Thread: Any ballistic experts out there? JFK Assassination ?

are there any warren commision experts out there? i have read it but it was a long time ago when i was in highschool. my question is does it make a sound conclusion on what happened or is it blurry and questionable?

Originally Posted by AFDavis11

I don't take my views on anything from this forum (even though I do like you guys ((okay most of you)) but I did spend way too much time today reading through all the interesting stuff. The James File stuff was great and the transcripts of what Oswald said during his interrogations were two things that really were interesting.

I'm really stuck though on why someone trained as a shooter/black Ops kinda guy would extract a shell casing and bite it. Can anyone shed some light on that?

I have read that there were no notes or transcripts of Oswald's 12 hour interrogation. I googled "Oswald Interrogation transcripts" and could not come up with anything. I did find an interesting article purportedly written by Sylvia Maegher, the women who indexed the entire Warren Commission Report here. Scroll downpage for info on the Oswald interrogation.

"Although Dallas Police Captain Fritz “kept no notes” or transcript of the interrogation of Oswald, and the reports submitted by Fritz and Federal agents (primarily from memory) were incomplete and in some vital respects contradictory"

In perusing the James File stuff I came across a page refuting the tooth marked shell casing discovery here . It doesn't prove that he didn't pull the trigger and leave said casing at the scene but it does eliminate the so called proof that they had discovered "the" shell casing at the scene years later. In what I did read on Files overall it seems to me that his claims are questionable. Probably why law enforcement hasn't pursued it.

Edit; I just found Cheif Fritz's notes here and Agent Hosty's here . Not much to chew on in either of them.

Originally Posted by Bruno

I always found it a bit funny that people still say it's a pistol. It's 'just' a high power rifle with the barrel sawed off and a shortened stock. It even has a tripod
It's a bit like calling a honda goldwing a bike, when it's more like a car on 2 wheels

it's called a pistol because it has a barrel under 16" and the BATFE says it's a pistol, which means you have to do pistol paperwork and not rifle paperwork when you buy one, and do the pistol waiting period if your state has one.