Reply #16: Apparently, neither do you

[SDuderstadt]

Watch the video clip again and listen to the audio very carefully. Kilduff never says ANYTHING about a bullet striking JFK in the forehead, instead he says "bullet to the head" and points to his own head as he is doing it. He is describing the part of the body where JFK was shot, not where on that part of the body the bullet hit. Did you expect him to point to the back of his own head when all he is doing is merely describing the cause of death in a general way? It is beyond intellectually dishonest to twist Kilduff's words to mean something beyond what he actually said.

What's really hysterical is one of your sources is Fletcher Prouty, claiming there was a military "stand down" on the day of the assassination. Contrary to Prouty's claims, that the 316th Field Detachment of the 112th Military Intelligence Group was ordered to "stand down", "(t)he House Select Committee on Assassinations took testimony from Colonel Robert E. Jones, who had been the Operations Officer of the 112th Military Intelligence group from June, 1963 until January 1965. He was questioned about a variety of matters, including his unit's role in the protection of President Kennedy during his Texas trip. Not only did Jones not mention any orders to "stand down," he explicitly noted that his unit provided protection for the president in Dallas!

He stated:
We provided a small force — I do not recall how many, but I would estimate between 8 and 12 — during the President's visit to San Antonio, Texas; and then the following day, on his visit to Dallas, the regions also provided additional people to assist, that is additional people from Region 2. Hearings Before the Subcommittee on the Assassination of John F. Kennedy of the Select Committee on Assassinations, House of Representatives, Executive Session, Washington, DC., April 20, 1978, p. 1-14."

Prouty's claim is thus flatly at odds with the on-the-record sworn testimony of the Operations Officer of the unit. Like so many of his claims, it just doesn't jibe with the historical record.

For the life of me, I don't understand why JFK assassination conspiracy theorists believe that offering material from other conspiracy theorists is going to prove anything to skeptics.