Luna's Ridiculous Hearing
- Fred Litwin
- 5 hours ago
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Updated: 4 minutes ago
My initial thoughts. More to come.
I must be a glutton for punishment. I watched the complete two hours+ of the Luna hearing and I thought my brain would explode. I don't know what was worse - the silly testimony of the witnesses or the brainless questions of the committee members.
Where to even start?
Dr. Don Curtis is one of the few remaining doctors from Parkland Hospital. He is a dentist and he found himself in the emergency room where he performed some cut-down on JFK"s legs.
He said that he was never called to testify before the Warren Commission but you can find his testimony to Arlen Specter in Volume VI. Here is his testimony about the head wound:
At the end of his testimony, Dr. Curtis was asked if he had anything to add:
In 1998, he wrote a letter to Vince Palamara in which he wrote:
The wound involving the right posterior lateral surface of the skull appeared to me to be an exit wound or a tangential entrance wound.
I have to say that Dr. Curtis's memory has improved over time. He now says there was a entrance wound in JFK's right temple, and an exit wound in the back of his head. In fact, he said that Dr. Clark told the doctors in the emergency room that there was a wound in the right temple. Really?
It's clear that Dr, Curtis has read the conspiracy literature because he referred to the many turns of the so-called magic bullet. And he even presented a diagram of the shots - including a shot from the overpass which somehow hit Kennedy in the throat -- missing the windshield and Governor Connally.
Dan Hardway testified about his work with the HSCA and his relationship with the CIA. This excerpt from his written submission caught my eye:
He says the CIA repeatedly denied that any associated with DRE existed in 1963. But here is an excerpt from an HSCA draft report on the DRE:
Hardway also wrote that "It was also denied that any CIA officer was assigned to work with them in 1963." Here is another excerpt from that same HSCA draft report:
The report notes that "with this discovery, someone immediately called the DRE's case officer at the Miami CIA station."
Did Hardway not read this report?
Hardway believes there was a CIA covert operation directed against the HSCA. He claims this was admitted in a CIA letter to the Committee, but I sure would like to see that letter.
To Hardway, Oswald had no agency. He was a pawn in the CIA hands when he went to Mexico City and he was a pawn in the CIA's hands in New Orleans. This was all done to discredit the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. Why they had to send Oswald to Mexico City to do that is beyond me.
Judge John Tunheim was a major disappointment. He told Congresswoman Luna that the CIA misled the ARRB regarding George Joannides. He said what they sent "looked like a personnel file" to the ARRB and that it was sent back to the CIA. But he certainly knows that the ARRB looked at the file and declassified parts of it.
The ARRB knew that Joannides oversaw the DRE in 1963 and that he was a liaison with the HSCA.
Douglas Horne was a huge embarrassment. He testified that the Zapruder film was altered and that JFK's body was also altered before the autopsy. He wrote that he believes that JFK was shot three times in the head - I would have liked to have seen him debate Dr. Curtis about the head shots.
I've already debunked a lot of Horne's nonsense:
Photographs of the brain
Stringer was very clear that he took the photographs of JFK's brain.
Oliver Stone's so-called documentary makes it sound like the autopsy photographer said that he did not take the photos of JFK's brain that are in the current inventory,
The Autopsy Photographs
Did Robert Knudsen take additional autopsy photographs?
Did Saundra Spencer take additional autopsy photographs?
Abraham Bolden also testified but the streaming service did not capture the audio of his presentation. I hope that they release the video so that I can comment on his testimony.
The questions from the Committee members were ridiculous. No one was prepared to ask serious questions. Luna apologized to Bolden for his treatment by the U. S. government -- but has she reviewed the trial documents from his conviction. Last year, I went to the National Archives and I have the complete Bolden file and I can tell you that there is a lot of evidence against Bolden. At some point, I will review it all.
Had they done a modicum of research about Douglas Horne, they might have asked him about the shot fired by limousine driver William Greer.
Inside the ARRB, Volume 4, page 1150
The very unpleasant and tentative possibility exists that limousine driver William Greer fired a fourth head shot into the President's left temple with his revolver. This cannot be proven today, since there is no left temporal wound mentioned in the autopsy report, nor is there such a wound depicted in the autopsy photographs of the left side of the head (But the autopsy report has been rewritten, and the head was not shaved at autopsy, so the absence of evidence for a left temporal wound in the autopsy report and in the autopsy photographs is not conclusive, by any means.)
Inside the ARRB, Volume 5, page 1415:
And so Horne believes the Zapruder film has been altered to hide the car stop when Greer shot at JFK.
Somebody should pull the plug on the Committee, or get an adult to oversee it. If they were serious, they would ask Robert Reynolds, and Gerald Posner to testify. They would focus on the files in Moscow, Minsk, Mexico City and Havana, and get some of the private collections online.
Lastly, we need digitization of the current collection and a new search tool.
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