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[Charles Drago]

As Vincent Salandria first suggested, it appears the conspirators wanted us to know there was a conspiracy.

Salandria was quite correct.

If so, I don't understand the plotters' urgent need to alter or fabricate the Zapruder film.

Hi Tracy,

On another thread I addressed similar points made by you. I'll repost that material now:

You asked: Charles, if the plotters really had such stunning technical capabilities, why didn't they also change the direction of JFK's head to make it lurch violently forward (consistent with a TSBD shot) and spread JFK and Connally's wounds far enough apart to be caused by two shots from a Carcano? Then they could have shown it to the American people and been done with it.


I responsed: Because -- and this is absolutely CRITICAL to a deep political understanding of the JFK conspiracy -- the plotters never intended to convince anyone of anything. The cover-up was and remains designed to sustain doubt indefinitely.

For the umpteenth time on DPF I remind one and all that the disempowerment engendered by doubt is the weapon of mass distraction, if you will, that continues to protect the lives and insure the power of the Sponsors and those Facilitators they continue to value.

I've gone on at length about the significance of doppelgangers within the conspiracy structure: two -- or more -- Oswalds, rifles, brains, brain exams, autopsies, USG investigations, conflicting conclusions of those investigations, and yes, Z-films -- for starters.

Let me put it another way: The LAST thing the plotters want is for the people to "be done with" the JFK assassination's faux debate.

And I can think of no more obvious and important support system for the continuation of the faux debate than continuation of the Z-film contretemps as it now has been brought to DPF.

All of this, by the way, serves to illustrate what I previously attempted to explain to DiEugenio (in BOLD below):


While you [Jim] are correct in noting the appropriateness of including in "deep political analysis of the Zapruder film" the technical investigations you reference, your implication that such work alone would satisfactorily complete said analysis is sadly and gravely incorrect.

I'll help you along now by re-posting how I tried to help Jeff:

"[D]eep political analysis of Z-film alteration arguments suggests that some of the most easily refuted were made to diminish all of the most easily demonstrated[.]"


Finally, I'm not certain that there was an "urgent need" to alter the Z-film. Doing so -- in such a fashion that alteration would be suspected, discovered and argued over to the point at which a large section of the honorable research community began to come apart at the seams -- significantly enhanced the cover-up's efforts to prolong doubt.

And here we are, fighting tooth-and-nail on this thread.

Emulsion accomplished.