FOX Bones TV Show Sides With Warren Commission

Bones, a TV program on the Fox network is another one of those ever popular forensic investigation shows. Over the past week they have been advertising it very heavily showing clips of the team investigating evidence into the Kennedy assassination. Naturally, I decided to watch the show as I assumed they might side with the government’s side of the events. I was not to be disappointed in my assumption.

The Show
Without getting too deeply into the show’s plot, which was is mess, filled with unresolved mysteries, vague objectives and an inane subplot, the Bones forensic team finds itself under lock-down by a federal agency that shows up with a skeleton. The mission--find out information on skeletal remains, though it was unclear what that information would be, nor are they allowed to determine the identity of the individual. After a while it dawns on the team of experts that this might be the bones of John F. Kennedy. The remains had spinal problems, a defect on a vertebra from a “transiting shot” and a large hole in the back of the skull. Examining the damage to the cranium they determine a fatal bullet shot from the rear.

Researching further, they download an computer animation from the DOJ of Kennedy being assassinated. Curiously it looks just like one of Dale Myers’ animations that have been shown on plenty of those Discovery Channel specials. Myers work is controversial and researcher Pat Speers has done a remarkable job analyzing Myers’ animations much to his discontent. Check out Pat Speers’ site HERE and my article (Dale Myers and Pat Speer Duke it Out) HERE.

If all of this isn’t far-out enough for the producers of this show, members of the forensic team find a secret passageway to retrieve a copy of the alleged assassination rifle, the Mannlicher-Carcano, so they can do a live firing test on a melon. Whereby they determine there was probably a second shooter and hence, a conspiracy. One of the team members, Booth, a former military veteran, cannot grasp the fact that government would lie to the American people and cover up the assassination of a President. Finally a test is performed on the bones to determine the body is not Kennedy’s after all, much to the relief of Booth. Who the bones belong to is never explained nor why this exercise is done is never made fully clear.

This is my first viewing of Bones and my last.

Test firing of the melon from the Bones TV program. Notice the rear skull wound is via the Warren Report and not from the numerous witness accounts of a massive blow-out.

What Do We Have Here?
The Bones episode on this matter is silly to the point of absurdity. To have a skeleton supposedly that of a slain president (never mind the problems of getting the body exhumed), complete with similar anatomical issues that finally turns out not to be JFK allows for an easy way out. No need to create doubt in the official FBI/CIA story and get in trouble with anybody. I’m sure the producers don’t want to end being up raked over the coals like say, Oliver Stone, now do they? I don’t know why they still bother. A majority of the public does not support the government’s claims and believe in a conspiracy in the death of John F. Kennedy. Trying to convince them otherwise is a waste of time. But they never give up do they?

I thought it of interest that despite tackling this subject never once was the Warren Commission mentioned, Oswald’s name, the name of the rifle, or any other information along these lines. It’s the unmentionables. Naturally, the one Bones team member that believed in the conspiracy is defined as paranoid and hence, a kook. That is of course predictable.

It is intriguing that the Fox network would even want to wade into the muddy waters of the Kennedy assassination. One thing is for certain is that the mainstream media in this country has always treated the Warren Report as if it is the final word, above reproach, no matter what evidence to the contrary is uncovered and no matter how flawed the initial investigation was. What television shows like this do is perpetuate the myth of John Kennedy’s demise, according to the officially sanctioned narrative. I assumed they would side with the government’s version of events and they did. It’s as predictable any any network documentary into the subject, or any of the shame investigations created by the Discovery Channel.

The Bones episode on this matter is silly to the point of absurdity. To have a skeleton supposedly that of a slain president (never mind the problems of getting the body exhumed), complete with similar anatomical issues that finally turns out not to be JFK allows for an easy way out. No need to create doubt in the official FBI/CIA story and get in trouble with anybody. I’m sure the producers don’t want to end being up raked over the coals like say, Oliver Stone, now do they? I don’t know why they still bother. A majority of the public does not support the government’s claims and believe in a conspiracy in the death of John F. Kennedy. Trying to convince them otherwise is a waste of time. But they never give up do they?

I thought it of interest that despite tackling this subject never once was the Warren Commission mentioned, Oswald’s name, the name of the rifle, or any other information along these lines. It’s the unmentionables. Naturally, the one Bones team member that believed in the conspiracy is defined as paranoid and hence, a kook. That is of course predictable.

It is intriguing that the Fox network would even want to wade into the muddy waters of the Kennedy assassination. One thing is for certain is that the mainstream media in this country has always treated the Warren Report as if it is the final word, above reproach, no matter what evidence to the contrary is uncovered and no matter how flawed the initial investigation was. What television shows like this do is perpetuate the myth of John Kennedy’s demise, according to the officially sanctioned narrative. I assumed they would side with the government’s version of events and they did. It’s as predictable any any network documentary into the subject, or any of the shame investigations created by the Discovery Channel.


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The Discovery Channel Frames Oswald Again

In their special broadcast last night, JFK: The Ruby Connection, The Discovery Channel, which by now is getting good at being a helpful tool of government propaganda, landed another rotten egg with their look at Jack Ruby being a mob hit-man out to silence Oswald. I had a bad feeling about this show knowing what a track record the Discovery Channel has in doing JFK assassination specials and always determining the Warren Commission was right and there was no conspiracy in John Kennedy’s death. This was quite evident in the special they aired a few years ago, Inside the Target Car. It was an embarrassment featuring Dale Myers computer animations of the assassination (make sure you check out Pat Speer’s great analysis of this on his at web site at, www.patspeer.com) and other misleading information to assure the viewer that only Oswald was shooting from behind.

As usual, this latest production was a biased one-sided affair, brushing off Ruby’s intent to kill Oswald not as premeditated but a random event. It featured the typical Discovery Channel stye, the usual cherry picking of the evidence so everything comes out tidy with no loose ends. Of course, nothing is neat or tidy. Seeing it hosted and narrated by Gary Mack was the final nail in the coffin. He was instrumental in the “Target Car” show and many others. When you see his involvement there will only be one conclusion--the Warren Commission was right and there will be no dissenting opinions.

Enter Gary Mack
Gary Mack, dubbed by researcher James Eugenio as, “The Discovery Channel's Dan Rather” is a rather notorious figure in JFK research circles. A man on the side of conspiracy till he went to the dark side of the force. Mack is curator and spokesman for the Sixth Floor Museum, and the purpose of the museum is to promote the Warren Commission’s conclusion of Oswald being the long gunman and to attack all critics of the Commission. (Evidenced by the museum bookstore which features no conspiracy JFK books.) Before his about-face, Mack was instrumental in getting the dictatape recordings to the HSCA and that became the basis of their assessment for a conspiracy. He was also involved with the badgeman photo which some believe is a man wearing a badge firing from the grassy knoll. His conversion apparently came when he was offered a position with a six figure salary, after he lost his job, his marriage, and his house. Obviously, this deal meant no more conspiracy talk.

In his neatly trimmed gray hair and smartly pressed shirts Gary Mack comes off in the show as a reasonable, respectable guy. Certainly not the type to sign up for college classes on the JFK assassination and then heckle featured speakers (along with his pal Dave Perry), but this is exactly what he was observed doing in a class taught by author/researcher Jim Marrs. Or a man that publicly goes by an allis when his real name is Larry Dunkel. To add to the high-tech mood of the show, Mack is shown drawing paths on maps floating holographic style in the air. Looks cool but is mostly eye candy promoting a modern “scientific” look which ultimately doesn’t tell you much except what they want you to know.

The Stuff They Left Out
In these cherry-picked presentations there is a lot left on the cutting room floor. Which of course, is the good stuff. Since the case is built that Jack Ruby just randomly showed up with a gun to kill Lee Oswald, it is never told that Ruby was stalking Oswald from the beginning. When Huston Post reporter Alonzo Huskiness asked Ruby’s attorney Tom Howard, if Ruby was packing his gun at the Friday night press conference, Howard acknowledged that he was. Ruby had called the police department numerous times inquiring when Oswald was going to be moved to the courthouse for sentencing. So close to the DPD, Ruby was in the station building at the time Oswald was being interrogated and tried to enter but was prevented from doing so. The producers of this show want it to seem that Ruby just got lucky and happened to show up at the right place at the right time when in actuality, Ruby was all over the place from the Dallas Police station to the Parkland Hospital.

They went into much detail about the various members of the press and police that were in the basement at the time of the shooting. One person never mentioned was Ruby’s attorney, Tom Howard. He was there at the same time Ruby was and seen at the jail office window. He left just before the shooting but appeared at the Sheriff’s office just a few moments later with a writ seeking Ruby’s release. This was accomplished before the mortally wounded Oswald made it Parkland hospital, making it appear that the writ was crafted far earlier than the shooting. How is that for speedy lawyer work? Can this be so? It would be interesting to research Howard’s background and see who his other clients were. He certainly got there early enough with the proper paperwork. Perhaps too early. In 1965 at the age of 48 Tom Howard died of heart attack, taking his secrets with him.

While it was menaced that Ruby was pretending to be a reporter at the Friday night press conference, complete with a film image of Ruby being there wearing his glasses looking oh, so, journalistic. It was at this press conference that Ruby corrected DA Henry Wade when he mispronounced the name of the Fair Play For Cuba Committee. How did Ruby know? It was not as if the FPCC was a well known organization. Nor was Ruby known to have been affiliated with such pro-Castro groups. Maybe Ruby’s familiarity was because he knew Lee Oswald’s affiliation with it. Of course that was never looked into like an honest, open investigation would have.

In Closing
The amount of facts left out of these so-called documentaries is a travesty that seems to have no end. As if doing this over and over again is going to turn the public away from the conspiratorial view that a majority of us have. You would think to be fair they would employ some balance. It’s not as if there aren’t an army of conspiracy based researchers out there. Or for that matter, just ordinary investigators that have found contradictions in the official narrative. People like Pat Speer. It’s always the critics and their point of view that is under scrutiny, never the government’s claims. I think the public is not as dumb as the producers of these shows perceive them to be. After all, these one-sided dog and pony shows never change the majority opinion.

Pamela McElwain-Brown, an expert on the presidential limousine, was hired by Discovery as a consultant for the Inside the Target Car special. What was supposed to be an investigation of the limousine as a crime scene turned out instead to be more of a method for proving the lone gunman theory, once more. In the end, none of Pamela’s research was used. She said in an interview on Black Op Radio that the show turned out to be, “Too much spectacle without substance.” Watching an alleged expert with a phony name, creating his etch-a-sketch holographic drawings with a finger, is a good analogy for that.

One thing they can never get away from. Lee Oswald was killed before he could have a trial. And if even if it is not true, it will always look like he was silenced on purpose.


Sources:
http://www.ctka.net/2009/target_car_jd3.html; (Pamela McElwain-Brown) http://www.in-broad-daylight.com/; http://www.patspeer.com; http://www.blackopradio.com; Books: Harvey and Lee, Crossfire, Farewell to Justice, Reclaiming History


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Dale Myers and Pat Speer Duke It Out

Dale Myers (left) and Pat Speer (right)

I’ve been following Pat Speer’s web site for a while now. I admire his work. His web site is laid out like an online book (which it is) with chapters loaded down with illustrations and photographs. As an independent researcher he is thoughtful and well reasoned in dealing with the confusing mess that makes up the Kennedy assassination. He delves into what happened rather than conspiracy theories.

The fur started to fly when Speers did a chapter on his site entitled, Chapter 12c: Animania. Here, he takes on Dale Myers, an Emmy award winning animator who is most famous in recent years for his recreations of the Warren Commission’s SBT—single bullet theory for network TV documentaries. Myers has been at this for years starting out with test dummies and moving on to computer simulations. You can see Myers work in Beyond Conspiracy and Beyond the Magic Bullet.

Frankly, I would not want to be in Myers’ position here. There are numerous conflicts in the evidence from over 40 years ago and that carries over into the animation as well. For example in one animation, which is supposed to be correct in every detail, we are shown a red line depicting the bullet passing through Kennedy’s back and entering Connolly’s back. However, the line exits Kennedy’s chest, not the neck, which is an error Myers never addresses.

Pat Speer’s analysis of Myers’ animations have led him to conclude that his work is fraudulent. Strong words. Myers has issued several rebuttals on an Internet forum and on his web site and the fur has flown. The resulting tit-for-tat is far too involved to go into here; see both men’s sites (see links below) for the blow-by-blow details.

Speer does bring up some valid issues with Myers’ work. The placement of the jump seat relative to the door, the relative seat heights, the exact positions of both men to allow the passage of the single bullet, and how much foliage was present on Elm Street that Oswald had to shoot through. He does a decent job of finding flaws with animations and raises some valid issues.

Speer however, does falter on one issue and that is Myers’ placement of Kennedy and Connally in the limousine. Myers has Connally sitting low enough to be on the floor.  Myers’ response is to blame it on the distortion of the digitally generated camera wide-angle view. I am a photographer and have used wide-angle lenses for years. This simply cannot happen. Oddly, the side view from the animation showing Connally seated well below Kennedy. Myers’ explanation is odd, as he could have made a better response here. There are numerous photographs shot that day showing Connolly seated lower. Other photographs at apparently different angles show them seated on the same level (see examples below). In fact there is one I found of the limo door opened showing the jump seat positioned much lower than the rear seat. All Myers has to do is show the photos. Obviously, the President should sit taller, right?


Conversely, Speer had to know these photographs exist as well. But for the sake of argument, or whatever, chooses not to address them.

In Dale Myers defense, I do not think he is out to deceive the public. Pat Speer does and calls him a liar. I think Myers’ intentions are sincere though he seems content with what data is at hand, which is a flawed mess to begin with. For example, what we know as the SBT comes to us from a lawyer—not ballistics experts or engineers. Myers seems unconcerned with that and ends up doing what the original investigation did, which in some areas is to jury-rig the evidence to fit the theory. What Myers does is no different than Gerald Ford moving the President’s back wound to the back of the neck to be more “precise” in the final report. That way, everything works out right for the narrative. (And ironically, Myers does position the back wound in his animations inches above where the autopsy photos and measurements show the injury.)

I think a lot of serious researchers such as Myers go for the lone gunman theory because of the bad reputation that conspiracy researchers have been pegged with. Even Pat Speers, who is reasonable and not a conspiratorialist, with his simple questioning of the official scenario, finds himself placed in that camp.

At last count Myers has retired from the field of debate with Speer. Good for him. He needs to heal up from the bruises. Speer lets Myers have the final word:

“Forget about convincing Mr. Speer that one cannot draw a rational conclusion from an irrational premise; I’ve tried. Suffice it to say that Mr. Speer prefers to live in a land of illusion where physical realities don’t hold a candle to obsessive conspiracy theories.”

Myers only rejoinder is that he has tried to talk sense to a mule. As if that is smart to begin with. What Speer has done is to carefully dissect Myers’ recreation of the STB in painful detail. Speer paints Myers in a corner largely due to his own numerous errors in his data. Of course in time, the paint will dry and Myers will escape to find a friendly venue for his theories and recreations. A stage where he will not be asked hard questions and be allowed to promote his version of what happened on that tragic day in November.

Addendum 1.20.14
Review of the updated version of Myers' book With Malice.
http://oswaldsmother.blogspot.com/2013/10/book-review-with-malice-lee-harvey.html 

Sources: Video, Beyond Conspiracy and Beyond the Magic Bullet. Web sites: Speer, https://www.patspeer.com/  and Myers, http://jfkfiles.blogspot.com/

JFK: Inside the Target Car

Don't miss Pat Speer's excellent review and analysis of the Discovery Channel's "JFK: Inside the Target Car".

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