This ppt examines how the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy can be used as a platform to discuss how historical truth is arrived at.

18. The Pascal, Wiegman, and Couch films

21. Images of the ballistics and wound evidence The description, analysis, and sources of the President’s wounds are a source of considerable disagreement, and conflicting reports make establishing the findings of the autopsy quite difficult indeed. In addition, the brain of John F. Kennedy was transported to the National Archives in 1964, along with other personal and evidentiary items. When a post-mortem examination of the brain was attempted, it was found to be missing from the Archive records. It has never been found. All that can be known about it is its weight, taken at Parkland: 653 grams.

22. Images of Evidence continued The scope on the Mannlicher-Carcano was defective by 2 degrees (approximately 4 feet off-target at 238 feet, the distance from the TSBD of the first shot to strike Kennedy), and takes 2 seconds to recycle. One police officer at the scene described the gun recovered as a .763 Mauser This photo by witness Mary Moorman may have captured a second shooter, the individual known to conspiracy proponents as “Badge Man.” Some photographic experts believe this photo proves the front entry angle of the headshot; note the bulge of JFK’s brain moving towards the back of the car. It suggests to some a second shooter.

23. Mysterious or Controversial Persons Top Left: Who is the man behind the stockade fence? Bottom Left: “Umbrella Man” was caught on the Zapruder film opening and immediately closing an umbrella seconds before the shots. Some photo experts believe the man at left is holding a radio. Top Right: The center image (TR) is photo of the DalTex building; it is believed to indicate a person in shooting position. The bottom image was mistakenly reported by the Warren Commission as evidence of Oswald’s sniper position. Bottom Right: these “tramps” were arrested from the stockyard behind the “grassy knoll.” Col. Fletcher Prouty, a US Intel Officer in the period, claims that one of them is in fact Gen. Edwin Lonsdal

24. Who was Lee Harvey Oswald? Left: Many experts have questioned the legitimacy of this photo, as did Oswald himself. Note the difference in the facial and body-cast shadows. Below: compare the faces as regards the chin line; is this a crop-mark of a falsified photo? The man above, and ALL of the images at left, were described by the government, including the FBI, as images of Oswald at various places and times

25. Witnesses and others who contradict the Warren Commission Left: Bill and Gail Newman, who testified that the shots came from behind them at the grassy Knoll. Bill Newman was a Korean Conflict combat veteran Right: Mary Moorman took the “Badgeman” photo; she claimed later her Warren Commission testimony and signature were altered. Her companion that day, Ms Jean Hill, claimed alterations to her testimony as well. Bottom left: James Tague was struck by a fragment of a bullet which hit the concrete of the triple underpass in Dealey next to him. Does this necessitate at least a fourth bullet? Bottom Right: witnesses running towards the grassy knoll in the aftermath of the shooting. A Dallas policeman found another bullet in the grass near a drainage hole in the street, which was lost by the Warren Commission.

26. Many witnesses were interviewed both at the time of the shooting and later. A few of them have claimed that the testimony they gave, either to the police or FBI, did not appear as given, or was flatly falsified by some claimants. Below is an interview with Bill Newman, reiterating his claim that the third shot he heard came from behind him on the now-infamous “grassy knoll”