the CIA and his chief of staff, General Kelly
(USMC), and continually withheld tens of thousands of documents, in full and in
part. But the most significant records that are leading to the resolving of the
crime, are not even part of the JFK Collection at the National Archives because
the most significant records have been destroyed, are missing or have been
wrongfully and illegally withheld. (8)
JR: As a result, approximately 99 percent of more
than five million documents about JFK’s assassination are now available to the
public, either in full or in partially redacted formats. The Trump
administration has scheduled the release of the remaining 300 documents on
October 26, 2021.
BILL
KELLY: The
number of 300 remaining documents is a lie – and I am calling Dr. Reese on his
source for that figure, as we know for a fact that there are many tens of
thousands of records that are still being wrongfully withheld. What is one
percent of four million documents? You tell me. If the assassination was the
result of a deranged loner, there would be no reason for the illegal
withholding of these records for reasons of National Security. This should be a
concern to anyone who is interested in our Homeland Security. (9)
JR: Number of Americans Who Believe that Oswald
Acted Alone Has Shrunk
When the Warren Commission Report was released in
1964, 87% of Americans believed Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone. As of
2013, approximately 62 percent of Americans believed there was a conspiracy
to kill President Kennedy. However, there is not a shred of solid evidence to
support any of the estimated 311 distinct conspiracy theories.
BILL
KELLY NOTES: Every legitimate poll taken since 1964, when the Warren Report was
issued, has indicated that 80% of the people don’t believe Oswald was the lone
assassin, the same percentage of people who have lost their trust in
government. That figure has not fluctuated in fifty years, and I challenge Dr.
Reese to produce the source of his poll. And it doesn’t matter, if only one
person believed there was a conspiracy and uncovered the truth it would be
enough. And since the official story that Oswald killed JFK and the
assassination only happened one way, one of those 311 distinct conspiracy
theories is the way it happened. And we are getting closer to figuring it out. (10)
JR: In addition, there have been at least 900 books
dedicated to the Kennedy assassination and 95 percent of them are pro-conspiracy
in nature. Obviously, conspiracy theories drive ratings, sell books and make
money.
BILL
KELLY NOTES:
There have been over 2,000 books published about the Kennedy assassination, and
most of the conspiracy books are self-published while those who support the
government’s cover story have no problem getting published, and make a good
living at it, as can be seen in Max Holland’s resume. Most pro-conspiracy
writers can’t find a legitimate publisher and I would like to compare how much
Gerald Posner, Max Holland, Phil Shennon, Brian Latell, et al. have earned
publishing their bull shit compared to the real, independent researchers –
Peter Dale Scott, John Newman, David Talbot, John Armstrong, Bob Groden etc.
The weight of the money is by far on the side of those who support the
government version of events that few believe. (11)
JR: The following material comes from numerous
official investigations, including the FBI Investigation Report, the Warren
Commission and the Church Committee Reports among others, which discredit many
of the common conspiracy theories.
BILL
KELLY NOTES:
Wait a minute, the Church Committee and its Schweiker-Hart Subcommitee on the
assassination uncovered numerous leads that support conspiracy, and many of
their interviews and records have disappeared. Isn’t that an issue that those
who work in Homeland Security and National Security should be concerned. And
the conservative Republican Senator Richard Schweiker (R. Pa.) concluded that
“there were fingerprints of intelligence” all over Oswald and the
assassination. Why not address those fingerprints if you are interested in
national security issues? (12)
JR: Oswald’s Behavior Prior to the Assassination
Just six months before the Kennedy assassination,
Oswald attempted to assassinate Army General Edwin A. Walker at his home. The
bullet that was removed from the house was consistent with Oswald’s rifle, but
could not be matched conclusively since the bullet was severely damaged.
Oswald’s wife, Marina, later testified that her
husband admitted to the assassination attempt. In addition to the attempt on
General Walker’s life,
BILL
KELLY NOTES:
While Mrs. Paine refused to identify the host of the house party where she met
Lee and Marina, it was the home of Volkmar Schmidt, who I interviewed, and who
acknowledged to me that he encouraged Oswald to kill Walker “as Hitler should have been killed.” And
Schmidt was entwined with the July 20, 1944 German military plot to kill Hitler
that in 1963 the CIA was “studying in detail” to be adapted for use against
Castro. In addition, there were two people seen at the scene of the Walker
shooting, so someone besides Oswald was involved. The Walker shooting is
significant but not because it proves Oswald had the “capacity for violence,”
as simple minded Lone Nutter try to use as proof of anything. (13)
JR: a June 1964 declassified memo from FBI Director
J. Edgar Hoover revealed that while on a trip to Mexico City just three
weeks before the assassination, Oswald threatened to kill Kennedy.
BILL
KELLY NOTES:
Wow, this is news to me. Is this the Silvia Odio incident? That the Warren
Commission falsely said were Lawrence Howard and friends who denied it was
them. And the Odio incident is proof of conspiracy, not that Oswald threatened
to kill Kennedy. Or is this a reference to the phone call that was recorded by
the CIA that was not Oswald but someone impersonating him? Or is this Shennon’s
Twist Party incident in which I have proven, by interviewing two of the
participants Shennon says were there, who denied knowing Oswald and were in
Mexico weeks after Oswald left? In any case, everyone who knew him confirmed
Oswald liked JFK, and did not have a motive to kill him. (14)
JR: These acts indicate that another assassination
attempt on a high-profile target, the president, would not be unreasonable.
BILL
KELLY NOTES:
It would be more reasonable for a First Class Sniper, trained to shoot Castro
by US Army Rangers and US Marines at the JMWAVE base in Florida, to redirect
their target to the highest-profile target the POTUS, anti-Castro Cuban
maritime commandos who DID have a motive to kill JFK and hated him with a
passion. (15)
JR: Ownership of the Murder Weapon
A document trail confirms that Oswald purchased a
secondhand Italian M91/38 bolt-action Carcano rifle from Klein’s Sporting Goods
in Chicago on March 13, 1962.
BILL
KELLY NOTES:
On the day the rifle was picked up from the Dallas Post Office, Oswald was
working at the Jaggers/Chiles/Stoval graphic arts firm, who did work for the US
Army map service, including putting arrows and captions on U2 photos of Cuba
and Russia. On the day the rifle and pistol were collected, no one at the Post
Office recalls handing the weapons over the counter to Oswald, and there is no
record of it. On that same day, J/C/S records clearly indicate Oswald worked
from before the Post Office opened until after it was closed, so he had to pick
it up on company time, though his time sheet accounts for his work for every
hour, including working for a J/C/S client – the Sam Bloom Advertising agency,
who handled the details of the motorcade on the day of the assassination. (16)
JR: Marina said Oswald wrapped the rifle in a
blanket and stored it in the nearby garage of family friends, Ruth and Michael
Paine.
BILL
KELLY NOTES:
According to Oswald’s brother Robert, a US Marine marksman, “If Lee did not
practice with that rifle and scope in the days and weeks before the
assassination he did not take the shots that killed President Kennedy and
wounded Governor Connolly.” And the Warren Commission concluded Oswald did not
practice with that rifle that remained in the Paine’s garage until the day of
the assassination. (17)
JR: According to Oswald’s coworker Wes Frazier,
Oswald brought a brown paper package to work the morning of the assassination,
claiming it contained curtain rods. A brown paper bag of a similar size,
containing Oswald’s fingerprint and palm print, was found on the sixth floor of
the Depository.
BILL
KELLY NOTES:
This is a deliberate lie, as Dr. Reese certainly is aware that both Wesley
Frazier and his sister, who also saw the package, described it as much smaller
than the rifle, even if disassembled, and the brown bag allegedly found in the
Sixth Floor Sniper’s Nest, was not photographed in place before it was removed,
and did NOT contain Oswald’s fingerprints as Dr. Reese falsely claims. Two
deliberate lies in one paragraph. And Dr. Reese knows better, so they are lies
and not simple mistakes.
JR: Investigations after the assassination concluded
that Oswald had been in the Paines’ garage the night before the slaying. No
curtain rods were found in the Depository or were missing from the Paine
household. However, the rifle was missing from the blanket.
BILL
KELLY NOTES:
Yea, and not one strand of the heavy wool Russian blanket was found on the well
greased rifle, and yes, the rifle is what they used to frame Oswald for the
crime, as there is no other credible evidence.
JR: Oswald’s Rifle Linked to the Crime
Three 6.5 x 52 mm spent shell casings were found
beside the sixth floor window after the assassination.
BILL
KELLY NOTES:
Yea, where did they come from? You can’t buy single bullets like you can’t buy
single cigarettes, and the FBI traced the bullet serial numbers to a lot of
bullets that were sold to the US Marine Corps in 1958. How did Oswald get them,
and what became the rest of the package? The shells were seen by the window by
the first responders, all neatly lined up in a row close together, and then a
TV cameramen testified that Dallas homicide detective Will Fritz picked them up
in violation of standard forensic practice, and then threw them back on the
floor under the window leaving them in a random pattern. As they say, it isn’t
who pulls the trigger in an assassination, it’s who buys the bullets. Oswald
didn’t buy any bullets, and never fired that rifle, even in practice.
JR: JIn addition, a damaged bullet was recovered
from the Parkland Hospital stretcher used by Governor Connally.
BILL
KELLY NOTES:
The stretcher from which WC Exhibit #399, the basically undamaged “Magic
Bullet” was found has been in dispute since it was discovered, and its
provenance has been broken.
JR: Five bullet fragments were recovered from the
presidential limousine after the assassination.
Two of the bullet fragments were large enough to be
tested.
BILL
KELLY NOTES:
Indeed, the bullet fragments found in the limo also contained blood, flesh and
brain matter that Federal Attorney John Orr convinced Attorney General Janet
Reno to test as DNA evidence. If the DNA matched John Connally, that was
positive proof of conspiracy, but the testing came up “inconclusive,” a
determination that would not have been made had it been proven to be that of
JFK.
JR: The shell casings, bullet and the two largest
fragments were all matched to Oswald’s rifle by firearms experts.
BILL
KELLY NOTES:
Well if you are going to frame someone for murder by using his rifle, you will
use his rifle. Oswald just wasn’t the guy in the Sixth Floor window who fired
it, and as John Orr has explained, the fatal head shot did not originate from
that window.
JR: Oswald’s palm print was also found on the rifle.
BILL
KELLY NOTES:
The Dallas Police could find no fingerprints on the rifle, but the FBI
discovered a latent palm print that matched Oswald on the underside of the
disassembled rifle, proving that he once handled it disassembled long before
the assassination. It was his rifle, taken from Mrs. Paine’s garage.
JR: Gunshot Wounds to President Kennedy
All investigations concluded that two shots hit the
president from the rear and came from the direction of the sixth floor window
of the Depository. The second shot to the head proved fatal.
BILL
KELLY NOTES:
Not all investigations came to that conclusion. The original, first FBI report
concluded Connolly was hit by a separate bullet than JFK, and Orr’s report to
Reno concluded the fatal shot was from the rear but not from the Sixth Floor
window. All of the First Class Snipers that I have talked to said that the
fatal head shot was not fired at a target moving from left to right by a Third
Class Sniper with a Third Class weapon, but by a First Class Sniper from in
front or behind, maybe both, as some have concluded there were two simultaneous
shots to the head, one from in front and one from behind, as the target moved
towards or away from the shooter with a First Class weapon.
JR: At least six independent commissions came to
that conclusion.
BILL
KELLY NOTES:
That’s simply not true. For one they weren’t independent, and the House Select
Committee on Assassinations HSCA concluded there was a shooter in front of the
president. The first study of the Zapruder film, by the CIA’s National Photo
Interpretation Center (NPIC) concluded there were more than one gunman,
reported that to CIA director John McCone, and McCone told that to RFK.
JR: To believe there was a conspiracy to alter the
medical or acoustics records,
BILL
KELLY NOTES:
The medical records do not reflect the fact that the throat wound was one of
entry, and back of JFK’s head was blown out – clearly an exit wound – as ALL of
the Parkland doctors and nurses testified to, proving that there was a gunman
shooting from the front. And you bring up the acoustic evidence, which clearly
indicate four shots, the last two coming on top of each other – bam, bam thank
you mam, as all of the ear witnesses said, too close together to come from one
gun. And the acoustics indicate a gunman from the front, a study that has never
been duplicated or debunked.
JR: you would have to believe that all of these
independent groups conspired together over a long span of several decades.
BILL
KELLY NOTES:
First there was a conspiracy to kill the President, a very well planned and
successfully executed covert intelligence operation, one that succeeded in
framing Oswald but failed to implicate Fidel Castro, as the plan was devised.
Then there was the cover-up that involves not independent groups – but
government controlled groups conspiring together to protect those actually
responsible for the crime. That second conspiracy continues today in the
attempts to implicate Castro in the murder, as we see in the well published
work of Max Holland, Brian Latell, Phil Shennon, and others that were either
full fledged CIA agents (Latell) or CIA media assests (Holland/Shennon et al)
JR: Movement of the President’s Body
One of the most discussed topics about the
assassination was the movement of the president’s body after he was struck in
the head by a bullet. Many conspiracy theorists, including producer Stone,
contend that since the president’s head moved back and to his left after
impact, the shot must have come from the side and the grassy knoll area.
However, multiple medical and ballistics experts
stated that the movement of his body was due to nerve damage that was
consistent with being struck from behind by a bullet. This conclusion is also
supported by the president’s medical records, which clearly show the bullet
entered from the rear. There is no physical evidence to suggest that the shots
were fired from any other location, including the grassy knoll area.
BILL
KELLY NOTES:
Well the so-called “Jet Effect” has been completely debunked, and the backward
– forward movement of the head is now being explained more rationally by two
simultaneous shots to the head, one from the front and the other from the rear,
and as confirmed by the acoustic evidence. The “baseball” or “saucer” sized
blown out hole in the back of the President’s head, and the 3 to 5 inch “Harper
Fragment” found at the scene, photographed and identified as a rear scull
fragment, before it disappeared, are proof of a shot from the front. That’s
physical evidence that Dr. Reese refuses to recognize.
JR: Was Oswald Capable of Making Long-Distance Kill
Shots?
Oswald, like all Marines at the time, received
marksmanship instruction at 200, 300 and 500 yards with the standard-issue M1
rifle. All of those Marines were evaluated on the accuracy of 50 shots.
Oswald qualified as a sharpshooter with a score of
212 at distances of 200, 300 and 500 yards. When the United States Marine Corps
was contacted about Oswald’s shooting ability, a USMC representative described
Oswald’s marksmanship skills as “better than average.”
Four marksmanship experts testified before the
Warren Commission that Oswald was capable of the level of marksmanship needed
to perform the assassination. Although tests conducted for the Warren
Commission were based on the assumption that Oswald utilized the rifle’s 4x
scope, firearms experts advising the House Select Committee testified that
based on the angle of the shots, it would have been easier to use the open
sights on the rifle.
The topic of “open sights” is important. Oswald was
trained in the Marines with his M1 rifle using open sights and no scope. The
longest of the three shots needed to assassinate President Kennedy was only 88
yards.
Since a 4x scope makes targets appear four times
closer, Oswald’s actual view through the crosshairs of his scope would have
approximated a range of 15 to 22 yards. For someone trained at longer distances
with open sights, shooting at the president from a distance of no more than 88
yards with a 4x scope would not have been difficult for Oswald
BILL
KELLY NOTES:
Every gun expert agrees that the Sixth Floor Shooter – who ever he was, did not
use the scope because it had to be properly aligned and can only be done so by
using it by firing the rifle. And because the target was moving from left to
right, the chances are slim that Third Class Sniper – civilian clothes, little
training, no practice, could take that head shot and hit a bulls eye. It may
not have been difficult for Oswald – trained by the USMC, but he did not take
those shots as he wasn’t even on the sixth floor at the time. The Chicago
technician who mounted the scope on Oswald’s rifle said if Oswald did the
shooting with that rifle he was extremely lucky.
JR: One last factor that could have affected
Oswald’s marksmanship ability was the quality and accuracy of his rifle. There
are differing opinions about its effectiveness. Although a fingerprint expert
advising the Warren Commission referred to Oswald’s rifle as a “cheap old
weapon,” tests concluded that it was accurate.
BILL
KELLY NOTES:
From First Class Snipers I have talked with about this, the man in the Sixth
Floor Window – (wearing a white shirt and with bald spot) was a Third Class
Sniper and his weapon was a Third Class Weapon. His job was deception, pump
evidence into the car, and leave the rifle implicating Oswald. The head shot
was taken by a First Class well trained sniper with a First Class
state-of-the-art weapon, shooting the target as it moved toward him or away
from him, but not moving. The motto of the First Class Sniper is “One Shot One
Kill.”
JR: Timing of the Three Shots and Shell Casings
To me, the timing is one of the most important
aspects of the case. The amount of time Oswald had from his first shot to the
third would likely affect his accuracy significantly.
BILL
KELLY NOTES:
To me, the timing is coordinated by the acoustical tapes and the Zapruder film.
The CIA’s NPIC says the Z-film alone indicates at least two shooters, and the
acoustics confirm the ear witnesses who all say that the last two shots were
almost on top of each other, within a second or two apart, too close for one
person to shot them both.
JR: If Oswald’s first shot missed, which most
experts believe was the case, the Warren Commission estimated the time between
the first and third shot to be between 4.8 seconds and a bit longer than seven
seconds. The Warren Commission did not reach a conclusion about exactly when
the first shot was fired.
BILL
KELLY NOTES: Most
experts recognize that the first shot was the easiest, and an even more easier
shot was to shoot as the car came down Houston Street towards the shooter. Max
Holland and others can argue all day long as to when the first shot was fired,
and it doesn’t matter. That is a diversion issue while the real assassins walk.
JR: Using the Zapruder film, the House Select
Committee determined only that a minimum of two shots, spaced six seconds
apart, were fired at the president’s limousine. However, both investigations
used Frame 133 of the Zapruder film as the basis of the estimates.
But what if the first shot was
fired before Frame 133? There is eyewitness testimony to support this
theory. Numerous witnesses testified there was a gap between the first and
second shot, with the second and third shots closer together.
BILL
KELLY NOTES: And therefore there were two guns and two shooters firing
simultaneously.
JR: The locations of the spent shell casings also
support the long delay theory between shots one and two. Though this idea was
not addressed by either the Warren Commission or the House Select Committee,
the location of the shell casings is telling.
One shell casing was found far to the right of the
window while the other two were near each other and closer to the window. When
a shell casing is ejected from the right side of a rifle, it typically travels
perpendicular to the direction the weapon is aimed. If all three shots came in
succession with the rifle pointed at a similar angle, they would likely have
landed close to each other.
The fact that one casing was much further to the
right suggests the weapon was pointed perpendicular to the building during the
first shot. That would be logical since it would provide a sniper with the
closest distance to the target. The more a weapon faces to the right as it’s
aimed at a target moving away, the farther the ejected casings will land from
previous shots.
Oswald had boxes behind him concealing the sniper’s
nest. As Oswald turned his weapon to the right to follow his target for shots
two and three, the ejected shell casing would have bounced off the boxes behind
him. As a result, they would have landed close to each other.
BILL
KELLY NOTES: TV
cameraman Tom Alyea (who is still alive) was one of the first reporters to
enter the TSBD, and says that when he saw the Sniper’s Nest before the crime
lab experts got there, he did not see the brown paper bag (no one saw it at the
scene) and the three shell casings were together at the base of the window. He
called homicide detective Capt. Fritz and Alyea says Fritz picked them up,
looked at them and then threw them back where they landed at random and not as
they were originally. So all this theorizing about the location of the shells
is meaningless. As for the boxes, the sniper’s nest was created by the floor
laying crew, and the boxes by the window were moved after the last shot, as the
HSCA photo panel concluded on examining two photos of the boxes taken seconds
apart.
JR: It’s surprising that neither investigation
considered this evidence.
“In the 55 years since this incident, crime scene
and evidence collection procedures have dramatically advanced. New tools and
technology have been introduced to the process and techniques are consistently
evolving. Evidence collected today can tell us much more than that very same
evidence collected based on the tools and techniques used over six decades
ago,” states Dr. Charles Russo, former law enforcement officer and
Director of the Criminal Justice program at American Military University. “I
feel confident in saying that today’s tools and technologies would yield better
and more detailed information on the evidence I collected and cases I worked
back in the 1980s. When asked about this case, I can only imagine what
information would be available if we brought today’s ‘latest and greatest’ to
the Texas School Book Depository building to process that original crime
scene.”
BILL
KELLY NOTES:
Well today we certainly can apply the latest crime scene technology to the JFK
assassination evidence that has been preserved at the National Archives, we can
identify the fingerprints on the boxes from the sniper’s nest, apply 3D
computer technology to the shells and magic bullet, bullet fragments can be
tested for the DNA evidence, and new facial recognition technology can be
applied to the photo evidence. And CAPA is doing just that.
JR: Final Thoughts on the Kennedy Assassination
The area around the sixth-floor window at the Book
Depository museum is enclosed in glass. However, at the end of our tour, we
were allowed to visit the open area on the seventh floor. It is as close as you
can get to the view Oswald had from the sixth floor. As I looked out the window
at the “X” on the street representing the location of the president’s limousine
at the time of the third shot, one thing became obvious.
There are only two windows of opportunity for a
sniper to shoot. Houston Street is eliminated since the limousine windshield
would obstruct the target who was seated behind the driver and Texas Governor
John Connally.
BILL
KELLY NOTES:
The window and Connally would not be an obstruction as the car turned the
corner directly below the sixth floor window. That shot wasn’t taken because
the cross fire was coordinated and timed for when the fatal head shot could be
taken.
JR: The first shot opportunity came after the vehicle
turned onto Elm Street in front of the Depository. After that, there is a
traffic signal and large oak tree that obstruct the view of the street. The
second window of opportunity opened after the vehicle reappears from under the
tree. That is when I believe shots two and three were taken.
So why did Oswald’s first shot miss, which was the
best opportunity to hit his target? A recent forensic analysis concluded that
“the most reasonable explanation for why Lee Harvey Oswald’s first shot missed
is that the bullet struck the traffic light pole and was redirected to a
concrete curb where the FBI found evidence of a bullet impact.”
Based on the evidence, I agree with those who
estimate Oswald may have had as much as 11 seconds to fire three shots. For a
skilled shooter such as Oswald, that would be plenty of time to accurately aim
at his target for a second and third time while operating the bolt-action
feature of the weapon.
If there were multiple shooters or if Oswald was
part of a conspiracy, it’s reasonable to assume that some credible evidence
would have surfaced during the past 55 years.
BILL
KELLY NOTES:
Oswald wasn’t part of a conspiracy, he was set up as the Patsy, and much
credible evidence has surfaced in the last 55 years. Former NYC prosecutor Bob
Tanenbaum, the head of the Kennedy Task force for the first chief counsel of
the HSCA said that those who claim Oswald did it alone ignore all of the facts
and evidence that has surfaced in the past 50 years – especially the FBI
destruction of the Hosty note and the CIA-Mafia plots to kill Castro, both of
which throw a wrench in the works of the Lone Nutters.
JR: There are many conspiracy theories, but when
evidence has been investigated, none of those theories has been substantiated.
All scientific evidence and eyewitness testimony suggests that Lee Harvey
Oswald acted alone in the assassination of President Kennedy.
BILL
KELLY NOTES: Since the official version of events
could not have taken place as the Warren Commission contends and Oswald was
framed as the Patsy as he claimed, one of the conspiracy theories is the way it
happened, and it only happened one way.
JR: Perhaps the release of the remaining
assassination documents will take us in a different direction.
BILL
KELLY NOTES:
And the records released under the JFK Act have led us in a different
direction, and the remaining documents will assist us piece together what’s
missing from the big picture.
About the Author
Dr. James Reese is the director of the undergraduate
and graduate Sports Management programs at American Military University (AMU).
As a personal interest, he has been studying the details of the assassination
of President Kennedy for more than 30 years.
About
the author of the NOTES:
Bill
Kelly is the son of a Camden, NJ homicide detective, a graduate of the
University of Dayton (History and English Education), journalist, historian,
author of two regional history books, co-founder of the Committee for an Open
Archives and COPA, and research coordinator for Citizens Against Political
Assassinations (CAPA-US.org).
BILL
KELLY NOTES:
I will try to add the footnotes to this essay, but it really is getting to be
too much when the real research is panning out and we can just solve the crime to
a legal and moral certainty within the next few years, with or without the
still withheld records.
