Can you trust Dale Myers to show you what happens in the Zapruder film? Can you trust him, for example, to accurately portray Kennedy's posture at the moment he is struck by a bullet for the first time? Posture is critical to the single bullet theory - and the best way to show Kennedy's posture is with a purely side view. But at the time of the first bullet, there are no purely side views on the Zapruder film, only views from the right front. And so a side view requires interpretation of these frontal images. Can you trust Myers's interpretation?

Note the hump. The back of JFK's jacket stands out like a shelf, almost at right angles. You could rest a stein of beer upon the hump.

Please compare Myers's grotesquerie with the picture below, a still frame depicting Kennedy's posture a few seconds before he was first hit.

LEFT: Dale Myers's portrayal of Kennedy's posture. RIGHT: reality (a frame from a film taken by Bob Towner). The nearly horizontal bar going across the photo of Kennedy on the right is the top of the limousine window. By coincidence, it follows the trajectory created by connecting the holes in the jacket in back and the collar in front.

In Myers's grotesque rendition, Kennedy's head is thrust forward, out from the hump on his back, like a turtle. The back of his jacket stands out like a shelf, almost at right angles. Kennedy is bent so low, the top of the jacket is at the same level as the bottom of his nose. And it completely obscures his shirt collar. (And notice the ugly, disproportionate length of his torso and arms.) This is supposed to show why the bullet hole in the jacket was so low. You could rest a stein of beer and a plate of pretzels upon this hump.

Much of his neck is in shadow, but if you look closely, you will see that the distance from chin to collar is about twice as great as it was in reality. This, in effect, lowers the throat wound.

Inconvenient realities have lead to all kinds of clumsy and crude efforts at revision. Veteran revisionist John Lattimer, M.D. has tried pushing the throat wound down [1] while pulling the back wound up [2,3], with the trajectory see-sawing on top of the lung. One year, he managed to haul the back wound all the way up to the sixth vertebra of the neck.[4] To explain the low placement of the hole in the jacket, Lattimer nearly doubled its existent bunching.[4] (Over time, Lattimer let the wound sink a few millimeters,[5,6] but that, as the French would put it, is a different basket of crabs.)

Michael Baden, M.D., former head of the HSCA medical panel, said the location of the hole in the jacket directly corresponds to the wound in the back itself.[7] This would appear to make the wound inconveniently low. To explain how the throat wound could be so much lower than the back wound, Baden has portrayed Kennedy as bent at the waist, his entire torso bent way forward, shirt and jacket fitting normally. Baden claims this happened when Kennedy was out of sight behind the Stemmons sign. But Dale Myers, who can magically see through the sign, apparently did not see that happen. Or maybe he has confused JFK's bent upper back with his waist; this would explain why that left arm is so long: he may have meant it to be a leg. In any case, Dale Myers's contribution to the contamination is the most amusing yet.

In conclusion, what you need to know about Dale Myers is that he capable of gross deception, but we don't always have such clear photos to prove it. Please keep this in mind as you view his renditions of frames from the Zapruder film as shown in the sections that follow.

It is fortunate that Dale Myers has so little talent and so little spatial relation perception that he cannot appreciate the ridiculousness of his work, or he would surely try to destroy this graphic evidence of it. Do hang on to it.

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1. Lattimer, J.K. Observations Based on a review of the autopsy photographs, x-rays and related materials of the late President John F. Kennedy. Resident & Staff Physician 1972; 18::4-63. ["The tracheostomy wound in the front of the neck was at a lower level than the author had expected to see it. It was almost at the suprasternal notch." p.48 ). The pathologists who conducted the autopsy, and the Parkland doctors who saw the wound up close give a much higher location for the wound. One Parkland doctor, Charles Baxter, used the same reference point - the suprasternal notch - but with a very different assessment of the distance of the wound from that point: "approximately an inch and a half above the manubrium of the sternum, the sternal notch." (6 WCH 42)]

2. Ibid. [Back wound at C7]

3. Lattimer, G., Lattimer, J.K., Lattimer, J. The Kennedy-Connally One-Bullet Theory. Medical Times 1974; 102: 33-56 [Back wound at C6-7)

4. Ibid. [Back wound at C7]

5. Lattimer, J.K., Schlesinger, E.B., Merritt, H.H. President Kennedy's spine hit by first bullet. Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 1977; 53:281-291. [Back wound at C6]

6. Lattimer, J.K. Kennedy and Lincoln: Medical & Ballistic Comparisons of Their Assassinations. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980.

7. Baden, M. 1 HSCA I96