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In reply to the discussion: NBC News: RFK Jr: 'Very convincing' evidence that JFK wasn't killed by lone gunman [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)44. Advances in forensic science have revealed both of your contentions to be wrong.
NAA:
Challenge to lone gunman theory
By Betsy Mason
LIVERMORE - More than four decades after his death, John F. Kennedy's assassination remains the hottest cold case in U.S. history, and the clues continue to trickle in. Now Lawrence Livermore Laboratory scientists say a key piece of evidence supporting the lone gunman theory should be thrown out.
A new look at clues gleaned from studies of crime-scene bullet fragments shows they may have been misinterpreted.
"It basically shatters what some people call the best physical evidence around," said chemist Pat Grant, director of the lab's Forensic Science Center.
Grant and Livermore Lab metallurgist Erik Randich found that the chemical "fingerprints" used to identify which bullets the fragments came from are actually more like run-of-the-mill tire tracks than one-of-a-kind fingerprints.
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http://www.ctka.net/naa_2.html
Trajectory reconstruction is bogus, too:
The JFK CASE:What Does the Blood Tell Us?
By Sherry Pool Gutierrez
In the years since President Kennedy's death, great strides have been made in various technical fields. Many interested parties have applied their time, education, abilities, and efforts to determine what really happened on that dismal November day. Laymen who dedicate their lives to putting pieces of seemingly unrelated information together, scientists and criminologists who apply the latest technical knowledge to arrive at new pieces of the puzzle, and researchers who look to what may have been at that time an insignificant bit of information to develop a comprehensive or new insight surrounding his death. But despite all of these gains, disputes about basic evidence still trouble us.
One area of dispute has been the shot to the head of President Kennedy. Was the shot from the back or from the front? Was there more than one gunshot wound to the head? Is it possible there were two simultaneous shots from the front and back? And most importantly, is there physical scientific evidence which can undisputable satisfy these questions? There is one field of study which can address those questions, and perhaps more importantly, answer them in a manner in which the average person can understand and reach the same conclusions as the experienced analyst.
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Yes. Analysis of bloodstain patterns on crime scenes is routinely used in law enforcement. Both international and U.S. based professional organizations recognize bloodstain evidence analysis techniques as valid investigative tools. This type of information is based on the study of research performed by many criminalists, with the initial research performed by Herbert MacDonell. Law enforcement agencies internationally provide professional training and education in this field, with hands on reconstruction of bloodstain patterns. Based upon specialized training and field experience obtained by using this technique on actual crime scenes with gunshot injuries, the findings presented are consistent with analytic conclusions which would be reached if President Kennedy's death were being investigated today.
Therefore, supported by the statements by witnesses in the death of President Kennedy describing the bloodspatter they observed; blood, tissue and bone deposited on persons and surfaces located behind the President; and the documentation of blood spatter in front of the President in the Zapruder film, I am convinced the head injury to President Kennedy was the result of a single gunshot fired from the right front of the President.
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http://karws.gso.uri.edu/Marsh/Ballistics/BloodEvidence.html
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NBC News: RFK Jr: 'Very convincing' evidence that JFK wasn't killed by lone gunman [View all]
NewsCenter28
Jan 2013
OP
I think there are conspiracy wackos, but the people who deny all conspiracies are even more wacko
Bjorn Against
Jan 2013
#40
You can disagree with someone without being shitty, you know--calling the poster a "rotting stump"
MADem
Jan 2013
#78
No, they don't, and RFK Jr is an ex-smackhead who also believes that vaccines cause autism
Spider Jerusalem
Jan 2013
#23
Wow. The guy you called 'Smackhead' puts together a controversial report on vaccines...
Octafish
Jan 2013
#35
Address the results of neutron activation analysis and trajectory reconstruction then.
Spider Jerusalem
Jan 2013
#42
Advances in forensic science have revealed both of your contentions to be wrong.
Octafish
Jan 2013
#44
So you have to wait ''years'' for me to explain that fraction of the Zapruder film, William Seger?
Octafish
Jan 2013
#137
So a fellow Democrat-one whose family has sacrificed so much for this nation-is a 'conspiracy kook'?
Octafish
Jan 2013
#50
Again you smear Mark Lane, zappaman, meaning you were only feigning ignorance.
Octafish
Jan 2013
#121
The lack of physical evidence contradicting the conclusions of the Warren Report is not surprising
JDPriestly
Jan 2013
#105
"wishful thinking" that the "magic bullet" explanation would be believed - a convoluted theory. n/t
AnotherMother4Peace
Jan 2013
#17
Not true. There have been multiple confessions and a growing mountain of evidence.
alberg
Jan 2013
#56
People love the fun of thinking it was a huge cover up. More fun than the truth.
Logical
Jan 2013
#57
Try this -- How is JFK hit from the front as they drive AWAY from the book depository ?
KurtNYC
Jan 2013
#140
This means RFK would have conducted a different investigation if he had become President
Welcome_hubby
Jan 2013
#10
And the nuts love thinking it was a a cover up. Like 911, etc. People love stories. Not the truth.
Logical
Jan 2013
#60
The level of competition between organized elites is much higher than generally believed
FarCenter
Jan 2013
#25
Well, we get to hear from an eyewitness what Attorney General Kennedy thought.
Octafish
Jan 2013
#41
I was quite young when Evers, JFK, MLK, RFK and others were murdered. This is a painful subject.
freshwest
Jan 2013
#96
The existence of posters that disagree with the OP is evidence that the conspiracy is correct?
cpwm17
Jan 2013
#136