Table of Contents
Foreword Richard Rhodes xi
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xxi
Part 1 Beginnings-The 1960s
Chapter 1 Dealey Plaza 3
Chapter 2 Life Magazine 16
Chapter 3 Witnesses: The Bystanders 30
Chapter 4 Witnesses: The Police Officers 49
Chapter 5 Witnesses: The Railroad Men 61
Chapter 6 "A Matter of Reasonable Doubt" 83
Chapter 7 Puzzling the Pieces 92
Chapter 8 Six Seconds in Dallas 104
Chapter 9 Shooting Melons … and Coconuts, Pineapples, and Water Jugs 114
Part II Aftermath-The 1970s
Chapter 10 Changes-and a Good Night America Shocker 133
Chapter 11 Acoustics 145
Chapter 12 The House Select Committee on Assassinations 164
Part III Breaking the Impasse-The 2000s
Chapter 13 Breaking the Impasse: The Puzzle Piece That Wasn't 183
Chapter 14 Breaking the Impasse: The Blur Illusion 197
Chapter 15 Breaking the Impasse: The Crucial Piece-the Final Shot 221
Chapter 16 The Medical Evidence 245
Part IV The Signal in the Noise-2013-2017
Chapter 17 The Ad Hoc Committee on Ballistic Acoustics 275
Chapter 18 The Crosstalk Silver Bullet 290
Chapter 19 The Resurrection of the Acoustics 301
Chapter 20 "I'll Check It" 308
Chapter 21 Ramsey Panel Redux 319
Chapter 22 Journey to the Lair of the Master 323
Chapter 23 In the Cold Light of Science 333
Chapter 24 The Last Second 351
Epilogue 359
Appendix A Quantitative Analysis of Crosstalk Found in Audio Recorded during the JFK Assassination, James Barger 363
Appendix B Signal Processing Results for Both DPD Audio Files, Richard Mullen 377
Kotes 387
Illustration Credits 445
Index 453
About the Author 476