Examines the military service, family life, political career, assassination, and legacy of the thirty-fifth president of the United States.
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What are the odds?,
This review is from: John F. Kennedy (United States Presidents (Enslow)) (Library Binding)
That Von Pein could write a review that was relative to the book being reviewed? His "reviews" are just propaganda. Very long propaganda. One really begins to wonder what Von Pein's agenda really is. The history books have been written. The official story holds. Whats with this man's relentless effort to further indoctrinate us with his mile long "reviews". He reviews paintings. He reviews this book and is not on topic. What is going on?
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The JFK Assassination --- What Are The Odds...?,
By David Von Pein (Mooresville, Indiana; USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: John F. Kennedy (United States Presidents (Enslow)) (Library Binding)
What are the odds..... Of President John F. Kennedy's assassination actually having been a conspiracy and yet ALSO having virtually every piece of physical evidence in the whole case come back to the feet of the one man (Lee Harvey Oswald) who happened to own the rifle up on the 6th Floor of the Book Depository (and who was seen firing a shot at JFK's car)? And: What are the odds..... Of J.D. Tippit's murder actually having been committed by somebody other than Lee Oswald and yet having every scrap of evidence come back to implicate Oswald for that murder too? (Including gobs of witnesses who fingered the so-called "Patsy"; plus the fact that the murder weapon was in the possession of the "Patsy" when he was captured; plus the mere fact that Oswald was in the exact same general area of the murder when picked up.) Odds that he was actually an uninvolved "Patsy" given these parameters? Must be pretty low indeed (even when using the usually-skewed statistics stated by conspiracy theorists). And: What are the odds..... Of there actually having been somewhere between 5 and 10 audible gunshots (depending upon which theory you wish to use) fired in Dealey Plaza and yet having 100% (or very nearly 100%) of the news-gathering people who were in a direct, and IMMEDIATE, position to report the shooting to the world (via newswire, TV, etc.) hear exactly the number of gunshots that match the number of bullet shells found in the Depository, and the EXACT number of shots that the plotters need to have heard to hang their "Patsy"? Anybody got an "Odds" calculator to gauge the above things? ---------------------------- Another "odds" oddity..... If there's NOT a "Single-Bullet Theory", then how on Earth did a SEPARATE gunshot to wounded Governor John B. Connally's back end up striking him in pretty much the same location where such a wound would be located if the SBT was, in fact, the correct shooting scenario? Odds of the above occurring without the SBT in place? Can anyone hazard a guess? ---------------------------- What are these odds?..... If the SBT is indeed incorrect, then we are forced to believe that not just ONE, but TWO, rifle bullets failed to penetrate all the way through the lower neck and upper back of JFK. Logical? I say no, it is not. If you wish to argue that perhaps one of the shots was a "dum-dum" of some type, or that one shot was a misfire and therefore the velocity entering Kennedy was severely reduced -- okay. But TWO such shots of this kind that do not transit the soft flesh of JFK in the throat AND upper back regions? Odds please? ---------------------------- What are the odds..... Of ALL THREE bullets that most CTers need to replace the SBT getting lost? Or that ALL of these unwanted bullets could be disposed of by evil plotters in short order? In either instance, all of the bullets that peppered Kennedy and Connally (per the conspiracists who advocate such bullet-vanishing nonsense) were never entered into any kind of official record representing this murder case. (Via a theory which has Stretcher Bullet #CE399 being a "plant", of course...as most CTers fervently believe.) Odds please? ---------------------------- Of course, all CTers enjoy trashing Dr. Vincent Guinn's analysis and his HSCA testimony, as the conspiracists consider Guinn's 1978 analysis to be completely outdated. But what I'd like to know is this..... Just exactly how likely (odds-wise) is it that Dr. Guinn would testify to the effect that TWO specific bullets (that both very likely came from the barrel of Oswald's Mannlicher-Carcano rifle, via Guinn's NAA results) were the only two bullets that can be linked to any of the ballistics samples in the John Kennedy murder case and yet still NOT have Oswald's Carcano doing all of the damage to the victims on 11/22/63? Even via 1970s-era NAA technology, what are the odds that Guinn's data would end up FALSELY revealing the likelihood that ONLY BULLETS FROM OSWALD'S RIFLE STRUCK ANY VICTIMS ON 11/22/63? My guess is -- the odds of that occurring must be fairly low indeed. ~~~~~~ A sampling of Dr. Guinn's HSCA testimony..... MR. WOLF -- "Dr. Guinn, based on these results, do you have an opinion as to what type of bullets these fragments were from?" DR. GUINN -- "Once again, every one of these samples is in the same range, which is an unusual range, as the background WCC Mannlicher-Carcano samples that we have looked at from all four production lots. These five {CE399, CE567, CE840, CE842, and CE843} fall right in the midrange, in fact. They are not the highest; they are not the lowest of the antimony range, and the same is true of the silver." MR. WOLF -- "It is your opinion then that these all are fragments from WCC Mannlicher-Carcano bullets?" DR. GUINN -- "I think that is their most likely origin, yes." MR. WOLF -- "Can you, just from looking at the results, state what is the number of bullets that these evidence specimens came from?" DR. GUINN -- "Yes, sir, I can." MR. WOLF -- "What is the number of bullets, in your opinion?" DR. GUINN -- "These numbers correspond to two bullets. Two of the samples have indistinguishable compositions, indicating that they came from the same bullet, and the other three particles are evidently samples from another bullet." MR. WOLF -- "So it is your opinion that the evidence specimens represent only evidence of two bullets, is that correct?" DR. GUINN -- "Yes, sir, there is no evidence for three bullets, four bullets, or anything more than two, but there is clear evidence that there are two." ---------------------------- Head-Shot "Odds"..... 1.) Bullet strikes JFK from the FRONT, moving 2000fps toward the REAR of the Lincoln Continental limousine....and yet fragments from the bullet reverse direction after contacting JFK's cranium, and end up in the FRONT seat of the vehicle. 2.) Bullet strikes JFK from the FRONT, and somehow ALL of the blood and debris coming out of JFK's head are thrown to the FRONT of his head; with absolutely no blood visible at the supposed EXITING point at the REAR of the head. Odds of the above two things occurring if the head shot had come from the front --- Approx. 0.000%. ---------------------------- Mary Moorman And Her "Odds"..... What are the odds that Miss Moorman could have possibly actually photographed the EXACT moment of the rifle being fired behind the picket fence on the Grassy Knoll so that the "muzzle flash" would still be visible in her picture? I'd wager the odds are off the charts in favor of "improbable". Maybe not "impossible", true, but good gosh, it sure would have been amazing to have been able to capture that one tiny moment in time on a STILL photographic image. ---------------------------- Howard Brennan And His "Odds"..... Given all the evidence in the case which verifies that Mr. Brennan was correct when he identified Lee Oswald as the TSBD sniper, the odds that Brennan actually saw someone OTHER than Lee Harvey Oswald in that window are extremely remote....to virtually non-existent. ---------------------------- What CTers can't answer (logical or believably) is -- If the SBT is a worthless Arlen Specter-created wet dream -- then HOW on this Earth did the Australian team of researchers manage to get so very close to duplicating A SHOOTING SCENARIO THAT MOST CONSPIRACISTS BELIEVE COULDN'T HAVE BEEN ACCOMPLISHED BY OSWALD IN A MILLION YEARS? Another "lucky break" for the Patsy-Framers (four decades later even)? The THREE different shooters on 11/22/63 shot up the two victims with three guns (which are needed if the SBT is to be scrapped), but came SO CLOSE to mimicking a SINGLE-bullet shooting that (in 2004) a real Carcano was able to come within INCHES of duplicating EXACTLY what CE399 is said to have done via the SBT. Odds please? We must be talking "O.J. odds" here! 1 in 57-billion maybe? That number sounds familiar. Let's use that one, for starters. ---------------------------- The "OWNER OF RIFLE PROBABLY USED IT ON NOV. 22" odds are really hard to fight (logically-speaking), aren't they? In my view, yes, they are hard to fight. All bullets/fragments lead to Rifle C2766 (Oswald's very own). And please do not ignore the LOGIC and ODDS of the following fact -- THE OWNER OF THE WEAPON IS PROBABLY THE PERSON WHO USED IT (at ANY given point in time after it was officially acquired by Lee Harvey Oswald in late March of 1963). Who else is MORE LIKELY to use Oswald's rifle than Lee Harvey Oswald himself? I'd also like to know how any "rifle-stealing" episode occurred without LHO, Marina Oswald, or the Paine family noticing it. I want to hear about that. And, in lieu of "stealing" the weapon...I want to hear a believable CT scenario that has Oswald intentionally bringing his own rifle to work on the same day of the JFK parade with the intention of... Read more ›
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