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In reply to the discussion: Who was responsible for the JFK conspiracy theories? [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)68. Yeah. That must be why Gerald Ford altered the Warren Commission report.
Gerald Ford's Terrible Fiction
Moving the Back Wound and the Single Bullet Theory
As a member of the Warren Commission that investigated the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Gerald R. Ford, then a Michigan congressman, suggested that the panel change its initial description of the bullet wound in Kennedy's back to place it higher up in his body. On another page he also added "hurriedly" to the description of how the assassin walked away from the scene. (click on images to inlarge)
Read Gerald Ford's correction to the Warren Commission Report Draft:
page 1 page 2
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 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."
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."
CONTINUED with photos and original documents...
http://www.jfklancer.com/Ford-Rankin.html
So, in order for the magic bullet to work, as the artist attempts to show in that diagram you ridicule above, Jerry Ford had to move the location of President Kennedy's wounds to line up. That's dishonest, at best.
In addition to serving on the Warren Commission, Gerald Ford would later become the first unelected president of the United States, remembered as the man who pardoned Nixon and kept all the dirty laundry out of court and the public eye. Odd how often he turn up to help the secret state at just the right time, huh, zappaman?
Moving the Back Wound and the Single Bullet Theory
As a member of the Warren Commission that investigated the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Gerald R. Ford, then a Michigan congressman, suggested that the panel change its initial description of the bullet wound in Kennedy's back to place it higher up in his body. On another page he also added "hurriedly" to the description of how the assassin walked away from the scene. (click on images to inlarge)
Read Gerald Ford's correction to the Warren Commission Report Draft:
page 1 page 2
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 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."
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."
CONTINUED with photos and original documents...
http://www.jfklancer.com/Ford-Rankin.html
So, in order for the magic bullet to work, as the artist attempts to show in that diagram you ridicule above, Jerry Ford had to move the location of President Kennedy's wounds to line up. That's dishonest, at best.
In addition to serving on the Warren Commission, Gerald Ford would later become the first unelected president of the United States, remembered as the man who pardoned Nixon and kept all the dirty laundry out of court and the public eye. Odd how often he turn up to help the secret state at just the right time, huh, zappaman?
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Bad site, true, but the Washington Post article is legit, I think. Here's a different source:
NYC_SKP
Sep 2013
#17
If you want to believe the government's story, that's your prerogative but why would
rhett o rick
Sep 2013
#49
I may be mistaken, but didnt you alert to have this thread locked? And someone alerted on
rhett o rick
Sep 2013
#58
So it was a coincidence that both alerts were leveled against posters that you disagree with?
rhett o rick
Sep 2013
#60
Yeah, Oswald was a "radical leftist" who hung out with right-wingers in Dallas and New Orleans.
Zen Democrat
Sep 2013
#28
Notice how this simple fact of where they were sitting is completed ignored by the CTers?
zappaman
Sep 2013
#50
Why do you want fewer people to learn what happened to President Kennedy, Bolo Boffin?
Octafish
Sep 2013
#72
It never gets mentioned that the Warren Commission members did not all agree with its conclusions.
dflprincess
Sep 2013
#30
Mass Media ignoring 'RFK Believed in Conspiracy' shows corrupt nature of America's Press
Octafish
Sep 2013
#46
Paranoid schizophrenics, others with mental health disorders that cause disordered thinking
REP
Sep 2013
#10
Sen. Richard Schweiker[R-PA]:"The Warren Commission has collapsed like a House of Cards"
MinM
Sep 2013
#37
It was a lack of trust in its own government by the people which gave rise to the JFK conspiracy
Samantha
Sep 2013
#21
That make sens. Today RT is doing a lot of the same job : alienate The US left from the Center. Nt
Sand Wind
Sep 2013
#39
After 2 congressional investigations I thought we had most of the answers but this documentary
KurtNYC
Sep 2013
#41
we need a bullwhip toting, hard nosed investigative journalist to get down to the bottom of why
dionysus
Apr 2014
#109
Warren Commission, Dorothy Kilgallen, the fact that Dallas cops let Oswald get shot
Bluenorthwest
Sep 2013
#95