Six Seconds in Dallas-- Old book, a must read

[Charles Collins]

   The bottom line of the ledger sheet rules most of these people. Bill O'Reilly included. Like I said, "5 Fingers" Groden stood his ground and that's exactly where he Fell.

Tink had access to a good copy of the Zapruder film earlier than most others did. He found a way to make some money from that advantage. Time/Life sued him for using sketches of some of the frames in his book. It appears to me that Tink prematurely changed his opinion of what the Zapruder film shows based upon the rushed, and later shown to be flawed, acoustics study by the HSCA. He apparently laughs all the way to the bank after pandering to his audience by telling them what they want to hear...

[Gary Craig]

Tink had access to a good copy of the Zapruder film earlier than most others did. He found a way to make some money from that advantage. Time/Life sued him for using sketches of some of the frames in his book. It appears to me that Tink prematurely changed his opinion of what the Zapruder film shows based upon the rushed, and later shown to be flawed, acoustics study by the HSCA. He apparently laughs all the way to the bank after pandering to his audience by telling them what they want to hear...

Tink said he received a $500 dollar advance for writing the book.

The lawyers needed when he got sued for using the Z-film got the rest.

[John Iacoletti]

Compare that with the advance that Bugliosi got for his pandering.

[Charles Collins]

Compare that with the advance that Bugliosi got for his pandering.

Bugs didn’t need no stinkin’ lawyers!!!

[Tim Nickerson]

[Gerry Down]

Like I said, "5 Fingers" Groden stood his ground and that's exactly where he Fell.

Why do you call Groden "5 fingers"?

[Joe Elliott]

Thompson got it right in this book. For some odd reason, he went back on it years later. But he had it right. The six-second sequence of the shooting is spot on. You can see it immediately after Kennedy is seen reappearing from the sign. Then it goes on to Z313 which is about 6.2 seconds or so.

There's been a lot of craziness in the coming years about shots way up earlier to justify the Tague chips shot, so-called sparks and so on. It's all baloney. Ask yourself - if there was a conspiracy (and I do believe there was) would the shooters have started to fire when they knew there was going to be an oak tree there? No, they wouldn't. Think of the zone like a box - as soon as the car was in the box - that's when the shooting starts. Exactly where Thompson said it was. It's not hard to figure out.

It sometimes helps to do the math.

6.2 seconds before z313 is: 313 – 6.2 * 18.3 which is about z200 (199.54).
Even 6.0 seconds before z313 is: 313 – 6.0 * 18.3 which is about z204 (203.20).

According to Don Roberdeau’s map, the tree is in the way of a shot from z166 through z207. So, if your scenario is correct the first shot was fired while the tree still blocked the line of sight from the TSBS sniper’s nest.

[John Iacoletti]

Bugs didn’t need no stinkin’ lawyers!!!

No, he was one.  That's why his book is full of lawyer rhetoric in place of evidence.