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Acoustic Evidence at Dealey Plaza

The acoustic evidence from Dealey Plaza revealed the existence of more than three gunshots, disproving the official government version. And again—that’s not my opinion. That was the Congress of the United States. Basically, the government disproved the original government version.

When the U.S. House of Representatives appointed the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1976, their investigation revealed that there were actually “acoustic fingerprints” of the assassination of President Kennedy. A Dallas police motorcycle that day had a Dictabelt recorder that had been left in the ‘on’ position and had inadvertently recorded all the audio of the assassination, especially the gunshots. The House Select Committee determined from scientific analysis of that tape that more than three shots were fired and that they came from two different locations; one being the rear of the motorcade and the other being the grassy knoll. This information led to their conclusion that it was a probable conspiracy:

Scientific acoustical evidence establishes a high probability that two gunmen fired at President Kennedy.⁹⁶

It probably comes as a shock to many people to read that statement above, as most people are unaware that the most recent official conclusion in the JFK assassination is actually that it was a conspiracy! Everybody, including most of the people I’ve known in the government, think that the official version is still the Warren Commission . . . but it’s not! That was the United States Congress. Even they say it was a conspiracy. Here are their exact words, direct from their own final report:

The Committee believes, on the basis of the evidence available to it, that President John F. Kennedy was probably assassinated as the result of a conspiracy. The committee was unable to identify the other gunmen or the extent of the conspiracy.⁹⁷

That’s an official finding of the United States Government!

That evidence is contested—one later scientific study disputed the original findings.⁹⁸ Then yet another scientific study disputed that study, re-confirming the original results.⁹⁹ Then, further studies included additional findings relative to the acoustics.¹⁰⁰ An excellent examination of all the flip-flopping back and forth on the acoustic forensic evidence is an article by William E. Kelly that’s available online, “Dealey Plaza Echo Analysis-Acoustical Forensics 101.”¹⁰¹ The whole thing is best summed up by G. Robert Blakey, who was Chief Counsel to the House Select Committee on Assassinations:

They just want this thing to die. They want to cloud it with enough uncertainty and questions that it will not continue to be a matter that is of concern to people.¹⁰²

And in addition to seeing through all their damn B.S., Chief Counsel Blakey also saw the bigger point:

“There was a conspiracy to kill my president, and yours, and for some reason that entirely escapes me, people don’t want to investigate it further.”¹⁰³

So there’s another example of where our government stands on this case—the authorities refuse to apply highly advanced technologies which are now available, such as the latest enhanced forensic resources at the federal Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.¹⁰⁴ But then they also refuse to release thousands of pertinent JFK documents they still have under lock and key even though they rightfully belong to the American people, so why should that surprise us?

⁹⁶ United States House of Representatives, “Report of the Select Committee on Assassinations, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, second session” 1979: archives.gov/research/jfk/select-committee-report/

⁹⁷ Ibid

⁹⁸ Committee on Ballistic Acoustics, National Research Council, “Reexamination of Acoustic Evidence in the Kennedy Assassination,” November, 1982: jfk-records.com/NRC_Science/science.htm

⁹⁹ Dr. Donald Byron Thomas, Hear No Evil: Social Constructivism and the Forensic Evidence in the Kennedy Assassination (Mary Ferrell Foundation Press: 2010): ctka.net/reviews/hay_ review.html

¹⁰⁰ Michael T. Griffith, “The HSCA’s Acoustical Evidence: Proof of a Second Gunman?,” 2013: mtgriffith.com/web_documents/hscaacous.htm and Michael O’Dell, “The Acoustic Evidence in the Kennedy Assassination,” retrieved 16 April 2013: mcadams.posc.mu.edu/odell/index.htm

¹⁰¹ William E. Kelly, “Dealey Plaza Echo Analysis-Acoustical Forensics 101,” November 22, 2010: jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2010/11/dealey-plaza-echos.html

¹⁰² Ibid.

¹⁰³ Ibid.

¹⁰⁴ Talbot, Brothers, 407.