Assassinations Books

I was fortunate enough to download the Ebook of this exciting, serious, and really terrifying expose', of '09-11',the E.Smart case,TWA800...and so much more...The Ebook is now only available at the publishers site:www.timefractuals.net(or,www.timefractuals.net/ebook.html).
Any one who really wants to know the truth will need this book,also available here at Amazon,in the print on demand.

What do you do with a caged and hungry tiger if you don't have all that much faith in the cage? Mystery and History combine to produce a fascinating tale of deception, intrigue, and murder. This is one of those books best read on a weekend when you don't really need all that much sleep. The writing style entices you to skip ahead: chapters detailing the modern-day murder investigation alternate with chapters describing the events on Elba Island in the early 1800s. At that time, European Heads of State weren't convinced that Napolean I could be effectively contained on the island to which he had been exiled. But an outright execution of the former emperor might precipitate widespread civil rebellion.
So, in steps the spy...

But how do you reconstruct a subtle murder plot which took place over 150 years ago? I'm looking forward to reading the revised edition (Assassination at St. Helena Revisited). Recommended for those who enjoy science with their mysteries. Kay O'Cullane.

...Author David Korn reveals a compelling tale of how Arafat and his PLO organization kidnapped and assasinated two American diplomats. In the minutes before 7 p.m. on March 1, 1973, a routine diplomatic reception was breaking up at the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan. But as the ambassadors left the party and disbursed to find their drivers, a volley of machine-gun bullets suddenly interrupted the quiet scene. Eight masked gunmen of "Black September", a covert Palestinian organization, burst into the embassy's main reception room. There, the diplomats were forced to sit on the floor and identify themselves by nationality. The masked men then proceeded to release most of the reception attendeed, keeping just five: two Americans (Ambassador Cleo Allen Noel, Jr. and Chargé d'Affaires George Curtis Moore), a Belgian, a Jordanian, and a Saudi. The gunmen then sent out a list of their demands, which included the freeing of jailed Palestinian terrorists, including Abu Daoud, a leader of the "Black September" organization; the freeing of Sirhan Sirhan, Robert Kennedy's killer, from jail in California; and the freeing of "Palestinian women in prison in Israel."

Twenty-six hours of feverish negotiations then went by. On the evening of the 2nd, the Beirut headquarters of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) sent an order of execution to the terrorists via radio broadcast: "Why are you waiting? The people's blood in the Cold River cries for vengeance" ("Cold River" was the code word for executing the captives). Yasir Arafat, chairman of the PLO then as now, personally delivered this order to murder. Soon after he did, the two Americans and the Belgian were bound, lined up against a basement wall, and executed in gangland fashion -- all eight gunmen simultaneously pulling on their triggers.

A decade earlier, the author David Korn, had worked Moore, one of the two dead Americans. During the siege at the Khartoum embassy, Korn worked at the Department of State's Operations Center, doing what little he could to save the lives of his two colleagues. Unsuccessful in that effort, he kept the story in mind and now, twenty years later, has published a study which suitably remembers the victims and honors their memory.

But Assassination in Khartoum does more: it has a current significance the author could not possibly have anticipated. Korn's meticulous inquiry into the killings at Khartoum raises important questions about the PLO as an institution, the character of its chairman Arafat, and American policy towards them.

Bringing the murder of Noel and Moore back to public attention highlights the unpleasant fact that the PLO has on a number of occasions attacked American citizens. Probably the best-known of these attacks took place in October 1985 when Leon Klinghoffer, an elderly invalid, was shot in the chest, and the other passengers were forced to throw his body and wheelchair over the side of the cruise ship Achille Lauro. In contrast, the most costly incident in terms of American lives is also one of the most completely forgotten: the bombing of TWA flight 707 in September 1974 en route from Tel Aviv to New York. A high-explosive bomb went off in a rear cargo compartment, sending the plane into the Ionian Sea and killing all eighty-eight persons aboard.

Korn's work clearly reveals that Americans have their own, serious problem with the PLO quite independent of Israel's.

I like these books a lot. They are interesting for me to read and I learn something. They can be a godsend for my ESOL students who must learn to read English and take American History at the same time. This book is on the assassination of President Lincoln. It covers the evening when husband and wife went to the theatre and Lincoln was shot. It follows the search for the murderer and the sentences carried out for the conspirators.

Roland Mousnier's book is the most interesting of all accounts of Henry IV in English (via a brilliant translation). By comparison Buisseret, Knecht and even Mark Greengrass are plodding. His account of Henry's merciless treatment of the brother of a woman who had had to sell her cow to pay the tithe (and then hung herself) is alone enough to make one rethink the traditional image of the benevolent king who wished every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sunday. At the same time, the book is highly unusual and needs to be taken by sixth formers and undergraduates with a pinch of salt. He is not really telling you what he actually thinks about Henry, as most would expect from a History book. He is offering the perspective and mentality of a 'good Catholic'. What he means by this phrase is an ultramontane Catholic maniac who would want to kill Henry. He is trying to construct a picture of Henry IV which would line up with contemporary theories of tyrannicide to justify the murder. This is to say that most student readers need to read between the lines of Mousnier's argument to work out their own more balanced picture of the king. It is one of the most innovative and lively history books on the early modern period. It deserves to be kept in print!

Sorry to have been so late in reading this superbly written recap of events of that era. As one who lived through those times, I could never comprehend how any individual in the government who became ill would allow themselves to be taken to a government run hospital. The story of the death of Trotsky's son in a Paris hospital should warn any outstanding conservative about how vulnerable the sick person is. McCarthy was victimized by every machination of the internationalists who seized control of the Republican 1952 nomination through the Texas delegation where they falsely charged Taft-MacArthur with theft -- when it was they who did the stealing! The two greatest speeches at that convention were those of MacArthur and McCarthy -- they sure woke me up and ought to be revived. Anyway, Evans command of language is marvelous.
Ellen McClay, author In the Presence of Our Enemies.

Let's examine the LENGTHS to which many rabid JFK conspiracy theorists will go in their crazy attempts at allowing Lee Harvey Oswald to get away with the two murders he so obviously committed on 11/22/63.....

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1.) Eyewitness Howard Brennan sees Lee Harvey Oswald shoot at President John F. Kennedy with a rifle. Plus: Brennan provided a decent "Oswald-like" description in his 11/22/63 affidavit....and this wouldn't even take into account the 12:44 PM APB description put out by J. Herbert Sawyer of the Dallas Police just minutes after the shooting.

So you can toss out that 12:44 description if you want to think it WASN'T provided by Howard Brennan. That STILL leaves Brennan's 11/22 affidavit, which says:

"He was a white man in his early 30s, slender, nice looking, and would weigh about 165 to 175 pounds."


THE KOOK RESPONSE ("KR"): Brennan is totally unreliable. .... Or: His eyesight sucks. ... He was coerced into identifying Oswald. ... He wasn't even looking up at the sixth floor at the time of the last shot. ... He described the wrong clothing. ... He couldn't possibly have seen Oswald well enough to give a positive I.D. through a half-open window (DVP interjection: even though Brennan did positively identify two of the black men situated just one floor below the sniper).


2.) Lee Oswald's very own rifle is found on the 6th Floor of the TSBD just 52 minutes after JFK's assassination.


KR: That rifle probably was "planted" there by dastardly, unknown, unseen conspirators of some ilk. .... Or: It wasn't really Oswald's rifle up on the 6th Floor at all. Instead, a Mauser rifle was found.


3.) Oswald's palmprint is found on his rifle the day of the assassination (per J.C. Day of the DPD):

"Your No. 637 is the right palm of Oswald." -- J.C. Day; To WC

That print was lifted off the gun barrel by Day himself before the rifle was turned over to the FBI on the night of 11/22/63.


KR: The palmprint was either "planted" there by the Feds or the DPD after Oswald was killed (with a print taken from Oswald in the morgue, no less). .... Or: The print was never really lifted off of the weapon by J.C. Day as he stated to the WC, meaning that Day (along with a cast of hundreds more), was part of a "Let's Frame LHO" plot.


4.) Bullet CE399 (fired from Oswald's Carcano rifle "to the exclusion of all other weapons") is found inside the very same hospital where both victims of the shooting were taken, proving beyond virtually every shred of a doubt that Oswald's gun fired that bullet into either Jack Kennedy's or John Connally's body on 11/22/63.


KR: CE399 was "planted" in the hospital by another of the faceless, nameless plotters who overtook Dallas that November day. No WAY that bullet could have been inside a victim on Nov. 22! And that "SBT" stuff is nonsense too (in case that's next on David's laundry list)!


5.) Bullet shells from Oswald's rifle ("to the exclusion" again) are found directly under the same window from where Oswald himself was seen firing a gun at JFK's car.


KR: Those shells were "planted" there by the DPD. Well, at least ONE of them was planted/faked anyway. (It's a PLANT FESTIVAL in Dallas, circa 1963!)


6.) An empty paper sack, generally matching the type Oswald was seen carrying to work on 11/22 by two witnesses, is found under the very same window in the Sniper's Nest from where Lee Oswald was seen firing a gun at JFK. The sack has two of Oswald's prints on it.


KR: That paper sack was "planted" there by the DPD. It's obvious! It wasn't even photographed by Studebaker or Day! So it COULDN'T have been there when the Nest was first discovered! To hell with those prints of LHO's on the bag! They're fake too. It's obvious. The cops planted the bag, then ran around and (somehow) got Oswald's palmprint and fingerprint and then "planted" the prints on the fake bag. It's kid stuff! (If you're a kook maybe.)


7.) Oswald is seen by multiple witnesses murdering policeman J.D. Tippit approx. 45 minutes after JFK was shot from right in front of Oswald's workplace (a location Oswald fled within three minutes of the JFK shooting, even though he had no permission to leave work that early).


KR: Oswald never shot Officer Tippit! A nicely-arranged "Oswald Double" killed Tippit. It's obvious, for God's sake! Oswald couldn't have even been there in time to plug Tippit! (Despite various re-constructions that show the trip was certainly a doable one by anybody whose legs weren't in casts.)


8.) Oswald's very own .38 revolver is determined to be the weapon that gunned down Tippit, via the four spent shells that littered the crime scene (shells that were ejected--by hand--from Oswald's revolver BY OSWALD HIMSELF, per multiple eyewitnesses to this post-shooting activity).


KR: Those bullet shells were "planted" by the DPD. It's obvious, you goof! An "automatic" weapon killed Tippit.


9.) Approximately a dozen witnesses in total identified Lee Harvey Oswald as either Tippit's LONE killer, or as the LONE MAN who fled the scene of the crime near 10th Street and Patton Avenue (with a gun in hand, dumping shells along the way).


KR: Those witnesses are all wrong! TWO guys did the Tippit job! Acquilla Clemons confirms this. Who are ya gonna believe -- Acquilla (who didn't even see the actual shooting as it was happening)? Or are ya gonna believe Davis, Davis, Scoggins, Markham, Tatum, Callaway, Benavides, Patterson, etc., etc.?


10.) Oswald tells one lie after another to the police after he was arrested in the Texas Theater (following a wild fight, in which Oswald attempts to kill more cops).

He lies when he tells police he has "never owned a rifle"; and he lies about the "curtain rod" tale he told Wesley Frazier; and he also lies like a cheap rug about many, many other things which connect him to the Tippit/Kennedy murders.

And Lee Harvey also lies when trying to establish his alibi for the JFK shooting ("I had lunch with Junior" {Jarman} in the lunchroom at the time JFK was shot, he told one police officer....even though "Junior" was photographed on the 5th Floor at 12:30 exactly).


KR: We don't have any idea WHAT Oswald told the cops....because they never recorded his statements. Which HAS to mean he's innocent...because ALL the cops who said he was saying these lies cannot be trusted because...er...um...well, because I SAY THEY CAN'T BE TRUSTED. So there!

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Many additional things could easily be added to the above 10-item list. But I think you probably get the idea. That idea being: The conspiracy-loving kooks of the world just DO NOT WANT LEE HARVEY OSWALD TO BE GUILTY OF THESE 1963 MURDERS.

Simple as that. It's crazy (given the evidence saying they're dead wrong) -- but simple.

David Von Pein
February 2007

The seven-member "Warren Commission" panel (plus its staff), which was created by President Lyndon Johnson one week after the murder of President John F. Kennedy in late 1963, had an immense and difficult task thrown on its doorstep -- To review, probe, and investigate all aspects of JFK's assassination (plus two other killings as well -- those being the murders of Dallas policeman J.D. Tippit and the accused Presidential assassin himself, Lee Harvey Oswald, the latter being gunned down by Jack Ruby just two days after JFK's death).

Many (or even most) people who express an opinion re. the matter seem to be of the belief that the Warren Commission panel did not arrive at anything resembling the 'truth' when it concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby "acted alone" when each of these men committed their respective murders in November of 1963. The conspiracy theorists feel that LBJ formed the "WC" for one express purpose and one only -- to back up and validate (by any means necessary) the pre-determined conclusion that Oswald was the lone killer of President Kennedy.

I completely disagree with such skepticism. The "CTer" accusations of "WC" wrong-doing and 'cover-up' in this case are unfounded, IMO.

Let's just step back from the 'Conspiracy-filled abyss' for a moment and check out just exactly what the Warren Commission members had staring them in their collective faces when it came to ascertaining the true facts in the JFK assassination -- regarding the much-scoffed-at "Single-Bullet Theory" ("SBT") specifically. ........

1.) A bullet wound of entrance in JFK's upper back.
2.) A bullet wound of (probable) exit in JFK's throat.
3.) A bullet wound of entrance in Governor Connally's back.
4.) ZERO bullets found in either victim.
5.) NO interior limousine damage where damage WOULD have been had a bullet exited JFK's throat and NOT hit Connally.
6.) One single bullet found at Parkland Hospital (near the Connally stretcher), which was positively proven to have been fired from Oswald's rifle; with this same bullet ('CE399') being scientifically linked to the fragments found in Connally's wrist (to a great degree of certainty that bullet was inside Governor Connally on 11/22/63).
7.) A filmed record of the shooting, via the "Zapruder Film", that (nearly) confirmed a SBT scenario. (Plus, via better-quality versions of the Z-Film in later years, additional validation of the SBT popped up -- the Connally involuntary reactions at Z224-Z228 approx.)

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Given the above laundry list of FACTS, I'm just curious to know what other possible conclusion the Warren Commission was supposed to come to regarding the wounding of JFK & JBC on 11-22-63?

A "Single Bullet" is the ONLY possible way this shooting (i.e. the non-head wounds) can be reconciled given the above list of known facts in the case. Unless you wish to believe the much more far-fetched idea of a vast 'conspiracy' that conveniently 'took care' of the many 'loose ends' mentioned above. A logical alternative, I ask? IMO -- no.

The Dallas Police Department and the Warren Commission had ONE lone suspect (Oswald); with no other leads guiding them toward ANY other possible suspect(s).

And this ONE suspect (Oswald) was, as of 12:32 PM on November 22, inside the building from where gunshots are KNOWN to have been fired (the Texas School Book Depository), the same building where Oswald's own rifle and his own (multiple) fingerprints on various objects were found to be located just shortly after the assassination.

And this ONE suspect (Oswald) was positively identified as the man seen firing a rifle at the motorcade from that very same building.

And the WC was also faced with the fact that no rifle bullets or bullet fragments or cartridge cases other than those linked to Oswald's Mannlicher-Carcano bolt-action rifle were found anywhere in the bodies of the victims, the car, the hospital, or in the TSBD, or in Dealey Plaza.

Oswald was THE only suspect in the case; this is certainly true. .... Why? -- Because there were no other suspects to hunt down! None. How much shadow-chasing was supposed to have been done by the DPD and/or the WC before they realized they were, in fact, chasing phantom gunmen who never existed?

After evaluating Oswald's known movements before and after 12:30 PM on November 22nd, the idea that Oswald was simply an unwitting 'Patsy' who was being framed for the assassination becomes a far less-palatable theory, IMO. ... Oswald's own gun is found on the 6th Floor of the TSBD and his fingerprints are all over the place WHERE THE ASSASSIN IS KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN.

Plus -- There's the Tippit murder (which is a killing that had multiple witnesses watching Oswald fatally shoot the police officer); plus the "paper bag" brought into the building which very closely resembled the empty bag found in the 'Sniper's Nest' which has LHO's prints on it; plus Oswald's 'curtain rod' lie; plus Oswald's unusual trip to Irving on November 21 (to obviously pick something up at Ruth Paine's home that he would be needing the following day at work; wonder what that 'something' might have been?); plus Oswald's constant lies after his arrest.

Does all of this add up to an unwitting and unknowing Patsy?

Also -- WHY in the world conspiracy theorists want to believe that the SBT wounds don't "line up" correctly is yet another CT-ism I have never understood. (I guess if the CTers say it often enough to each other, it becomes the 'CT Gospel' evidently.)

If you gaze upon the readily-available JFK autopsy photos, you can see for yourself that the AUTHENTICATED pictures of JFK after death show the back and neck wounds to be 'aligned' so that a single missile could most certainly have passed through his body at those given points of entry and exit from above and behind him (with the bullet moving in a slightly downward trajectory of about 17 degrees).

And as for JFK's head wound -- the verified autopsy photos re. that wound also confirm (as do multiple doctors who testified in front of the WC panel) that the head shot came from BEHIND the President, exiting out the front-right side of his head.

There is NO evidence anywhere in the official record of ANY bullets striking either victim in this case (JFK or JBC) OTHER than the two bullets that were proven to have been fired from the rifle found on the 6th Floor of the Texas School Book Depository Building -- which was a rifle that belonged to none other than a Mr. Lee Harvey Oswald.

If good ol' "Occam's Razor" ever applied to any single aspect of the JFK murder case, the SBT is it, IMO. For HOW could the CT 'alternative' possibly be LESS complicated and acceptable than the SBT.

Any "Conspiracy-related Alternative" to the SBT must include all of the following........

>> THREE disappearing bullets! (Three of 'em! Maybe even FOUR bullets, depending upon which crazy conspiracy theory is being considered; because some 'theorists' claim Connally was hit twice, instead of just once, which would then mean yet another (4th) disappearing missile in the case);
>> Wound locations that nicely align themselves into a "Single-Bullet Theory Ruse/Hoax/Dodge";
>> Two rifle bullets that just happen to not go all the way through John Kennedy's body for some reason -- was this just by 'accident'? Or via 'dum-dum' bullets? Or via 'dart' shot(s)? Or was it just merely a coincidence that TWO bullets which SHOULD have obviously been intended to KILL the President BOTH fail to go through soft flesh?);
>> Perfectly-'timed' three shots that make it LOOK to all of us "Lone-Nutters" that the two men are reacting simultaneously (via the Zapruder Film).

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The Warren Commission found "no credible evidence that a conspiracy existed, foreign or domestic" in the assassination of President Kennedy. And I, for one, cannot find any "credible" reason to dispute that conclusion either.

Rarely cited in bibliographies on the subject, this is quite simply the best kept secret of assassination literature. Mr. Newman addresses the motive for Oswald's killing JFK which was sorely lacking from the Warren Report. He looks at the leftist literature that Oswald was reading at the time of the assassination and how its portrayal of the Kennedy's repeated attempts to kill Castro via the CIA enraged Oswald.

The assassination of JFK was the act of depressed narcissist who had failed to gain entry into Cuba, and who committed a final political gesture via a murder-suicide. It is pretty clear by his behavior that Oswald did not expect to survive the event. It was his way of making the ultimate sacrifice for the ultimate cause -- the ideal Marxist state in the form of Castro's Cuba -- and, in so doing, making his much desired mark in history. He wanted to be part of the Castro revolution but couldn't, so he did the next best thing.

Read this book, but only after you have gotten your feet wet by reading the Warren Report, Belin's "November 22, 1963: You Are the Jury," and Posner's "Case Closed."

"I heard a shot and several seconds later I heard two more shots. I knew that the shots had come from directly above me, and I could hear the expended cartridges fall to the floor. I also could hear the bolt action of the rifle. I saw some dust fall from the ceiling of the fifth floor and I felt sure that whoever had fired the shots was directly above me." -- Via Harold Norman's 12/4/63 Affidavit

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Does anyone truly think that John F. Kennedy assassination witness and Texas School Book Depository employee Harold Norman was lying through his teeth when he claimed to hear a rifle's bolt being worked directly over his head on 11/22/63 during the shooting of JFK?

And was he telling more lies when Norman said he heard exactly three shots fired and heard three rifle shells hitting the plywood floor directly above his position in the southeast corner of the Depository's fifth floor?

Mr. Norman's testimony in all of the above "three-shot" regards provides an additional (and, IMO, very important) layer of evidence leading toward Lee Harvey Oswald's guilt in the JFK murder (coupled with all the other ballistics, witness, fingerprint, and fiber evidence that back up LHO's guilt as well).

Because if Norman was dead-wrong about everything he heard going on directly above his 5th-Floor location within the Book Depository, it would certainly be an incredible coincidence that he would be WRONG, but in such a "THREE SHOTS WERE FIRED FROM THE SIXTH FLOOR" fashion....which is a scenario that is backed up by lots of other evidence (and witnesses), besides just Mr. Norman.

And if conspiracists want to paint Norman as yet another in a series of "liars" and/or Warren Commission "shills" after the assassination, it only adds one more ludicrous and unproven "He Was Lying" allegation to the already-silly length of such a list that has been created by some CTers over the years since 1963.

And it's interesting to note in the Warren Report, that all seven Warren Commissioners (in three separate re-creations of bullet shells hitting the floor above Norman's position on the TSBD's 5th Floor) were each easily able to hear the cartridge cases hitting the floor.

In addition, there's also the test that was conducted by WC counsel member David W. Belin. To quote Belin directly on this matter.....

"We scheduled the testimony of Harold Norman on March 24, 1964. Before he testified, we wanted to interview him on the fifth floor of the TSBD Building and check whether these sounds {of the rifle shells hitting the floor and of the rifle's bolt being worked by the gunman} could be heard.

"We had with us the equipment necessary to make the test. A Secret Service agent with the bolt action rifle stood with Joe Ball in the southeast corner window on the sixth floor of the TSBD Building. I stayed with Harold Norman on the fifth floor directly below.

"Before giving the signal to conduct the experiment, I waited until a train passed on the nearby railroad overpass so there would be plenty of street noise. In addition, at that time, several large trucks were moving down Elm Street. I then yelled to have the test begin.

"I smiled, for I really did not expect to hear anything. Then, with remarkable clarity, I could hear the thump as a cartridge case hit the floor. There were two more thumps as the two other cartridge cases hit the floor above me.

"The Secret Service agent then worked the bolt of the rifle back and forth, and this too could be heard with clarity.

"When we re-assembled after the re-enactment, I said to my colleague, 'Joe, if I had not heard it myself, I would never have believed it'." -- David Belin; Pages 139-140 of Belin's 1973 book "November 22, 1963: You Are The Jury"

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Now, either Harold Norman was an amazing liar, or somebody fired three shots from just above Norman's 5th-Floor Depository position on 11/22/63 (with three shells hitting the floor too).*

* = And Norman confirmed he did hear precisely THREE shells/("hulls") hitting the plywood floor directly above him during the shooting. He confirmed this fact in 1986 when he was being questioned about the matter by lawyer Vincent Bugliosi during the television Docu-Trial "On Trial: Lee Harvey Oswald".

Here is some of the verbatim testimony given by Harold Norman at that TV Docu-Trial in 1986:

VINCENT BUGLIOSI -- "So you heard a total of three shots?"

HAROLD NORMAN -- "Yes sir."

MR. BUGLIOSI -- "Did it sound to you like a rifle was being fired directly above you?"

MR. NORMAN -- "Yes sir."

MR. BUGLIOSI -- "Was there any OTHER reason, in addition to the sound of the rifle, any other reason why you believed the shots were coming from directly above you?"

MR. NORMAN -- "Yes sir."

MR. BUGLIOSI -- "And what is that?"

MR. NORMAN -- "Because I could hear the empty hulls--that's what I call them--hit the floor; and I could hear the bolt action of the rifle being pushed back and forward."

MR. BUGLIOSI -- "You're familiar with a bolt-action rifle?"

MR. NORMAN -- "Yes sir."

MR. BUGLIOSI -- "And by 'hulls', you mean cartridge casings?"

MR. NORMAN -- "Cartridges."

MR. BUGLIOSI -- "How many did you hear falling to the floor?"

MR. NORMAN -- "Three."

MR. BUGLIOSI -- "Is the sound of that bolt action, and the ejection of the cartridge casings, and their falling to the floor something that you're going to remember for the rest of your life?"

MR. NORMAN -- "Yes sir."

MR. BUGLIOSI -- "One more question....at any time on the morning of the assassination did you see any stranger or strangers in the Book Depository Building?"

MR. NORMAN -- "No sir."

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Many CTers think the three shells were "planted" in the Sniper's Nest after the shooting. But Norman heard the shells dropping to the floor DURING THE SHOOTING, not several seconds AFTER the gunfire ceased.

Do some CTers think that the plotters had a guy standing in the Sniper's Nest dropping shells to the floor IN REAL TIME during the actual 8 seconds when the assassination was taking place on November 22nd?

"Real Time, As-It's-Happening Shell Planting"! Now THAT'S Patsy-Framing organization and efficiency, for damn sure! :)

So, if Norman's not a liar (and there's absolutely no reason to think he is), then three shots WERE definitely fired from that southeast corner window of the Book Depository's sixth floor. Period. Which is something that very few conspiracy theorists I've ever talked to actually believe occurred that day.

And -- Harold Norman's testimony, all by itself, makes CTer Robert Groden's crazy "No Shots Were Likely Fired From The Oswald (SN) Window At All" theory look even MORE ludicrous than it already is.

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THE JFK ASSASSINATION....IN VERSE:

A one-patsy plot featuring more than one gun?
Why would that plan be needed to get the job done?

Did the plotters get lucky when Oswald wouldn't crack?
Or could it be true that Lee really did kill Jack?

The Z-Film, the photos, the gun, and every shell...
Is there ANYTHING in this case that kooks think doesn't smell?

A plot of this size was a pretty big job...
How many were there -- an Army-sized mob?

Is there any coherence to any kook's plots?
I kinda doubt it -- they've got from 4 to 12 shots!

Did Badge Man really fire the head shot that day?
And if he did -- where's the BOH spray?

I have a strong feeling the conspiracy end is near...
Because Bugliosi is coming -- and he's an LNer kooks should fear.

David Von Pein
July 2006
October 2006
January 2007