urder in Dealey Plaza I What We Know Row that We Didn't Know Then about the Death of JPK Murder in Dealey Plaza Also by James H. Fetzer Author Scientific Knowledge: Causation, Explanation, and Corroboration Artificial Intelligence: Its Scope and Limits Philosophy and Cognitive Science Computers and Cognition Philosophy of Science Co-Author Glossary of Epistemology/Philosophy of Science Glossary of Cognitive Science Editor Foundations of Philosophy of Science: Recent Developments Science, Explanation, and Rationality Principles of Philosophical Reasoning The Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel Sociobiology and Epistemology Aspects of Artificial Intelligence Epistemology and Cognition Probability and Causality Assassination Science Co-Editor Program Verification: Fundamental Issues in Computer Science Philosophy, Language, and Artificial Intelligence Philosophy, Mind, and Cognitive Inquiry The New Theory of Reference Definitions and Definability MURDER IN DEALEY PLAZA WHAT WE KNOW NOW THAT WE DIDN'T KNOW THEN JFK ABOUT THE DEATH OF Edited by James H. Fetzer, Ph.D. ~ PRESS Chicago This book and others from CATFEET PRESS™ and Open Court may be ordered by calling 1-800-815-2280 or by visiting our website at www.opencourtbooks.com. ~ PRESS CATFEET PRESS™ and the above logo are trademarks of Carus Publishing Company. The front cover illustration is a frame from the fake Zapruder film featuring "the blob." Back cover photograph of the editor by permission of Sarah M. Fetzer. © 2000 by James H. Fetzer, Ph.D. First printing 2000 Second printing 2001 (with corrections) Third printing 2001 (with corrections) Fourth printing 2001 (with corrections) Fifth printing 2002 (with corrections) Sixth printing 2003 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher, Catfeet Press™, an imprint of Open Court, a division of Carus Publishing Company, 315 Fifth Street, P.O. Box 300, Peru, Illinois 61354-0300. Printed and bound in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Murder in Dealey Plaza : what we know now that we didn't know then about the death of JFK I edited by James H. Fetzer. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 0812694228 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963-Assassination. I. Fetzer, James H., 1940- E842.9.M87 2000 364.15'24'092-dc21 12-035078 CIP Robert B. Livingston, M.D. with admiration I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the only remedy is not to take it from them but to infa rm their discretion. -Thomas Jefferson CONTENTS Preface ix Prologue "Smoking Guns" in the Death of JFK James H. Fetzer, Ph.D. Part I: The Day JFK was Shot 22 November 1963: A Chronology Ira David Wood, III 17 59 Witnesses: Delay on Elm Street Vincent Palamara 119 Part II: The Secret Service The Kennedy Limousine: Dallas 1963 Douglas Weldon, J.D. 129 The Secret Service: On the Job in Dallas Vincent Palamara 159 Part III: The Medical Evidence The Converging Medical Case for Conspiracy in the Death of JFK Gary L. Aguilar, M.D. 175 Paradoxes of the JFK Assassination: The Medical Evidence Decoded David W Mantik, M.D., Ph.D. 219 Part IV: ARRB Revelations Evidence of a Government Cover-Up: Two Different Brain Specimens in President Kennedy's Autopsy Douglas P. Horne 299 Interviews with Former NPIC Employees: The Zapruder Film in November 1963 Douglas P. Horne 311 Vlll Part V: The Zapruder Film The Great Zapruder Film Hoax Insert Jack White 1-16 Paradoxes of the JFK Assassination: The Zapruder Film Controversy David W. Mantik, M.D., Ph.D. 325 Part VI: Righting the Record Jesse Curry's JFK Assassination File: Could Oswald Have Been Convicted? James H. Fetzer, Ph.D. 361 Paradoxes of the JFK Assassination: The Silence of the Historians David W. Mantik, M.D., Ph.D. 371 Epilogue 16 Questions on the Assassination Bertrand Russell 413 Appendices (A) A Precis of Assassination Science (1998) James H. Fetzer, Ph.D. 421 (B) Letter to Leslie Batchelor of 25 August 1998 James H. Fetzer, Ph.D. 424 (C) FBI Protective Research Report of 27 November 1963 Charles Taylor, Jr. 428 (D) Ford Motor Company Intra-Company Communication of 18 December 1963 F. Vaughn Ferguson 431 (E) Conversation with John Ebersole, M.D., of 2 December 1992 Transcribed by David W. Mantik, M.D., Ph.D. 433 (F) Deposition of J. Thornton Boswell, M.D., on 26 February 1996 Edited by David W. Mantik, M.D., Ph.D. 440 (G) Deposition of James J. Humes, M.D., on 13 February 1996 Edited by David W. Mantik, M.D., Ph.D. 444 Index 454 Acknowledgments 465 Contributors 466