ANYTHING AT ALL?
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A YOUNG CONSPIRACY BUFF (STUDENT) SAID:
[After watching the Zapruder Film], out of 35 students in my classroom, 35 said the [head] shot came from the front; 0 said the shot came from the rear.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Well, heck yes, they all thought that from JUST focusing on the "back and to the left" reaction of JFK on the Z-Film. Cripes, who WOULDN'T?
But out of those 35 classmates of yours, how many have ANY idea what the autopsy report says regarding JFK's head wounds? And how many have ever read the Warren Commission testimony of one James J. Humes, the lead autopsist? Any of them do those things? (I'm doubting they have.)
The "back and to the left" motion of President Kennedy's head is definitive proof of NOTHING with respect to the precise direction from which the bullet came.
The Zapruder Film is ONE PIECE of evidence to look at and evaluate, sure. But why would anybody simply stop after watching the Z-Film, toss up their hands, and say "That's it! He was shot from the front! Let's have lunch!"?
That's silly.
Read the autopsy report and the doctors' statements. Put the pieces TOGETHER. Don't leave them isolated (like most conspiracy theorists seem to want to do).
And there are the autopsy photos too....which tell us this:
There was only ONE entry hole in JFK's head -- and it was IN THE REAR of Kennedy's head. Hence, there is no way POSSIBLE that the head shot came from the FRONT:
IN ADDITION....
There's this super-slo-mo version of the Zapruder Film at circa Z312-Z313 (seen below), verifying beyond very much doubt whatsoever that at the exact moment the bullet strikes its target (i.e., JFK's cranium), the President's head is being pushed FORWARD (away from the Book Depository Building and in the same direction the speeding bullet is travelling).
Only after this initial forward movement does JFK's head start to move backward.
Also see the two-frame GIF clip of Zapruder frames 312 and 313 pictured below:
The above Z-Film clip was put together by Nicholas R. Nalli, Ph.D., in an effort to knock down the erroneous theory put forth by various conspiracy theorists over the last several years, which is a theory that claims that the forward movement of President Kennedy's head between frames 312 and 313 was due to merely the "blurring" or "smearing" effect visible in frame number 313.
But Nalli's clip presented above goes a long way toward debunking that "blur/smear" theory, because it's quite obvious in Nalli's clip that even after the very clear frame of Z312 is intentionally "smeared" (or blurred), there is still very obvious forward movement of JFK's head in the following frame (Z313).
[More of Nalli's work can be found in the lengthy article here. Also see this 2021 discussion.]
Plus (referring to Zapruder Film frames 313-320) --- there's the "ALL BLOOD IS TO THE FRONT OF THE HEAD" thing too.
And the "NOT A SPECK OF BLOOD CAN BE SEEN AT THE EXIT POINT IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD IF JFK HAS SUPPOSEDLY JUST BEEN HIT BY A FRONTAL SHOT" thing too.
Does any conspiracy theorist have any "Frontal Shot" explanation(s) at all for those two "blood" observations I just mentioned, which can both easily be seen on Mr. Zapruder's movie?
And CTers can't really very logically use the excuse of "The Z-Film has been faked". Why? Because almost all conspiracists think that the "back and to the left" motion of Kennedy's head on the Zapruder Film almost single-handedly convinces those CTers that a frontal shot hit JFK in the head.
Therefore, with that popular belief in the minds of so many people -- who in the wide, wide world of conspiracy plots would be stupid enough to go to the trouble of "faking" a film in such a way so that the end result of such fakery would PROVE "conspiracy" in the eyes of so many Z-Film viewers, rather than lead away from that dreaded "C" word?
That's just...well...frankly...crazy.
Food for Z-Film/Head-Shot thought.
ALSO....
Let's have a look at what JFK's chief autopsy doctor had to say in 1992 (click to read full article):
David Von Pein
March 2007
May 2017
June 2021
RELATED ZAPRUDER STUFF:
http://DVP-Potpourri.blogspot.com/2009/12/zapruder.html
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