Flawed forensic science had misled not only the congressional committee investigating the assassination, but also the entire nation. Our demonstration captured a lot of public attention. But more importantly, it suggests that a deeper understanding of truth can come from improving forensic science. This is useful as scholars examine newly released John F. Kennedy assassination documents , and as criminal trials around the country seek justice for victims and accused alike.
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However, Bolinas author Josiah Thompson says he has answered one very important question. Thompson's new book, "Last Second in Dallas", comes to a startling conclusion about Lee Harvey Oswald, who was arrested for shooting the president from the 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas. He did not kill John Kennedy. What is most important to this story is how Life Magazine hired him in to examine JFK assassination evidence for a cover story.
Thompson himself interviewed many of the key witnesses, and in , he wrote what's considered to be one of the seminal books on the assassination, "Six Seconds in Dallas".
Thompson now says he got one important fact about the film wrong -- he thought between frames and , the president's head moved forward 2.
Well, that's the bullet coming out. Now, Thompson realizes that the image smears from frame to , it's not the president's head that moves forward, it's Zapruder jerking his camera at the sound of gunfire. Thompson said, "So, what we were seeing in and what I viewed as an exit of a bullet, because of that movement, is not that. It's very clear. It's the impact of a bullet which blows impact debris downwards and rearwards, and upwards and rearwards.
Thompson is now convinced, the fatal shot came from a second gunman: "It was fired from the right front from 12 feet west of the corner of the stockade fence, a very, very exact location.
Thompson makes another compelling argument for a second gunman, based on what the United States House Select Committee On Assassinations concluded. He talked about trying to resolve the situation, but he never made a claim that he was going to pull out of there. Sorry, said Perry, no veracity to that. But it's all hearsay. It's possible there were individuals who helped Oswald, but who weren't part of any larger group or perhaps unaware of what he was planning.
This is the conspiracy theory that interests Perry the most. So the argument is that the CIA felt that Kennedy was going to disband them.
And as a result of that, they were the ones that ordered the killing of Kennedy. Perry points out that a former head of the CIA, Allen Dulles, was a member of the Warren Commission, the special Johnson-appointed panel tasked with the official investigation of the assassination. The commission determined that Oswald acted alone. Oswald was a supporter of Soviet-backed Cuba. But we don't know what was said. Then a few weeks later, he shoots Kennedy.
Or, maybe the CIA had Oswald on the payroll. He might have been a double agent. Is it possible that Russians ordered Oswald to do it? Not likely, said Perry. The Russians would never have ordered Oswald to kill Kennedy because of his well-known links to Russia and his pro-Cuban sympathies. Russia's leaders knew they would have been the first suspects if they'd engineered an assassination by Oswald. It would have been an act of war, which could have triggered a nuclear attack.
Panel slams JFK assassination records dump Perry thought the answer might have been revealed in , when the Trump administration made public a number of previously classified CIA documents related to the assassination that had been held by the US National Archives.
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