JFK - Fifty Down and Twenty-Five To Go

by

     M. Richard Maxson


     Seventy-five years, that is when the truth may come out about the Kennedy murder. For those of us that were alive on this fateful day in history remember that the "official" story and documents of the murder were sealed for seventy-five years, supposedly by the family, so that everyone connected to it would, most likely, be dead and therefore could not be held accountable. For those of you who were not born yet, you may never have heard of this before. If you haven't, you have now. .

     Since the fabricated Warren Commission Report was published, many in the public have stepped up to say that they got it wrong in finding that the assassination was the work of a lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald. Too many other facts and too many what seemed to be coinsidences almost immediately surfaced. The original report had to be "modified" after James Tague came forward. He not only witnessed the murder he himself was in the line of fire. Then 27, is believed to be the only bystander who was wounded that day in Dallas.( http://news.yahoo.com/video/jfk-assassination-witness-recounts-missed-015912500.html) The original report had three shots fired, three shots hit, but did they? No, says the revised version. This is the birth of the single bullet theory.

     Top forensic pathologist Cyril Wecht calls the Warren Commission's findings "absurd," noting that the "single bullet theory" supported by the commission is inconsistent with Kennedy's head wounds. He calls the killing a "CIA-orchestrated coup d'etat."  It was done with the help of the military/industrial complex for many reasons that I will not go into in this article.
    
      A second commission was formed years later, the U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations of 1976-79. They disagreed on whether there may have been a second gunman. But the committee also said there was a high probability of a second shooter, citing acoustic evidence gathered from Dealey Plaza.

       "You have two official investigations conducted by the government reaching contradictory conclusions," says Larry Sabato, who wrote about the impact of the assassination in his book The Kennedy Half-Century.

     John T. Orr is the author of "Analysis of Gunshots in Dealey Plaza." Orr's independent research convinced the FBI to conduct additional testing on JFK evidence as late as 1997. He stated "On April 17, 1995, I mailed a 72-page report on the final results of my research project to Attorney General Janet Reno. It presented what was then, and I believe still is, the only complete visual reconstruction of the gunshots together with all of the evidence supporting it. 

     
     The report proves beyond a reasonable doubt that four shots were fired during the assassination. Oswald fired three shots--the first wounding the President in the back and neck, the second missing the President completely and hitting Governor Connally in the back, chest, and thigh, and the third missing the 25-foot-long limousine entirely. While Oswald was spraying bullets wildly, another shooter, an expert marksman fired a fourth shot, a near-perfect fatal hit at the center of the back of the president's head that exited the right side of the head and struck the governor's right wrist.

     In the report, I recommended a number of things the Justice Department could do to further confirm my analysis. The Department directed the FBI to do only one of those things -- examine important forensic evidence I had pointed out on one of the bullet fragments found in the limousine. It took about five years to complete that examination and report the results.

     In the end, the FBI did only a portion of the fragment examination I had requested, and the results were incomplete and inconclusive. The Department permanently shut down any further investigation of my analysis."

     Another investigator added "I don't think we have a good explanation of the assassination," says Jefferson Morley, creator of the website JFKfacts.org. "The causes of the crime were obscured, and we're still living with the consequences." Crime scene investigator Sherry Feister, author of the book "Enemy of the Truth: Myths, Forensics, and the Kennedy Assassination," insists that the president was shot from the front, not from behind as the commission maintained.
    
      Even Secretary of State John Kerry recently said he believed that Oswald did not act alone.Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently disclosed that the Kennedy family does not believe the lone gunman finding.


     The truth remains elusive, as thousands of pages of documents remain classified by the U.S. government. We may find out in another 25 years, if it's released, if any of us who were there are still alive to remember.