David Lifton person
also: David Lipton, Lifton, Lipton, the author, the engineering student, the graduate student
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David Lifton member_of
California State University, Los Angeles book_quoted
“would make them a target of media mockery. But they were doing the work the American press refused to do. Among this band of loosely connected independent researchers was a 26-year-old UCLA graduate student in engineering and physics. His n…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26 @ 40:21
David Lifton exposed
Allen Dulles book_quoted
“like Dulles at the time of their duel. It was the way he looked, his eyes. He was just evil. They were very, very scary. David Lifton was the only person who ever gave Alan Dulles a taste of what it would be like for him to have actually be…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26 @ 48:47
David Lifton asserted
John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“found out that they had the equipment to do so. So how did this helicopter manage to park right next to Air Force One and then was permitted to take off? It didn't fit. The thrust of best evidence is that the wounds on Kennedy's body had be…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner KILL ZONE Part 2 @ 15:13
David Lifton wrote
Best Evidence host_asserted
“Why would a completely bogus airplane have to be needed? None of it made any sense. Then he came across a remarkable book written by a pioneer critic of the Warren Commission, David Lifton. The book titled Best Evidence approached the case …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner KILL ZONE Part 2 @ 12:21
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Why would a completely bogus airplane have to be needed? None of it made any sense. Then he came across a remarkable book written by a pioneer critic of the Warren Commission, David Lifton. The book titled Best Evidence approached the case …
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Considering that we arrive at a crime scene after the event has transpired and then are forced to reconstruct the crime in reverse, but it is not the norm for researchers or writers. Lipton, investigating the case from the scene of the auto…
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He found, the author, three very important missing pieces to the puzzle. First was a diagram of the internal layout of Air Force One as it sat in 1963. The second was a chronology of events that contained several references to activities of…
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given by Lifton of the sequence of strange events that transpired both aboard Air Force One and afterward during the transport of the casket to the morgue. Of particular interest was a notation that a helicopter of some type was running on …
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and exit wounds to confuse the issue concerning which directions the shots were fired and to remove any evidence to the contrary that it was a lone wolf. It would be very awkward for any conspirator to have particles from a bullet or worse,…
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He also wrote Boeing in Seattle and asked if they had ever produced a 707 derivative with a vertical fin. Boeing never replied. Returning to Lifton's book, he read with interest his logical dissertation that the whole investigation was bung…
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especially the autopsy, and the body had been removed from the coffin at some time, altered, and only then delivered to Bethesda Naval Hospital for the official autopsy. This assertion of events is best summed up by Lipton's own words, quot…
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was secretly removed from the casket. It was then surgically changed, wounds were altered, bullets were removed, the body was returned in time for the autopsy, returned a medical forgery, which told a false story about the shooting. The one…
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So he goes on to Chapter 9, which is the shell games on Air Force One. This is a very interesting chapter. After the coffin burying the dead president was placed aboard Air Force One, the cover-up entered a second stage. It is at this point…
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As O'Connor prepared the body for the autopsy, he noted that the head wound, the bullet blew all of the brains out. Literally, there wasn't anything to remove. When asked by Lifton, what do you mean by that? His exact words were the cranium…
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would make them a target of media mockery. But they were doing the work the American press refused to do. Among this band of loosely connected independent researchers was a 26-year-old UCLA graduate student in engineering and physics. His n…
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until he happened to attend a lecture of Mark Lane in September 1964, around the time the report had been released. The graduate student went to the lecture as a lark. He said for the same reasons he might go to an eccentric lecturer on The…
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into researching the Kennedy assassination. Back in LA, Lifton plunked down $76 in a local bookstore to buy the entire 26-volume set of the Warren Report. He spent an entire year looking over everything. He added another dimension to his un…
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By the time Dulles arrived at UCLA, David Lifton was ready to do battle. Contacting the student who was acting as Dulles' host, Lifton passed word that he would like to sit down with a spymaster for a 15-minute interview to discuss the repo…
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Critic had tried to get the best of Dulles the previous night, and he said that Dulles made mincemeat of him. That evening when Lipton showed up at the hall, he had butterflies in his stomach. I had never met, I had never been more frighten…
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pipe and leaned back in his chair. Still alert at 72, Dulles scanned the group of 40 or so students sitting in chairs semicircle in front of him. Lipton had brought along an arsenal of evidence, including two hefty volumes of the Warren Rep…
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He also brought friends. After Dulles deflected a question from a student about the CIA budget, the spymaster suddenly found himself confronted by Lifton. Lifton, not knowing how long he'd be given the floor, leaped right into the heart of …
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We have found no evidence of a conspiracy, Dulles corrected him. There was a twinkle in his eye. Undeterred, Lipton kept going. Contrary to the commission's conclusion, he asserted, there was ample evidence to suggest a conspiracy, not the …
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His own law of physics and the conclusion was unavoidable to him. This must imply someone firing from the front. Dulles would have none of it. He calmly informed the gathering, examined the film a thousand times, and that what Lipton was sa…
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But the images were clear enough. Nobody had ever confronted Dulles like this before in his life. The old man was agitated as he glanced at the photos. Now, what you are saying. Just what are you saying, Dulles sputtered. I'm saying there m…
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There isn't a single iota of evidence indicating conspiracy. No one says anything like that. Well, of course, plenty of people did. They just didn't say it to Dulles' face. But now it was Lipton's turn to school Dulles. Actually, the engine…
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What are you talking about, he said. Who saw smoke? Lifton began giving names of the witnesses, citing the research done by Harold Feldman, a writer for scientific journals. Who is Harold Feldman, Dulles said. This elicited an explosion fro…
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He thought that everybody else was going to laugh too, but he was the only one laughing. It is to the everlasting credit of the students, Lipton later remarked, that even if they did not understand the full meaning of the dialogue that was …
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Dulles was all alone. Dulles tried to retrieve the upper hand by making his antagonist look like a time hog. As Lipton put it, look, the distinguished guest said to the group. I don't know if you really are all interested in this. And if yo…
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With his display of contempt, he seemed at a loss on how to continue the battle. I can't see a blasted thing here, the old man said, taking another look at the hideous photos. You can't see the head goes back. I can't see it goes back. It d…
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Each student can look and see for himself, he told Dulles. After the heated exchange between Lipton and Dulles, the evening began to wind down. Dulles was given the opportunity to restore some of his dignity and was asked a question that al…
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gathered around Lifton, peppering him with questions about the assassination. And for the next two hours, he gave a presentation of why Dulles was lying. Not talking about that evening nearly 50 years later, but talking about that evening, …
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like Dulles at the time of their duel. It was the way he looked, his eyes. He was just evil. They were very, very scary. David Lifton was the only person who ever gave Alan Dulles a taste of what it would be like for him to have actually be…
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and eventually erupt in fury, perhaps accompanied by vague threats, as he did Lipton, when he suggested that the grad student should submit to an FBI interrogation if he had anything new to report. Dulles' performance at UCLA offered a glim…