50th anniversary of JFK assassination, and history is being re-written

Governments and their fawning lackeys in the Mainstream History constantly re-write history, both to cover up crimes and to make pols in power look smarter or more competent.

Latest case in point:  Fox News ran an un-attributed piece on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of president John F. Kennedy, on November 22, 1963.  That piece included the following utter horseshit:

In the...amateur footage that would come to be known as the Zapruder film, Kennedy’s head snaps forward and he slumps next to the horrified first lady.

Really?  The film shows his head actually snapped backward.  That was caught on motion-picture film, with a timing accuracy of about 1/18th of a second per frame.  So the un-attributed Fox piece is exactly the opposite of what actually happened.  But if you're under 40 or so, chances are high that you don't know anything about that.

In fact if you're under 40 you probably know almost nothing about the Kennedy assassination.  All you heard is that the president was shot by a lone gunman who has been described both as a right-wing nut and as a communist.  (For young Americans, those two are contradictions.)  

You may also vaguely recall that something else happened a couple of days later that made things murkier:  Oh yeah, just two days later the man alleged to be the "lone gunman" was shot and killed while in police custody.  Quite a coincidence, eh?

What you don't know is how much utter bullshit the government's official account of the assassination--the Warren Report--pushed.  And yet half the public believed it, because they naively believed their government wouldn't lie to them.

The official conclusion was that the president was killed by one man--Lee Harvey Oswald--working entirely alone.  From the 6th floor of a building, Oswald supposedly fired 3 shots in six seconds.  A bolt-action rifle with a telescopic sight was found on the 6th floor, with three shell casings. 

That was all most Americans needed to hear to believe the Narrative.  Three shots, three shell casings.  Rifle found, it's the right caliber and has a (gasp!) telescopic sight!  So it all fit perfectly, right?

The Zapruder film clearly shows that Kennedy was hit by two shots.  The distance from the 6th floor location where the rifle was found to the president was roughly 50 yards at the first impact, and 80 yards at the second.  So for Oswald to have been the only gunman he would have had to hit the president with two of three shots, in six seconds.

But buried in the thousand or so pages of the Warren Report were some critical details that made the official story absurdly unlikely:  For the Warren Report's Narrative to work, a shooter firing at a target moving in a car, at a distance of roughly 50 to 80 yards, had to hit two of three shots, in six seconds.  But the first problem was that telescopic sight:  Testing by the FBI (which today most Americans might not trust) would show that the scope on the rifle found on the 6th floor had never been "sighted in."  Tests showed that at a range of 80 yards, bullets would have missed the sight's aim-point by about a foot.

If you're not familiar with rifles and telescopic sights you don't know that just mounting a sight on a rifle doesn't make it accurate.  You have to adjust the sight very carefully, both laterally and vertically so that the cross-hairs align with the left-right path of the bullet.  Up/down is a separate problem, since the bullet drops farther at longer distances.  As noted above, the sight on the rifle found in the Book Depository was off by about a foot, meaning if a shooter put the cross-hairs on the target, the bullet would miss by that distance at 80 yards.

This alone should have made people reject the Narrative of the Warren Report.  But most Americans knew nothing about shooting, and few of those who knew about shooting bothered to read the FBI's report, buried in the Warren Report.  And interestingly, that report had no index, meaning it wasn't possible to go right to one particular topic.

Think that was an accident?  Maybe they didn't have money to do an index?  No.

Also, between the impact of the shots--described as the first and third--the line of sight between the  alleged firing position on the 6th floor of a building and the point of impact was blocked by the leafy branches of a tree.  The chances of being able to re-acquire the distant target just after Kennedy's limo cleared the tree--in the known time interval between shots--are virtually zero.

Most of the implausibility of the official "lone-gunman" story comes from the 8mm film taken by Abraham Zapruder, who about 50 feet from the president's limo.  The film captured the entire interval from before the first shot hit to well after second shot, except for roughly one second when the limo passed behind a freeway sign.

 Zapruder's color movie captured evidence that utterly demolished the official story--at least to anyone with a knowledge of basic physics.  Moreover, the camera's frame rate provided timing of the entire event with an accuracy of 1/18th of a second.

Kennedy was hit by two shots.  The first struck the back of his neck almost on the centerline and exited the throat at the collar button.  On Zapruder's film Kennedy can be seen moving both hands to his throat in reaction.

Seconds later a second shot hit Kennedy's head.  The film clearly shows Kennedy's head snapping backward and to his left. 

This second shot also blew off a hand-sized piece of the president's skull--which flew backward, landing on the trunk of the limo.  This was confirmed by the Secret Service agent riding on the back bumper.  Also, Mrs. Kennedy is seen lunging over the trunk in a futile effort to recover the piece.

Both the backward snap of the president's head and the trajectory of the skull fragment are clearly NOT consistent with the second shot coming from behind.  Yet for the Warren Commission to reach its official conclusion that there was only one assassin, whose location meant he would have been firing from behind the president, then the Warren Commission would have to sell the Narrative that the second shot had come from behind.

Given the evidence on the Zapruder film of the recoil of the head and the path of the skull fragment, for the Warren Report to claim the head-shot came from behind so obviously violates the laws of physics that one must be amazed either at the ignorance (thus incompetence) of the men who signed off on the piece of crap report, or the skill and cunning of one or two "steerers" on the commission or its staff who dragged the other members to sign off on its bullshit conclusion.

But of course the average person doesn't know even the most basic principles of physics.  Only a small percentage of college students have to take it, and most of those don't remember much about it.

Of course that still leaves at least a few thousand Americans who do know physics quite well.  But none of those people served on the Commission or were able to explain the obvious physical contradiction to the Warren Commission members or staff.

You really have to see the Zapruder film to see how obvious it is that the fatal headshot couldn't have come from behind--and thus to grasp the brazenness of the lie that's the official story.  It's bullshit.  And you can see it for yourself. (Caution:  If you're a snowflake, this is extremely disturbing.)

It's also extremely enlightening to walk around the shooting scene, stand behind the wooden fence at the top of the grassy knoll and ponder the sight lines and shot distances.

And if you're interested in learning more, the book "Best Evidence" is the best one I've found about the scores of glaring errors or inconsistencies in the Warren Report.  You really won't believe there could have been so many documented contradictions.

When the Warren Report was released, the guy who would later write "Best Evidence"--David Lifton-- was a physics graduate student.  After seeing key frames from the Zapruder film printed in Life Magazine he noted two were printed out of order, making it appear that the president's head had snapped forward rather than back.  He mentioned to his professor that the Warren Commission's conclusion contradicted the laws of physics.  The professor agreed but wasn't concerned.

Then Lifton discovered that by coincidence one of the key staff members on the Warren Commission was now teaching law at UCLA.  Lifton went to the guy's office, told him about the reversed frames and the violation of the laws of physics, and asked him how the Warren Commission had missed this. The former staffer just smiled and ended the conversation with some dismissive comment.  

(What?  A smiling no-comment dismissal by a government lackey in response to being caught out? Hard to imagine, eh?)

Lifton speculates that the Warren Commission staffer's dismissal was because at least a couple of commission members spotted the same problem.  Then it became a matter of convincing the objectors that the weight of evidence favored the majority theory.

The former staffer--now teaching law--never gave Lifton a straight answer.

America has never gotten a straight answer.

And now we're so accustomed to government lying to us that no one bats an eye at its lies.