You have expressed the problem better than I could.
That's because I am genuinely interested in trying to understand what's going on and allowing the evidence to guide my opinion. Unlike you, who's only interest is to peddle your long defunct theory that only you believe in.
Well, at least no one can accuse you of munificence!
It is not theory that we disagree on. It is the essential facts and the evidence to support them.
You agree with me that the first shot struck JFK. But where we disagree is on the third shot. I maintain that the head shot was the third shot. There is evidence to support that. Lots of evidence. You reject that evidence and prefer the evidence of a few that suggests the head shot was the second shot and there was a shot after the head shot.
So my "long defunct theory" is based on the first shot that you agree with and the third shot that almost everyone else agrees with. If those are the facts establishing shots 1 and 3, and I suggest there is overwhelming evidence to support those two facts, then it is just a matter of trying to locate the time of the second shot. The 1......2...3 shot pattern (which is not a theory but is simply a conclusion that the abundant evidence of such a pattern is reliable) then tells you when/where the second shot occurred.
The problems with CE399 are not solved by saying it was planted by Todd. They only get more complicated.
Wrong.
The litany of problems I have outlined in my previous posts ALL go away if it is assumed Todd placed CE399 into the chain of custody.
What happens is that a new set of problems arise.
Yes, but they are still problems with CE399!!
C399 is genuine because it was fired by C2766 and the trajectory of the first shot through JFK went to JBC's left side where there was minimal damage to JBC or to the car. That bullet had to have remained intact. And prior to Robert Frazier receiving it from Todd, there was no way that this would have been known.
...This automatically rules out trying to mimic a bullet that caused the wounds to Connally as, common sense would dictate, this would require a bullet with a smashed nose.
Was it assumed on the night of the assassination that there had been three hits - one through JFK's neck, one causing the damage to Connally and the headshot. If so, the only bullet they could have been trying to replicate would have been the one that passed through JFK's neck.
Exactly my point. CE399 does not have to explain JBC's chest and wrist wounds and until March 1964 no one was suggesting that CE399 caused those wounds. Then David Belin came along and had Robert Frazier opine that JBC could not have been hit after z240 (an opinion that, in my view, he was not qualified nor sufficiently knowledgeable about the facts to give). Since the FBI had mistakenly concluded that the first shot occurred no earlier than z210, that did not leave enough time for two shots (one for JFK and one for JBC). That is when Arlen Specter came up with the SBT.
