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Up2Late Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-25-07 02:06 AM
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93. Not at the angle that the shot would have had to been taken from, and you need to remember...
...the shot was at a persons head in a moving vehicle, so the shot was not an easy one to make and couldn't be lined up precisely like all the recent "re-enactments" show. I'm not saying it was a lucky shot, just not an easy one.

You made a lot of bad assumptions in your hasty conclusion about where I was talking about. First, I never said the shot came directly from the right, which your insulting reply implies, it came from the front and slightly to the right. Probably though the eye socket. And second, you are assuming that the "official" autopsy photos and report were real and un-doctored, they are not, that's obvious from what we can all now see in the first generation copies of the Zapruder film, something that nobody was able to see until at least 1969 at the Clay Shaw trial, which only a select few people attended. It was NEVER even seen on Television until February 1975 in Australia and March 1975 in the U.S. (see below and at the link)...

<http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/organ2.htm>

...The magazine did honor Zapruder's exploitation concerns — while protecting its own commercial interests — by never selling broadcast rights. The public would not see it projected until February 13, 1969, when a subpoenaed copy was shown at the Clay Shaw trial, an event recreated in the JFK movie. This copy became the source for the poor-generation bootleg copies that became a staple on the college lecture circuit, much to Life's chagrin and as Abe Zapruder had feared.

On March 6, 1975, the Zapruder film finally made its American TV premiere on Geraldo Rivera's talk show Good Night America. A month earlier, the film had first been shown on TV in Australia. In April, wishing to avoid the appearance of "suppression," Time Inc. returned the film and all commercial rights to Abraham Zapruder's heirs for one dollar. Since 1978, the original has been kept in "courtesy storage" under conservation-conditions at the National Archives.

In 1992, reacting to public pressure in the wake of the JFK movie, Congress passed the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act, which authorized the government to seize crucial records of the assassination. On August 1st, 1998, the government took possession of the Zapruder film already in its vaults. Compensation issues with Zapruder's heirs were resolved in 1999, resulting in a multi-million package for the family....


And also remember, most people didn't have home VCRs in March of 1975, as the Sony Betamax didn't go on sale until November of 1975. A few very wealthy people had Sony U-Matic 3/4" VCR, but they were not common, like the VHS machines are today.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCR
...Betamax was first to market in November 1975, and was argued by many to be technically more sophisticated,<6> although in practice few people could see the difference (television sets of the time were rather poor in quality - limited to barely 3 megahertz bandwidth and 240 horizontal resolution). The first machines required an external timer, and could only record one hour. The timer was later incorporated within the machine as a standard feature.

The rival VHS format (introduced in the United States in September 1976 by RCA) boasted a longer two-hour recording time with four hours using a "long play" mode (RCA models). Since 2 hours and 4 hours was near-ideal for recording movies and sports-games respectively, the consumer naturally flocked towards VHS rather than the 1-hour-limited Betamax. Although Sony later introduced Beta-II and Beta-III to allow a maximum time of 5+ hours, by that time VHS was already boasting 6, 8, or even 9 hours per tape. Thus VHS had a perceived "better value" in the eye of the consumer during the late 70s....


So, for all those reasons, this fraudulent cover-up wasn't as obvious as it is today in our world of DVDs and computer editing software.

So, do you have any other Wild assumptions or allegations about my inability "...to think critically..." to try to stump me with?:mad:
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