Britain's Forensic Science Society: 96% probability of Grassy Knoll shot

In the JFK threads a month ago, this 2001 article was never cited.

The acoustic evidence of a Grassy Knoll shooter, first presented during the 1978 Investigation by the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), was confirmed in a peer-reviewed article which appeared in Science and Justice, a quarterly publication of Britain's Forensic Science Society (FSS).

The FSS findings refute the prior National Association of Science (NAS) panel (which attempted to debunk the initial HSCA findings) as being seriously flawed.

The latest scientific evidence confirms that there WAS a second gunman firing in FRONT of JFK. The study should finally lay to rest the Magic Bullet and other strawman theories of those coincidence theorists who still believe Oswald acted alone.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A56560-2001Mar25¬Found=true

Study Backs Theory of 'Grassy Knoll'
New Report Says Second Gunman Fired at Kennedy
By George Lardner Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, March 26, 2001; Page A03

The House Assassinations Committee may have been right after all: There was a shot from the grassy knoll.

That was the key finding of the congressional investigation that concluded 22 years ago that President John F. Kennedy's murder in Dallas in 1963 was "probably . . . the result of a conspiracy." A shot from the grassy knoll meant that two gunmen must have fired at the president within a split-second sequence. Lee Harvey Oswald, accused of firing three shots at Kennedy from a perch at the Texas School Book Depository, could not have been in two places at once.

A special panel of the National Academy of Sciences subsequently disputed the evidence of a fourth shot, contained on a police dictabelt of the sounds in Dealey Plaza that day. The panel insisted it was simply random noise, perhaps static, recorded about a minute after the shooting while Kennedy's motorcade was en route to Parkland Hospital.

A new, peer-reviewed article in Science and Justice, a quarterly publication of Britain's Forensic Science Society, says the NAS panel's study was seriously flawed. It says the panel failed to take into account the words of a Dallas patrolman that show the gunshot-like noises occurred "at the exact instant that John F. Kennedy was assassinated."

In fact, the author of the article, D.B. Thomas, a government scientist and JFK assassination researcher, said it was more than 96 percent certain that there was a shot from the grassy knoll to the right of the president's limousine, in addition to the three shots from a book depository window above and behind the president's limousine.

G. Robert Blakey, former chief counsel to the House Assassinations Committee, said the NAS panel's study always bothered him because it dismissed all four putative shots as random noise -- even though the three soundbursts from the book depository matched up precisely with film of the assassination and other evidence such as the echo patterns in Dealey Plaza and the speed of Kennedy's motorcade.

"This is an honest, careful scientific examination of everything we did, with all the appropriate statistical checks," Blakey said of Thomas's work.

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Another nail in the coffin of the Warren Commission.

http://www.forensic-science-society.org.uk/Thomas.pdf

And a kick because I'm effin' tired of this Saddam-Saddam-Saddam nonsense.