So... The Majority Here At DU Think It Was A Conspiracy, As Do A Majority Of Americans...

[DanTex]

156. Tell you what.

I disagree with just about everything in this post. But I like your sincerity and your overall tone. So I will pick up McClellan's book and read it.

A few points in rebuttal.

I think it is totally fine for you to disagree with McClellan but he does not deserve to be treated so disrespectfully.

I would counter that my treatment of McClellan is not nearly as disrespectful as your (and McClellan's) treatment of LBJ: accusing him of assassinating the president (and others). Whatever McClellan might have done to deserve respect, LBJ passed the Civil Rights Act, Medicare, Medicaid, etc. Accusing McClellan of faking a fingerprint is mild in comparison to accusing LBJ of murder.

Regarding the fingerprints, McClellan requested and receive the print evidence from the Warren Commission.

Sure. That doesn't come close to proving that the fingerprints he showed Darby were the same ones he got from the WC. The fact that Darby has pages of affadavits is completely irrelevant to this question. Since the test was blind, nothing that Darby said could possibly have any bearing on whether the prints were actually from the TSBD. Again, the WC clearly states that the only unidentified prints were palm prints. There is nothing at all to suggest that the unidentified palm prints also contained a fingerprint.

It would seem to be a trivial matter to perform a verified fingerprint analysis, where someone other than a conspiracy theorist verifies the fact that the matched fingerprint was actually taken from the TSBD.