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Old 21-April-2006, 02:56 AM
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By the way, for those of you who are science and physics minded, there was a report issued late last year by a group of top physicists, regarding the JFK case. They were:

R Linsker and RL Garwin
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

H Chernoff
Statistics Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

P Horowitz and NF Ramsey
Physics Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Their article was published in a high-tech forensic science journal known as Science & Justice. It costs a small fortune to subscribe to this magazine.

Back in 1979, the House Committee on Assassinations issued a report that said the Dallas Police Department accidentally recorded the gunshots in Dealey Plaza, and there were 4 gunshots on the recording. Since Oswald fired only 3 shots, this suggested that he had a co-conspirator who also fired a shot.

But the two sound labs hired by the House Committee were challenged by some guys at the National Academy of Sciences, and about three years later they issued a report saying there were no gunshots at all recorded on the Police recordings.

In 2001 a bug professor wrote a report on the acoustics evidence saying the House Committee labs were correct and the NAS scientists were wrong. Well, some of the old NAS scientists were still alive, and Dr. Ramsey had received a Nobel Prize in Physics in the meantime, so they got together and studied the recordings again and issued a report last year saying the bug professor was wrong, that the House Committee sound labs were wrong, and that the NAS was correct in their report. There are no gunshots on the Dallas Police recordings.

So this case continues to go on and on and on, with some scientists still working on it.