No it isn't.
Here is a summary I posted back in February
ALL of the verifiable evidence points to Lee Harvey Oswald firing three, and only three bullets at JFK from the sixth floor of the TSBD, missing with the first, wounding both JFK and Governor Connally with the second, and fatally wounding JFK with the third. That evidence is irrefutable;
1. the gun, a 6.5×52mm Mannlicher–Carcano, the only one found
A Mauser turning Carcano turning murder weapon introduced into evidence by Lt. Day, a proven sworn serial liar.
2. the sniper's lair where the gun was found
Wrong. The rifle was allegedly found at the very other end of the sixth floor.
3. the witnesses who saw the gun poking out of the window
A rifle pointing out from the window as well as other withesses seeing other rifles in other windows as well as behind the picket fence on the knoll.
4. the witnesses near the TSBD who heard the shots and stated they came from the TSBD
As well as those near and inside the TSBD stating they heard the shots that came from the direction of the knoll.
5. the witness on the floor directly below hearing the shots, the bolt being worked and the casings landing on the floor above him
As well as the witness Jean Hill seeing the shooter behind the picket fence shooting at JFK, 50 witnesses hearing shots from the knoll, some of them smelling the gunsmoke, some of them seeing the puffs of gunsmoke, some of them confronting anonymous men showing Secret Service ID’s in spite of no Secret Service men on or around the Dealey Plaza until 20 minutes after the shooting ....
6. the fact that no bullets from any other gun were found
Wrong again. No other bullet REPORTED found.
7. the forensics linking the bullets (6.5 x 52mm) and bullet fragments to the gun (a 6.5×52mm Mannlicher–Carcano)
No, it doesn’t.
8. the records linking the gun (a 6.5×52mm Mannlicher–Carcano) to LHO
No, it doesn’t.
9. the actions of LHO before and after the assassination
No, they don’t.
10. the forensic evidence from JFK's wounds showing the direction the bullet came from behind and with an elevation of about 17°
No, it doesn’t.
There is zero verifiable evidence for any other shooters on the day;
There is solid scientific proof of at least two shooters, probably three, two from behind and one from the front behind the fence on the knoll.
LHO acted alone on that day.
Yes, he apparently did, but he did not shoot JFK, no.
Maybe, maybe not.
None claimed.
no invisible shooter on the Grassy Knoll.
None claimed.
Furthermore, with regards to the acoustic testing done by the HSCA, those tests CLEARLY showed that listeners can be mistaken about where they hear loud gunshots coming from... it was actually a conclusion the testers themselves came to.
HSCA performed tests to see if (blindfolded) bystanders could have been mistaken hearing echoes instead of the source. None made any mistake.
I argue that this means listeners near the Grassy Knoll were hearing echoes of shots that came from the TSBD.
Theory tested and proven faulty.
Equally, it also means that listeners near the TSBD could have been mistaken, and that the echoes led them to believe the shots were coming from there instead of from the Grassy Knoll;
Theory tested and proven faulty.
Lol.
Not if you adhere to scientific scepticism, you don’t. So far it’s the opposite.
and taken on its own, this is a reasonable conclusion.
No, it’s an insane conclusion.
However I also accept that there are other factors that must also be taken into consideration.
1. There were eye-witnesses who saw the shooter and his gun in the corner, 6th floor window of the TSBD.
As well as other witnesses reporting men with rifles in other windows, yes.
There were witnesses on the Grassy Knoll and behind the stockade fence at the top in it. NOT ONE HEARD OR SAW A SHOOTER.
There were two witnesses behind the fence. One sat inside a control tower and was cut of when he began explaining what he saw and heard. The other guy who saw the shooter with rifle was deaf.
2. We KNOW that three shots must have been fired from the 6th floor snipers lair, because the bullet fragments found match that rifle both in rifling and metallurgically.
No it doesn’t. And the bullet allegedly found on a stretcher in Parkland has no chain of custody. Or, I should say, the claimed chain of custody is a proven fabrication.
This means that if there was a shooter firing from the Grassy Knoll, there would have been HUGE number of people who heard shots coming from two different directions. Only 4% of the witnesses claim this.
How many were asked?
3. If the only shots were fired from the Grassy Knoll (assuming the TSBD sniper's lair was a setup to frame Oswald) then the VAST MAJORITY of ear witnesses would have heard the shots coming from there, even the witnesses near the TSBD. The reason for this is simple acoustical physics... the speed of sound v the distance covered. The main reflective echo source was the large flat, front of the railway overbridge at the other end of Dealey Plaza. The TSBD itself is also a large reflective echo source.
[imgw=500]https://www.dropbox.com/s/o00qb6zmrplyjbz/DP-Acoustics-GNonly.png?raw=1[/imgw]
NOTE: Sound radiates in waves travelling in all directions. This diagram is purely to show path lengths of sounds and not directions of reflected waves
In this diagram, the shooter is at the red X and an example ear-witness near to he TSBD is represented by the green X.
a2 = the path length from an alleged GK shooter directly to the TSBD witness
a1 + b1 = the path length from an alleged GK shooter to the TSBD witness via an echo from the TSBD.
They are virtually the same. If the shots were fired ONLY from the Grassy Knoll, the incident sound of the shots, and their echoes off the TSBD would not only have arrived so close to simultaneously that ear-witnesses could not have told them apart - "b'bang" - but the amplitude of the echoes would have been about the same and many of the ear-witnesses would have been confused about the direction.
a3 + b2 = the path length from an alleged GK shooter to the TSBD witness via an echo from the railway over-bridge.
This is a long path with a delay of about 0.8 - 1 second, and would also appear to come from the direction of the Grassy Knoll (the Knoll and the over-bridge were in the same quarter as viewed from the TSBD
The result of this scenario would have been
i. A huge majority of ear witnesses saying that the shots came from the direction of the Grassy Knoll, and
ii A huge number of people reporting the hearing of shots from two directions.
In both cases, this is not what happened. Now lets have a look what happens when we place the shooter at the corner of the TSBD.
[imgw=500]https://www.dropbox.com/s/yvxfl9x94i2lhrv/DP-Acoustics-TSBDonly.png?raw=1[/imgw]
Now we see that any ear-witness near the TSBD has no echo to confuse them. They hear it coming from the TSBD. The most significant echo they have to deal with is one that travels all the way from the TSBD to the over-bridge on the other side of Dealey Plaza and back, a distance that will attenuate the sound, making the echo detectably quieter. However any ear-witness at the Grassy Knoll still has to contend with considerably louder echoes from the over-bridge.
The result of this scenario is that ear-witnesses near the TSBD are far less likely to be confused about direction (which is why more weight must be placed on what they report) but witnesses near the Grassy Knoll are far more likely to be confused about direction. Furthermore, very few witness would be likely to report two different directions. This is EXACTLY what happened.
Fancy diagrams and faulty reasoning doesn’t beat empirical scientific testing, does it?
None of the blindfolded test participants mistook echoes from the source of the shots.
Ergo, there was only one shooter, and that shooter was in the TSBD and NOT on the Grassy Knoll, and this is fully backed up by all other evidence.
Try again.
