Craig Roberts's answers to my 1997 inquiry

Hello everybody,
As I explained at length in one of my previous messages, I sent an inquiry in 1997 to several well-known researchers as part of my research into the Kennedy assassination case, asking a lot of precise questions in tabular form with the space needed to answer.
Some time ago I uploaded Harold Weisberg's answers and then Jim Marrs's answers, and then Gerald Posner's answers. Today is Craig Roberts's turn (as you will notice, he chose to write a letter with a computer instead of directly writing on my table, but that's fine, he was answering the same questions as the other researchers. I thank him for having replied to me). I hope visitors of my blog will find some interest in this document.

It's obvious...

Hello everybody,
As I wrote in an earlier post it is time to reflect on the documents I scanned on this blog.
Granted, the fact that I exchanged letters or messages with witnesses or doctors or researchers is by no means special. Other people had done that before me and some experts have worked ten times as much as I have. Gerald Posner, for one, probably conducted more interviews than I could ever dream of. In his life David Lifton certainly met ten times as many witnesses as I would ever dream of meeting. Therefore I should not brag about the few interviews I did of some Parkland doctors. Well, actually, I don't.
I am not here to show off. I know my place.
But I most certainly have interesting things to say.
Tonight I want to stress that, contrary to what people like Len Osanic would like you to think, it is very possible to believe in the official version (Warren - Posner - Oswald-did-it...) with no strings attached, no influence from any side, and with only honesty and the use of common sense.
Let me give you two examples :
1. David Lifton (second-hand report) spent his life writing that Doctor Perry had said that the throat wound was a wound of entrance. And yet when I wrote Doctor Perry he himself (first-hand account) made clear that the throat wound might very well have been a wound of exit, which it was. Lifton has distorted his sources and upon verifying we see that the official version is a very likely possibility, nowhere near the physical impossibility that conspiracy theorists falsely try to paint.
2. Robert Groden (second-hand report) spent his life writing that the medical evidence proves conspiracy. And yet when I wrote Doctor Baxter he himself (first-hand account) made clear that the medical evidence is very compatible with the official version and that the best person to have presented the case is precisely Gerald Posner, a man who defends the Warren commission's version of events (and shows Groden to be wrong).
So an independent researcher conducting independent, rational, unbiased, objective research, will, much to his surprise (in some cases) find out that the information he was fed by conspiracy theorists (second-hand reports) was wrong and distorted.
We, so-called "lone-nutters" don't believe in the official version because we are blind or scared or paid by the CIA, but because when we check first-hand sources we discover that we have always been misinformed by conspiracists, and that the Warren Commission did tell us the truth.
By going straight to the sources, we discover the truth.
It's that easy.
Conspiracy theorists would like us to read only their distortions. But when we go to the source, we can find out the truth.
Yes, folks, the Warren report was right.

Jack White (1927-2012)

JFK-assassination researcher Jack White passed away on June 18, 2012.
I did not know him personally. I never met him. I didn't know him as a man, only as a Kennedy-assassination researcher.
As a man, he seems to have been a very nice guy. Most people who knew him have nothing but praise for his kindness and his willingness to help those who asked for his opinion or observations regarding some topics of research. He was a generous man.
One thing is also sure : he was famous among the JFK-assassination research community. He was a "big name".
Well, good for him.
And I pray God Almighty welcome him in His Kingdom.
Having said that, sadness for a departing soul should not prevent us from trying to remain objective and truthful.
I am willing to grant that Jack White was a nice man, but as as researcher, it is fair to say that there is good scientific evidence to show that most of his claims were wrong.
I am now reminded of this sentence written by the great David Von Pein (in a reply to conspiracy theorist David Lifton) : "What makes you think that conspiracy authors (such as yourself), who have distorted history and the true facts surrounding the assassination of President Kennedy for decades on end, deserve the SLIGHTEST bit of respect...or deserve to be treated "nice"?"
And today, when a conspiracy theorist leaves us, I wonder how to react. In a way I agree with David Von Pein, and there is no denying that distorting history is bad.
In my book published four years ago I have harsh words for Jack White and his theories. But respect and compassion are in order when a man dies.
Still, I believe it is important to remind the reader that the Zapruder film is genuine. Even conspiracy theorist Robert Groden knows that it is genuine, and NOT fake. Anybody who claims otherwise is wrong, utterly wrong.
Likewise, it is wrong to claim that the Oswald backyard photos were fake, or that we did not go to the moon, or that the 9/11 events were a conspiracy. It goes against all evidence, against science, against common sense, against reality,
With all the respect that I owe Jack White as a human being, and with all the good prayers that I am sending him, I still want to stress that there was no conspiracy in the Kennedy assassination.
Mister Jack White, I guess we'll agree to have disagreed.
Rest in Peace !

Charles Baxter's answers to my questions, in 1997

Hello everybody,
In 1997, as part of my research into the Kennedy assassination case, I sent to Doctor Charles Baxter the very same letter that I sent to Doctor Perry, asking him questions about the medical evidence. He too obligingly replied.
I am hereby copying/pasting Doctor Baxter's answers.
I think it is interesting.
As Doctor Baxter's writing is very small and a little hard to decipher, I have scanned it into a .jpeg image format, which allows my readers to copy the image and zoom in any sentence on their computer screen.
I like the part where Doctor Baxter writes what he thinks of Dr. Charles Crenshaw's claims, and also what he thinks of David Lifton's work.
I would also like to underline what Baxter says of Gerald Posner. Let me quote : "Posner did a most thorough job. […] Posner is truly a scholar who, to my mind, is the one person who did a thorough job of collecting facts".
Charles Baxter also wrote (I quote) : "As long as there's money to be made, the conspiracy will continue"…
Next time I'll write an article about what can be learned from my documents.

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