Reply #44: So how do you explain the many, many medical experts that dispute you?

[jobycom]

If there was no doubt about it, there would be no doubt about it. I'm sure you've heard doctors and forensic pathologists and ballistics experts explain how nerve impulses and cranial pressure could have caused exactly that reaction from a rear shot.

As for the witnesses, the majority of witnesses, including everyone in the motorcade (and I knew one of them) counted three shots, and all agree they came from behind. That includes Connally and LBJ, who one would have expected to agree with Warren, as well as Ralph Yarborough, a vocal critic of the Warren Commission and an opponent of Connally and LBJ. Yarborough (he's the one I knew) believed Warren was badly flawed, but he also believed Oswald was the lone gunman.

So I appreciate your first-hand knowledge, but for you to say that all the professionals and all the eye witnesses who have seen Zapruder and have explained scientificly and experientially why they believe the shot came from behind is a bit stubborn.

More on the witnesses: Over half of the witnesses at the time of the shooting believed the shots came from the area of the SBD window--above them. Of those who disagreed, some heard shots coming from the overpass, some from the Grassy Knoll, and some admitted they couldn't tell where the shots came from, so there was no unity amongst the minority who believed the shots came from somewhere other than the SBD. In addition, several of the witnesses who said that shots came from the GK were on the overpass or the other side of the street, so that the Grassy Knoll was between them and the SBD window, so they still claimed the shots came from the general direction of the SBD. I know this goes against Oliver Stone, but it's well documented, nonetheless. Here's a link (a biased one, admittedly) with a breakdown of various tabulations of witnesses. Notice the most extreme has only a slight edge for the Grassy Knoll, and he clearly misrepresents people's views (For instance, Nellie COnnally, whom he claims was undecided on the direction of the shots, but who testified often that the shots came from over her right shoulder--there's even a link to a video of her saying it).

Both sides slant their numbers, no question. But there is not a majority concensus that the shots came from the Grassy Knoll, and if you've ever been to the GK (I'm assuming you have), you know that if the shots had come from the GK, EVERYONE would have agreed where they came from, since most people were standing on it, and it's just not that big.