JFK Assassination and Agent George Hickey

[bbc.reporter]

There's been a lot of JFK assassination stuff on TV lately as the 50th anniversary is coming up. I think basically all JFK conspiracy theories are nonsense but his was one I had never heard before. Basically that a secret service agent, George Hickey, accidentally shot JFK with an assault rifle as the car lurched forward after Oswald fired the first two shots. to try and substantiate this, the documentary (which came from a 1992 book called Mortal Error) That the angle of the headshot was too low to have come from the book depository building, and ballistic analysis to try and show that the bullet from Oswald's rifle wouldn't have reacted the way it did when it struck the President's head, but the bullet from an AR-15 (which hickey was shown holding shortly after the shots) would have. I know this isn't new, but I guess it's unpopular, as I can seem to find anything credible that have tried to counter these claims? Anyone know anything about this?

[Spendulus]

There's been a lot of JFK assassination stuff on TV lately as the 50th anniversary is coming up. I think basically all JFK conspiracy theories are nonsense but his was one I had never heard before. Basically that a secret service agent, George Hickey, accidentally shot JFK with an assault rifle as the car lurched forward after Oswald fired the first two shots. to try and substantiate this, the documentary (which came from a 1992 book called Mortal Error) That the angle of the headshot was too low to have come from the book depository building, and ballistic analysis to try and show that the bullet from Oswald's rifle wouldn't have reacted the way it did when it struck the President's head, but the bullet from an AR-15 (which hickey was shown holding shortly after the shots) would have. I know this isn't new, but I guess it's unpopular, as I can seem to find anything credible that have tried to counter these claims? Anyone know anything about this?

That would be an incredibly a one in a billion chance, if that actually happened. 

[olubams]

Conspiracy and counter conspiracy continues...

[Spendulus]

Conspiracy and counter conspiracy continues...

To be fair, though, the Hickey gun argument doesn't involve conspiracy and all.  It simply postulates an accidental firing of a gun.

I don't buy it, but it's not exactly a conspiracy theory.  It's as if a Muslim extremist went to shoot up a restaurant and a couple cops went over to subdue him and the cops shot everyone in the restaurant. 

[BADecker]

CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE IN THE JFK ASSASSINATION by Jacob Hornberger

Having recently discovered this Thursday's legal deadline for the National Archives's mandated release of JFK assassination records that the CIA, FBI, and other agencies have succeeded in keeping secret for more than 50 years, the mainstream media is repeatedly emphasizing that the records will contain no "smoking guns."

Well, duh! As I stated in my article yesterday, "I Predict Trump Will Continue the CIA's JFK Assassination Cover-Up," ever since the CIA began specializing in assassinations, one of its principal rules has been never to put any reference to a covert state-sponsored assassination into writing. Given such, it's no big revelation that the records that are set to be released — assuming that President Trump doesn't grant the CIA's request to keep them secret — will not contain a videotaped confession, a memorandum detailing how the assassination was to be carried out and covered up, or any other such "smoking gun" type of evidence.

However, it is a virtual certainty that the tens of thousands of records will contain bits of circumstantial evidence that further fill in the mosaic that the assassination of President Kennedy was one of the CIA's regime-change operations, no different in principle from those carried out in the 1950s-1970s in such countries as Iran, Guatemala, Congo, Cuba, and Chile.

The problem is that mainstream reporters and commentators, generally speaking, have no understanding of or appreciation for the importance and relevance of circumstantial evidence. To them, all that matters is direct evidence, such as a videotaped confession or a signed memorandum showing how the assassination was carried out.

What is circumstantial evidence? The definition provided by Wikipedia is as good as any other:

Circumstantial evidence is evidence that relies on an inference to connect it to a conclusion of fact — like a fingerprint at the scene of a crime. By contrast, direct evidence supports the truth of an assertion directly — i.e., without need for any additional evidence or inference.

It is worth noting that courts consider circumstantial evidence to be of equal value to direct evidence.

When the mainstream media refers to the term of Assassination Records Review Board in the 1990s, they always repeat the same mantra — that the ARRB found no "smoking guns." They are, again, referring to direct evidence and not circumstantial evidence.

An example of circumstantial evidence was the testimony of Saundra Spencer, who was the petty officer in charge of the White House Laboratory at the Naval Photographic Center in Washington, D.C. As such, she worked closely with the Kennedy White House, including on highly classified matters.

It would be virtually impossible to find a more credible witness than Saundra Spencer. I think that everyone, including the Pentagon and the CIA, would attest to her integrity and veracity.

Spencer gave sworn testimony before the ARRB. The mainstream media has never devoted any attention to her testimony. Why? Because her testimony did not constitute direct evidence. That is, since she didn't testify that she saw who shot the president or some other type of direct "smoking gun" testimony, the mainstream media has ignored what she told the ARRB.

Read more at https://www.fff.org/2017/10/24/circumstantial-evidence-jfk-assassination/.

[BADecker]

JFK Assassination Files by Gerald Celente

As President Donald Trump prepares to release the John F. Kennedy assassination files, global trend forecaster Gerald Celente reveals the inside story told to him by Governor John Connally, who was seriously wounded when he took a bullet in the back sitting in front of Kennedy.

Celente was invited to meet Connnally in Dallas, Texas, in 1992, because Connally wanted to know how, three years earlier, in his book Trend Tracking, Celente not only forecast the rise of a third party, but identified Ross Perot as the ideal maverick candidate.

Parked in front of the Texas School Book Depository where Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly fired the shots, Connally and his wife, Nellie, who returned to scene for the first time since the 22 November 1963 assassination, relived the horrors and ensuing chaos of that gruesome tragedy.

What did John and Nellie Connally tell Celente that may be revealed if the JFK files are actually released? What was it that Connally told Celente that would shape his life's work? What was it that Connally wanted every American to know before he died and why it is so important?

Read more at https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/10/gerald-celente/jfk-assassination-files/.