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Thomas's Epilogue 1 HEAR NO EVIL: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM & THE FORENSIC EVIDENCE IN THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION (2010) By Donald Byron Thomas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Review by David W. Mantik The Mantik View Original Date: March 9, 2011 Revised and Updated: May 4, 2019 UPDATE NOTE: This version adds clarity, but also corrects multiple mistranslations that arose during conversion of my original Word document for the CTKA website (now known as Kennedys and King). I also correct a few of my own mistakes (e.g., Fig. 3). The most important point though is this: The pièce de résistance from physicists Linsker and Garwin (their reductio ad absurdum—see Figure 21 ff.) remains not only unchallenged, but quite unaddressed by Dictabelt advocates. My fellow JFK conspiracy believers would like to discipline me for denying their case, but the facts do not support them, and their failure to address this reductio issue does them no credit. Until they address this paradox, the acoustical case for conspiracy lies lifeless in the morgue. That these promoters are unlikely (ever) to address this conundrum is provably based on the absence of any attempt to do so during the intervening 8 years. I here also briefly update my conclusions about the head shots, an issue explored in greater detail in my e-book, JFK’s Head Wounds (2015). My (new) monologue on the current controversy about p-values appears just before Appendix 1. Appendices 8–11 are all new; the cognoscenti may wish to begin there. Appendix 11 summarizes the Sonalysts 2013 report, which holds a quiver of arrows fatally targeted at the acoustic case. People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776 New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1911: 207 It is essentially impossible ever to establish the absence of a conspiracy… whereas in some cases it is possible to establish the existence of a conspiracy. -R. Linkser, RL Garwin, H Chernoff, P Horowitz, NF Ramsey Note 1: See Appendix 1 for commonly used abbreviations. Note 2: See two of my prior lectures for visual aids— * For the Pittsburg lecture (2003), Google: Twenty Conclusions after Nine Visits; * For the Dallas lecture (2009), see The JFK Skull X-rays: Evidence for Forgery at: http://www.assassinationscience.com/ 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS HEAR NO EVIL: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM & THE FORENSIC EVIDENCE IN THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION (2010) ........................................................................................................................ 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................................................................ 3 AN INTRODUCTION TO THIS REVIEW .................................................................................................... 5 MY OVERVIEW OF THE BOOK ............................................................................................................... 6 THOMAS’S INTRODUCTION: MY COMMENTS ....................................................................................... 9 CHAPTER 1: THE CRIME SCENE (P. 15) ................................................................................................ 10 CHAPTER 2: FINGERPRINT EVIDENCE (P. 67) ....................................................................................... 12 CHAPTER 3: GUNSHOT RESIDUES (P. 95) ............................................................................................. 12 CHAPTER 4: THE MURDER WEAPON (P. 117) ...................................................................................... 12 CHAPTER 5: PHOTOGRAMMETRY (P. 157) .......................................................................................... 14 CHAPTER 6: THE ZAPRUDER FILM (P. 193) .......................................................................................... 16 CHAPTER 7: THE NECK WOUND (P. 221) ............................................................................................. 17 CHAPTER 8: THE HEAD WOUNDS (P. 247) ........................................................................................... 24 CHAPTER 9: TERMINAL BALLISTICS (P. 297) ........................................................................................ 34 CHAPTER 10: THE REARWARD HEAD SNAP (P. 333) ............................................................................ 37 CHAPTER 11: THE MAGIC BULLET (P. 375) .......................................................................................... 38 CHAPTER 12: BULLET TRAJECTORY (P. 421) ......................................................................................... 40 CHAPTER 13: COMPARATIVE BULLET LEAD ANALYSIS (CBLA) (P. 451) ................................................. 41 CHAPTER 14: THE TIPPIT CASE (P. 491) ............................................................................................... 41 CHAPTER 15: LIE DETECTION (P. 537) .................................................................................................. 42 CHAPTER 16: BALLISTIC ACOUSTICS (P. 559) ....................................................................................... 42 CHAPTER 17: THE ACOUSTICS CHALLENGED (P. 613) ........................................................................... 53 CHAPTER 19: RECONSTRUCTION (P. 691) ............................................................................................ 63 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ........................................................................................................................ 97 APPENDIX 1. ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THIS REVIEW ......................................................................... 97 APPENDIX 2. DEFINITIONS (SOME FROM WIKIPEDIA) ......................................................................... 98 APPENDIX 3. AMMUNITION TERMINOLOGY (FROM WIKIPEDIA) ........................................................ 98 APPENDIX 4. CITATIONS FOR THE ACOUSTIC DEBATE ......................................................................... 99 APPENDIX 5. THE SELLIER ARTICLE (IN GERMAN) ON BULLET DEFLECTION ........................................ 101 APPENDIX 6. LIST OF AUDIO TRACKS (FROM REFERENCE 9 IN MY APPENDIX 4, P. 209) ..................... 102 APPENDIX 7. SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY IN THE TIMELINES OF THE AUDIO TRACKS ........................ 102 3 APPENDIX 8. CHALLENGES TO THE ACOUSTICS DATA—A LONG LAUNDRY LIST ................................. 103 APPENDIX 9. SPECTROGRAM COMPARISONS. .................................................................................. 109 APPENDIX 10. SO, WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN DALLAS? ................................................................. 111 APPENDIX 11. THE SONALYSTS’S REPORT ......................................................................................... 112 4 An Introduction to this Review When Thomas’s peer reviewed paper (Science and Justice 2001; 41: 21-32) first appeared, the media contacted me, and I was happy to praise Thomas. It is a pleasure now to be more specific about this fascinating acoustics work. I have heard Thomas speak on several occasions. On December 28, 2005 (my wife had major surgery that day, so I went from the ICU to the lecture) we hosted him for a large audience of prostate cancer patients receiving proton radiation. Thomas was brilliant as usual, as he adapted his talk and visual aids precisely to the level of the audience. The question and answer session quickly elicited the enthusiasm of our listeners. I would personally echo the comments of Rex Bradford (Thomas’s publisher) in Bradford’s opening comments in the book: Thomas obviously displays keen intelligence, curiosity and honesty. One can scarcely ask for more from a scientist, but (in my opinion) one gets more—and that is passion. He has passion for the subject, passion for truth (the oxymoronic title of Specter’s book) and, finally, passion for what this seminal event means in American history and for what it reveals about our national character. To appreciate his passion, see his comment (in Chapter 14) about Arlen Specter. I also sense that on occasion he can scarcely refrain from strangling a few of his constructivist adversaries. For all his work, and for his passion, I salute him. I am pleased to be a fellow traveler in this JFK conspiracy research. A Foreword by Jim Lesar (May 23, 2010): My Comments I have met Lesar (a fellow Wisconsin alumnus and fellow basketball addict) on many occasions, including a tête-à-tête dinner. Jim has a marvelous legal mind and is a bulwark for the critical community. His is no generic foreword. On the contrary, Lesar precisely details Oswald’s contacts with the DRE, a CIA-funded, anti-Castro Cuban organization. Of central importance is the role of George Joannides as the CIA’s case officer for the DRE. This same character also served as liaison to the HSCA (House Select Committee on Assassinations) in its probe of Oswald’s links to the DRE. Joannides was brought out of retirement by the CIA specifically for this purpose. G. Robert Blakey (Chief Counsel for the HSCA) later confessed that he had not known that Joannides had played the role of case officer for the DRE. Furthermore, Joannides did not see fit to tell Blakey of his own dubious history. Precisely at the moment that Joannides emerged from retirement the CIA stopped cooperating with the HSCA. It was not until 1998, thanks to the
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