Lifton never quite explained HOW one moves bullet wounds, either, which is a pretty big stumbling block, if the aim of the game was to convince honest autopsy surgeons of the conspiracy.
There was no need to move wounds, according to Lifton.
His theory is the shooters in the front shot JFK in the front and the bullets never exited, leaving the back of JFK unmarked. How or why they could guarantee the bullets wouldn't exit, Lifton doesn't explain. Nor does he ever put a definitive location for the shooters in his book. He ignores that issue because at the time of the head shot, the knoll is to JFK's right side, not front. The only thing in front of the limousine is the overpass, and that had about a dozen railroad worker spectators, along with two cops on it during the assassination. So Lifton's imagined shooters in front of the President necessary for his theory to work can't be anywhere in front of the President, anther pretty serious failing that appears not to both Lifton whatsoever.
The conspirators then (in Lifton's theory) went in the front through the existing wounds, enlarging the entry wounds, to retrieve the bullets. This made the small entry wounds in the throat or right temple look larger for example but also removed the bullets so no bullets were found in the body when the full body radiographs were taken at Bethesda. This left the back of the body unmarked, so the conspirators could pretty much punch holes anywhere in the back of the body to create fake entry wounds on JFK's body.
In addition to not explaining how they accomplished this feat on the living Connally, nor explaining how they expected this plan to work had JFK survived the assassination (like Connally did), Lifton totally ignores the fact that wounds created on a living person look nothing like wounds created on a dead person, and body alteration would not fool a first-year medical student.
Ultimately, Lifton even said the original plan was for some Parkland doctors to do the body alteration at Parkland Hospital!
3:56 - 5:58 into this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVrxtiA98hc
David Lifton is the prime example of loon in the assassination researcher community.
If you were shooting from the front, the much more obvious solution would be to put a patsy on the grassy knoll.
The early conspiracy theorists were trying to find ways to exclude Oswald as a means to establish conspiracy. They ignored entirely the possibility that Oswald could be a shooter - even the lone shooter - and a conspiracy could still exist. So this led to examining the evidence published by the Warren Commission with a fine-toothed comb, looking for any reason to exclude evidence against Oswald. So we got a lot of arguments that can't all be true and that are often mutually exclusive. Looking at the rifle arguments alone, we got false starts such as:
1. A Mauser was the rifle discovered, Oswald's MC was swapped for it later.
2. Oswald's Mannlicher-Carcano rifle was stolen from the Paine garage and planted in the Depository.
3. There's no evidence Oswald kept his weapon in the Paine garage.
4. Oswald's MC had no clip when planted in the Depository, the clip was added later. Without a clip, Oswald couldn't fire fast enough to accomplish the shooting alone.
5. Oswald never owned a rifle, that was ordered and picked up by conspirators from the post office. The paper trail was faked.
6. His prints on the MC were planted there.
7. The three shells were of course planted as well.
8. Oswald bought the rifle, but there's no evidence he bought any bullets. Without bullets, he couldn't commit the assassination.
9. And where'd he get the sling, anyway?
etc...
The most obvious solution, if the conspirators are intent on framing Oswald while killing the President, is to put the conspirators' best marksman in the Depository with one rifle, shot JFK from behind, leave that weapon behind and have that marksman flee the building. The paper trail indicates Oswald owned the rifle and nothing else need be faked or altered or planted.
But the CTs went off the rails early in the process, thinking only that to absolve Oswald is to establish a conspiracy, when that's not even necessary to establish a conspiracy. So for 54 years they've gone over the evidence sifting it with finer and finer combs, looking for the one issue that would show Oswald wasn't involved. They can't find it, because he was involved, and that's what all the evidence indicates.
...Put the patsy on the knoll, and it could be literally anybody. It's a public space. You don't need the complex charade of curtain poles, fake photos, and pot shots being made at the General. Your conspiracy wont be foiled if the patsy chooses to eat lunch outside, watching the president in the crowd, or if he joined others at the depository in their vantage point, being even remotely sociable. Your conspiracy won't fail, if Oswald walks out the back of the building for a smoke.
Oswald wasn't a smoker [typical CT retort to the point made, ignoring the point made].
Regardless of who was arrested for the crime, or where he was located, we'd still be at this point, but just with a different accused assassin. Because the CTs are not interested in solving the crime (that was done long ago). They are only interested in establishing a conspiracy involving multiple shooters, even when the evidence indicates no such thing ever occurred.
Hank
