Book links JFK murder to killing of RFK and MLK

"Ok. How about the Zapruder film, and the two issues it raises?"

"1. The reaction of Connally when JFK is hit by the second bullet. If they're both hit by the second bullet, why is Connally so slow to react?"

It's more a question of what reaction you look for. It would not be unusual for voluntary reactions to a gunshot to be delayed. Sometimes people don't even realize they've been shot.

But in fact there is a simultaneous reaction of JFK and Connally. Watch as soon as they come out from behind the sign. JFK's elbows raise and fists go towards his neck, an immediate involuntary reaction to being shot through the neck, and Connally's hand, which is gripping his hat, flies up in front of him. He had just been hit in the wrist.

His suit jacket also bulges out at that instant when it is penetrated by a bullet.

"2. The head shot, and JFK's move backward."

The assumption people make when viewing that is that it's a reaction to a bullet. But in real life, instead of in Hollywood, bullets don't normally fling people around. Especially penetrating rifle shots that exit the body.

At the moment of the head shot Kennedy is leaning forward kind of hunched over. At the instant the bullet hits the skull from the rear the head moves forward from one frame to the next, just a bit, but very suddenly.

His head basically explodes, ejecting much of the brain matter. His torso then simply pulls itself back into the seat. The muscles still worked. He was not instantly clinically dead.

"Just out of curiosity, how was the enhanced photo of the 2nd shooter faked and by whom? That segment was the one that grabbed me as it's evidence was right there in front of you and didn't involve supposition or conjecture. It also involved other people ie; the soldier in his uniform."

It's like a Rorschach test. You take a grainy underexposed photo of some bushes and look for something meaningful. Since the human brain excels at seeing patterns, even when they don't exist (ie. the tendency to see faces in all manner of random images), you can likely find something.

In the case of "Badgeman" it was helped along by some artificial coloring in to make sure you see the patterns they wanted you to see.

That was Gary Mack, who is generally level-headed guy and was sincere at the time. I'm not sure if he still stands by "Badgeman".

As for the soldier, Gordon Arnold, he was a crank that wasn't even there. See: http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/arnold1.htm

One thing about the Kennedy case that complicates things for the casual reader. You've probably heard that in notorious murder cases it is routine for the police to get false confessions from people that just like the attention. Imagine how much more so that would be in the case of a presidential assassination where there has been a ton of popular literature creating hundreds of various theories. The case is filled with false confessions and false witnesses. People who voluntarilly came forward and claimed to see something, be somewhere, or even be involved, that were simply making it up.

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