If you can't score a point, why shoot?
Perhaps this shouldn't be about scoring point?
You do understand that selecting those parts of the conversation you want to continue, you actually admit defeat on all the other topics, right?
And there will always be contradictions in many of the witness statements. CTers will always choose the statements that help their cause, and LNers will prop up the stuff that helps the LN cause. And we'll all stay on the JFK merry-go-round for another day.
Fair enough, at least to some extent. It's the proscution vs defense game, which is exactly why the LN case is just as much a theory than the one for the defense. However, having said that, witness statements very often are subject to corrections and alterations because the initial statement isn't complete or accurate. So, it follows that a witness statement that is not only consistent but also can not be debunked with actual facts in 58 years can normally be considered to have been correct.
I wanted to make sure that Linnie's "Heavier than a grocery sack" testimony was placed on the table too. (Fair is fair, right?) You post the "flimsy" testimony; I post the "heavy sack" testimony. It's pick-&-choose heaven....just like always at JFK forums.
Actually, I just quoted from an airtel from James Anderton to SAC Dallas, dated 11/29/63, the content of which was basically confirmed by the statement Detective Lewis (who conducted Frazier's polygraph) gave to FBI Vincent Drain on 12/01/63
But the key difference is: I can "pick & choose" all day long (and every single forum member does it all the time; can't be helped; it's human nature to do that, and it will always be that way),
I agree. Everybody who is looking for a predetermined outcome will cherry pick the pieces of evidence that support their narrative. That's the way the WC and the FBI worked and things haven't changed since. Unfortunately, there is no guarentee whatsoever that that particular narritive is the right one. It's only the selected one.
but at the end of today, like every other day since 1963, I'll still have every scrap of physical evidence to back up my LN beliefs, vs. your collection of zero pieces of physical evidence to support your make-believe conspiracy.
Still desperate to score a point, I see. Like a child (or Chappy) who always needs to have the last word. Very disappointing.
I don't have a conspiracy theory, make believe or otherwise. I couldn't care less if there was a conspiracy or if Oswald did it alone. What I am only interested in is finding out if the case against Oswald is strong enough to withstand scrutiny. Those pieces of physical evidence are only as good as the interpretation of them. A correct investigation is one of considering all the possible explanations and eliminating theories. That's not what happened here.
How do I know? That's an easy question to answer. In a proper investigation more physical evidence is collected than will ever be used in a subsequent prosecution, because there will always be dead ends in an investigation. As that evidence is nevertheless part of the investigation, it should be stored at the National Archives along with everything else. And guess what, it isn't. All you will find by way of physical evidence are those items that are part of the case against Oswald, which either means that the investigators got everything right from day one or there is/was more to this case than what we know now.