Who Killed JFK?
More than 40 years after the fact, the assassination of John Kennedy continues to haunt us.
Well, at least some of us. Some youngsters out there probably think it's just ancient history, and I can't blame them.
But JFK's assassination was like an iron post deflecting the flight of a rifle shot — it set us off in an entirely new direction, leading to where we are today.
Incredibly, the events of the last 40 years have taken us from an inspirational leader who could make us believe in the impossible...
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
...to a bumbling pretender of a president who complains that his job is such "hard work."
We still don't know what happened on November 22, 1963. The last official word came in 1979, from the Select Committee on Assassinations of the U.S. House of Representatives. Its conclusion:
The committee believes, on the basis of the evidence available to it, that President John F. Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy. The committee was unable to identify the other gunmen or the extent of the conspiracy.
A recent German documentary claims the assassination was a conspiracy between Lee Harvey Oswald and Cuban intelligence, G2. There are no plans for the documentary to be shown in the US. More on the documentary here, here, here, and here.
Castro and Castro loyalists certainly had a motive for wanting Kennedy dead. We were trying our best to kill him. But others had motive, too, including anti-Castro Cubans.
According to the documentary, Cuba paid Oswald $6,500 to kill Kennedy. If that's true, the Cubans didn't get their money's worth, because Oswald didn't fire the fatal shot.
Oswald was positioned behind the president's limousine when the shots were fired. But according to eyewitnesses, the fatal shot was fired from the front.
One of those eyewitnesses is me, thanks to the Zapruder film. If you've seen the film, you're a witness, too.
If you haven't seen the film, take a look at the fatal shot (warning: very graphic and disturbing). Unless you believe that Kennedy's head snapped backwards as a result of the jet effect or a neurological spasm, you'll likely agree that a shooter had to be positioned in front of Kennedy and to his right.
And that means the event that shifted the course of history and brought us from inspirational leadership (We do these things because they are hard) to lame excuses (Being president's hard work) remains a mystery, one that might explain a little bit about who and what we are.
You can find links to both sides of the controversy here.
Comments
IF KENNEDY WANTED TO KILL CASTRO, CASTRO HAD EVERY RIGHT TO DO THE SAME, EVER HEARD OF SELF-DEFENSE, HE HAD IT COMING...
Posted by: Jan Mori | February 28, 2006 10:59 PM
IF KENNEDY WANTED TO KILL CASTRO, CASTRO HAD EVERY RIGHT TO DO THE SAME, EVER HEARD OF SELF-DEFENSE, HE HAD IT COMING...
Posted by: Jan Mori | February 28, 2006 11:00 PM
Kennedy's movement was caused by a "Neuromuscular Spasm" combined with the "Jet Effect".
For those who say the "Neuromuscular Spasm" is nonsense, click on "Zapruder film", or, for an even clearer view, go to:
http://jfkmurdersolved.com/film/Zapruderstable.mov
which shows the Zapruder film from frames 133 through 390, at about one third real speed.
When the fatal head shot occurs at frames 312-313, notice that the right arm jerks upward (the left arm was held down by Mrs. Kennedy). It may appear the arm doesn't move that fast, but it's initial speed was faster than the backward movement of the head. While the head was not slowed by gravity, indeed, it's motion would have been assisted a little by gravity, the arm slowed down quickly due to gravity and then fell down limply.
Either there were two other bullets, fired at the same time as the head shot, which came up through the floor of the limousine, one striking the upper arm, the other the lower arm, causing the right arm to jerk upwards. Or the arm moved by the way arms usually move, by muscle contractions, signaled by the brain. Involuntary and abnormal muscle contractions are called spasms.
It is known that in some cases, particularly when an animal is shot by a powerful rifle bullet, into the brain, a signal to all the muscles in the body may be sent down the spinal cord. Muscles occur in pairs, so one can move a body part back and forth, and generally in these pairs, one muscle is stronger than it's partner, because it has to work against gravity. In humans, the muscles along our back are stronger than the corresponding muscles in the front because twenty million years ago, our ancestors walked on four limbs and needed the stronger muscles along the top, to pull the limbs and body upward against gravity. The muscles on the bottom part were weaker, since they are assisted by gravity. When upright walking was developed around five million years ago, we still maintain this basic body design, with the muscles along our back being stronger than the muscles in the front.
Kennedy's head moving back is consistent with a muscle spasm, with the muscles that move his head backwards being stronger than the muscles that move the head forward. Kennedy's torso moving backwards is consistent with a spasm, with the muscles that move the torso backwards being stronger than the muscles that move it forward. Kennedy's arm moving upwards is consistent with a spasm, with the muscles that move the arm up, against gravity, being stronger than the muscles that move the arm downward.
What other explanation for Kennedy's movement of his right arm is there? It has to be a neuromuscular spasm. And if a neuromuscular spasm moved his right arm, why couldn't a neuromuscular spasm have moved his head and torso as well? Why would a neuromuscular spasm only effect his arm but not his head and upper torso as well?
Posted by: Joe Elliott | November 10, 2006 10:00 PM