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Josiah Thompson on how to think about November 22

Jefferson Morley April 9, 2021

Josiah Thompson, known to friends as Tink, is the JFK researcher emeritus. As a philosophy graduate student in 1966, he was the first person (outside the CIA) to make a serious forensic analysis of Abraham Zapruder’s film of the assassination of President Kennedy. As a private investigator, he had a fascinating 30 year career.

Now Thompson is back with a new book, “Last Second in Dallas,” revising his findings in his classic “Six Seconds In Dallas.” I haven’t read the new book but this review is good and it highlights something I, and many other learned from him: how to think about the JFK story.

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Digitizing the JFK Bullet Evidence

Jefferson Morley May 6, 2020

A fascinating explanation of how the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) created digital imagery of the bullet evidence in the assassination of JFK.

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When was the Zapruder film first shown to the American people?

Jefferson Morley July 3, 2017

In the Age of Viral Video, it is hard to believe but it is true: Abraham Zapruder’s home movie of JFK’s assassination on November 22, 1963 was not shown to the American people for twelve years after it was first taken.

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What about the first shot fired at JFK?

Jefferson Morley November 16, 2016

That was the question raised by a 2015 article by Lucien C. Haag entitled “The Missing Bullet in the JFK Assassination,” which appeared in the publication of the Association of Firearm and Tool Mark Examiners (AFTE).

Max Holland has responded in the journal’s Fall 2016 issue and his blog Washington Decoded

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Janet Reno’s JFK legacy

Jefferson Morley November 12, 2016

When Janet Reno, the first women Attorney General passed away last week there was no mention of one historic thing she did — order the new testing of evidence in the assassination of President Kennedy.

Source: JFKcountercoup

The remarkable story of Skip Rydberg

Jefferson Morley September 5, 2016

People regularly assure me that we already know the whole JFK story with the claim, “Somebody would have talked by now.”

“People did talk,” I like to reply. “People like Skip Rydberg. Ever heard of him?”

Most people don’t know his story but it is well worth telling. Harold “Skip” Rydberg had a minor but interesting role in the JFK story: he illustrated the medical evidence for the Warren Commission.

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A technical investigation into the first shot fired in JFK’s assassination

Jefferson Morley June 3, 2016

Max Holland has a theory that the first shot first at President Kennedy came from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository, grazed the arm of a street sign, and missed the limousine altogether. …

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Questioning Dale Myer’s JFK animation

Jefferson Morley February 1, 2016

Myers Critiqued — Myerr’s re-creation (left) compared to a photo from a near simultaneous moment in Dealey Plaza.

In WhoWhatWhy, Russ Baker and Milicent Cranor call into question Myer’s animated recreation of the first gunshot to hit President Kennedy. Myer’s work was used by ABC News special that affirmed the unpopular lone gunman theory.

Fair criticism?

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