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17 de Mayo, 2007

Truth Conspires to Start Tiny Fires

Categorized under Ciencia , Historia , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: JFK

OH, HELL just when those grassy knoll people started getting quiet. This is only going to stir things up.

In a collision of 21st-century science and decades-old conspiracy theories, a research team that includes a former top FBI scientist is challenging the bullet analysis used by the government to conclude that Lee Harvey Oswald alone shot the two bullets that struck and killed President John F. Kennedy in 1963. ...
[Former FBI lab metallurgist William A. Tobin and Texas A&M University researchers Cliff Spiegelman and William D. James] found that the scientific and statistical assumptions [now-deceased University of California at Irvine chemist Vincent P. Guinn] used -- and the government accepted at the time -- to conclude that the fragments came from just two bullets fired from Oswald's gun were wrong.

'This finding means that the bullet fragments from the assassination that match could have come from three or more separate bullets,' the researchers said. 'If the assassination fragments are derived from three or more separate bullets, then a second assassin is likely,' the researchers said. If the five fragments came from three or more bullets, that would mean a second gunman's bullet would have had to strike the president, the researchers explained.

Someone please tell these scientists that the truth is what the papers and the government tell us and that's that!

 The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 6:00 PM.  | Top | View blog reactions