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Originally posted by Q5echo thats great, we all know what a red herring is.

red herring
–noun 1. a smoked herring.

2. Also called red-herring prospectus. Finance. a tentative prospectus circulated by the underwriters of a new issue of stocks or bonds that is pending approval by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: so called because the front cover of such a prospectus must carry a special notice printed in red.

3. any similar tentative financial prospectus, as one concerning a pending or proposed sale of cooperative or condominium apartments.

4. something intended to divert attention from the real problem or matter at hand; a misleading clue.


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Just in case you "really" needed to know


Look, I am not saying that the JFK killing could of not been this way or that. But taking this guy's word for it, who by the way was not a 'spook', it was his father. Why could he not of brought this info to a better outlet?? Why go with a show that is known to make shit up; cater to carck pots and tin foil hats?? I mean come on; have ANY OF you people actually heard this show?? Not the segment with this fella, but what the show really is about??

Last edited by LazFX on May-04-2007 at 11:34

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meaning your threashold for what you consider "truth" is much lower to that which has been long established as fact given decades of witness and investigation and analysis. and for whatever reason when faced with the established or conventional wisdom you insist that the less likely of explanations has to be right no matter what the source may be for your conclusions or how weak the evidence they hold is. it's cynicism on a completely irrational level...or crack.

perfectly put Q5!

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Just found this article published today:

http://news.aol.com/topnews/article...S00010000000001

Kennedy Lone Gunman Theory Challenged
By David Morgan
Reuters
WASHINGTON (May 18) - Bullet analysis used to justify the lone assassin theory behind President John F. Kennedy's assassination is based on flawed evidence, according to a team of researchers including a former top FBI scientist.
'Fundamentally Flawed'
A whirlwind of theories have surfaced over the years regarding who killed the 35th president on November 22, 1963.

Writing in the Annals of Applied Statistics, the researchers urged a reexamination of bullet fragments from the 1963 shooting in Dallas to confirm the number of bullets that struck Kennedy.

Official investigations during the 1960s concluded that Kennedy was hit by two bullets fired by Lee Harvey Oswald.

But the researchers, including former FBI lab metallurgist William Tobin, said new chemical and statistical analyses of bullets from the same batch used by Oswald suggest that more than two bullets could have struck the president.

"Evidence used to rule out a second assassin is fundamentally flawed," the researchers said in their article.

"If the assassination (bullet) fragments are derived from three or more separate bullets, then a second assassin is likely."
The Kennedy assassination set off a whirlwind of theories about who killed the 46-year-old president.

The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, known unofficially as the Warren Commission, concluded in 1964 that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, fired three shots, one of which missed the president's car. There have been many challenges to its conclusions over the years.

The House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations concluded that Oswald was probably part of a conspiracy that could have included a second gunman who fired but missed Kennedy.

The panel's supporting evidence was a bullet analysis that said fragments collected from the site were too similar to be from more than two slugs.

But the latest report found that many bullets from the same batch used by Oswald had a similar composition.

"Further, we found that one of the thirty bullets analyzed in our study also compositionally matched one of the fragments from the assassination," the article said.

"This finding means that the bullet fragments from the assassination that match could have come from three or more separate bullets."

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