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Online Charles Collins

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Re: RIP to the Single-bullet theory?
« Reply #176 on: September 15, 2023, 12:36:27 PM »
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There is no evidence of SBT being conceived in Feb.

”While the rest of us who have written about the commission were only peeking
in, Howard P. Willens was there, a principal architect of the very history we could only write about. Now with his precise and very discerning pen, he has written with unimpeachable authority what actually happened, making his book a historically important one."  —  Vincent Bugliosi


It is your prerogative to distrust whoever you choose. Personally, I think Howard Willens’ book is one of the best sources we could have to help us understand how the WC worked.

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Re: RIP to the Single-bullet theory?
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Offline Michael Capasse

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Re: RIP to the Single-bullet theory?
« Reply #177 on: September 15, 2023, 12:43:42 PM »
”While the rest of us who have written about the commission were only peeking
in, Howard P. Willens was there, a principal architect of the very history we could only write about. Now with his precise and very discerning pen, he has written with unimpeachable authority what actually happened, making his book a historically important one."  —  Vincent Bugliosi


It is your prerogative to distrust whoever you choose. Personally, I think Howard Willens’ book is one of the best sources we could have to help us understand how the WC worked.

..of course you do.

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Re: RIP to the Single-bullet theory?
« Reply #178 on: September 15, 2023, 04:48:16 PM »
”While the rest of us who have written about the commission were only peeking
in, Howard P. Willens was there, a principal architect of the very history we could only write about. Now with his precise and very discerning pen, he has written with unimpeachable authority what actually happened, making his book a historically important one."  —  Vincent Bugliosi


It is your prerogative to distrust whoever you choose. Personally, I think Howard Willens’ book is one of the best sources we could have to help us understand how the WC worked.

    When you say "...how the WC "worked", what does that mean? The staff did almost ALL the actual work, and the WC itself occasionally got together. The WC as a body NEVER even viewed the Zapruder Film as a moving picture. They ran away from the Z Film. How does a historical body such as this render a decision without EVER seeing the Zapruder Film start-to-finish? 

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Re: RIP to the Single-bullet theory?
« Reply #178 on: September 15, 2023, 04:48:16 PM »


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Re: RIP to the Single-bullet theory?
« Reply #179 on: September 15, 2023, 05:33:06 PM »
Did you have a problem with Clint Hill “trying to make a buck off it”?

Yes.

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Re: RIP to the Single-bullet theory?
« Reply #180 on: September 15, 2023, 05:58:51 PM »
    When you say "...how the WC "worked", what does that mean? The staff did almost ALL the actual work, and the WC itself occasionally got together. The WC as a body NEVER even viewed the Zapruder Film as a moving picture. They ran away from the Z Film. How does a historical body such as this render a decision without EVER seeing the Zapruder Film start-to-finish?


I am referring to the WC as a whole, including the staff.

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Re: RIP to the Single-bullet theory?
« Reply #181 on: September 15, 2023, 06:48:23 PM »

I am referring to the WC as a whole, including the staff.

   Understood going forward. I still can Not accept a decision from the WC when they refused to view the Zapruder Film. Same goes for Thompson and his "Six Seconds In Dallas" being based on the Zapruder Film and his never interviewing Zapruder himself. A Govt Body rendering a decision based on anything short of ALL the "evidence" is faulty at best and possibly a rigged outcome at the worst.

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Re: RIP to the Single-bullet theory?
« Reply #182 on: September 15, 2023, 07:56:06 PM »
   Understood going forward. I still can Not accept a decision from the WC when they refused to view the Zapruder Film. Same goes for Thompson and his "Six Seconds In Dallas" being based on the Zapruder Film and his never interviewing Zapruder himself. A Govt Body rendering a decision based on anything short of ALL the "evidence" is faulty at best and possibly a rigged outcome at the worst.


The following is a snip from Howard Willens’ contemporaneously written journal from April 28, 1964:

At 2:30 p.m. I participated in a meeting with M.r Malley
and Mr. Gauthier of the FBI, Inspector Kelley of the Secret Service,
Mr. Rankin and Messrs. Belin, Redlich, Eisenberg and Specter. The subject of the meeting was the problem of further work in Dallas to ascertain with greater precision the range of probabilities regarding
the location and timing of the three shots fired by the assassin.
Both the FBI and the SS prior to the meeting had indicated to Mr. Rankin
(and the Chief Justice) their reluctance to go down to Dallas with any
sort of further reenactment of the assassination.
This meeting was the culmination of many months of work by members of the staff, particularly Mr. Redlich, Mr. Eisenberg and Mr. Specter, regarding the films and medical testimony. From the very beginning Mr. Rankin had been less persuaded than these that it was necessary to decide these problems
with greater precision. Just prior to the meeting, however, Mr. Redlich had finally put his views into memorandum form which I believe persuaded Mr. Rankin that some effort was necessary if the Commission wanted to make assertions in its report which coincide with the physical facts.


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Re: RIP to the Single-bullet theory?
« Reply #183 on: September 15, 2023, 08:29:38 PM »

The following is a snip from Howard Willens’ contemporaneously written journal from April 28, 1964:

At 2:30 p.m. I participated in a meeting with M.r Malley
and Mr. Gauthier of the FBI, Inspector Kelley of the Secret Service,
Mr. Rankin and Messrs. Belin, Redlich, Eisenberg and Specter. The subject of the meeting was the problem of further work in Dallas to ascertain with greater precision the range of probabilities regarding
the location and timing of the three shots fired by the assassin.
Both the FBI and the SS prior to the meeting had indicated to Mr. Rankin
(and the Chief Justice) their reluctance to go down to Dallas with any
sort of further reenactment of the assassination.
This meeting was the culmination of many months of work by members of the staff, particularly Mr. Redlich, Mr. Eisenberg and Mr. Specter, regarding the films and medical testimony. From the very beginning Mr. Rankin had been less persuaded than these that it was necessary to decide these problems
with greater precision. Just prior to the meeting, however, Mr. Redlich had finally put his views into memorandum form which I believe persuaded Mr. Rankin that some effort was necessary if the Commission wanted to make assertions in its report which coincide with the physical facts.

The memo persuaded Mr. Rankin to go to Dallas for reenactments
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Re: RIP to the Single-bullet theory?
« Reply #183 on: September 15, 2023, 08:29:38 PM »