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In reply to the discussion: GHW Bush, JFK's assassination, the CIA and drugs [View all]coalition_unwilling
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suggest you take a look at it to disabuse yourself of your misconceptions regarding the supposed exit wound at the back of JFK's head during the "initial autopsy" (sic). At 1500+ pages (plus some 900+ pages of citations and notes on a campanion CD), it is a heavy tome. But by the end of it, I am convinced you will not adhere to the 'conspiracy' school. I know because I fall into that category myself.
The doctors at Parkland were trying to save JFK's life, did not perform an autopsy there and can be forgiven if, in the heat of the trying moment, they mistook the entrance wound at the back of JFK's head for an exit wound. The formal autopsy was conducted at Bethesda Naval Hospital after JFK's corpse was flown back there on Air Force 1. That autopsy concluded that both shots that hit JFK hit him from behind. So are you saying that the physicians who conducted the autopsy at Bethesda were in cahoots with the conspirators or part of the conspiracy themselves?
As to the Zapruder film and what it supposedly shows, Zapruder's camera took film at the rate of 18 frames per second. What you cannot see watching the Zapruder film is that in the few microseconds of the 18th of a second between Zapruder's frame 312 and frame 313 (where the image of the headshot occurs) is that JFK's head moves forward suddenly, exactly what one would expect if the fatal shot came from the back. Forensic experts have identified this by comparing the position of JFK's head in Z frame 312 with the position of his head in Z frame 313 and the evidence shows that JFK's head moved forward first before snapping back in the recoil predicted by the laws of physics (and thus consistent with a head wound from behind).
You write that JFK had 'pissed off the CIA". Would that be the body entire or only certain rogue elements within it? And if the latter, who were those rogue elements? Oswald was pissed at JFK for having the temerity to attack and harass Castro's Cuba, based on radio broadcasts from Cuba that Oswald probably heard while listening to shortwave radio in Dallas. I hold no warrant for the CIA which has many sins for which to answer. But on this one particular sin, Bugliosi pretty much demolishes any plausible CIA involvement.