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(1) It assumes the film is authentic. In that case, the simulation ought to include the "back and to the left" motion seen in the film. Instead, they cut off the showing of the film at frame 313, so it is never seen by the audience.
(2) None of the witnesses in Dealey Plaza reported seeing the "back and to the left" motion, which is another proof that the film is not authentic. Mack mentions that it is not part of the reconstruction in passing, as though it were insignificant.
(3) The simulation does include brains and gore bulging out toward the front, which is also seen in frames after 313. But Roderick Ryan, an expert in special effects, told Noel Twyman, BLOODY TREASON (1998), that they had been painted in and are not authentic, an observation that has been confirmed by David W. Mantik's studies of the medical evidence.
(4) No witness, including Jackie, reported brains and gore bulging out toward the front. More than forty, including Jackie, reported a massive defect to the back of his head, where his brains had been blow out to the left rear.
(5) The blood spray was also shown as it appears in frame 313, but Roderick Ryan also observed that, it too, had been painted in, an observation that has been confirmed by John P. Costella's study of the film and the dissipation of the spray.
(6) The first frontal shot location to the far south side of the Triple Underpass was not a suitable location for a shot, in the judgment of the designated shooter. But no one has ever suggested that location was one of the actual firing locations.
(7) The second location in the vicinity of the south side above-ground sewer was thought to be a suitable location for a shot, but he said he would have to shoot through the windshield. So they moved to the north side without taking a shot.
As Mack must know, however, the shot to JFK's throat appears to have been fired through the windshield from this very location. See, for example, the study by Doug Weldon in MURDER IN DEALEY PLAZA.
(9) The third location in the vicinity of the north side above-ground sewer is currently inaccessible, so they moved forward. The shooter said it was a good site for a shot, but Mack overruled him, claiming witnesses should have heard it but didn't. So no shot was taken from here, either.
The shooter said that Mack should not take for granted that a shot did not come from this location, since there had to have been many distractions. The study by David W. Mantik in MURDER substantiates this as the most probable location (for the second head shot). For the second time, no shot was fired from a probable shooting location.
(10) They moved to the picket fence and fired a shot from there, which Mack said would have killed Jackie. The shooter said that showed there was no shot from the picket fence, but Mack added (at the end of the show) "unless he missed", which is also what we and others also take to have been the case.
While this is an interesting suggestion, if Jackie was in a slightly different position relative to Jack--looking him directly in the face, for example, as we believe--then a shot from this location might have worked, after all. Even this experiment, therefore, cannot be taken to have ruled out this firing position.
(11) Then they tried from the "assassin's lair" on the 6th floor and--guess what?--everything worked out, thereby "confirming' the official account. And they corroborated it with an analysis of the blood spray as consistent with a shot from that location. Except, of course, the brains and gore bulging out toward the front and the blood spray in the film were special effects.
This is an excellent example of the method of "selection and elimination" by selecting the evidence that agrees with a predetermined conclusion and eliminating the rest. It was just too risky to even try shots from the north and south sewer openings, which the shooter thought were "doable", but Mack could not take the chance of lending any weight to the best supported analysis of the shot sequence. So he finessed them.
Although a casual viewer might be tempted to think otherwise after watching this program, none of these statements were proven by its arguments, namely: that a shot came from the sixth floor window; that Oswald fired this shot; that there was only one head shot; that there was no shot from the grassy knoll unless it had missed; that no other shots missed; that he windshield remained intact with no piercing shot; that the Zapruder film is reliable; that the limousine did not halt at the fatal moment; that shots from the north and the south overpass had been excluded; and that only one shot hit JFK in the body below the head. For reasons such as these, those searching for the truth about the death of JFK would be well-advised to look elsewhere.
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