Dr. David Mantik's newly released book JFK Assassination Paradoxes, in which he proves with hard scientific evidence--optical density measurements and radiological analysis--that the JFK autopsy skull x-rays have been altered. As Dr. Greg Henkelmann says in his endorsement of this book, "to reject alteration of the JFK skull x-rays is to reject basic physics and radiology."
This is ground-breaking if true. Why not published in a scientific medical journal and subjected to peer review? Is Mantik the only radiologist to hold this view or is his view the generally accepted one among radiologists? It appears from here yours is the misplaced argument from [invalid] authority logical fallacy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argum...guments from authority,in the matter at hand".
Lone-gunman theorists seem to be caught in a time warp and act like we're living in the early 1990s, seemingly oblivious to the historic evidence that has come to light via the ARRB releases and new scientific research.
Sorry, no. There's nothing wrong with the original evidence.
For example, we now know from ARRB-released files that the autopsy doctors determined for an absolute fact during the autopsy that JFK's back wound had no exit point, and that the first two drafts of the autopsy report said nothing about a bullet exiting the throat. The autopsy doctors, we now know, probed the back wound extensively after removing the chest organs and while positioning the body in different angles and positions. Toward the end of the probing, Dr. Finck informed the two FBI observers (Sibert and O'Neill) that the back wound had no exit point. One of the medical technicians who witnessed the probing could see the end of the probe pushing against the lining of the chest cavity--he could see that the wound was shallow and had no exit point. The HSCA medical panel was aware of this evidence but chose to suppress it by sealing it for 50 years, but the ARRB released it in the mid-1990s.
You're accusing the HSCA medical panel, including Dr. Wecht, a long-time conspiracist, of covering up the medical evidence. Why has Wecht himself not on the record concerning this cover-up in his testimony to the HSCA or his published dissent?
The fact that the back wound had no exit point, of course, debunks the single-bullet theory, and without the single-bullet theory there can be no lone-gunman theory. Since the SBT is false, there must have been at least two gunmen firing at JFK.
Since your claims are unsourced, I'm not going to bother to rebut them to any greater extent than I already have. Instead, I'll point out your argument now involves TWO MAGIC BULLETS.
You've argued the single bullet theory (one bullet striking two men, disparagingly called the Magic Bullet Theory by conspiracists) is untenable, but you have replaced it with a Two Magic Bullets Theory.
It's clear you are positing two different bullets hitting the President in the upper back / neck, both of which vanished into thin air.
You explicitly mention the back wound and claim it did not exit, and argue this means the single bullet wound is false, but you fail to explain the throat wound, which was seen in Parkland before being obscured by the tracheotomy performed through that wound to give JFK an airway. What happened to
that bullet?
If we accept your analysis for the moment for the sake of argument, that means you are positing a bullet strike to the throat and another to the upper back, with neither bullet exiting and yet neither bullet being found in the body.
What happened to those two missing bullets? Shouldn't they have been found in the body? They mysteriously vanished into thin air by the time of the autopsy (full body x-rays of JFK were performed, and no bullets were seen in the body).
Now we get into the truly outer limits of the fringe, where it's posited (of necessity) the missing bullets were removed clandestinely by surgeons who conducted a pre-autopsy autopsy, and who altered JFK's body to make it look like one bullet transited the body to fool the autopsy doctors of record. That was the purpose you suppose, but you then argue it didn't fool the autopsy doctors (they couldn't find the transit, you argue).
Your theory makes little sense when examined in detail, as it relies on two magic bullets.
It's also different from the body-alteration theory posited originally by David Lifton in BEST EVIDENCE, who argued all the shooters were in front of the President and the wounds in the upper back and in the back of the head were not from bullets entering there, but from fake wounds added later to the President's body by the alterationists. You posit a real bullet striking JFK in the upper back (no word yet on whether you think there was a real bullet wound in the back of the head).
Of course, Lifton's theory has its own issues, not the least of which is that Governor Connally wounds indicate he was shot from behind and above, and if all the shooters were in front of the President, as Lifton argues, then they were in front of the Governor as well, as Connally was riding in the same car as the President. Lifton's theory means Governor Connally's wounds were altered to look like they were inflicted from behind as well, but in the 42 years since his theory's publication in 1980, Lifton has never explained how and when Connally's wounds were altered (sometime on the five-minute ride to Parkland, I imagine).
Carrying CT arguments to their logical conclusion is why reasonable people don't find CT arguments believable.
