As someone who has studied the JFK assassination since its tragic occurrence, I have amassed almost two hundred books and have read countless more. This book will go down as one of the best in my collection. Hornberger did a masterful job of piecing together the puzzle: the reason for the assassination, those likely responsible, proving fraud (as opposed to simply incompetence) in regard to the autopsy and brain exams, how and why the Zapruder film was altered, and how Abraham Zapruder (and now his granddaughter) chose to deal with this “encounter with evil.” He accomplishes it all in a logical and understandable argument, additionally offering why the Zapruder family elected never to acknowledge the alteration of the film.
First of all, his lucid and concise treatment of JFK’s war with his national security establishment provides the clear motive for the assassination and who would be involved. Secondly, the fraud of the autopsy- which was in direct conflict with the truthful and competent Parkland doctors, is an irrefutable argument, referencing the meticulous research on this topic done by Doug Horne. Third, given the multiple witnesses to a car stop (including police officers riding near JFK’s limo) which does not occur in the extant film, along with the appearance of a black patch, also seen in the existing Zapruder film on Kennedy’s head (in the location of the wound as described by the Dallas doctors, nurses, and many Bethesda witnesses), this is clearly indicative of film alteration. While the work done by Thom Whitehead and Sydney Wilkinson, cited in Hornberger’s book, provides the coup de grace on this obvious fraud regarding the massive head wound, viewing the close-up frames from the 1998 “Image of an Assassination” (specifically frame 317), any layperson can see the black patch themselves – even without 6K scans!
Very importantly, the interviews of Dino Brugioni (former chief information officer of NPIC who was a world-recognized imagery intelligence analyst) by Peter Janney and Doug Horne, reveal the fraud perpetrated that weekend with the film at the National Photographic Interpretation Center. This puts the final stamp on who was responsible for the assassination.
I had the great honor of getting to know a former FBI agent who worked on the case, Don Adams. He was a man of unparalleled honesty and integrity. Don wrote in his 2012 book, From an Office Building with a High-powered Rifle about viewing the Zapruder film on a large screen: “Then came the head shot. I observed how his head was flung backwards, with a large piece of skull and brain matter exploding into a mist to the left rear of the car.” (My emphasis). This is NOT in the extant film - Don clearly viewed the original. While Don always was proud of being an agent of the FBI (he later became a chief of police near his home after he retired, and then passed away in 2014), he was willing to acknowledge and lay bare the fraud some members of that institution were willing to commit (unjustifiably in the name of “national security”), including falsification of documents as provided in his aforementioned book.
Therefore, anyone who wants to confront the truth of what occurred on November 22, 1963, is encouraged to read this book. This includes JFK researchers who are wed to a particular scenario because of their biases or work on this topic. Everyone should be seeking the truth and want to follow where the evidence leads. This book, paired with the volumes on the medical evidence presented by Doug Horne (and the paradigm shift that was earlier made by David Lifton), provides us with the sad truth of what occurred on that tragic day for our country and why it is relevant almost sixty years later.
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Abraham paralyzed--Alexandra's Stockholm Syndrome
Jacob Hornberger has written another concise and compelling indictment of the assassination of JFK by the National Security Establishment--in response to Abraham Zapruder's granddaughter's imitation of Priscilla Johnson McMillan whom CIA knew would "write the articles we want".She's in denial--so much so she's gone over to being a cheerleader for the Warren Report--completely missing that her grandfather was stunned into silence for the final seven years of his life by the realization his home movie had been altered to conceal "murder most foul" as Hornberger cites Bob Dylan's 2017 song.Alexandra is quick to dismiss with smear and slander any proofs of two autopsy reports, after two caskets, then two brain exams, all underwritten by two NPIC events sandwiching a session at CIA's Hawkeyeworks within the Rochester Kodak plant.Hornberger has written powerfully on the imperative the autopsy had to be military--to control the outcome. Here he expands on that, bringing in the work of the ARRB regarding the fraudulent back of head photo, and the altered Zapruder film.Abraham Zapruder knew the wide turn was missing, as was the car stop, the significant cloud ("halo") of brain and blood, and the back of head wound--seen by scores of medical professionals and government agents at Dealey Plaza, Parkland, Bethesda.Douglas Horne has presented the Brugioni/McMahon events in Volume IV of Inside the ARRB, approximately pages 1100-1300.Of note is the work of David Mantik whom Hornberger points out was allowed access to the extant skull X-rays in the National Archives--more "evidence of revision". https://www.amazon.com/John-Kennedys-Head-Wounds-Synthesis-ebook/dp/B012HAOK2EAgain and again Hornberger resurrects the dark history of regime change engineered by the National Security State--yet I note no one in government, media, academia dare question the pathetic Krazy Kommie Kid Killed Kennedy--the flavor of choice of the granddaughter of the haunted cinematographer of Dealey Plaza.The author warns we are controlled by this extraconstitutional fourth branch of government.From the Costella frames we see blatant, crude obliteration of the back of head wound and the ludicrous bubble gum cartoon masking the three head shots.
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