Talk:Gerald Posner

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This article needs a huge amount of clean-up. Posner is an author who has written ten books. But the majority of this article is about some of the content from a single chapter in one of his books. I don't want to turn this article into a debate about conspiracy theories, but we need some perspective. MK2 22:32, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• I added {NPOV} to this page. You're right, it does need a lot of work. As you point out, over half of the article is about part of one chapter of one of his books. It reads as an attempted indictment of the "single bullet theory". More more of my objections: Posner wasn't the first to theorize about the single bullet - that was the Warrern Commission. The evidence soon moved it from theory to fact - all of the accumulated physical evidence is in agreement with the theory and no real evidence contracts it. Posner isn't theorizing about the single bullet theory, he examines the mass of evidence that support the theory as being correct. --Bubba73 17:24, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• In addition, since when is "assassinator" a word? --Roygbiv666

I decided to be bold and snipped out the paragraph. I'm reposting it here for, well, whatever you want. Gamaliel 19:23, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Posner theorized that when Oswald fired his first shot he fired it into the foliage of a closeby tree, only 62' away from Oswald. Posner theorized that first bullet was deflected by a tree branch then traveled some 425', hit the south upper curbstone of Main Street, and caused the right facial cheek wound on James Tague (Tague has always stated he was struck concurrent with the second or third shot --or second or third volley of shots-- Tague remembered hearing). Tague has stated that Posner has never interviewed him, while Posner responds that he has tapes of himself interviewing Tague for his book and cites his phone bill as evidence of conversations with Tague and others. Posner theorized that Oswald fired a second shot less than one second after Kennedy became visible again from behind the tree at Zapruder film frame 207 to 208. Posner theorized that this second bullet was the "single bullet theory" bullet that passed through both Kennedy and Governor John Connally at Zapruder film frame 223, causing seven wounds (counting each entrance and exit wound seperately) while breaking two major body bones, yet the bullet was later found at Parkland Hospital in nearly intact condition, having lost only a documented 1.5% of its average weight. Posner theorized that the third and final 265.3' shot was fired by Oswald and killed Kennedy when it struck him in the right rear of his head between Zapruder frame 312 and 313.

With the "offending" passage removed, shouldn't the article be considered neutral now? Roygbiv666

Yes, I think so. I put up the NPOV so I'll remove it. Now, though, I think the article needs more. Bubba73 16:27, July 11, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] CIA Tapes

Someone who cares about this more than I do might want to add this in: The erased CIA tapes that are at the center of a current scandal may have contained footage of the interrogation detailed in Posner's 2003 book.[1] And while you're at it, please clean up that section a bit.--Rockero (talk) 07:47, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Photo

Where did that photo come from, and how relevent is it? Posner is over 50 now. He looks like a punk rocker in the pic. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.72.87.221 (talk) 15:41, 23 February 2008 (UTC)