Weird. Lifton says JFK was shot from the front. There goes your EOP. Say hi to Badgeman.
And only the front! That's so the back could remain 'unmarked', ready for the conspirators to frame Oswald by putting entry holes there. Of course, Lifton is silent about things like wounds on living people looking nothing like cutting into dead ones, what kind of ammo the conspirators used that could kill, remain in one piece, but not penetrate a body fully (regardless of whether the bullet hit soft tissue like a neck or hard bone like a skull), and where the conspirators were shooting from. All points that need answers, but none are forthcoming from Lifton.
He also apparently never asked himself "Why would the conspirators do it this way?"
According to Lifton, they had Oswald's weapon, and shells, fragments, and a nearly whole bullet to plant (he doesn't deal with how they got the rifle anywhere in his 747 page book, it's apparently just a given in his world), so they could frame Oswald. But if they had Oswald's weapon, why not just shoot JFK from the Depository and leave the weapon behind, thereby framing Oswald in a much easier fashion than having to leave the weapon and shells behind in the Depository AND altering the body and ensuring the real shooters are unseen and planting fragments in the limo and a nearly whole bullet at Parkland.*
Plus...if you had actually read Lifton you'd know he believes the body was surgically altered to support a shot from behind, which undermines all of the crap you've been posting about the autopsy since - as far as Lifton was concerned - it was all a fraud anyway.
And apparently they altered Connally's wounds too! Remember, his wounds point to being shot from behind as well.
For the grown-ups:
Lifton is a cautionary tale about getting sucked into the CT world. He was an engineering student at UCLA when he attended a speech by scam artist Mark Lane. He dropped out of school, and spent the rest of his life "investigating" the assassination. This is a solid profile:
http://articles.latimes.com/1988-11-20/magazine/tm-206_1_david-lifton
I've also said the best thing the publisher did with that book was insist David re-write it to make it in the first person, telling us what he thought and when. It's an eerie look into how a person's mind goes from "The evidence doesn't fit any conspiracy theory" to "The conspiracy is even bigger than I thought!"
Lifton was not a medical person, of course, and trying to wedge the square evidence of shots from behind from Oswald's weapon into his round theory of shooters in the front and medical alterations to JFK's body to frame Oswald meant he had to ignore a whole slew of problems with his theory.
He's gotten to the point where he is now saying
the Parkland doctors were the ones who were originally part of the plot, oblivious to the fact that many of their observations were what he relied on 50 years ago to determine there was a conspiracy in the first place.
Bottom line, don't be like Dave.
Too late!
Sadly, too many CTs are so wedded to their favorite conspiracy theory, it appears no amount of evidence will sway them. Look at some of the more frequent CTs who have posted here: Robert Prey, Bob Harris, and now MicahJava.
Hank
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* MicahJava has argued that the bullet recovered in Parkland was NOT CE399. Which means the conspirators planted the wrong bullet, then had to swap it out for the 'right one' (one traceable to Oswald's weapon). But somehow, MicahJava doesn't see this as a problem, as everything Lifton wrote proves MJ right, somehow.
