WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.639 --> 00:00:07.480 More angel of course information. We're going to continual special 2 00:00:07.519 --> 00:00:11.960 session again today of the book The Final Analysis, which 3 00:00:12.000 --> 00:00:16.640 is my current book on JFK. It's called The Assassination 4 00:00:16.760 --> 00:00:20.519 of John F. Kennedy Colm The Final Analysis. And what 5 00:00:20.559 --> 00:00:24.440 this book does is it produces its centered around the 6 00:00:24.600 --> 00:00:28.160 X rays and the optical density measurements that doctor Mantig 7 00:00:28.239 --> 00:00:31.320 has made of the X rays would show that the 8 00:00:31.320 --> 00:00:36.880 three extant X rays in the National Archives are all 9 00:00:37.399 --> 00:00:42.479 not the originals. They're copies. They were forged, their reproductions 10 00:00:42.479 --> 00:00:46.320 and copies of the original in which various things have 11 00:00:46.359 --> 00:00:51.640 been added or masked to create the impression of frontal shots. 12 00:00:52.679 --> 00:00:57.159 The X rays also make absolutely clear two frontal shots, 13 00:00:57.200 --> 00:00:59.520 one that hit at the forehead and went across the 14 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:02.039 top of J. Kennedy's head and one that hit in 15 00:01:02.079 --> 00:01:04.640 the front by the ear and blow out the back 16 00:01:04.640 --> 00:01:07.319 of his head. Now, today we're going to focus on 17 00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:10.719 chapter five of this book, which is on the frontal 18 00:01:10.840 --> 00:01:15.879 shot through the windshield and a hit that was a 19 00:01:16.159 --> 00:01:21.079 puncture wound in Jack Kennedy's throat below the Adams Apple. Okay, 20 00:01:21.079 --> 00:01:24.079 and you can see an Elchin's photograph. We're going to 21 00:01:24.079 --> 00:01:26.120 show you in a minute that Jack Kennedy was reacting 22 00:01:26.159 --> 00:01:29.120 to this shot with lifting his arms up towards his 23 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:33.239 throat at the time when the shot occurred. That's his 24 00:01:33.359 --> 00:01:37.200 reaction to the being shot. Now, at the time of 25 00:01:37.200 --> 00:01:42.359 the autopsy, Jack Kennedy had a throat wound which was 26 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:45.920 seen in a Parkland but had been greatly expanded. And 27 00:01:45.959 --> 00:01:48.879 again we had pre autopsy surgery which altered a lot 28 00:01:48.879 --> 00:01:52.120 of the wounds. And again they wanted to make this 29 00:01:53.200 --> 00:01:56.359 the doctors of Bethesa, the two naval doctors who were 30 00:01:56.400 --> 00:02:01.120 responsible for doing the pre autopsy surgery which we've discussed 31 00:02:01.120 --> 00:02:05.480 at length, which is a matter of getting Jack Kennedy's 32 00:02:05.920 --> 00:02:09.439 body to the morgue. The airplane lands at air Force 33 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:13.120 Andrews Air Force Base at about six o'clock. By six 34 00:02:13.199 --> 00:02:16.199 point thirty, Jack Kennedy's body is brought into the Bethesda 35 00:02:16.280 --> 00:02:23.039 Morgue in a pinkish steel color a shipping casket. The 36 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:26.479 body is in a body bag, naked except for a 37 00:02:26.479 --> 00:02:28.280 tall wrapped around the head. That's not the way the 38 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:33.039 body left. Dallas left Parkland Hospital in a ceremonial casket 39 00:02:33.840 --> 00:02:37.639 wrapped in sheets, including the head wrapped in sheets, and 40 00:02:37.879 --> 00:02:40.560 that should have been the way the body arrived at Bethesda, 41 00:02:41.039 --> 00:02:47.240 had there not been the need for a Boswell and Humes, 42 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:50.479 the two Humes was leading the pathology. They both were 43 00:02:50.520 --> 00:02:53.719 Bethesda doctors. Their job was to alter the wounds that 44 00:02:53.800 --> 00:02:57.159 Kennedy had leaving Parkland, which were frontal wounds, and to 45 00:02:57.199 --> 00:03:01.240 make all of them appear to be exit wounds. Only 46 00:03:01.879 --> 00:03:05.120 you know, all the shots from the were entrance wounds 47 00:03:05.159 --> 00:03:08.439 from the back because that's where the text school book 48 00:03:08.439 --> 00:03:15.560 depository was when the shooting started. Now, the the throat 49 00:03:15.680 --> 00:03:19.639 wound was it understood by many, you know, it's very 50 00:03:19.800 --> 00:03:25.400 fully documented. Okay, The controversy it involves why it looked 51 00:03:25.400 --> 00:03:30.159 so jagged when it got to the autopsy table at 52 00:03:30.199 --> 00:03:32.759 eight o'clock in the gallery. Looked at this, This was 53 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:38.680 a jagged open wound. Now, we have some some corroboration 54 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:43.479 of a conversation that was found by Rob Coteau, who's 55 00:03:43.479 --> 00:03:48.599 an author of a conversation that occurred with doctor Malcolm 56 00:03:48.680 --> 00:03:52.360 Perry shortly after the assassination. So in the evening of 57 00:03:52.360 --> 00:03:57.400 December second, nineteen sixty three, Dallas reporter Martin Stedman. That's 58 00:03:57.439 --> 00:04:02.039 December second, sixty three, that's just a few days after 59 00:04:02.039 --> 00:04:06.960 the assassination. On November twenty second, nineteen sixty three, Steadman 60 00:04:07.000 --> 00:04:09.360 and two other journalists went to doctor Malcolm Perry at 61 00:04:09.360 --> 00:04:12.000 his home to visit with him. Doctor Perry is the 62 00:04:12.039 --> 00:04:16.240 one who did the uh tracheotomy trying to get Jack 63 00:04:16.279 --> 00:04:19.120 Kennedy breathing again, and he was the one who was 64 00:04:19.920 --> 00:04:26.480 badgered by the Bethesda pathologists to say that he was 65 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:31.839 wrong to interpret Kennedy's wounds coming from the front. So 66 00:04:31.920 --> 00:04:34.480 Perry confessed to these journalists that he genuinely believed that 67 00:04:34.480 --> 00:04:38.399 the throat wound was an entry wound. Furthermore, besides me 68 00:04:38.560 --> 00:04:42.439 the overwhelming evidence from the telephone calls between Bethesda and 69 00:04:42.519 --> 00:04:48.120 Parkland during the autopsy, the BEA pathologists recognized that the 70 00:04:48.160 --> 00:04:53.120 five centimeter contusion at the right long could not have 71 00:04:53.160 --> 00:04:58.399 been caused by Perry's tracheotomy. Rather the throat wound and 72 00:04:58.480 --> 00:05:02.160 the associated lung contusion, and as well as the pathologists 73 00:05:02.560 --> 00:05:06.920 reasonable consternation about it was due to a frontal projection, 74 00:05:07.680 --> 00:05:12.639 a frontal shot that struck on Elm Street. Okay, but 75 00:05:13.240 --> 00:05:16.319 the pathologists never understood exactly what caused this throat wound. 76 00:05:16.319 --> 00:05:20.519 They couldn't find the bullet the right wing right wound 77 00:05:20.560 --> 00:05:22.720 had the right lung had a contusion on it, so 78 00:05:22.800 --> 00:05:27.800 something had penetrated the body, but they could not find 79 00:05:27.879 --> 00:05:32.639 what nobody, No, no bullet was found. So you know, 80 00:05:32.680 --> 00:05:35.720 the projector projectile entered near the midline of the throat 81 00:05:35.800 --> 00:05:39.040 at about the third tracheal ring and traveled to the 82 00:05:39.160 --> 00:05:43.560 right lung apex where it stopped. A further confirmation of 83 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:48.560 this limited, non existing trajectory, the pathologists found no deep 84 00:05:48.560 --> 00:05:51.680 penetration at the upper back wound, so the back wound 85 00:05:51.720 --> 00:05:55.639 had not come through to the front. How do you 86 00:05:55.680 --> 00:05:58.040 explain the contusion on the lung that became a big 87 00:05:58.079 --> 00:06:04.160 problem all right now, the also the shot that came 88 00:06:04.319 --> 00:06:09.360 through the windshield, and Chris of you'll show figure five 89 00:06:09.439 --> 00:06:13.680 point one on page two seventy two. It's a schematic 90 00:06:13.800 --> 00:06:18.199 of what Dally Plaza looks like. And you can see 91 00:06:18.199 --> 00:06:22.839 that if the limousine is coming down Elm Street and 92 00:06:22.879 --> 00:06:26.480 you can see where the pagoda is this, you know, Chris, 93 00:06:26.480 --> 00:06:29.480 you can point that out where the grassy knoll is 94 00:06:29.560 --> 00:06:34.480 and et cetera. So on the other side, on the 95 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:36.639 south side, this is over here to the right of 96 00:06:36.680 --> 00:06:40.040 the south side of Dally Plaza. To the left is 97 00:06:40.079 --> 00:06:44.000 the north side, and so to the south side. Up 98 00:06:44.040 --> 00:06:49.040 above the triple underpass at the railroad crossing, there's a 99 00:06:49.040 --> 00:06:53.480 whole railroad yard up up above the triple underpass. And 100 00:06:53.519 --> 00:06:56.560 if you draw a line to where the car is 101 00:06:57.199 --> 00:07:01.639 in approximately frame about two fifty five two fifty five 102 00:07:02.639 --> 00:07:07.720 through that windshield, you could hit Jack Kennedy's throat. Now, 103 00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:12.959 if you go to page five point page two seventy seven, 104 00:07:13.040 --> 00:07:18.600 the altins picture, and this was first recognized by a 105 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:22.639 gentleman named Shaffer, who is another expert on photography. He 106 00:07:22.839 --> 00:07:29.920 was one who first got Roy Schaeffer Dayton, Ohio, was 107 00:07:29.959 --> 00:07:32.319 the first to have seen the windshield damage in this 108 00:07:32.399 --> 00:07:35.759 altin six photograph the altin six and enlarges that Chris 109 00:07:35.839 --> 00:07:38.879 of you Wood, so we can see Kennedy there, go 110 00:07:38.959 --> 00:07:41.360 down a little bit and there he is. He's clutching 111 00:07:41.360 --> 00:07:43.160 his throat and there's a red circle. Can you see 112 00:07:43.199 --> 00:07:47.040 the red circle by the rear view window. There's a 113 00:07:47.079 --> 00:07:51.560 rear view mirror right there, right by Kennedy's left ear. 114 00:07:51.639 --> 00:07:54.120 That's where there is a flash of light where the 115 00:07:54.160 --> 00:07:58.399 bullet is hit the windshield from the front and it 116 00:07:58.560 --> 00:08:05.199 enters from above, aiming towards Kennedy's ear. That draws a 117 00:08:05.279 --> 00:08:08.399 line over to the railroad yard on the south side 118 00:08:09.000 --> 00:08:13.560 of the Daily Plaza, and Kennedy's clutching his throat. Okay, Now, 119 00:08:13.600 --> 00:08:17.399 the way a bullet hits the window, it punctures the 120 00:08:17.399 --> 00:08:21.639 window on the going in the outside of the window. 121 00:08:21.800 --> 00:08:24.800 The front of this windshielder on the outside is smooth. 122 00:08:25.439 --> 00:08:29.399 It's like a little pencil point that goes through the windshield. 123 00:08:29.480 --> 00:08:31.639 It makes a little circle. You can see. It's an 124 00:08:31.800 --> 00:08:34.360 entrance wound to the windshield. And then the back of 125 00:08:34.360 --> 00:08:37.799 the windshield and safety glass kind of shatters inward. So 126 00:08:38.320 --> 00:08:41.759 a lot of glass was thrown inside the limousine. And 127 00:08:41.799 --> 00:08:46.240 in fact, doctor, if your shouldout figure five point two. 128 00:08:46.279 --> 00:08:48.879 This is on the next page two seventy four. By 129 00:08:48.919 --> 00:08:52.399 the way, the Texas Goalbook depository is behind the car. 130 00:08:52.960 --> 00:08:57.120 And when Jack Kennedy is hit, so five point two 131 00:08:57.240 --> 00:09:00.480 you can see again there's the picture of the that 132 00:09:00.639 --> 00:09:02.799 you can see. This is ault in seven. Now the 133 00:09:02.840 --> 00:09:08.759 limousine is beeding towards the Triple Underpass. Jackie Kennedy's getting 134 00:09:08.759 --> 00:09:11.480 out on the back and that that red circle is 135 00:09:11.480 --> 00:09:15.840 where the the bullet entered the windshield. Right there. It's 136 00:09:15.879 --> 00:09:19.440 a little flash of light, and Chris go to the 137 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:22.279 the picture just above that. I think it's five point 138 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:25.720 two five point three, five point two the other direction 139 00:09:25.799 --> 00:09:29.639 five point two five point three, I believe, keep going 140 00:09:30.960 --> 00:09:32.679 all you can see in the zupprud Or film. 141 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:33.559 Uh. 142 00:09:33.919 --> 00:09:38.639 Okay, and in large enlarge that one. Okay, Now that's 143 00:09:39.120 --> 00:09:42.600 that's frame two twenty five. And Kennedy's just beginning to 144 00:09:42.679 --> 00:09:45.639 reach up to his throat. So it's at that point 145 00:09:45.720 --> 00:09:49.360 where the shot first comes through his throat. Something hits 146 00:09:49.360 --> 00:09:52.799 his throat. Okay. Doctor Mantick believes it's a shad of 147 00:09:52.879 --> 00:09:56.240 great glass from the breaking of the safety glass and 148 00:09:56.279 --> 00:09:59.600 the bullet entered from the front through the windshield. And 149 00:09:59.639 --> 00:10:02.120 then to the next picture. By two point thirty, you 150 00:10:02.159 --> 00:10:05.320 can see Kennedy is emerging from the behind the Stemins 151 00:10:05.360 --> 00:10:10.120 Freeway sign, which obliterated the view that Zappruter had from 152 00:10:10.159 --> 00:10:15.200 the pagola's pedestal where he was standing, and Jack's reacting 153 00:10:15.200 --> 00:10:19.840 more strongly to the shot in his throat. Okay. Now, 154 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:24.600 let's continue with a little bit of the narrative here, 155 00:10:25.279 --> 00:10:28.720 because there's a Douglas Weldon, who is an attorney for 156 00:10:28.840 --> 00:10:32.720 the County of Kalamazoo's Circuit Court. He was an adjunct 157 00:10:32.759 --> 00:10:37.559 professor for Western Michigan's University's Department of Justice. He became 158 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:43.080 an expert on the bullet hole in the windshield and 159 00:10:41.840 --> 00:10:47.679 what Douglas Weldon stated was an officer Stavis Ellis, who 160 00:10:47.720 --> 00:10:51.240 was in charge of the motorcycle escort through Dallas, recalled 161 00:10:51.279 --> 00:10:55.360 actually putting a pencil into the hole, and Ellis claimed 162 00:10:55.399 --> 00:10:57.960 there were numerous people and police officers at Parkland Hospital 163 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:01.600 who viewed the hole. What Weldon wrote, he s Davis 164 00:11:01.679 --> 00:11:05.639 Ellis vividly remembers that while he was observing the hole, 165 00:11:05.720 --> 00:11:08.600 a Secret Service agent came up to him and tried 166 00:11:08.639 --> 00:11:10.720 to persuade him that he was seeing a fragment and 167 00:11:10.759 --> 00:11:15.080 not a hole. Mister Alis noted, it wasn't a fragment, 168 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:18.279 it was a hole. Mister Alis had been totally consistent 169 00:11:18.279 --> 00:11:20.320 with his statement over the years and has not wavered 170 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:22.440 in his assistance that he saw a hole in the 171 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:27.000 windshield immediately after the assassination. Ellis, moreover had a distinguished 172 00:11:27.039 --> 00:11:29.799 career with the United States Army and the Dallas Police. 173 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:35.240 Dallas Police officer HR Freeman, who rode in the motorcade 174 00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:38.559 observed the limousine of Parkland Hospital after the shooting. He said, 175 00:11:38.559 --> 00:11:40.840 I was right beside it. I could have touched it. It 176 00:11:40.919 --> 00:11:44.039 was a bullet hole. You could tell what it was. Okay, 177 00:11:44.159 --> 00:11:48.519 this is damaging the Secret Service. Secret Service is simultaneously 178 00:11:48.519 --> 00:11:50.639 getting water and they're washing out the blood and gore 179 00:11:50.679 --> 00:11:53.639 from the back seat, and they do not want people 180 00:11:53.720 --> 00:11:58.799 observing that this was a entrance wound through the windshield 181 00:11:58.840 --> 00:12:02.200 from the front. Remember, Oswald is going to be the 182 00:12:02.240 --> 00:12:05.440 patsy if he's going to be staged as the government's 183 00:12:05.519 --> 00:12:08.120 narrative is the lone gun assassin. There cannot have been 184 00:12:08.159 --> 00:12:10.879 shots from the front. Now that the text school book 185 00:12:10.919 --> 00:12:16.120 depository was behind the limousine when the shooting started. So 186 00:12:16.200 --> 00:12:22.519 we also have testimony from this Avallia Glandays g L 187 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:26.039 A n G E s A MD. Now, she was 188 00:12:26.039 --> 00:12:29.080 in the seventh episode of Nigel Turner's The Men Who 189 00:12:29.159 --> 00:12:33.360 Killed Kennedy, which was a series of shows that really 190 00:12:33.360 --> 00:12:36.159 opened up a lot of people's minds about that Jack 191 00:12:36.240 --> 00:12:41.240 Kennedy was killed by a crossfire and a conspiracy, and 192 00:12:41.320 --> 00:12:47.279 she was a tough lady, she was new weapons. She 193 00:12:47.480 --> 00:12:51.519 was filmed by Nigel turner on the shooting range. She said, 194 00:12:51.799 --> 00:12:54.480 this is what she said. I've been handling guns since 195 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:57.000 I was a child. We ran around the side of 196 00:12:57.000 --> 00:12:59.679 the building Parkland Hospital, the emergency room exit, and the 197 00:12:59.720 --> 00:13:03.799 present sidential limousine was there. I had been standing there 198 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:05.879 just watching the back of the emergency room and I 199 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:09.440 realized there was a bullet hole in the windshield. I 200 00:13:09.480 --> 00:13:11.600 talked to my friends and said, look, there's a bullet 201 00:13:11.600 --> 00:13:13.799 hole in the windshield. I pointed it out to them. 202 00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:15.279 At that time, I did not know any of the 203 00:13:15.320 --> 00:13:18.159 details of the shooting. I was quite shocked when I 204 00:13:18.200 --> 00:13:22.399 looked up and saw the bullet hole, but was very 205 00:13:22.399 --> 00:13:27.000 clear that the bullet hole went through and through the 206 00:13:27.039 --> 00:13:30.559 wind shield from the front to the back. I don't 207 00:13:30.559 --> 00:13:33.360 believe there was even any cracks associated with the bullet hole. 208 00:13:33.679 --> 00:13:36.639 It's like a high velocity bullet that penetrated from the 209 00:13:36.639 --> 00:13:39.799 front to the back to the glass pane, at which 210 00:13:39.799 --> 00:13:42.159 point a security officer of some type raced forward and 211 00:13:42.200 --> 00:13:44.799 jumped in the limousine and drove it off, even if 212 00:13:44.919 --> 00:13:47.440 I was leaning against it, to an area back of 213 00:13:47.600 --> 00:13:49.720 us somewhere, and that was the last time I saw 214 00:13:49.759 --> 00:13:55.039 the limousine. Okay, Now, she was insistent that the official 215 00:13:55.120 --> 00:13:58.840 story that that was a bullet from the rear that 216 00:13:59.039 --> 00:14:05.279 kind of rattled around and was ended up hitting the windshield. 217 00:14:06.200 --> 00:14:09.519 She said she thought that was a completely phony story. 218 00:14:10.240 --> 00:14:13.159 She confirms that she was one hundred percent certain there 219 00:14:13.200 --> 00:14:14.840 was a hole in the windshield and the limousine to 220 00:14:14.879 --> 00:14:19.799 Parkland Hospital and that it was from the front. Okay, Now, 221 00:14:19.840 --> 00:14:21.279 if we go a little bit for this, a lot 222 00:14:21.320 --> 00:14:24.360 of testimony in here about the shot coming from the 223 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:29.960 front through the windshield, and David Manning did a very 224 00:14:29.960 --> 00:14:34.639 good job along with Douglas Horn Testation's Records Review Board 225 00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:37.480 of really looking at all this data. Now, the windshields 226 00:14:37.480 --> 00:14:39.960 a problem because experts are going to know that was 227 00:14:39.960 --> 00:14:42.759 a frontal shot. And so if you got to figure 228 00:14:42.840 --> 00:14:46.840 five point seven, this is Douglas Weldon. It's one of 229 00:14:46.879 --> 00:14:51.000 his slides. It's on page two seven to ninety seven, 230 00:14:52.559 --> 00:14:55.519 and you'll see he did a slide showing you what 231 00:14:55.679 --> 00:15:01.279 happens when a bullet hits safety glass. So there you'll 232 00:15:01.279 --> 00:15:04.240 see the bullet enters the safety glass and then it's 233 00:15:04.279 --> 00:15:08.960 the inside, you know, the exit wound the bullet through 234 00:15:09.000 --> 00:15:11.919 the glass that causes all these shads glass to go apart. 235 00:15:11.960 --> 00:15:14.360 You can think about that, because the bullet comes in, 236 00:15:14.440 --> 00:15:17.120 it punctures. It sounds like a firecracker typically when a 237 00:15:17.120 --> 00:15:21.799 bullet hits of safety glass and then the glass shreds 238 00:15:21.799 --> 00:15:25.519 are all thrown at the exit wound. And that's apparent 239 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:30.360 to anybody who knows how a bullet gets through safety glass. 240 00:15:30.960 --> 00:15:33.720 And Dougs he did a great job of showing this. 241 00:15:34.559 --> 00:15:37.000 Now there's if you go to picture five point eight 242 00:15:38.720 --> 00:15:43.039 on page three hundred, which is Warren commissioned Exhibit three 243 00:15:43.039 --> 00:15:47.600 point fifty. This is again is where they have now 244 00:15:47.639 --> 00:15:50.799 a bullet hole that you can see with a lot 245 00:15:50.840 --> 00:15:53.000 of You have to enlarge that quite a bit, Chris 246 00:15:53.039 --> 00:15:55.960 to really see it. But there's a bullet hole there 247 00:15:56.000 --> 00:15:59.840 and there's lots of little spider web lines coming out 248 00:15:59.840 --> 00:16:03.279 from it, and again that can be characteristic of the 249 00:16:03.279 --> 00:16:07.360 way the bullet fractures the safety glass after it's gone 250 00:16:07.480 --> 00:16:11.720 through the windshield. Okay, now this is a problem for 251 00:16:11.879 --> 00:16:15.000 the The Cigarett Service gets this limousine out of there 252 00:16:15.000 --> 00:16:17.559 as fast as they can. They don't want that this 253 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:21.440 is primary evidence, another primary evidence of a frontal shot 254 00:16:22.639 --> 00:16:26.200 and it's going to violate the narrative of Oswald being 255 00:16:26.200 --> 00:16:29.960 the shooter. So what is done is that this limousine 256 00:16:30.000 --> 00:16:35.559 is flown back to Washington, DC and it's put in 257 00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:38.200 the White House Garage, which is not right at the 258 00:16:38.200 --> 00:16:41.320 White House, a few blocks away in that time, and 259 00:16:42.440 --> 00:16:43.720 now they've got a problem. What are they going to 260 00:16:43.799 --> 00:16:46.080 do with it? They have to figure out how they're 261 00:16:46.120 --> 00:16:51.919 going to change this wind shield out. Okay, And there's 262 00:16:51.919 --> 00:16:55.960 a couple of people who have had some discussion of this. 263 00:16:56.799 --> 00:16:59.519 I want to read you. One of the we did 264 00:16:59.639 --> 00:17:05.799 read s mlis okay, so there was a couple let 265 00:17:05.839 --> 00:17:10.880 me see find okay. Nick Principe, p R. E. N. CIP. 266 00:17:11.160 --> 00:17:14.680 This is in page two eighty five. He was a 267 00:17:14.880 --> 00:17:19.519 U S Park motorcycle officer. Nick Principe, the us A 268 00:17:19.680 --> 00:17:23.279 US Park Police motorcycle officer, drove to the White House 269 00:17:23.279 --> 00:17:27.240 Garage on the evening of the assassination having a conversation 270 00:17:27.359 --> 00:17:31.279 with the JFK limousine driver, Secret Service agent Bill Greer. 271 00:17:31.839 --> 00:17:36.119 Greer told Principe that there were shots, quote, coming from 272 00:17:36.200 --> 00:17:40.240 every direction, adding that one of them came right through 273 00:17:40.279 --> 00:17:46.480 the windshield. Okay, Now that's credible testimony. It's it's not 274 00:17:47.599 --> 00:17:51.960 all the proof you're gonna need, but it's highly credible testimony, okay, 275 00:17:52.000 --> 00:17:55.319 and then go to page two ninety one. Because what 276 00:17:55.720 --> 00:17:59.680 doctor Mantick found was a couple of witnesses in a 277 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:04.880 dearborn Michigan who were involved in the windshield being swapped out. 278 00:18:06.920 --> 00:18:09.759 So in November twenty fifth, nineteen sixty three, the first 279 00:18:09.759 --> 00:18:16.119 dearborn witness appeared. George Whittaker, Senior, a Ford Motor Company supervisor, 280 00:18:16.319 --> 00:18:18.960 was interviewed in the August nineteen ninety three, told Douglas 281 00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:23.680 Weldon that he had replaced the windshield on Monday, November 282 00:18:23.680 --> 00:18:27.319 twenty fifth at the River Rouge Assembly Plant Building B. 283 00:18:28.720 --> 00:18:30.960 He recalled a hole the windshield that was four to 284 00:18:31.079 --> 00:18:35.720 six inches to the driver's side of the rear view mirror, 285 00:18:36.480 --> 00:18:38.200 and he claimed that the shot came from the front. 286 00:18:38.720 --> 00:18:41.440 In other words, the major damage was on the inside, 287 00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:47.880 as would be expected for standard contemporaneous safety glass. Weldon 288 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:51.920 confirmed that Whittaker's description matched the damage seen alt in 289 00:18:52.039 --> 00:18:57.400 six as initially discovered by Roy Schaeffer. So witness first 290 00:18:57.400 --> 00:19:01.559 cited this witness in the Kennedy Limousine Cold the Dallas 291 00:19:01.640 --> 00:19:05.599 nineteen sixty three, published in Murdering Dealely Positive was another 292 00:19:05.640 --> 00:19:09.440 book in which Mantic also wrote an article, a very 293 00:19:09.440 --> 00:19:15.440 good article on his optical density measurements. And Weldon noted 294 00:19:15.440 --> 00:19:17.559 that Whittaker had worked for the Ford Motor Company for 295 00:19:17.559 --> 00:19:21.240 forty years, starting in nineteen thirty four. And here's what Whittaker, 296 00:19:21.799 --> 00:19:28.720 Here's what Weldon Whittaker's statement was because he Weldon interviewed 297 00:19:28.759 --> 00:19:33.759 him at length, and in fact, after Whittaker's death in 298 00:19:33.759 --> 00:19:36.599 two thousand and one, his family released his written statement 299 00:19:36.640 --> 00:19:41.240 to Nigel Turner, who, with their permission, finally revealed Whittaker's name. 300 00:19:42.880 --> 00:19:48.799 His memo said, this is written by Whittaker, the Ford 301 00:19:48.839 --> 00:19:55.759 Motor Company supervisor who observed and saw the windshield being replaced, 302 00:19:55.839 --> 00:19:59.400 and they saw the initial windshield from Dallas, which had 303 00:19:59.440 --> 00:20:04.880 a front shot through the windshield front windshield of the limousine. 304 00:20:05.920 --> 00:20:08.359 And what Whitaker wrote is this is November twenty second, 305 00:20:08.400 --> 00:20:11.240 nineteen ninety three, thirty years after the assassination of John F. 306 00:20:11.319 --> 00:20:11.720 Kennedy. 307 00:20:12.799 --> 00:20:14.960 And as I will be eighty years old in about 308 00:20:14.960 --> 00:20:16.960 two months, I think it is about time I put 309 00:20:17.000 --> 00:20:19.920 this bit of history in writing or on tape, so 310 00:20:20.000 --> 00:20:22.000 when I am gone, the record will still be there. 311 00:20:23.599 --> 00:20:25.680 This is what I know about this part of the records. 312 00:20:25.680 --> 00:20:29.119 I know they are incomplete. JFK was shot and killed 313 00:20:29.119 --> 00:20:31.400 in November twenty second, nineteen sixty three. That was a 314 00:20:31.440 --> 00:20:38.480 Friday afternoon on Monday morning, November twenty fifth. The Lincoln 315 00:20:38.599 --> 00:20:42.279 limousine was in the Rouge plant of the Ford Motor 316 00:20:42.319 --> 00:20:46.480 Company in Dearborn, Michigan. When it arrived there, I do 317 00:20:46.599 --> 00:20:52.119 not know, about nine o'clock. At about nine o'clock I 318 00:20:52.160 --> 00:20:54.839 was called to report to the glass laboratory, which I did. 319 00:20:55.720 --> 00:20:57.880 When I arrived at the lab, the door was locked. 320 00:20:58.119 --> 00:21:00.279 I was let in. There were two glass engineers in there. 321 00:21:00.319 --> 00:21:03.599 They had a car windshield that had a bullet hole 322 00:21:03.680 --> 00:21:07.240 in it. The hole was about four to six inches 323 00:21:07.240 --> 00:21:09.400 to the right of the rear view mirror as viewed 324 00:21:09.400 --> 00:21:12.319 from the front. The impact had come from the front 325 00:21:12.319 --> 00:21:15.160 of the windshield. If you had spent forty years in 326 00:21:15.240 --> 00:21:22.920 the glass industry, you know which way the impact was from. Okay, 327 00:21:22.960 --> 00:21:30.079 So Whittaker continued around noon. We got it around two 328 00:21:30.079 --> 00:21:33.000 o'clock that had been killed. So right away they called 329 00:21:33.000 --> 00:21:34.599 meetings to find out what they were going to do. 330 00:21:35.880 --> 00:21:40.839 And we are going to run Monday morning when the 331 00:21:40.839 --> 00:21:44.759 President's being killed were open. We didn't design on anything 332 00:21:44.759 --> 00:21:47.279 at that meeting, and being that I had charge of 333 00:21:47.319 --> 00:21:50.000 all power service, I was in charge of getting that 334 00:21:50.039 --> 00:21:52.880 plant ready to run or shut down and everything. So 335 00:21:52.920 --> 00:21:55.720 they decided that they would let everything ride and they 336 00:21:55.720 --> 00:21:59.039 would call me on Sunday. So on Sunday, around noon, 337 00:21:59.119 --> 00:22:01.400 I had just finished dinner. They called me up and 338 00:22:01.440 --> 00:22:04.160 told me to go in and make arrangements to start 339 00:22:04.200 --> 00:22:07.279 the plant up because we would have to start that 340 00:22:07.359 --> 00:22:09.599 plant up around midnight to get it going for the 341 00:22:09.680 --> 00:22:13.039 day shift and number two shift. So I did that. 342 00:22:13.799 --> 00:22:16.920 Then I arrived at my normal time on Monday, and 343 00:22:16.920 --> 00:22:19.519 they had me on a two way radio and they 344 00:22:19.519 --> 00:22:22.319 had me on a Cushman scooter because I was covering 345 00:22:22.319 --> 00:22:24.880 a large plant. I got a call from the vice 346 00:22:24.880 --> 00:22:27.079 president of the division and he told me on the 347 00:22:27.160 --> 00:22:30.799 radio I was wanted in the glass plant lab. Now, 348 00:22:31.559 --> 00:22:33.440 I went down to the glass lab in the door 349 00:22:33.519 --> 00:22:35.920 was locked. I knocked on the door. They let me in. 350 00:22:36.319 --> 00:22:38.680 There were two lab men in there and they had 351 00:22:38.720 --> 00:22:41.599 the windshield there. They told me we were to use 352 00:22:42.079 --> 00:22:46.079 that to see the car was a special built car. 353 00:22:46.640 --> 00:22:48.720 We were to use that windshield as a template to 354 00:22:48.720 --> 00:22:51.759 make a new windshield. And the new windshield had a 355 00:22:51.839 --> 00:22:56.640 bullet hole in it coming from the outside through. You 356 00:22:56.640 --> 00:22:59.440 could see it the way it was broken, but the 357 00:22:59.480 --> 00:23:01.680 car wasn't b where we had a repair garage, and 358 00:23:01.720 --> 00:23:04.240 they taken the windshield out as the glass plant, and 359 00:23:04.240 --> 00:23:06.880 we were using it as a template to make a windshield. 360 00:23:06.960 --> 00:23:09.759 We were told to follow it right through until it 361 00:23:09.799 --> 00:23:12.799 was a finished product, get it back into the building. 362 00:23:12.880 --> 00:23:16.279 B told if anyone asked us what we were doing, 363 00:23:16.319 --> 00:23:20.519 we're running a template for prototype. And so he said that. 364 00:23:21.839 --> 00:23:24.839 After describing the process for making a new windshield, he noted, 365 00:23:25.319 --> 00:23:27.519 we laminated it. We took it out of there, it 366 00:23:27.559 --> 00:23:30.000 was a finished windshield, took it to Building B. It 367 00:23:30.039 --> 00:23:33.160 was put in that limousine. Now the limousine had an 368 00:23:33.400 --> 00:23:37.680 entire interior completely stripped out, the carpet and everything was gone. 369 00:23:38.559 --> 00:23:40.839 So they stripped out the entire limousine. They're destroying the 370 00:23:40.839 --> 00:23:49.160 crime scene. And what Whittaker was certain was that it 371 00:23:49.319 --> 00:23:53.160 was a frontal shot. But what he became aware of 372 00:23:53.319 --> 00:23:56.680 is they were replacing the windshield so they could create 373 00:23:57.720 --> 00:24:01.200 what looked like a shot from inside the They were 374 00:24:01.240 --> 00:24:04.960 making it a backshot. Okay, Now, this goes on. There's 375 00:24:05.039 --> 00:24:06.880 quite a bit of evidence about this in the book, 376 00:24:07.160 --> 00:24:09.599 about all the memos and all the confusion over all this, 377 00:24:09.680 --> 00:24:13.759 But it turns out that the Secret Service on Sunday, 378 00:24:13.799 --> 00:24:17.519 November twenty fourth, nineteen sixty three, the limousine was flown 379 00:24:17.559 --> 00:24:20.880 to Dearborn from Andrews Air Force Base and one of 380 00:24:20.920 --> 00:24:26.920 the executives from Ford flew with it. And then on 381 00:24:26.960 --> 00:24:30.160 November twenty fifth of the Dearborn Rouge Assembly Plant and 382 00:24:30.160 --> 00:24:35.160 Building B Whittakers supervised the removal of the limousine windshield 383 00:24:35.279 --> 00:24:40.640 and replacement by an undamaged windshield, and then the limousine 384 00:24:40.720 --> 00:24:43.240 was flown back to Andrews Air Force Base with its 385 00:24:43.319 --> 00:24:50.000 new windshield. And then they start calling another glass company 386 00:24:50.359 --> 00:24:56.200 and they start making arrangements to create this spider webbing 387 00:24:56.720 --> 00:25:01.240 as if the windshield was damaged from the inside. And 388 00:25:01.480 --> 00:25:03.319 the Secret Service gets it wrong. They have to replace 389 00:25:03.359 --> 00:25:06.920 the windshield a couple of different times. And if you'll 390 00:25:07.000 --> 00:25:11.200 see a figure five eleven on page three thirteen, they 391 00:25:11.200 --> 00:25:14.039 were using a ball hammer at first. The Secret Service 392 00:25:14.039 --> 00:25:17.640 didn't understand safety glass and they just made it look 393 00:25:17.680 --> 00:25:22.200 again like it was coming from the front and shattering glass. 394 00:25:22.200 --> 00:25:24.599 On the inside. They had to change that all around, 395 00:25:25.759 --> 00:25:32.200 get it right, and this was another fiasco. Now there 396 00:25:32.279 --> 00:25:35.240 ended up being a second dearborn witness on the windshield. 397 00:25:35.319 --> 00:25:41.519 Robert Harrison was an automotive engineer, and Mantick said during 398 00:25:41.599 --> 00:25:45.680 medical school the University of Michigan, I shared a Phi 399 00:25:45.839 --> 00:25:50.519 Chai apartment with two fellow medical students. One of them, 400 00:25:50.599 --> 00:25:54.799 Dwayne Harrison, was our wedding organist and had been a 401 00:25:54.799 --> 00:26:00.720