by Don Thomas
Vincent Bugliosi's treatment of the acoustical evidence is turgid with factual errors, many more than can be enumerated in a ten page essay, so I will cite only the most significant. Acoustical experts for the HSCA in 1978 determined that the assassination gunfire was captured on a police recording of a broadcast emanating from a motorcycle cop's radio microphone, and that the shots included one from the infamous grassy knoll. Although Bugliosi cites from the technical reports he clearly has no grasp of the technical issues. On such details as the manner in which the motorcycle microphone became stuck open, on the manner in which fragments of broadcasts cross-talked from one channel to another, and the manner in which ambient sounds are distorted by the radio circuitry, Bugliosi's account is substantially wrong. The facts and logic that support the acoustical analysis are misconstrued beyond recognition.
Although Bugliosi relies heavily on interviews to get his points across, it is perhaps telling that Bugliosi's interviewees did not include any of the scientists that worked on the acoustics, on either side of the issue. Instead he cites extensively from interviews with persons he considers to be the experts on the acoustics in the JFK case: Dallas cops and a Rock musician named Steve Barber. Like a moth drawn to a flame Bugliosi seems bedazzled by any critical opinion that supports his own.
I thought he was dead a long time ago? It just goes to show you, idiots can live a long time spreading lies and ruining our nation with misinformation. Tell em to go back to the Moon !
Posted by: Jeff Strange | June 01, 2007 at 02:34 PM
Quite the surprise that Bugliosi is being slammed by the CT community. I have no doubt he anticipated this. I mean come on, you people have made careers off of 11/22. Four months afer publication and Bugliosi and RH are still a hot topic on the net. The threat to your livelihoods should not dispel you from posting more ludicrous conjecture and speculation. I personally love science fiction. A 1600 page tome on a historical event can be tough reading. No doubt, when the mini-series appears on HBO, it will all begin anew. You folks get to have your names in the media once again...and after all, isn't that what this is about?
Posted by: Paul May | August 20, 2007 at 12:59 AM
Paul May and Jeff Strange are idiots.
-The secret service guard rail agents stood down.
-The single bullet had no blood/damage (besides some typical protrusion at the base)
-A cut was added to JFK's head
-E. Howard Hunt confessed and his guilt was proven
come on, see the obvious.
Posted by: Simon | December 03, 2008 at 06:01 PM