Creative Speculation

It seems to me that von Pein's list is a perfect exemplar of what "credible evidence" really means to the lone nut buffs.

This is my favourite:

"5) Bullet CE399,based on the above points in total, HAD to have been inside Governor Connally's body on 11/22/63".

Really? Even as 1) no one saw it come out 2) Dr Shaw said at a 3 PM press conference that a bullet remained in Connally's leg at that time (an hour or more after CE399 was said to have been discovered) 3) the nation's top ballistics expert insisted that CE399 could not be the bullet which struck Connally's wrist.

"If it wasn't tumbling, on the other hand, then the wound should have resembled the wound in JFK's back, a much smaller and rounder 6 x 4 mm."

But Dr Shaw himself testified to the Warren Commission that the bullet was either "slightly tumbling" or, more likely, was a tangential hit. He followed up with reasons, based on the wounds of the ribs, why he believed the latter was the best explanation. By the way, the wound in Kennedy's back was too low to support the single-bullet theory in any way. And the autopsy doctors were ordered not to track the wound, which would have established the facts. Tracking the wound was a procedural and legal requirement, and yet they were ordered not to do so.

re: Lattimer's experiment

Lattimer claims that " lead extruded from the rear" of both bullets, but the extruding lead he claims to see in CE399 was actually the place where the FBI scraped lead for their lab tests. He is also dependent on a "tumbling" bullet as a primary factor of his test - which is crucial in reducing the velocity of the bullet such that a strike against the dense wrist bone will do less damage. But, as we have seen via Dr Shaw, the Connally strike was "slightly tumbling" or, more likely, a tangential hit. Lattimer is also extremely vague as to what exactly served as the wrist bone in his experiment. He is also extremely vague as to whether the damage done to his model matched in any way the damage suffered by Connally - five punctures, shattered rib bone, shattered radial bone in wrist. His test was more interested in matching the "lapel flap" seen in frame 224 of the Zapruder film, which most lone gunman theorists claim is the instant of the Single Bullet - except Wm Seger, who insists that any such determination is entirely unscientific and not "credible". Lattimer's lapel flap recreation is entirely based on a tumbling bullet of a greater magnitude than "slightly", which was the observation and measurement of Dr Shaw.

This "tumbling bullet" of a greater magnitude than Dr Shaw's "slightly" was also the heart of your argument in the previous post. So what's that about credibility?