Daddy Bush Attacks JFK "Conspiracy Theorists"

Bush was extolling the virtues of Ford by making that comment about the Warren commission. Pretty sad when all a slobbering left wing moonbat has got is an attack on somebody speaking at a funeral.

LoneStar, I think it's strange Poppy Bushie bringing that up. Especially since Ford played a major role in deceiving the public on the assassination.

Well wadda ya know -- I agree with LoneStarMadam on something!

boomerang, perhaps you agree with the Warren Commission too? Ford's work there was far from virtuous.

I didn't like Ford, because I think he made a deal with Nixon about a pardon, I don't know that, I just have always been suspicious of that. I don't know anymore about the JFK assinatiuion that what's been reported & I doubt very much that you do either. However, Bush was saying nice things about Ford just as nice things were said at Nixons funeral. I don't believe in giving sainthood to someone just because they're dead, however, politicians do. I have heard as many accolades from dems for Ford as I have from repubs. It's what they do.

I think that the conspiracy theories have been disproved.

I must say that I was & am suspicious of the Warren commission report, I believe there's more to it than they reported, but I don't know what, of course. Our gov't isn't all that forthcoming with us on most anything/everything. I have never figured out how castro has managed to politically outlive now 8 US Presidents when they have all professed such a hatred of him.

boomerang, United States House Select Committee on Assassinations came to the conclusion that JFK was killed in a conspiracy. That there were 2 shooters. That disproves the Warren Commission Report if it disproves anything. But aside from that Gerald Ford was especially sneaky in his role as a member of the Warren Commission.
"Gerald Ford's Terrible Fiction"


The initial draft of the report stated:
"A bullet had entered his back at a point slightly above
the shoulder to the right of the spine."

Ford wanted it to read:
"A bullet had entered the back of his neck slightly to the right of the spine."

Autopsy Face Sheet [1] with body diagrams drawn by Dr. Boswell
Drawing showing area of back wound

JFK assassination eye-witnesses, including the observations of at least one Secret Service man in Dealey Plaza and several FBI agents present at the Bethesda autopsy, placed the president's back wound exactly where the mute testimony of the president's jacket and shirt showed where the wound was: six inches below the collar line.

shirt with bullet hole matches back wound Jacket with bullet hole matches shirt and back wound


The signed autopsy sheet, including the placement and description of the back wound, was verified by Admiral George Gregory Burkley, personal physician to the president who directed the autopsy at Bathesda. Burkley filled out and signed John F. Kennedy's official death certificate on November 23rd, 1963. He verified the location of the back wound and signed the Kennedy autopsy sheet at Bethesda on November 24th. That death certificate revealed the back wound to be, in the Admiral's own words, at the president's "third thoracic vertebra."

The neck has seven CERVICAL vertebrae, and this observed and verified wound was described as three THORACIC vertebrae lower than the neck itself. A wound in the back, exactly where the official autopsy sheet and the coat and shirt placed it. Warren Commissioner Gerald Ford was one of the key people responsible for misleading the U.S. public about the facts of the JFK assassination. The single bullet theory and the lone assassin fiction are only possible if we believe Gerald Ford's terrible fiction.

FBI 's own re-enactment photo showing wound in the back, not the neck.


As a member of the Warren Commission that investigated the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Gerald R. Ford suggested that the panel change its initial description of the bullet wound in Kennedy's back to place it higher up in his body.

The change, critics said, may have been intended to support the controversial theory that a single bullet struck Kennedy from behind, exited his neck and then wounded Texas Gov. John Connally. The Warren Commission relied on it heavily in concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald was Kennedy's lone assassin, firing from the Texas School Book Depository, above and behind the president Ford's handwritten editing, revealed in newly disclosed papers kept by the commission's general counsel, was accepted with a slight change.

The back wound--not neck


The final report said: "A bullet had entered the base of the back of his neck slightly to the right of his spine." A small change, said Ford on Wednesday, one intended to clarify meaning, not alter history.

"My changes had nothing to do with a conspiracy theory," he said.
"My changes were only an attempt to be more precise."

Harold Weisberg, a longtime critic of the Warren Commission's work, said: "What Ford is doing is trying to make the single bullet theory more tenable."

The papers showing Ford's editing were made public Wednesday by the Assassination Records Review Board, an agency set up by Congress to compile all available evidence in the Nov. 22, 1963, murder. The documents are part of the personal files of the late J. Lee Rankin, the Warren Commission's general counsel.

Ford, then House Republican leader, was one of seven members of the commission, which was headed by then-Chief Justice Earl Warren. An active editor, Ford also suggested a number of other changes in the 1964 report, including harsher criticism of the Dallas Police Department for failing to protect Oswald. He was killed in the basement of police headquarters by nightclub operator Jack Ruby on Nov. 24, 1963.
http://www.jfklancer.com/Ford-Rankin.html

I saw a documentary on the Discovery station not too long ago that laid all those questions to rest.

They used the same type of gun, the same type of amunnition, shot from the same angle, used those fancy new bone-in ballistic dummies, MRI, exrays, and on and on and on and on.

They showed that, based on film footage of the event, that if JFK had his right arm resting on the window ledge of the limo (he did) and was turned to his right looking out at the crowd (he was) that his jacket would have been pulled in such a way as to make a wound in the neck/shoulder area of his body match the bullet holes in the clothing

It also showed that there wasn't anything "magic" about the bullet as they were able to do the same shot, passing through two bodies and having matching wounds.

It was really a good documentary.

boomerang, if anything is clear it's that ALL those questions are not laid to rest. Gerald Ford's role in altering the report wont be buried with him either.

Too bad they can prove it could have happened the way they said it did.

Science can't be called a liar blueflame. Do some homework on it.

Conspiracy theories are still theories because no one can prove other wise.

good afternoon Bella...ass nice and fluffy today?

Always....and getting fluffier by the day.

Although, I haven't gained any weight yet and my doctor said I have to gain 1-2 lbs in two weeks...or else....I am not sure what but he said I'd have to come back. Perhaps he will force feed me.

For years i had an interesting cutting from the letters to the editor section of The New York Times. It was a letter from William Manchester. Mr. Manchester is a well-known and justifiably well-respected historian and biographer. At the time of the Kennedy assassination, Mr. Manchester was hired by the Kennedy family to privately investigate the event. In the letter, he restated his conclusion, which was the same as the Warren Commission. In 1967, Manchester, with the permission of the Kennedy family, published the results of his investigation in The Death of a President: November 20-November 25, 1963. His letter to the NYT was no a promotion for his book (it was written 30 years after the book was published), and he did not mention his book--he was commenting on the event, not promoting his own literary career. I don't know what i've done with that clipping now, but it's conclusion remains with me, and i'll take Mr. Manchester's word over that of conspiracy nuts any day. Lee Harvey Oswald was a loner, and the lone shooter--period.

Bella Dea, tell it to the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations. "The Committee further concluded that it was probable that:

four shots were fired
the third shot came from a second assassin located on the grassy knoll, but missed." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Select_Committee_on_Assassinations I concluded long ago that some people would rather not admit the truth and they buy into the Mexican jumping bean bullet theory.

I never said that the Warren Commission was 100%. There have been many statments that said that it was thrown together and that some things were left out/missing. I didn't say that the report was right.

I simply said that all conspiracy theories are still theories because no one can disprove the Warren Comission.

Science has shown us that that could have been one shooting location. As well, it also shows us that there could have been more. You are missing the point completely. And that is no one can disprove the Warren Commission without any doubt. Which makes any other scenario simply a theory.

Back and to the left. Back and to the left. Right blueflame!

And I concluded long ago that people who are conspiracy nut jobs refuse to listen to factual science.

Wikipedia, by the way, is not the best source you could cite.

Wikipedia is a reasonable source. Note that it reports the fact that the Committee based it's "second shooter" conclusion based on a single acoustical evidence, and dictabelt recording from a motorcycle officer's radio. The Wikipedia article discusses the objections to that evidence, and a report which vindicates it. The investigator who vindicated the evidence of the recording ignored the evidence that the officer whose radio switch was left open, and therefore recorded background noises, was not at Deeley Plaza.