Subject: Bashing Posner Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 13:23:16 -0400 From: "W. Tracy Parnell" Organization: Star-Telegram Usenet server Newsgroups: startext.jfk David Starks wrote in message <35EF856B.7A89@cynet.net>... >What follows is the introductory text from a new page >on my Web site, The Assassination Web. On it are audio >files digitized in the wav format that are taken from a >conversation with J. Thornton Boswell and Dr. Gary Aguilar. > >I know that all of you "lone nutters" out there have wanted a >copy of this tape. Now everyone can hear this conversation. > > >Hear for yourselves how Boswell does his part to "expose" Gerald >Posner as having lied to Congress. Here is the text from this >page that can be found at the following URL: > >http://home.cynet.net/jfk/audio1.htm > > >Posner Lies To Congress: The Proof > >J. Thornton Boswell Exposes Gerald Posner's Lies and >Errors in a Phone Conversation with Dr. Gary Aguilar > >Here are digitized sound files of Dr. Boswell telling >Dr. Aguilar the real story about author Gerald Posner's absurd >claims to have spoken with Boswell and also a shocking revelation >that Boswell believes that there are errors in Posner's 1993 book >Case Closed. He also states that: "Uh...and um...I've read his book and MUCH OF IT I AGREE WITH, (my emphasis) but there are a few things that...that are unquestionably wrong." Dr. Boswell does not make it clear what "things" are wrong with Case Closed and it is not apparent if these "things" are even autopsy related. He clearly supports many of the books findings. (Snipping) >In late 1993, Gerald Posner rudely interrupted the testimony >of Dr. Randy Robertson before the House of Representatives >Legislation and National Security Subcommittee chaired by >Representative John Conyers, to make the following shocking >and preposterous claim. > >QUOTE ON: > >Mr. POSNER. I have interviewed the autopsy doctors. >I have interviewed Mr. O'Neil. What is left here on the >record today should not be allowed because it is not correct, >which is the implication that the autopsy doctors agree with >their original drawings in 1963, which were made without the >benefit of the X-rays and the photographs, that they had had >done at the autopsy. > >To the credit of the House Select Committee on Assassinations >and Congressman Stokes, that committee did a superb job on the >forensics of this case. It was the work of that committee that >had the two autopsy physicians change their mind, that they had >been mistaken about the placement of the wound here, and that >it is in fact correctly placed four inches higher. I have spoken to >them about this and they have confirmed their change of testimony >that they gave before the House Select Committee on Assassinations. > >QUOTE OFF: > >Nothing could be further from the truth! Not only did the >JFK autopsy pathologists, Humes and Boswell NOT change >their minds about the low position of the head wound (which >makes the alleged shot from above and behind impossible, and >therefore refutes the ridiculous lone-assassination theory >that Lee Harvey Oswald alone murdered JFK) How anyone can say Humes did not reverse himself is beyond me. Read Humes' testimony, a small part of which I have quoted below, and decide. "And it is obvious to me as I sit here how with this his markedly enlarged drawing or the photograph that the upper defect to which you pointed or the upper object is clearly in the location of where we said approximately where it was, above the external occipital protuberance; therefore, I believe that is the wound of entry." > but Gerald Posner >never even spoke to Boswell! How do we know this? J. Thornton >Boswell himself, a man who participated in the autopsy of President >Kennedy (and who believes Lee Harvey acted alone) tells us this. > This issue is not resolved. We know that Posner has a phone record of a call to Boswell's number, but it is unclear if he spoke to Boswell or someone else. John McAdams has described the call as "lengthy". I would tend to believe that if Posner talked to anyone other than Boswell, he would have been inclined to just leave a message rather than stay on the line for any length of time. I hope in the future Posner can provide a tape or transcript to settle the issue. In the meantime, his books stands as the most factual yet produced and the one book that seeks to answer questions instead of asking more questions. I have included a transcript of the 90 second excerpt of the conversation between Aguilar and Boswell for those interested. W. Tracy Parnell (Transcript of excerpt of conversation between Aguilar and Boswell:) Aguilar: Gerald Posner said that he interviewed you and that you had changed your mind and that you weren't agreeing with that… You…you weren't agreeing with what the autopsy report said and that he'd interviewed you in the last year. You know this guy, Gerald Posner? Boswell: What'd he …what'd he say that I said… Aguilar: Uh he…Gerald Posner that he's the author of that book Case Closed… Boswell: Yeah…I know…I know who he is. Aguilar: Uh …he said that he interviewed you, and that you didn't agree with what you said uh…in the Warren Commission uh…report that the wound was low in the back of the head, that you changed your mind and you placed the wound in …in the high in the back of the head. Boswell: No, no, no, no, no. That…that's…that's…first of all, uh…I never talked to him. Aguilar: Oh you never talked to him? Boswell: Uh…Jim talked to him. Aguilar: Oh…ok. Boswell: Uh…and um…I've read his book and much of it I agree with, but there are a few things that…that are unquestionably wrong. Aguilar: I see. Boswell: I haven't tried to correct it or anything, but um… Aguilar: Well he doesn't see…interestingly enough he doesn't say it in his book, but he…he was…somebody sent me a copy of his testimony before the Congress committee where he said that…that he'd spoken to both uh…you and uh...and uh…Jim and that both you guys had changed your uh…your opinion. Boswell: No that's not true, because I never talked to Posner. Aguilar: Oh. Ok, well that…that… Boswell: I uh…he called me and I was out and we never got back together. Jim…they did talk over the phone and that's a terrible way to discuss uh…matters like this uh…where you want to be precise…