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The House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) formed in 1976 to look into the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy (JFK) and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK). The HSCA actually employed some investigators unlike their predecessor the Warren Commission (WC) which relied on the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Secret Service (SS) to do the "investigating" for them.
The HSCA would reach a conclusion of a "probable conspiracy" in the murder of JFK. In this post we will look at their study of an individual in the crowd of Dealey Plaza (DP) during the motorcade. This person has been suspected of being involved in the assassination for years as he seemed to have intimate knowledge of its structure and where it would occur.
The HSCA Says...Joseph Milteer In Dealey Plaza?
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There is a man in one of the photographs taken by Associated Press photographer James Altgens who bears a very close resemblance to Joseph Milteer. Milteer was an extreme right-winger from Quitman, Georgia, who had a very distasteful opinion of JFK. Here is the beginning of the HSCA's statements about him.
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(611) An unidentified motorcade spectator who bears a strong resemblance to Joseph Adams Milteer, a militant right-wing organizer who is alleged to have been a possible conspirator in the assassination, appears in the background of a photograph that was taken by Associated Press photographer James W. Altgens less than a minute before the assassination occurred. The presidential limousine can be seen passing the Dal-Tex building on Houston Street just before the vehicle turned south onto Elm Street in front of the Texas School Book Depository Building. The spectator in question is seen standing on the east side of Houston Street, just beyond the limousine. He is a white male appearing to be about 60 +- 10 years of age. Immediately to his right is a taller man wearing a dark hat, coat and necktie. (See figure IV-4O, JFK Exhibit F-124).
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(612) Milteer's possible involvement in the assassination was first brought to public attention by Harold Weisberg, the author, who described a taped conversation that allegedly took place in Miami, Fla. 13 days before the assassination between Milteer and a Miami police informant, Willie A. Somersett (both now deceased). During the taped discussion, a voice identified as that of Joseph Milreer says that a plan to kill the President is "in the working" and describes how the President could be shot from an office building with a high-powered rifle." FBI documents describe subsequent interviews, both with a "reliable informant" relating further incriminating comments by Milteer regarding the events of the assassination, and with Milteer, who denied any involvement. These FBI documents were retained in the Warren Commission files, but the Commission is said not to have investigated this matter further. (HSCA VI, pp. 242-242)
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The smoking gun evidence against Milteer is this taped conversation which the Miami Police Department (MPD) had possession of. We know that they must have alerted the SS about this threat because the Miami motorcade was changed. I know, the WC defenders claim there wasn't a motorcade planned for Miami, but what evidence do they have for this? None as usual. JFK did a motorcade in Tampa on the same day so that adds to the thought that he had one planned for Miami. JFK loved motorcades to think he would skip one in Miami is silly in my opinion. After the MPD most likely warned the SS, the plans changed to a helicopter ride for JFK to the site.
Why didn't this kind of security occur in Dallas? One line of thought is that the MPD was not as corrupt as the Dallas Police Department (DPD). This failure by the DPD leads one to the obvious conclusion that some parts of it were involved in the assassination. There is no other explanation for why every other motorcade went off fine (JFK had ones in San Antonio, Houston and Ft. Worth before Dallas) except for Dallas. The conspirators must have found a very safe haven in Dallas.
Here is an condensed version of the discussion between Milteer and MPD informant William Somersett.
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Somersett: I think Kennedy is coming here on the 18th, or something like that to make some kind of speech...
Milteer: You can bet your bottom dollar he is going to have a lot to say about the Cubans. There are so many of them here.
Somersett: Yeah. Well, he will have a thousand bodyguards, don't worry about that.
Milteer: The more bodyguards he has the easier it is to get him.
Somersett: Well, how in the hell do you figure would be the best way to get him?
Milteer:From an office building with a high-powered rifle. . . He knows he's a marked man...
Somersett: They are really going to try to kill him?
Milteer: Oh yeah, it is in the working ...
Somersett: Boy, if that Kennedy gets shot, we have to know where we are at. Because you know that will be a real shake if they do that.
Milteer: They wouldn't leave any stone unturned there, no way. They will pick somebody up within hours afterwards, if anything like that would happen. Just to throw the public off. (Anthony Summers, "Conspiracy", p. 404)
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So, based on this information, and more, researchers have felt that Milteer could have been involved in the assassination in some way. At the very least, he had uncanny knowledge of how it would happen (motorcade, high-powered rifle, high office building, etc.). Now some say this was just a lucky guess, but as I told the "Defenders of the Faith" (WC supporters) twenty years ago this is impossible since NO president had ever been assassinated this way in American history!
In fact, we can even add in the attempts on presidents (Andrew Jackson, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Ronald Reagan) and we still NEVER saw a rifle being used. It is easier to sell the "lone nut" scenario when you have the assassin up close to the target. Conversely, it is much easier for just one person to accomplish their goal this way too. The scenario the WC gave us is ludicrous and flies in the face of reality. Especially, for a president like JFK. He was always amongst the crowds. No president ever presented a better opportunity for a lone nut than him.
But no, said the WC. He had to be in a high building with a crappy World War II surplus rifle known to be defective even when it was new (it was known as the "humanitarian rifle" because it never harmed anyone during the war); he picked a window that had a pipe and tree in his line of fire to make it more sporting; he refused to use a clip which meant he had to handload each round (you have to earn your legend hood); he chose to ruin his telescopic sight by loosening it to the point that it was worthless so that he would have to use the manual sights instead (again, he was a sporting fellow) which made it much more difficult, and he picked a rifle with a three-stage trigger mechanism and a bent firing pin. To make things even more challenging, he decided to enjoy some chicken before the shooting to make his hands nice and greasy for the big event.
Pure ridiculousness is what they presented to the American people. Totally insulting. And they got away with it thanks to a compliant media, government and academia.
Now, back to Milteer. The man believed to resemble Milteer is also seen in the Bell, Nix and Muchmore motion picture films. (Ibid., p. 242) The HSCA laid out its goal in this regard.
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(611) By comparing known photographs of Milteer with photographs of the motorcade spectator in Dealey Plaza, is it possible to determine whether the spectator, in fact, is Milteer? (Ibid.)
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That was the big question. Somersett, who had really good ratings as an informant, said that Milteer called him before the assassination FROM Dallas bragging about what was about to occur. I have written about this before in my "Statements That Sink The WC's Conclusions" series, but here it is again.
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On the day of the assassination, Milteer telephoned Somersett, saying he was in Dallas and that Kennedy was due there shortly. Milteer commented that Kennedy would never be seen in Miami again. (Crossfire, p. 265)
Robert Groden and Harrison Livingstone, in "High Treason" (Baltimore: The Conservatory Press, 1989, p. 408) assert:
At 10:30 A.M. on November 22, Somersett received a phone call in Miami from Milteer in Dallas, stating that President Kennedy would be there that day and would not be visiting Miami again.
And Henry Hurt, in "Reasonable Doubt" (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1985, p. 411) claims:
On November 22, Milteer telephoned his "friend," the informant and told him he was in Dallas. Prior to the midday events, Milteer told the informant that Kennedy was expected in Dallas that day and would probably never again visit Miami.
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This is important to remember when considering whether he was in that photograph and those films. It doesn't guarantee it, but since he was there at the time it makes it more likely. The HSCA then goes into the conclusion of their photographic panel (which was not unbiased at all).
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4. CONCLUSIONS
(617) Milteer resembles the Kennedy motorcade spectator in age and general facial configuration. The spectator appears to have worn eyeglasses similar in general style to those favored by Milteer. The spectator, however, does not resemble Milteer in upper lip thickness; he is also partially bald, whereas Milteer apparently had a full head of hair in the photograph that was taken several years after the assassination. (See fig. IV-44). Most significantly, Milteer's reported stature of inches places him about 6 inches under the spectator's estimated stature (computer enhancement of the spectator as seen in the Bell film did not produce usable results).
(618) In the absence of evidence that (1) Milteer had become extensively bald by 1963 or was wearing a hairpiece in the postassassination (sic) photograph, or that (2) Milteer's statural estimate of 64 inches is incorrect, the motorcade spectator could not have been Joseph Milteer. (Ibid., pp. 247-248)
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A supposed panel of photographic experts made a decision on two things! They said that the man in Dallas was balder than Milteer was in 1963. I guess they never heard of a hairpiece, huh? It is no wonder why they didn't publish this famous photograph of Milteer.
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Looking at this, how could anyone think that he was NOT wearing a hairpiece? Remove that top part and you would probably get this look.
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Is deductive reasoning not allowed on these government "expert panels?" We can be very close to 100% certain that Milteer was in Dallas at the time, so where else would he be? He was almost giddy telling Somersett about what was going to happen, but no, this guy's hair doesn't look right to us. Remember that all these government panels are made up of people tied to the government in one way or another. Of course, they allowed Robert Groden and Jack White on the panel, but they were constantly outvoted and ignored for the most part. That is a government panel's idea of "fair and balanced."
The other thing they mention is that the spectator is about six inches taller than Milteer according to them on the available evidence save for the Bell film which they could not use. Based on the photographs they give us (see above) I have no idea how they figured this out. Every photograph is not a full body shot and some have Milteer sitting down. This is as ridiculous as saying that you can tell someone's height six stories up when you can only see them from the waist up! Oh wait, the WC said this is what witness Howard Brennan did with accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO)! How in the world could the HSCA panel get an accurate estimate utilizing the photographs they provided us with? You can't, so this is a VERY WEAK DENIAL by them. Especially when they said this!
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(619) Although several enlargements and an enhanced photograph of the spectator have been furnished for examination, they are not sufficiently sharp to permit any meaningful comparison based on facial measurements and indices. (Ibid., p. 248)
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In other words, they are WORTHLESS! So how did they arrive at their conclusion again? Oh, that is right, the government told them it couldn't possibly be Milteer because ONLY LHO was involved. It has to be this reason because they kept writing things that made you think it was Milteer.
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(621) In all three photographs of Milteer taken during his later years he is wearing eyeglasses with composite frames (plastic upper rims, wire lower) and a broad metal nosepiece. (See figs. IV-42 and IV-44). The spectator is also wearing spectacles which appear to be of the same general style favored by Milteer. (Ibid.)
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So even the eyeglasses seem to be the same type, but it isn't Milteer according to them. They then pulled out nonsense saying that Milteer had a very thin upper lip and the man in the photographs (the ones that are blurry and very small) shows that the main in them had a FULL upper lip. I am not kidding you. They said this. The photographs and stills I have seen of the man there is NO way they could see enough detail to reach that conclusion (especially in the late 1970s).
They then spend from (624) to (657) trying to convince you that the man is too tall to be Milteer. When you need this much volume to make a simple point (see twenty-six volumes of evidence, 1,555 Commission Documents and twelve volumes of HSCA stuff) you know that you are being snowed. Based on the few photographs and stills of the spectator there is NO way they could say with assurance that the person was six inches taller than Milteer. Again, when they were using photographs of Milteer that were NOT full-bodied to begin with.
We then arrive at the conclusion any honest person knew they would reach from the beginning -- it definitely isn't Milter. No way. Not a chance.
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Conclusions
(658) By two independent tests, it can be shown that the spectator alleged to be Milteer was substantially taller than the Milteer's reported height of 64+-2 inches. The first method provides a height estimate about 70 inches through comparison with the reported dimensions of two street signs shown in the motorcade. The, second demonstrates that the, probability of the spectator's height falling within the range given for Milteer is statistically remote.
(659) The findings of both tests support the conclusion that the spectator was not Joseph Milteer. (Ibid., p. 257)
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I am flabbergasted. I thought that a government panel (loaded with people that either work for the government or who livelihoods depend on government financing) would reach a different conclusion. NOT! Then they have the gall to say that "two independent tests" reached the conclusion that the man seen in DP could NOT be Milteer. Despite him being in Dallas and telling Somersett that there was going to be an attempt on JFK in Dallas, the HSCA concluded that Milteer would have no interest in seeing this happen. All based on a few ridiculous things too.
What do you think? Was it Milteer or someone else in the Altgens photographs?
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The House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) formed in 1976 to look into the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy (JFK) and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK). The HSCA actually employed some investigators unlike their predecessor the Warren Commission (WC) which relied on the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Secret Service (SS) to do the "investigating" for them.
The HSCA would reach a conclusion of a "probable conspiracy" in the murder of JFK. In this post we will look at their study of an individual in the crowd of Dealey Plaza (DP) during the motorcade. This person has been suspected of being involved in the assassination for years as he seemed to have intimate knowledge of its structure and where it would occur.
The HSCA Says...Joseph Milteer In Dealey Plaza?
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There is a man in one of the photographs taken by Associated Press photographer James Altgens who bears a very close resemblance to Joseph Milteer. Milteer was an extreme right-winger from Quitman, Georgia, who had a very distasteful opinion of JFK. Here is the beginning of the HSCA's statements about him.
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(611) An unidentified motorcade spectator who bears a strong resemblance to Joseph Adams Milteer, a militant right-wing organizer who is alleged to have been a possible conspirator in the assassination, appears in the background of a photograph that was taken by Associated Press photographer James W. Altgens less than a minute before the assassination occurred. The presidential limousine can be seen passing the Dal-Tex building on Houston Street just before the vehicle turned south onto Elm Street in front of the Texas School Book Depository Building. The spectator in question is seen standing on the east side of Houston Street, just beyond the limousine. He is a white male appearing to be about 60 +- 10 years of age. Immediately to his right is a taller man wearing a dark hat, coat and necktie. (See figure IV-4O, JFK Exhibit F-124).
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(612) Milteer's possible involvement in the assassination was first brought to public attention by Harold Weisberg, the author, who described a taped conversation that allegedly took place in Miami, Fla. 13 days before the assassination between Milteer and a Miami police informant, Willie A. Somersett (both now deceased). During the taped discussion, a voice identified as that of Joseph Milreer says that a plan to kill the President is "in the working" and describes how the President could be shot from an office building with a high-powered rifle." FBI documents describe subsequent interviews, both with a "reliable informant" relating further incriminating comments by Milteer regarding the events of the assassination, and with Milteer, who denied any involvement. These FBI documents were retained in the Warren Commission files, but the Commission is said not to have investigated this matter further. (HSCA VI, pp. 242-242)
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The smoking gun evidence against Milteer is this taped conversation which the Miami Police Department (MPD) had possession of. We know that they must have alerted the SS about this threat because the Miami motorcade was changed. I know, the WC defenders claim there wasn't a motorcade planned for Miami, but what evidence do they have for this? None as usual. JFK did a motorcade in Tampa on the same day so that adds to the thought that he had one planned for Miami. JFK loved motorcades to think he would skip one in Miami is silly in my opinion. After the MPD most likely warned the SS, the plans changed to a helicopter ride for JFK to the site.
Why didn't this kind of security occur in Dallas? One line of thought is that the MPD was not as corrupt as the Dallas Police Department (DPD). This failure by the DPD leads one to the obvious conclusion that some parts of it were involved in the assassination. There is no other explanation for why every other motorcade went off fine (JFK had ones in San Antonio, Houston and Ft. Worth before Dallas) except for Dallas. The conspirators must have found a very safe haven in Dallas.
Here is an condensed version of the discussion between Milteer and MPD informant William Somersett.
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Somersett: I think Kennedy is coming here on the 18th, or something like that to make some kind of speech...
Milteer: You can bet your bottom dollar he is going to have a lot to say about the Cubans. There are so many of them here.
Somersett: Yeah. Well, he will have a thousand bodyguards, don't worry about that.
Milteer: The more bodyguards he has the easier it is to get him.
Somersett: Well, how in the hell do you figure would be the best way to get him?
Milteer:From an office building with a high-powered rifle. . . He knows he's a marked man...
Somersett: They are really going to try to kill him?
Milteer: Oh yeah, it is in the working ...
Somersett: Boy, if that Kennedy gets shot, we have to know where we are at. Because you know that will be a real shake if they do that.
Milteer: They wouldn't leave any stone unturned there, no way. They will pick somebody up within hours afterwards, if anything like that would happen. Just to throw the public off. (Anthony Summers, "Conspiracy", p. 404)
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So, based on this information, and more, researchers have felt that Milteer could have been involved in the assassination in some way. At the very least, he had uncanny knowledge of how it would happen (motorcade, high-powered rifle, high office building, etc.). Now some say this was just a lucky guess, but as I told the "Defenders of the Faith" (WC supporters) twenty years ago this is impossible since NO president had ever been assassinated this way in American history!
In fact, we can even add in the attempts on presidents (Andrew Jackson, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Ronald Reagan) and we still NEVER saw a rifle being used. It is easier to sell the "lone nut" scenario when you have the assassin up close to the target. Conversely, it is much easier for just one person to accomplish their goal this way too. The scenario the WC gave us is ludicrous and flies in the face of reality. Especially, for a president like JFK. He was always amongst the crowds. No president ever presented a better opportunity for a lone nut than him.
But no, said the WC. He had to be in a high building with a crappy World War II surplus rifle known to be defective even when it was new (it was known as the "humanitarian rifle" because it never harmed anyone during the war); he picked a window that had a pipe and tree in his line of fire to make it more sporting; he refused to use a clip which meant he had to handload each round (you have to earn your legend hood); he chose to ruin his telescopic sight by loosening it to the point that it was worthless so that he would have to use the manual sights instead (again, he was a sporting fellow) which made it much more difficult, and he picked a rifle with a three-stage trigger mechanism and a bent firing pin. To make things even more challenging, he decided to enjoy some chicken before the shooting to make his hands nice and greasy for the big event.
Pure ridiculousness is what they presented to the American people. Totally insulting. And they got away with it thanks to a compliant media, government and academia.
Now, back to Milteer. The man believed to resemble Milteer is also seen in the Bell, Nix and Muchmore motion picture films. (Ibid., p. 242) The HSCA laid out its goal in this regard.
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(611) By comparing known photographs of Milteer with photographs of the motorcade spectator in Dealey Plaza, is it possible to determine whether the spectator, in fact, is Milteer? (Ibid.)
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That was the big question. Somersett, who had really good ratings as an informant, said that Milteer called him before the assassination FROM Dallas bragging about what was about to occur. I have written about this before in my "Statements That Sink The WC's Conclusions" series, but here it is again.
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On the day of the assassination, Milteer telephoned Somersett, saying he was in Dallas and that Kennedy was due there shortly. Milteer commented that Kennedy would never be seen in Miami again. (Crossfire, p. 265)
Robert Groden and Harrison Livingstone, in "High Treason" (Baltimore: The Conservatory Press, 1989, p. 408) assert:
At 10:30 A.M. on November 22, Somersett received a phone call in Miami from Milteer in Dallas, stating that President Kennedy would be there that day and would not be visiting Miami again.
And Henry Hurt, in "Reasonable Doubt" (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1985, p. 411) claims:
On November 22, Milteer telephoned his "friend," the informant and told him he was in Dallas. Prior to the midday events, Milteer told the informant that Kennedy was expected in Dallas that day and would probably never again visit Miami.
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This is important to remember when considering whether he was in that photograph and those films. It doesn't guarantee it, but since he was there at the time it makes it more likely. The HSCA then goes into the conclusion of their photographic panel (which was not unbiased at all).
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4. CONCLUSIONS
(617) Milteer resembles the Kennedy motorcade spectator in age and general facial configuration. The spectator appears to have worn eyeglasses similar in general style to those favored by Milteer. The spectator, however, does not resemble Milteer in upper lip thickness; he is also partially bald, whereas Milteer apparently had a full head of hair in the photograph that was taken several years after the assassination. (See fig. IV-44). Most significantly, Milteer's reported stature of inches places him about 6 inches under the spectator's estimated stature (computer enhancement of the spectator as seen in the Bell film did not produce usable results).
(618) In the absence of evidence that (1) Milteer had become extensively bald by 1963 or was wearing a hairpiece in the postassassination (sic) photograph, or that (2) Milteer's statural estimate of 64 inches is incorrect, the motorcade spectator could not have been Joseph Milteer. (Ibid., pp. 247-248)
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A supposed panel of photographic experts made a decision on two things! They said that the man in Dallas was balder than Milteer was in 1963. I guess they never heard of a hairpiece, huh? It is no wonder why they didn't publish this famous photograph of Milteer.
cuban-exile.com/photo/namesDM/milteer_joseph1.jpg
Looking at this, how could anyone think that he was NOT wearing a hairpiece? Remove that top part and you would probably get this look.
miro.medium.com/max/506/1*pY8WN5JWSTijzpBp4h4muA.jpeg
Is deductive reasoning not allowed on these government "expert panels?" We can be very close to 100% certain that Milteer was in Dallas at the time, so where else would he be? He was almost giddy telling Somersett about what was going to happen, but no, this guy's hair doesn't look right to us. Remember that all these government panels are made up of people tied to the government in one way or another. Of course, they allowed Robert Groden and Jack White on the panel, but they were constantly outvoted and ignored for the most part. That is a government panel's idea of "fair and balanced."
The other thing they mention is that the spectator is about six inches taller than Milteer according to them on the available evidence save for the Bell film which they could not use. Based on the photographs they give us (see above) I have no idea how they figured this out. Every photograph is not a full body shot and some have Milteer sitting down. This is as ridiculous as saying that you can tell someone's height six stories up when you can only see them from the waist up! Oh wait, the WC said this is what witness Howard Brennan did with accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO)! How in the world could the HSCA panel get an accurate estimate utilizing the photographs they provided us with? You can't, so this is a VERY WEAK DENIAL by them. Especially when they said this!
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(619) Although several enlargements and an enhanced photograph of the spectator have been furnished for examination, they are not sufficiently sharp to permit any meaningful comparison based on facial measurements and indices. (Ibid., p. 248)
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In other words, they are WORTHLESS! So how did they arrive at their conclusion again? Oh, that is right, the government told them it couldn't possibly be Milteer because ONLY LHO was involved. It has to be this reason because they kept writing things that made you think it was Milteer.
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(621) In all three photographs of Milteer taken during his later years he is wearing eyeglasses with composite frames (plastic upper rims, wire lower) and a broad metal nosepiece. (See figs. IV-42 and IV-44). The spectator is also wearing spectacles which appear to be of the same general style favored by Milteer. (Ibid.)
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So even the eyeglasses seem to be the same type, but it isn't Milteer according to them. They then pulled out nonsense saying that Milteer had a very thin upper lip and the man in the photographs (the ones that are blurry and very small) shows that the main in them had a FULL upper lip. I am not kidding you. They said this. The photographs and stills I have seen of the man there is NO way they could see enough detail to reach that conclusion (especially in the late 1970s).
They then spend from (624) to (657) trying to convince you that the man is too tall to be Milteer. When you need this much volume to make a simple point (see twenty-six volumes of evidence, 1,555 Commission Documents and twelve volumes of HSCA stuff) you know that you are being snowed. Based on the few photographs and stills of the spectator there is NO way they could say with assurance that the person was six inches taller than Milteer. Again, when they were using photographs of Milteer that were NOT full-bodied to begin with.
We then arrive at the conclusion any honest person knew they would reach from the beginning -- it definitely isn't Milter. No way. Not a chance.
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(658) By two independent tests, it can be shown that the spectator alleged to be Milteer was substantially taller than the Milteer's reported height of 64+-2 inches. The first method provides a height estimate about 70 inches through comparison with the reported dimensions of two street signs shown in the motorcade. The, second demonstrates that the, probability of the spectator's height falling within the range given for Milteer is statistically remote.
(659) The findings of both tests support the conclusion that the spectator was not Joseph Milteer. (Ibid., p. 257)
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I am flabbergasted. I thought that a government panel (loaded with people that either work for the government or who livelihoods depend on government financing) would reach a different conclusion. NOT! Then they have the gall to say that "two independent tests" reached the conclusion that the man seen in DP could NOT be Milteer. Despite him being in Dallas and telling Somersett that there was going to be an attempt on JFK in Dallas, the HSCA concluded that Milteer would have no interest in seeing this happen. All based on a few ridiculous things too.
What do you think? Was it Milteer or someone else in the Altgens photographs?