Although it happened 45 years ago the world is still fascinated by the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. There are as many theories behind the story as there are stars in the night sky. About the only thing all of the theories have in common is that The Warren Commission’s findings were wrong. Whether there was some dark purpose behind the commission we may never know, my own personal opinion is that their need to bring a speedy closure to the affair outweighed their need to be thorough.
Dan Robertson has been a JFK-ologist for over 25 years, and he has just released his ideas surrounding the events in Dealey Plaza on November the 22, 1963.
Dan bases his theory on the very famous Zapruder home movie that has to be one of the most often aired tapes of all time. MPI Media Group using the original Zapruder Super 8 film recreated the entire movie by doing frame by frame photography using a medium format camera and then reassembling it back into video, an incredibly tedious and time consuming process. This digital enhancement certainly greatly improves the quality. Had this technology been available at the time of The Warren Commission I doubt that they would have been able to sweep everything under the carpet as they did.
Definitive Proof explores a number of specific frames in the video that show the actual gruesome event, and Dan claims it shows the actual assassin. When I requested a copy of this book to review Dan kindly included a copy of the DVD, and I have to say that without the DVD much of the impact of Dan’s assertions would be lost.
I sat and watched the slow motion recreations of the assassination and even to my untrained eye there is something amiss. The official line is that JFK was shot 3 times by a sniper positioned up high in the Book Depository. In the DVD you can see the first two hits, there is no visible blood, and we start to see JFK slump forward. Hit number 3 the fatal hit is completely different. His head explodes in a cloud of blood and gore and he is thrown backwards. The laws of physics are not right, the shot had to come from the front, and not the back! Also the wound characteristics are so different that bullet number 3 has to be a different type, most likely a ‘hollow point’.
Having explained the mechanics we are then introduced to various pieces of collaborating evidence, that build a very convincing case that Lee Harvey Oswald was not the lone gunman, involved certainly, but assassin almost certainly not.
So who did it I hear you ask? Well I am not going to tell you! You will have to read the book and find out. I do recommend that you also purchase the DVD. Even if you do not agree with Dan you will certainly see that something is just not right. The digital enhancement certainly reveals some details missing from the original. At 115 pages Definitive Proof is a quick read, it gets straight to the point, and stays with the point. Many JFK books wander aimlessly around the various conspiracy theories, this one does not.
You can get your own copy from Amazon.
Simon Barrett
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackExcellent review Simon!
Like most I’m a closet conspiracy theorist at heart. Well not really strange if you take into account that I come from Africa where the truth is mostly an alien concept.
I have read and watched numerous works on this topic and even with the grainy footage it was already clear that there was indeed more than one shooter.
I’m getting my copy of this book and DVD straight away.
Thank You.
gerrie it is well worth watching the DVD, I have to admit that I was suprised by it.
It’s so refreshing to finally see a balanced and objective review of my book. Within the JFK assassination research community, there are basically two groups: (1) the Oswald-alone-did-it group and; (2) the someone-from-the-grassy-knoll-did-it group — although that someone is both nameless and faceless. My book refutes both and proposes a new location, for which it has been attacked and disparaged by both groups. One example of this is the misrepresentation that my theory has already been disproven — that the place I propose that the fatal shot was fired was just sunlight reflecting off of the head of Secret Service Agent Roy Kellerman. THAT IS NOT THE LOCATION PINPOINTED IN MY BOOK! I circled the area I contend the fatal head shot was fired from on pages 36 and 37 of the hardcover version of my book, and I certainly did not circle Roy Kellerman’s head. Further, on page 31, footnote 22, I note that another author, Bill Cooper, mistakenly thought that sunlight reflecting off of Kellerman’s head was a gun — and the DVD Mr. Barrett refers to clearly shows it not to be.
Besides the photographic evidence presented in the DVD (of which I have no financial interest in whatsoever), my work is also based in part on the analyses of Dr. David Mantik and Dr. Charles Wilber. Dr. Mantik reviewed JFK’s X-rays and concluded that the fatal head shot was fired from a point almost directly in front of JFK — not from the grassy knoll and certainly not from behind him at the Texas School Book Depository. Dr. Wilber reviewed the notes of the surgeons at Parkland Hospital in Dallas (where JFK was driven after the shooting). Dr. Wilber concluded that these notes suggested that the fatal head shot was fired “by a handgun at close range.” Put these two together and use a bit of deductive reasoning: the fatal head shot was fired by a hand gun at close range from a point directly in front of JFK. A simple review of the photos taken during the assassination and the Zapruder film clearly show that the only people at the time who were near JFK, in front of him and who probably would have had handguns were agents of the Secret Service. Then there was the Warren Commission testimony of eyewitness Austin Miller who testified that he thought the shots fired at JFK originated from within the JFK limousine. Approximately six people in the motorcade later testified that they smelled gunpowder seconds after their cars reached the point where JFK had been killed on Elm Street, again suggesting that at least one shot was fired at street level. The DVD by MPI then allows you to judge for yourself. Pay close attention to the “medium frames segment” and the activities that took place in frames 302-315 (the frame numbers are clearly depicted at the bottom of the film). Pay particular attention to the area between the two Secret Service agents near the dashboard and around the mid-seat level of the front seat. I think it rather clear that Dr. Mantik and Dr. Wilber were absolutely correct in their analyses.
For your considerations….
Dealey Plaza Professionally-surveyed Map Detailing 11-22-63 Victims precise locations, Witnesses, Photographers, Evidence, Suspected bullet trajectories, Important information & Considerations
http://ftp.hometown.aol.com/droberdeau/JFK/DP.jpg
President Kennedy “Men of Courage” Speech, & JFK Assassination Research & Discoveries, Don Roberdeau, 1975 to Present
http://ftp.hometown.aol.com/droberdeau/
Under the “magic-limbed-ricochet-tree”: Z-188, then, Z-203 to 206 http://ftp.hometown.aol.com/DRoberdeau/JFK/206cropJFK1.gif
Discovery: ROSEMARY WILLIS’s Zapruder Film Documented 2nd Headsnap: West, Ultrafast, & Directly Towards the “Grassy Knoll”
http://ftp.hometown.aol.com/droberdeau/JFK/ROSEwillisANNOUNCEMENT.html
Gary W Walters here. I agree with Dan Robertson. I have written a book, Blood On The Cross, A Death In Dallas and The Countdown Toward Armageddon! which was reviewed by Simon Barrett on September 5th 2010. The Zapruder film is the key to the puzzle. I believe whether you are religious or not you have to concede the fact that Abraham Zapruder was in the exact position at the exact moment and this is divine intervention. In fact he did not bring his camera to work on November 22 and his secretary convinced him to go home and get it. Without the Zapruder film there would have been nothing to contradict the official version that Oswald did it alone. This having been said and the Zapruder film the key I believe it is time to focus on the why President kennedy was killed instead of the who. The why is the reason this country is heading at an ever increasing speed toward a future of which an ounce of lead radically charted a course very different than the one President Kennedy was leading us down.
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