Dan Benbow submitted 51 questions to lone nut theorists. He called them thoughtful and sourced, which they were, and invited the readers to comment on them. I will try to go through the points one by one. DAN: 1. Is it at least a little odd that arch-segregationist Joseph Milteer told an FBI informant in Miami (8 days after a pre-empted assassination plot in Chicago, 13 days before the Dallas assassination), that Kennedy would be shot from an office building with a high-powered rifle, after which they’ll pick up somebody within hours after…just to throw the public off? Flip de Mey: It is a fact Milteer said “Kennedy would be shot from an office building with a high-powered rifle. But does did prove precognition of the Dallas-assault? JFK himself expressed the possibility of a rifle shot at him. A lot of people hated JFK and said or could have said things like that. Pictures of “Milteer” at Dealey plaza are bogus, he was somewhere else. I would replace this point with the question what it means that two quite similar assaults on JFK’s life (Chicago and Tampa) were pre-emtped iun the weeks before Dallas. DAN: 2. Is it pure coincidence that Rose Cherami—a former stripper at Jack Rubys club who had been hit be a car while on a cross-country trip, she claimed, to procure heroin for Ruby—told at least two witnesses (Louisiana police lieutenant Francis Fuge and Dr. Victor Weiss) of a plot to kill Kennedy within 48 hours of the assassination? [According to an official report, Cherami died in 1965 after again being hit by a car on a highway two miles outside of Big Sandy, Texas.] Flip de Mey: Rose Cherami is a very weak witness. She was self-destructive in the highest degree so the way she died in 1965 is in accordance with her life-style, and irrelevant for the case. I never saw any evidence she worked for (or even knew) Ruby. She said Kennedy would be killed, but she did not describe how and when that would happen. As a reasonable person I strongly doubt that the conspiracists would have shared their plans with somebody as troubled and chaotic as Cherami. There are some questions, but theycertainly do not deserve a place in the 51 issues that could convince lone-nutters. Point dismissed, and to 1 replace by a better question DAN: 3. Could a reasonable person find it hard to believe (possible, but not probable) that Lee Harvey Oswald—whod had mediocre scores on his marksman tests in the Marines—had the grace under pressure to twice hit a moving target, over trees, with a $12 Mannlicher-Carcano mail order, bolt-action rifle? [Reflecting the results of most re-creations, tests of the Carcano done by the Italian army in 2007 concluded that Oswald could not have gotten three shots off in seven seconds, as the Warren Commission theorized.] Flip de Mey: Good question, but the first shot was at Z160 and the third at Z313, which means ((313 – 160)/18,3 =) 8,36 seconds for two reloads with the bolt action rifle. 4 seconds to reload and re-aim is difficult but technically possible. So it’s not 7 seconds, and technically it can be done. The question should be limited to: was Oswald capable of doing it? DAN: 4. Texas Governor John Connally, a lifelong hunter, consistently said that he was not hit by the same bullet which tore through John Kennedys throat. In fact, frame 230 (below) of the Zapruder film shows Kennedy clutching his throat as Connally calmly stares ahead, holding a ten-gallon hat. ` Could a reasonable person doubt the Warren Commissions theory that one magic bullet hit both Connally and Kennedy and produced seven injuries, a hypothesis questioned by Connally, his wife, and three of the seven Warren Commission members (Richard Russell, Hale Boggs, John Sherman Cooper)? Flip de Mey: Connally heard the first shot at Z160. We know that because Jackie said she heard Connally scream ‘Oh no no no” and then turned her head toward him (instead of looking to the people on her side of the limo as ordered by JFK). We see that the pink pillowhead begins to turn immediately after Z160. (The Z 160 shot is also confirmed by the position of Officer Baker on his motorcycle on Elm when he heard the first shot). So Connally heard the Z160 shot, and then was hit at around Z220 by the second shot, together with JFK. The hat is another question. Connally’s wrist was certainly not hit by the “magic bullet”. It would be impossible to still wave his Stetson at Z278 (even in Z312 you can still see Connally holding the hat), and it would be even impossible that the statson is still in his hand. A good question that was never asked before: where is the Stetson? I never read anything about the state in which the Stetson was found afterwards. Didn’t the bullet go through the hat, if you see how Connally was holding it? I made objective calculations based on exact measurements of the position of the sniper’s nest, JFK’s back-wound, JFK’s throat-wound and Connally’s right armpit. And I did the calculation in the horizontal and vertical pane. Believe it or not (I was surprised myself) At Z220 those four points can be eactly on one straight line in both dimensions. This means that it is mathematically proven that the single bullet (without passing Connally’s wrist and hand) is possible. This then is the most logic conclusion. (1) There were shots from behind, JFK is hit in the back, the dent in the chrome above the windshield is at the inside of the car, etc. (2) Strange as it may sound vertically the angle from a 60m shot from the sixth floor to JFK’s back-wound while Elm-street descends 3° requires only 18°, and this allows a shot through JFK’s back, his throat and Connally’s armpit.
Posted on: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 11:10:28 +0000
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