Guest Column by Steve barber

              PENN JONES T HE
CONTINUING
—INQUIRY
June , 22,1982 I
I ahoul.j have (^ff^'^^ + ^r ^^'^ ^^®^'^ appeared my l e t t e r to "Gary Mack e t , a l . ".
•iack anc^'noi- m \ ° ^ "et.al.". My l e t t e r was directed to only Gary
'i-I editors et^r^" T, ^ anyone else connectea d i r e c t l y or i n d i r e c t l y with
"IV aoolosv T H-^ 74-^® asked Penn, ^ack ^^ite ana Gary Shaw to please accept
l^'ve eiv«n f n \ u ?T '^*^" ^° sound as if everyone were r e a c t i n g to the help
searrhAT.. -i-,^® ^^^ Ramsey panel the same as Mack h a s . I hope that a l l re
searchers will forgive me for sounding so rude.
th^''-'^"? '^^^ *°^^ "1® t h a t if I saw "anything untrue or unkind" I could have
-nu T^^mnT^^ concerning Mack's comments about ray l e t t e r printed in Feb­ruary
a i o i . Gary responded to my P.3 included in the l e t t e r , and I would
iiKe to say a few things about his comments, s p e c i f i c a l l y numbers 1&2.
Kis f i r s t comment reads in p a r t : "The DPD tape on the 2nd segment of "Speak
up America", seen in October I960, was edited by the producer of the JFK s e ­quence
to match the Zapruder f i l m . . . ."
Now, I know for a fact that the Zapruder film was not played along with the
DPD tape portion in question. The tape alone was played, f i r s t at regular
speed,then played again slowed down. The Z f i lm was NOT shown with e i t h er
playing'3 of the tape! To my knowledge, NSC i s s t i l l suppressing the Zapru­der
film, I don't think i t has ever been shown on NH) TV,
Gary's second comment reads: "HSCA s t a f f council G. Robert Blakey, in an app­earance
on "Good Morning America", said the FSI agents responsible for the
bureau's acoustic analysis had t e s t i f i e d to the panel that they had not under­stood
the 33J a n a l y s i s . Therfore the F BE r e p o r t has rendered i n v a l i d , . . ."
"As for the CIA, they have c o n s i s t e n t l y i n t e r f e r e d with the i n v e s t i g a t i o n of
the JFK death, and those who have studied the case, I believe they have a
vested i n t e r s t in making c e r t a i n that no evidence of conspiracy turns
D* they also have the people and resources, and equipment and e x p e r t i s e to
rt licate steo by step the work of the acoustics s c i e n t i s t s . If any e r r o rs
h^H been made the CIA (or any of the several i n t e l l i g e n c e agencies in t h is
fvv) would have found them long before now,,To date, almost 3^ years af-countr„
; tapes' significance was e s t a b l i s h e d , the "Decker theory" is the
TnVTJlstion of a p o a s l b l , . r r o r ."
from Gary Mack to me, dated April 13, I98O, he s t a t e d t h a t:
In a l e t t e r ^^^ ^^^ or F a would have exploded the acoustics by now.
"After '^'^2j^l^ ' ^ ^ unable to do i t , they've p r i v a t e l y confirmed i t ."
only have they
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