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New JFK Footage Released After More Than 40 Years

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Posted on Feb 20, 2007
JFK and Jackie
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George Jefferies didn’t think his film of JFK’s last moments was all that interesting, so he simply held on to it for more than four decades. But Gary Mack, curator of the Dallas museum now in possession of the footage, said the new images will offer fodder to conspiracy theorists because of a detail involving the president’s jacket.


BBC:

The film shows the president’s coat bunched up on his back - a detail some will see as evidence that the bullet wounds on the president’s body did not match those on his jacket.

The film also shows “the clearest, best film of Jackie in the motorcade”, says Mr Mack.

Also visible is secret service agent Clint Hill, riding on the back of the car. After the shots were fired, Mr Hill jumped onto the back of the vehicle and drove with it to the hospital.

The new film only came to light when Mr Jefferies mentioned it in conversation to his son-in-law, Wayne Graham, who persuaded him to donate it to the museum.

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By Andy from Chicago, March 3, 2008 at 9:01 pm Link to this comment
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Ck-that model is based on false, biased info.  Do you believe everything you see on TV?  Try reading some books by Harold Weisberg and David Wrone and say the Warren Commission was correct with a straight face.  I doubt very much you’ve read anything about the Kennedy assassination, including the Warren Report!

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By duncan stewart, January 30, 2008 at 2:23 pm Link to this comment
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Kennedy was hit in the back BELOW the shoulder line, check out patspeers presentation, on-line, to register this. Oswald may have been the single assassin firing that day but Warrenati’s have to re examine the actual proven evidence, autopsy photographs and the Coroner’s notes,to come up with a better explanation of the path of the Magic Bullet. And also consider this, Oswald may well have fired FOUR shots, he was most familiar with the weapon and was probably better versed in using the rifle than any expert shooters requested to duplicate the shooting in Dealey Plaza.
I am prepared to accept this thesis but I do not believe he was experiencing a bad hair day and neither did the HSCA in the 1970’s.
Thank you, Duncan Stewart

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By Toddly, June 25, 2007 at 11:08 pm Link to this comment
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More often than not, conspiracies have more than a kernel of truth. It is the “conspiracy debunkers” that have to resort to funny math, magic bullets and the like. Face it, conspiracies happen. Let reason and probability guide you, and don’t simply throw out fact and reports because they don’t fit with the establishment’s version of events. The debunking usually requires much more convoluted reasoning than “conspiracies”.

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By jonathan, June 13, 2007 at 3:33 pm Link to this comment

It is a matter of fact that President John Fitzgerald Kennedy
signed an “executive order” to begin procedures to abolish The Federal Reserve Board.(don’t remember the number)
He boldly,positively, said in a statement, quote !
I am going to abolish the federal reserve board - I am going to put the FED out of business !
Three weeks after he said this, he was assassinated (shot in the back) One of the bullets may have been fired from the Federal Reserve Bank in Dallas. (situated behind the motorcade)
Kennedy minted Kennedy silver dollars and half dollars that do not pay prime rate interest to the Federal Reserve Board.
( they were not Federal Reserve Notes)
After his death, the kennedy dollars diminished and his “Executive order” has been ignored to this very day.
The unconstitutional, privately owned Federal Reserve Board gets the prime rate interest without investing a single solitary penny of their own. (for absolutely nothing)
I think that is the primary cause of President Kennedy’s assassination. end

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By Patrick, March 29, 2007 at 2:01 pm Link to this comment
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Hi Gentlemen,

JFK was the biggest event in my lifetime other than 911.

Doesn’t seem strange that JFK was kill on friday buried by Monday.

Oswald was killed on Sunday in the ground also by Monday.

Anna Nicole Smith died when and how long did the autopsy take?

What was the big hurry with the autopsy, and putting them in the ground so fast?

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By Frank, February 21, 2007 at 1:00 pm Link to this comment
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Tim, you just stated one of the many bogus factoids that keep millions of gullible Americans believing in a conspiracy theory.  Kennedy was not shot in the shoulder, he was shot in the back as the autopsy photos clearly show. The exit wound is not in the adams apple, it is below the adams apple. The back hole and neck hole line up perfectly when the presidents body is turned as it was at the moment of impact, and slightly hunched forward as was his posture:

Here is a diagram, based on original X-ray and consistent with the autopsy wound photos, showing the path of the bullet as seen from the side, along with the position of the jacket:

http://karws.gso.uri.edu/jfk/issues_and_evidence/Single-Bullet_theory/Line_of_damage/Diagram1-80-150.jpg

Autopsy photo of back wound here:

http://www.celebritymorgue.com/jfk/kennedy-back.jpg

The doctor that probed the neck hole did so when Kennedy was lying on a slab with his arms at his sides, NOT turned as he was when he was shot, not with his arm raised to waive, so the musculature not aligned the same way as it was at the moment of impact, and the wound channel was no longer aligned.

All the flaws in the ‘evidence’ of the conspiracy theorist are so obvious and so easily debunked, you have to wonder how can people be so gullible? The only explanation is that, just like the religious of the world, the conspircay theorists WANT to believe.  So, believe want you want.  The truth is probably too boring for you.

However, if you have the courage and integrity to allow every single bit of your misinformation to be scrutinized,  exposed and corrected, you can start here:

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm

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By Dennis D, February 20, 2007 at 8:58 pm Link to this comment
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40 something years - I guess they can start the real investigation anytime now. As far as conclusive proof - there is that 4th shot heard on the motorcycle cops open police radio that I thought had even the government rethink the single assassin theory but it’s not the letting the facts get in the way of a good government cover up that makes our country what it is today.

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By Bev, February 20, 2007 at 8:46 pm Link to this comment
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from:
http://markcrispinmiller.blogspot.com/2006/04/jfks-assassination-solved.html

JFK’s assassination solved!

“Ultimate Sacrifice” is a brilliant, liberating book about the Kennedy assassination. Based on 17 years of meticulous research, it finally tells the startling truth about that epoch-making crime.

… In their new book, “Ultimate Sacrifice”, Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann make it wholly clear that Kennedy was murdered by the Mafia, whose chieftains had infiltrated Jack’s and Bobby’s covert plan to spark a coup in Cuba and have Castro killed. The mafiosi—specifically, Carlo Marcello, Johnny Roselli and Santo Trafficante—knew that that operation was so sensitive that any news about it could have touched off World War III; and, therefore, that Bobby would do anything to keep the whole thing secret.

In other words, the book explodes two antithetical mythologies: the preposterous cover story floated by the Warren Commission, and the paranoid master-theory that has launched a thousand books, and made Warner Bros. wealthy through the movie JFK. Thus this extraordinary book not only sheds abundant new light on the central trauma in our modern history, but in so doing it also sets us free. (more)

MCM

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http://ultimatesacrificethebook.com/outline

Introduction

NOVEMBER 22, 1963, 12:29 PM DALLAS, TEXAS: Films show a sunny blue sky on a crisp November day, the sidewalks mobbed with cheering throngs hailing their President and First Lady as they near Dealey Plaza. At that moment—more than a year after the Cuban Missile Crisis—Cuba was far from the minds of those in the crowd. The same was true for the rest of the American public. Yet John F. Kennedy had a secret plan for Cuba in the fall of 1963—nearing a critical juncture on November 22—that would play a key role in his death, and be a major reason so much would be covered up for so long. The hardcover edition of Ultimate Sacrifice revealed this plan for the first time, transforming the history of the Kennedy years and providing crucial new information that cast JFK’s assassination in a whole new light. This new, revised edition of “Ultimate Sacrifice” can now provide the final piece of the JFK puzzle, the rest of the story that America and the world have waited over forty years to hear.

Eighteen years ago, Thom Hartmann and I began writing a book about the battles of President Kennedy and his brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, against the Mafia and Fidel Castro. In 2005, using new information from almost two dozen people who worked with John and Robert Kennedy—backed up by thousands of files at the National Archives—we exposed for the first time JFK’s top-secret plan to overthrow Castro and invade Cuba on December 1, 1963. “The Plan for a Coup in Cuba” (as it was titled in a memo for the Joint Chiefs of Staff) would include a “palace coup” to eliminate Castro, allowing a new Cuban “Provisional Government” to step into the power vacuum. The coup would be supported by a “full-scale invasion” of Cuba by the US military, if necessary.

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The Kennedys coup plan/AMWORLD was undoubtedly one of the most secret covert operations in United States history. In its secrecy, however, lay tragedy. Even though the Kennedys’ coup plan never came to fruition, three powerful Mafia dons—Carlos Marcello, Santo Trafficante, and Johnny Rosselli—learned of AMWORLD though their work for the CIA in other anti-Castro plots. The Mafia bosses realized that high government officials would go to any lengths to avoid revealing it to the public. With that knowledge, the three mob bosses were able to assassinate JFK in a way that forced the truth to be buried for over forty years.

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By Tim, February 20, 2007 at 7:22 pm Link to this comment
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Yes, I’ve seen the specials that make the rounds near the anniversary that use dazzling computer technology to “prove” that there was only one gunman.  But it is still not possible for a bullet to enter someone’s right shoulder and exit through the Adam’s apple.  In addition, the Adam’s apple wound was too small to have likely been an exit wound.  The doctors at Parkland described it as very small and enlarged it to insert a trachaeostomy tube.  Also, one of the doctors was able to probe the back wound with a pencil and described it as being about an inch deep.  This is probably the source of the “Magic Bullet” found on the stretcher a Parkland.  The bullet worked its way out of the President’s body and fell on the stretcher.  What’s more, at least six doctors and nurses at Parkland described a baseball-sized wound in the BACK of the President’s head, which is consistent with an exit wound.

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By Ck, February 20, 2007 at 3:55 pm Link to this comment
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The JFK assassination is a settled issue. Just in the last couple of years It has been emphatically proved to 100% certainty that it was a single shooter in the book depository, right where Oswald is supposed to have been. The most recent 100% conclusive investigation using sophisticated computer technology and bullet trajectory recreation can be seen in a History Channel special that aired recently.

As recently as ten years ago there was still some room for doubt, but now there is none. Of course, all the evidence in the world will mean nothing to conspiracy theorists. They, like the religious faithful, are immune to inconvenient facts.

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By Quy Tran, February 20, 2007 at 1:23 pm Link to this comment
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Still uncleared classic story !

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By Matt Janovic, February 20, 2007 at 9:50 am Link to this comment
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Yes, it’s new evidence, and it should be treated with seriousness by our government. But, we know it won’t…

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