TABLE OF CONTENTS
PRELIMINARIES
About This Book
Foreword
Introduction
REASONABLE DOUBT
Chapter 1: An Introduction to Reasonable Doubt
Chapter 2: The Deductive Case
Chapter 3: An Objective Standard
Chapter 4: How Evidence Affects Confidence Level
Chapter 5: Categories Of Evidence Reducing Confidence Level
Chapter 6: Essential Background: Government-Manufactured Reality
THE CASE AGAINST LEE HARVEY OSWALD
Chapter 7: The Case Against Lee Harvey Oswald
Chapter 8: Elements Of The Case Against Lee Harvey Oswald
THE CASE AGAINST LEE HARVEY OSWALD ANALYZED
Chapter 9: Proposition One, Element One: Exactly 3 Shots Fired
Footnotes
Impossible: The Case Against Lee Harvey Oswald
Volume One
© 2012 by Barry Krusch. All rights reserved, subject to the following clarifications:
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This is an extensive work, over 900 pages spread out over three volumes, with a fourth on the way. Due to the scope of this project, the author feels it would be helpful to explain some key details before proceeding with the book itself.
What This Book Is About
Over the last three years, if people asked me what I was doing, I would say I was writing a book on “Lee Harvey Oswald.” And sometimes people would ask me in response, “Who’s Lee Harvey Oswald?”
So, if you are one of those people, here is some essential background: on November 22, 1963, a President of the United States, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. The man accused of the assassination was named Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald was arrested, but never had a trial: two days later, he was killed by another assassin, a man named Jack Ruby. The Vice President of the United States at the time, Lyndon Johnson, became President, and appointed a body known as the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination. The Warren Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald fired the shot that killed President John F. Kennedy. A subsequent investigation by the House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded the same thing.
The claim of this book is that that conclusion would be impossible to support in a court of law. This claim has at least 3 important implications:
The actual murderers of a President of the United States were never brought to justice.
Because there is no statute of limitations for murder, Kennedy’s assassination would therefore very much be an open case . . . even today, decades later. Consequently, we are not talking about “history”, we are talking about something that is important real-time, right now . . . right this very second.
People who insist that the case is “closed” when it is not are doing the American people a great disservice, aborting an inquiry into what really occurred, and all the consequences that would naturally flow after that inquiry was conducted.
For many years, the claim that Oswald was the lone assassin was disputed, and it was generally acknowledged that the case was, at best, extremely shaky. However, as the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the President approaches ever closer, there has been a new push to validate the conclusions of the Commission. Books by Vincent Bugliosi, John McAdams, Stephen King, and an upcoming book by Bill O’Reilly, all ride the lone assassin bandwagon. Even people who do not accept the conclusions of the Commission believe, based on the latter books I have discussed, that there is some sort of genuine controversy.
I am writing this book to put an end to this nonsense once and for all. This book is going to challenge these authors to justify their point of view, in a very interesting way which we will get to shortly.
Frankly, I doubt that they will accept my challenge. If I am right, you will learn something, and if I am wrong, you will learn something.
Why Volume 1 of This Book is Free on the 22nd
This book is currently in 3 volumes. Amazon.com allows authors who make their book available for borrowing the right to distribute their books for free 5 out of 90 days. This suits me just fine, because I want to make this book available to people of all income levels. Consequently, I will not only make this book available for borrowing at no charge, I will also allow readers to download Volume 1 for free on the 22nd of every month, date chosen for obvious reasons.
If today is not the 22nd, you can either buy the book now at full price, borrow the book for free, or just mark your calendar and come back to the page on the 22nd.
So, if today is the 22nd, download it now! As you will see after you read this volume, this is extremely important information that every American needs to know.
To make the purchase of all three volumes more affordable, I’m also going to lower the price of volumes 2 and 3 based on the position Volume 1 attains on the “Amazon Best Sellers Rank” by 2:00 pm on the 22nd. For example, if the book attains position 105 of all three books, the rank on the page for the book will look like this:
Based on the position attained, I will reduce the price of Volumes 2 and 3 on the next day, November 23rd, according to the following schedule:
Based on the table above, if my book attained the rank of “#105 Free” by 4:00 p.m. on the 22nd, the price of the book the next day would be $5.99.
I think that there is a pretty good chance of making this mark. As of this writing, the following book has just about cracked the “Top 100 Free” list for Kindle:
Now, if a book on how to make bags out of duct tape can make it to the Top Free 100 list, shouldn’t a book on a man who was falsely alleged to be the killer of a President of the United States be able to do the same?
If the answer to that question is “no,” then maybe we are getting the government we deserve. But I have faith in the American people: I feel very comfortable going toe-to-toe with Duct Tape Bags.
So, if you want the price reduced on the other two volumes, I would love to help you out if you could help me edge out the “competition.” If today is the 22nd, please let all your friends know that this book is available for free on the Kindle.
Use any method you choose, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, send an e-mail to your poker group or book club, post on your blog or website, tell the person sitting next to you in an airplane, any or all of these will do the trick. The more people you let know, the more people who download Volume 1 for free, the higher the position in the “Top Free Kindle books,” and the lower the price for the other two volumes next day. I am sure that your friends will appreciate learning about a free book, and will probably return the favor for you one day, and I
’m sure you’ll appreciate the lower price that would directly result from your efforts.
Incidentally, your friends do not need to own a Kindle to download the book. All they need is a computer and an Amazon account, and an application called Kindle for PC or Kindle for Mac. They can download the book even if they do not have a Kindle, and read it on their computer, or other devices such as an iPad which also has its own Kindle application.
As you are going to discover after you read this book, Volume 1 all by itself destroys The Case Against Oswald, and if millions of people download it for free and don’t read the other two volumes, that would suit me just fine.
The worst case is if only thousands of people download it for free and don’t read the other two volumes, which would be a real waste of three years work!
So if today is the 22nd, stop reading now, let all your friends know about the free offer, then come back to this page! Do not under any circumstances let Duct Tape Bags rank higher than this book!
Ways To Read This Book
Now that I have extolled one of the primary virtues of the eReader, I must say in all honesty that the best way to read this book is hard copy under an incandescent light. As of this writing the book is currently not available in hard copy, but I plan to make it available in hard copy by November 22, 2012. It will be more expensive than this version, obviously.
It is amazing the cultural shift; in 2005 your average reader was reading a hardcopy book under an incandescent light; in 2015, your average reader is going to be reading on an ereader under a compact fluorescent light.
I submit to you that these are two very different experiences, and I suggest you stockpile those incandescent bulbs now while they’re still available!!
Still, while I vastly prefer to read a book in the print edition, the Kindle format has some extremely distinct advantages. In the first place, I can give away Volume 1 for free, and I can’t do that with a hardcopy version. So, score one for Kindle there.
Also, in natural light, reading a book on the Kindle can definitely fill the bill, especially if you have gotten the book for free.
In the table below, I’m going to discuss the various ways to read the book, in order of quality:
Kindle DX
About as close as you can get to hardcopy. Text is very easy to read, images display very well.
Kindle
Even though it has a smaller screen than the DX, it is easier to hold, and like the DX has the e-ink screen which is vastly superior for reading. This book has been optimized for the Kindle.
iPad
I believe that this would also be a good way to read the book; several images are in color, and the iPad screen is in color. Unfortunately, neither this screen or the ones below utilize the e-ink screen, so many people find reading on devices like this for an extended period of time fatiguing.
Kindle Fire
Reading the book on the Kindle Fire has three spectacular advantages that helps compensate for the lack of an e-ink display. In the first place, the color images, and there are many, display in color. Nice! Second, the footnote references in the book which are actually hyperlinks take you right to the source material. Click the footnote reference, you go right to the source on the web, then just click the back arrow to go back to the book. Fantastic! Third, because the Kindle Fire supports auto-rotate, if you see an image which is too small, just rotate the Kindle, and it will become large enough to read. Brilliant!
Kindle for PC, Kindle for Mac, Kindle for Android Devices
I personally would not read a book on a computer screen, but if you do not have any of the devices in the rows above, for now this will be your only option. I would definitely recommend getting a Kindle; as of this writing, they’re only $79, and there are so many free books out there it would certainly be worth your while.
Other methods
Believe it or not, there are some people who are going to try to read my book on a smartphone. Good luck . . . let me know if you succeed!
About the Author
The vast majority of the books written on the Kennedy assassination up to this time have been written by people who knew where they were when Kennedy was shot. One day there will come a time when these books will be written by authors without direct personal experience.
I am not one of those authors. I remember very well where I was when Kennedy was shot. I was in school, kindergarten, and the one vivid memory I have is of teachers running through the halls crying. That was the dominant image of the day, lots and lots of people crying, wherever you went. A big steel-gray cloud had rolled over America, and was not to leave for many weeks.
Yes, I knew this was a very big deal, not just because so many people were crying, but because they also canceled Saturday morning cartoons. That was when I knew that this thing was really huge, when the cloud hit really close to home.
Of course there was a funeral procession after that, and all I can remember about that was the truly awful silence, the only sound being drumbeats. Spooky. My wife recalled it as a “black parade,” her only experience with processionals like that being the Thanksgiving Macy’s Day Parade. I also remember watching the processional (or a re-broadcast of the processional), only to have it interrupted by a commercial, for Salvo detergent tablets as I recall:
I remember even at that early age being shocked that something as somber as that procession would be interrupted by a commercial for detergent.
To help give you some context, here is what I looked like when I was young, with my mom and sister:
I am not sure when that picture was taken, but I’m sure that at the time of the Kennedy assassination I was older, because I was 5 years and 9 months when Kennedy was assassinated, and I look like I am about 4 or 5 in that picture.
I think in the next picture I am older than 5 years, 9 months, probably 6. It is me holding a book called Turtles, which I think was one of the first books I ever owned (it probably is the first, otherwise, why else take a picture of me holding a book about turtles?):
Innocent times. A boy and his book on turtles. How things have changed . . .
I am showing these photographs because I want to contrast them with a famous photograph I’m sure that you have seen, the one where John Kennedy’s son saluted his father at the funeral procession, his mother and his uncle behind him, a photo which marks a clear historical turning point:
This is a heartbreaking image even today, but you can imagine the effect this image had on me when I was only 5 years 9 months old. When I saw the picture, I remember thinking “how sad that little boy must be.” Even though I was 5 years 9 months, I remember thinking of him as a “little boy” because he was only 3, not a “big boy” like me.
(Today I think of him not only as saying goodbye to his father, but metaphorically saying goodbye to a bygone era.) Well, in light of the image above, and dozens and hundreds of similar images broadcast daily on television and seen in newspapers, you can just imagine how people felt about Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald was truly the Osama bin Laden of his day, and I doubt that even bin Laden achieved the level of revulsion and hatred that Oswald stirred up him in the hearts of the American people. Consequently, when Oswald was killed by Ruby,
there were cheers and excitement all across America, with most people ecstatic that “justice was done.” I do remember, though, that my parents did not seem enthusiastic like other people did. I wondered why. After all, wasn’t John Kennedy a good man? And wasn’t Lee Harvey Oswald, because he killed John Kennedy, a bad man? And didn’t that make Jack Ruby, who killed Lee Harvey Oswald, a good man?
My schema was good man shoots bad man who killed good man, and I remember thinking at the time that what Jack Ruby did was perfectly logical, and in fact I even expected it. I was really surprised when my parents did not feel the same way.
Well, after Ruby shot Oswald, a flurry of historical events followed. By the time I was seven, I began to notice that the nightly news was, night after night after night after nig
ht, sending the same images, from a place called Vietnam:
We were in a war. I did not understand that war. All I knew was, when the news came on, we were going to see pictures from that war. And invariably, these pictures would have shots of helicopters. Lots and lots of helicopters. Thousands of them. If you were in the helicopter business then, you would have made a killing. But there were other pictures without helicopters, pictures of women and children. And what terrible pictures they were. I’m sparing you the gory details.
Little did I know, after the Kennedy assassination, we were leaving the world of a boy and his turtles and entering a time when the images we did not want to see came firing at us like rounds from a Gatling gun with an ammunition pool the size of Lake Michigan.
The images revolved around historical events, events which at the time we thought were disconnected, such as the assassination of Martin Luther King . . .
The assassination of Robert Kennedy. . . .
Watergate and the resignation of a President (VP at the time: Gerald Ford) . . .
Two assassination attempts on Ford (VP at the time: Nelson Rockefeller) . . . .
An assassination attempt on Reagan (VP at the time: George Bush Sr. ). . . .
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