UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

ASSASSINATION ARCHIVES AND
RESEARCH CENTER
:
and
:
JAMES H. LESAR :
: Civil No. 21-1237 (CRC)
Plaintiffs,
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v.
: CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY :
et al.
:
Defendants.
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NOTICE OF APPEAL

Notice is hereby given this 23rd day of March, 2023, that plaintiffs Assassination Archives and Research Center and James H. Lesar appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from the opinion (ECF #28) and order (ECF #27) of this Court entered on the 22nd day of February, 2023 in favor of defendant Central Intelligence Agency, et al. against said plaintiffs, and previous orders of the court in this case.

Respectfully submitted,

/s/_Daniel S. Alcorn
Case 1:21-cv-01237-CRC Document 29 Filed 03/23/23

Daniel S. Alcorn
Counsel for Plaintiff Assassination Archives and Research Center
D.C. Bar No. xxxxxx
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McLean, VA 22101
Phone: (xxx) xxx-xxxx

James H. Lesar
Co-counsel for Assassination Archives and Research Center
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Silver Spring, MD 20910

Phone: (xxx) xxx-xxxx

Attorneys for Plaintiffs/Appellants

AARC2 c. CIA Notice of Appeal as filed

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Courtesy of The Sixth Floor Museum, Dr. Josiah Thompson gives a special presentation based upon his 2021 book, Last Second in Dallas.

In this special 90-minute program, first-generation Kennedy assassination researcher Dr. Josiah Thompson discusses his decades-long involvement with the case and the making of his critically acclaimed 1967 classic, Six Seconds in Dallas. Thompson then brings his research full circle with a presentation based on his 2021 book, Last Second in Dallas.

This video contains graphic imagery which may be disturbing. Viewer discretion is advised.

This presentation took place on November 18, 2022 in the Dallas County Records Building. To see related films, photos, documents and oral histories from The Sixth Floor Museum’s collection, visit our online collections database (http://emuseum.jfk.org).

A previous video of this program has been replaced to correct technical problems with the Zapruder Film slides and Clint Hill’s interview. Each of these sections are now shown in their entirety.

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Lest We Forget

David R. Wrone    December 18, 2022                                                                                                                                              no. 1

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JFK Paths

In the late morning of December 15, 2022, news stations round the nation came alive with a report that the National Archives had released 3,000 pages of formerly held top secret documents linked to the 1964 federal investigation of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, which occurred on November 22, 1963, at 12.30 p.m., on the public street in the dreary city of Dallas, Texas. Imagine! They became public nigh on to 60 years and three generations afterwards.

Almost immediately a responsible critic noted a disturbing feature in the archival press release that might trip up the scholars not aware of the issue.  50% of the documents had been released in an earlier release.  See, publication exposing this in Clayton Ogilvie, “Recent and Present: JFK Document Release Overlap of December 2022.” NH pvt, digital: Christmas Eve, 2022.

The news consumed press and public with speculation on whether new factual nuggets on the murder would be turned up; many hoped with special concern that in the mass sinister data would be found on the background of Lee Harvey Oswald the official sole assassin of JFK. Some sought to find revelations on dark forces operating through the deed of the 24-year-old book handler when he fired a claimed three shots out of the eastern most window of the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas where he worked. All commentators though to the last man and woman parroted the official conclusion that was as certain to them as the pull of gravity: Oswald by himself and without any help slew JFK.

But grim reality shows an Oswald as claimed assassin to be a great diversion from grim reality. Among the many, two key factors stand out, one minor and one major. The minor aspect of JFK’s murder relates to the number of documents available for coming to terms with the death. With the recent addition of the massive number of pages in the INV file Archives, one would not know from the paucity of announced released pages that the total quantity that rests in public and private archives and libraries is 20,000,000 pages. The number is carefully honed, fully articulated, and quite sound.  And, reviewers of this most recently released batch largely do not mention even a page of them.

In addition to not addressing the mass of information already available, the greeters of the new information also in a major fault did not discuss the relation of official evidence on the young man’s guilt. He just killed him. Let me show how in basic and well-known error this is.

I shall take as my approach merely the evidence levied against Oswald associated with the 6^th floor of the Depository universally proclaimed as valid and definitive. The official accounting for Oswald’s activities that day inside the Depository, a Baron Munchausen scenario par excellence, can be divided for discussion into five components.

For space concerns I shall look only into part of the sixth-floor facts, and present the official as well as true evidence.  Federal and local authorities mustered them to confirm there he lurked and from there he shot. The true nature of that sixth-floor evidence though carries enough weight to show beyond question that Oswald had nothing to do with the assassination and officials corrupted the facts.

R = 912 pp. Warren Report, often viewed by the unwashed with the same respect as would be given a 67^th Book of the Bible. WCH = evidentiary volumes. WC = Warren Commission. F = forgery or deliberately false.

DPD = Dallas police.

Window:

For Oswald to have killed JFK, he had to be standing in the open window shooting him with his Carcano 6.5mm bolt action repeating rifle. This is an iron factor in the charge of assassin levied against him. The Commission as well as police and federal investigators so concluded.

1. However, it is not true. The official evidence in x1312 WCH taken almost immediately after the shooting depicts the window as it was at the time. There is only three inches opening between the lower frame and the foot wide sill. To shoot JFK riding 61 feet beneath the window and close to the curb one could only do so on a perch firing down through double class panes. The glass is not broken.
2. The WC overcame this exculpating fact by simply masking it in the R, and deploying a fake scenario, p. 199. The officials staged a reenactment corrupt to the fact rather than appeal to the actual evidence for they had to be able to show Oswald shot JFK through the open window. Needs must. F

The WC prints a full half page photo of the window open three feet (!) presented in the veritable teeth of its own evidence as the opening at 12:30 the 22^nd.  It attached the rifle atop a tall tripod stationed on the floor before it.  The Carcano points through the window. This is supposed to be what occurred Nov. 22.  It is a forgery.  F

3. More however. The barrel’s angle of downward depression from the horizontal is approx. 5-10 degrees. It has to be this shallow of a degree to fit the sighting claim of the only witness the WC could find out of 750 persons on the plaza and surround external to the building. [of the 750, 60 said the shots came from the grassy knoll to the west, 7 others saw bullets hit sod and sidewalk, street and building; they were dismissed because said WC, FBI, DPD, Oswald was in the Depository and CBS among others said they were a case of the madness of the crowds]

He claimed to have seen Oswald in the window. To hit JFK who is riding relatively close to the base of the Depository the rifle would have to be strongly cocked, the barrel deflected down many degrees. Again, we observe, this is a knowing and deliberate corruption of the facts. F

4. Additionally, we observe the rifle sticks out the window, again to match the exterior witness’ comments. This is improbable. Regard. No one shoots deer, elk, turkey or other game from a blind or stand, by first waving the rifle in the air outside. You shoot from inside the stand. In military training that I am familiar with, it was seen as wrong and irrational.

In the instance of the famous Soviet WWII woman sniper who shot 309 Nazis plus a few of their rotten Romanian and Galician mercenaries, she did not shoot with the rifle sticking out in the open. In this 22^nd case if it had happened so it would have endangered the rifleman by alerting JFK’s guards, which would seem to be a mighty pertinent consideration not to do so. You shoot from inside the window.

5. External to the building there were two pertinent motion pictures taken at the exact time of the shooting. One depicted the window. Navy photographic specialists, FBI photographic specialists, and private photo experts all determined without a whisker of doubt that the window was empty; neither Oswald nor a rifle was in the window. The FBI said in a lab report that the “witness” was in fantasy land. This cannot be gainsaid.

To overcome this definitive fact excluding Oswald from being in the window, the WC simply wrangles Oswald there by making the film invisible in the R. This is a type of blatant evidence forgery. F

The FBI to assist the WC with a happy way around the Oswald exculpating fact, simply doctored the evidence but cutting out from a frame used as an exhibit the evidence of time and of JFK below in the street and presented the truncated hoax as true fact. It now sleeps corruptly in WC files as the reality. {FBI #29] This is another forgery. F

And the witness? In addition to the film capturing the vacant window the other film by Abe Zapruder shows the witness viewing not the Depository building straight ahead of him as he testified under oath to be doing, but rather peering over his shoulder to his far right [!}, away from the building, a fact WC lawyers, we know from their records, knew. F

Additionally, and a wooden stake to the heart, the external witness also lied at police lineups. He was twice shone a lineup with Oswald in it.  On the first viewing he swore under oath the man he alleged to have seen in the window was not Oswald.  After being told by the Secret Service that the man was a communist [which he was not] and after seeing Oswald twice on television [!], he, a self-important man with mind riddled by extreme conservative ideology orientation, then picked the red out of the lineup.

Each is proof of perjury of the other. P

He was also near blind and according to WC attorneys in private conversations (to Meagher & also at NYC critic meeting, among other instances) he could barely make out even the fuzzy frame of the window, let alone any window occupant. F

To have the witness reenact [the WC R is mainly a mass of reenactments passed off as original facts] his viewing the WC positioned him on the street at his viewing site. The WC closed the windows of the front of the Depository with only the witness required selection they needed left open R. F  Even then, he sitting as he said at the time and staring at the building, got the wrong window, one permanently closed and sealed, which became evidence he saw Oswald. R

In the R the WC said Oswald fired the rifle.  There is, though, no evidence to that.  In normal investigation of gunfire crime, the barrel is swabbed with a cotton ball to detect if debris can be found from a transiting bullet. If it had been fired the swab picked up indications. A Bureau agent years later under oath in a court hearing said it was not swabbed.  At any rate, I failed to find in WC records any indication of a swab. F

A central fact in the charge against Oswald was the claim his fingerprint was found on the underside of the barrel.  WC and WCH.  The police reported they took, or lifted as they say, a print, but it did not match the circumstances of a regular lift—no lifting dust as is normal, appeared, no tape covered the alleged place as is standard procedure, it was from a flat object, the barrel round, it turned up in Washington ten days later [!], it was mailed [!] by Dallas police to the FBI lab.

The Dallas police specialist much later in testimony revealed he had made copies from the hands of Oswald when just arrested and provided no accounting for them. F From the DPD attitude it seemed to consider it nobody’s business but theirs.  WC later stamping it as authentic rested on a statement it was Oswald’s print based on a generated document that came weeks later mailed into its offices [!}by a clerk in FBI offices who had no training, experience, or ability. And, he was not under oath. The document is undecipherable; I never heard of or met anyone—commoner, law enforcement expert, or specialist– who could make sense of the strange appearing gobbledygook on it. WCH. F

But three years later in a court room, before a judge and jury, and under oath, an FBI print specialist said of the rifle that its metal was so poor it could not take prints. There were no prints and in fact could not be.  Oswald print claim is a fraud. F.

The rifle had major mechanical problems. WCH

The telescopic sight was for a left-handed shooter, Oswald was right-handed.  It also wobbled a bit and the cross hairs were not clear. If used by a shooter it would miss a sighted target, which CBS-TV solemnly announced actually improved Oswald’s aim. [sic]

Repairs had to be made before it could be test fired. WCH

1. The WC tried and failed [by the true evidence] to maintain that Oswald had the shooting ability and character flaw to have shot and hit JFK. It used a bogus reenactment to deceive the world. It spurned the exculpating evidence.

I.

The WC and its investigators used a team of expert military and private rifle marksmen—America’s finest–to simulate the alleged shooting feat it had assigned to Oswald to show it was in fact possible for Oswald with that Carcano to shoot from the 6^th floor and hit and kill JFK as they charged. It was patent office hokum and yet proclaimed as proof indisputable that Oswald, therefore, did it.

They shot at a target with conditions said to be like the alleged firing scenario used by Oswald—a true copy the WC said, as it had to be, to be valid as evidence. And, it was passed off as more proof he killed JFK.

1. The target they shot at was closer than JFK was on the 22^nd..
2. The paper target set up was larger than JFK’s head and thus easier to see and hit.
3. Only one of the several was able to work the mechanism in the required time to squeeze off three shots—and that was done without witnesses, only his FBI Agent word.
4. Their target was not true to motion, JFK had been in a moving limo.
5. The reenactors practiced afore test shooting, whereas Oswald did not and had no recorded genuine instance of having ever shot the rifle or any rifle in the last three years, let alone worked it in the speed required. None.
6. In Russia he was a joke as a shooter. He was such a poor shot hunting with his buddies with a shot gun he could not hit a near rabbit and his companions had to shoot for him. Instead of marksmen the WC, to duplicate, should have pulled utter strangers off breadlines.
7. False premise. The rifle used to reenact was not Oswald’s rifle of the 22^nd, but one repaired and modified, stabilized. Incredible. His as original would have damaged the shooter’s eye and could not have been fired.
8. The reenactment must be seen as F.

II.

The WC also excluded matter that showed Oswald’s character to be positive and not disposed to kill. For examples: a) The local FBI office before the 22^nd said to one of the mindless Dallas citizen fascist commie hunters who tried to have Oswald known as a commie by informing on him as a red that he was “alright.”  b) He lectured against the anti-democratic system in Russia and blessed the U. S. at an Alabama Jesuit college seminar.  c) He spoke in New Orleans to warn a group against a coming danger to overthrow America. Etc. d) He carried CIA and FBI identification numbers. [Wrone files with numbers, ms.] e) Soviet persons who knew him, saw him universally as a decent human: e.g., Prof. Ernst Titovets in his Oswald: Russian Episode. (Minsk, 2010) and to me.  The WC did not seek them out, for as commies they would lie, unlike Americans.

The WC though presented it in the R that, as found, it was a good rifle.

Three spent shells were found on the floor. R Analysis revealed ejector marks clearly proved they had been ejected from a different rifle than the Oswald rifle, which is a conspiracy. WCH Ignored by the WC. F

Moreover, the DPD, FBI, WC performed forensic tests on Oswald to ascertain if he had fired the rifle.  There were three.

When that rifle was fired it left a chemical cloud blowback that drifted onto the face of the shooter embedding bullet defining chemical elements in his pores. Applied paraffin to the cheek would lift any traces off. They first submitted the paraffin matter to a chemical wash in police laboratory and it was negative; Oswald had by this test not fired the rifle.

The FBI then took the matter to Washinton and applied a Spectrographic, or light wave that picked up he waves from each distinct element. It fought the release of the test results.

The WC then arranged to have the cheek matter tested in a nuclear reactor in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Seven control subjects were used.  They fired the Carcano, paraffin tests were nuked and showed they had fired the weapon.  Oswald’s matter nuked showed he had not.  He had not fired a rifle that day. The FBI admitted his innocence in its administrative memos. [Wrone, FBI serials.] To overcome this the WC lied saying in its R that the tests were inadequate, saying they could not prove he fired the weapon, when in fact the tests proved he did not—the negative.

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Before Taps

At Arlington National Cemetery

The afternoon of November 25, 1963

David R. Wrone    January 2, 2023                                                                                                                                              no. 2

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This was the noblest Roman of them all.

His life was gentle and the elements

So mixed in him that nature might stand up And say to all the world

“This was a man.”

–Julius Caesar

Act 5, Scene 5

A thick crowd of kings, presidents, foreign military, and notables trailing the several bands and marching units, muffled drums and flapping flags had crossed the Potomac River following President John F. Kennedy’s funeral cortege to attend his burial rites. They clustered near and around the grave site during the brief service.

Near the close and farewell, after the 21-gun artillery salute, the 26 members of the Irish Defense Guards specially flown in from the weeping isle of his ancestors who with their Lee-Enfield No. 4 rifles conducted the slow, silent, soul stirring Queen Anne’s Funeral Drill, a 350-year-old Irish salute to the battle fallen.  As the Irish poet Quinlan wrote, ‘twas “Jackets green across the ‘bowl of tears’ from the plain of Liffey to a shield’s length of earth.” At 3.08 p.m. the army bugler blew taps but cracked the sixth harmonic note one too high. To a few it was a Banshee stutter, a keen for a great loss of one who had as “a heart, an acorn from an oakwood.” (8^th century Irish ms.).

Before the last faint, silver notes of the 101-year-old military leave-taking to eternal rest had faded across the rolling rain swept green grass and over the seemingly endless, somber, vast rows upon rows of gray-white tomb stones patiently waiting for a comrade and had gently wafted over the new grave to close the burial ritual for the slain, most powerful man who had ever trod this faulted earth, three of the top pols in the nation had the day before, the 24^th, solved the question of who had killed him on the 22^nd.

Like the ancient Greek god Procrustes, they thrust down their spasm of a verdict upon the bereaved nation the solution.  It was a tightly kept secret, known but to their mindless lieutenants who put its doctrines into military and political systems and for many years covertly and faithfully defended it from public knowledge to serve as the sterling predicate of later official inquiries.

Of the trio, in the political sphere stood the new president, Lyndon B. Johnson, in the legal system stood the Acting Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, and in the criminal investigative arena stood the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover. With truth found by a few responsible critics who pieced it together through logs of desperate telephone conversations, careful Secret Service records, and footprints left in notes, we know they in one voice had decided who was responsible for the shooting at 12:30 p.m. the 22^nd on the public street of a faraway dismal Texas city of Dallas.

The shooting had shaken Johnson who traveled with the Dallas presidential party. A little after 1:00 at the city’s Love Field he joined the shocked departing members who bordered the great silver, white, and blue, Air Force One, for the flight back to the capital.  The plane, though, with motors running paused on the runway waiting for the new president who was somehow missing.

JFK’s military aide Godfrey McHugh looked everywhere in the plane for LBJ, only finally to find him in the rear toilet room sitting on the stool as a chair behind a drawn curtain weeping.  Hysterically, he moaned to the Brigadier, “They are going to get us all.  It’s a plot.  It’s a plot. They are going to get us all.”

The politically astute Hoover reacted much differently than the new president. In his Washington office, he was distraught but acute, able quickly to think and immediately to judge on his feet.  This we know from a phone call he got from the far west made by former Vice President Richard Nixon who recounted on a later television interview that he had telephoned J. Edgar Hoover “an hour” after the shooting to ask him who had shot Kennedy.  (D Wrone, essay letter, “Nixon’s ‘history’ a memorable distortion,” Milwaukee Journal, May 2, 1984.)

In reply Hoover trotted out the old fascist boogeyman that had done him such good stead for many years as a lauded whore of the powerful troglodytic right in his rampant destruction of the liberal structure of the nation.  He told the man who in four years would assume the presidency that “a communist” had killed him. He lied; but truth was a necessary stranger in order to protect the FBI as a political weapon of the far right. Reality did not matter.

Why did he lie?  He had over decades with his propaganda machine incessantly pounded the minds of the nation, beguiled the plastic members of Congress, and especially promoted the diverse culture mechanisms with the belief his Seat of Government, as he called the FBI, kept them safe. Only a foreign system as culprit that he could not control could avoid a potential rupture of his power base derived, fueled, and celebrated by the nigh worshipful right through several decades of dedicated crushing of the democratic forces as the nation’s shield and buckler.

Observe the brazenness of the lie. Oswald was not arrested until 1:45 and not identified for some time, and further his complex background had not then been probed and defined, and he was not charged until the wee hours of the next morning, the 23^rd. Furthermore, there were only six members of the communist party in Dallas, three of them undercover FBI agents, and none of them Oswald.

To be noted is the FBI anti-communist knowledge of Oswald; on one occasion the FBI office had informed an inquiring fascist embracing nosey citizen that “Oswald was alright.” And, not to be omitted, was that Oswald, among his other activities, was an FBI informant with the FBI number of S179; and, further, there were many other anti-red, pro American aspects to his peripatetic Dallas Orwellian activities.

Of the troika, Katzenbach was also rattled. This is seen in the records of a telephone call he got in the immediate aftermath from the reactionary Dean of Yale Law, his mentor. The Yaler, as if chanting a verse from sacred text, believed Oswald killed JFK, based, if it can be believed and it is true, on a television report by a half-baked soap salesman (tv anchor).  Imagine! a top lawyer taking for the truth about the fate of the nation a TV report based on hearsay from a reporter in the Dallas field, which in turned was based on hearsay from stressed self-important city and police officials seeking in their mediocre lost lives a nipperkin of personal fame, that was in its turn based on their guess work that was wrong on all counts. It was broadcast in between segments of TV ads pushing soap and toilet paper, considered fitting for a nation in perhaps fatal distress. The Dean helped calm his former student down and suggest he think of a political resolution of the crisis.

Not for the AAG or his misbegotten dean were principles of criminal judgment allegedly taught in Yale, if it was it did not stick.  They suffused the history of law as in the legal masterpiece of Wigmore or the legal work of James Otis, John Adams, or Zola. Or, district attorneys and detectives work in thousands of cities, or the common sense of an ordinary farm hand. Even the Wizard of Oz asked for facts before judgment.

We must concur with the ancient criticism of the tribe that has rung true down through the ages: “Woe unto you lawyers for you have taken away the key of knowledge, ye entered not in yourselves and them that were entering, ye hindered.” L,23,12

Before noon the day before burial, November 24, 27 hours after JFK’s death, Johnson, Katzenbach, and Hoover in a concert diabolical had decided that Lee Harvey Oswald, an impoverished 24-year-old book handler allegedly shooting from his workplace on the sixth floor of the Dallas Texas School Book Depository, had alone, and unaided for purely personal reasons shot JFK.

In long hand pen and black ink at his home desk, a bewildered, scared, and rather witless Katzenbach, wrote up the decision of these men, ideological cousins of the figures in the opening scene of Macbeth, in a page and a quarter document thereafter known as the Katzenbach Memorandum.  It circulated through the government as distributed from the White House with the title of LBJ’s clerk, “Memorandum for Moyers”.  At the same time, powerful Hoover had before on the 22^nd just before 1:00 had ordered, without permission or legal authority, his proto-fascist agents to investigate along-side local authorities.

The KM made two basic points. First, it hight {true word} Oswald as the culprit, a) “the public must be satisfied that Oswald was the assassin, and that he did not have confederates who are still at large.” Next, it set up the argument for a Commission, b) “appointment of a Presidential Commission of unimpeachable personnel.” Its purpose was explicit: the great ones were tasked to examine the criminal evidence and report its conclusions.

The KM with its twin doctrines firmly embraced by the powers that be and the supine intellectuals, blindly accepted by ditto artists in the press, and welcome beyond measure by businessmen happy with the industrial spurt of the new war LBJ generated, it became the political reality of the nation, fully as solid in national life as the Constitution. Robert Kennedy, though, did not for a minute believe it and even sent a messenger to Moscow, enroute while JFK was being buried, not to believe what the pols and military were asserting about who killed his brother.

The decision we observe was made before basic elements had been defined and examined. These include the following categories ignored and of course before charging Oswald.

Medical

Ballistics

Film

Witnesses

Threats

Forensics

Fingerprints

Chain of possession

Military

The decision on Oswald also occurred without having addressed the serious threats on President Kennedy’s life in the time frame of the 22d. These include:

1.  Miami (1)
2.  Miami (2)
3.  Nashville
4.  Chicago
5.  New Orleans.(1)
6.  New Orleans. (2)
7.  New Orleans. (3)
8.  Richardson, Tx
9.  Denton, Tx
10.  Dallas (1)
11.  Dallas (2)
12.  Dallas (3)
13.  Dallas (4)  One was a worker Cuban in Parkland hospital.

In addition, Dallas Police on two occasions informed a private investigator (HW) that in the city and region there were 50 groups who wanted JFK dead and could kill him. They had not only the ability, but also the means.  They were from left and right orientation as well as from several racial groups. None were investigated by authorities and the trio formulating the KM did not inquire or have the lightest knowledge of them or for that matter want to find out if anyone in Dallas had killed him.

Further to observe, the decision was also made in the teeth of the bulletry facts in Dallas. For Oswald to be the assassin according to the immediate facts there could be only three bullets fired at JFK and from his rear and only from the eastern most window of the sixth floor of the Book Depository.

• 52 persons on Dealey Plaza said shots came from the grassy knoll.
• Four bullet strikes hit the pavement, in front and around the limo.
• One bullet hit the sidewalk and left a scar.
• One bullet hit the curb and scarred it.
• Two were reported having struck the grass.
• Connally was hit by two bullets, one from the rear and one from the front.
• Eight witnesses including two motorcycle cops plus the Zapruder film saw a Bullet hit JFK’s right temple coming from the right.
• The medical folk at the hospital were never thoroughly examined for what they had seen.
• Another bullet hit JFK from the front {true} in the throat.
• Another bullet hit JFK in the high back.
• There are probably more in the area not found.

Rex non potest pecarri

The king can do no wrong