{"id":33318,"date":"2013-07-25T16:13:09","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T16:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=33318"},"modified":"2014-08-21T21:53:11","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T21:53:11","slug":"eyewitnessfbi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=33318","title":{"rendered":"EYEWITNESS IDENTIFICATIONS?: THE FBI REPORT VERSUS THE ON-SITE NBC FILM FOOTAGE"},"content":{"rendered":"

This section examines the alleged eyewitness identifications of the Port Kaituma assassins using the NBC film footage, the FBI eyewitness reports and other authenticated documents.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Note that this is a process that has not only never before been done, but is full of surprises and shocks.\u00a0 As will be verified in this section:<\/span><\/p>\n

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This Was Never Handled Like a \u201cReal\u201d Investigation<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The FBI had the NBC film footage of the assassination, yet never showed it to survivors — the first mandate of any \u201creal\u201d investigation.\u00a0 Instead, they suppressed the film and recorded a hodge-podge of \u201cI saw this one, I saw that one\u2026,\u201d implicating four times as many men (namely, twelve) as actually did the shooting (namely, three.)\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 All they had to do and should have done unfailingly, was to show the NBC footage to the survivors of the airstrip massacre with, \u201cDo you recognize these men?\u201d\u00a0 That was never done.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nor did the FBI (or anyone else) ever plot out the logistics of the crime scene (again, as with a \u201creal\u201d investigation) to determine who saw who, what, when, from what angle or to clarify their wildly conflicting tales.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But wasn\u2019t there some kind of a hearing?\u00a0 Wasn\u2019t anyone publicly questioned?\u00a0 No, there was never a hearing nor were eyewitnesses ever questioned.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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Weren\u2019t There Too Many Eyewitnesses to Discount?\u00a0 And Didn\u2019t They All Agree on What They Saw?<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But aren\u2019t we talking about discounting too many eyewitnesses?<\/i>\u00a0 Not at all.\u00a0 No one but the defectors could identify men from Jonestown at all.\u00a0 Most had already boarded when the shooting broke out and those still on the ground either fell or fled.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Even those on the ground, by the survivors\u2019 own account, neither heard nor saw their attackers approaching.<\/i>\u00a0 And that\u2019s confirmed on the film footage.\u00a0 You hear the plane\u2019s engines, easily blocking out the sound of an approach; you see their backs turned to the staging point of the attack.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To boot, again as verified by the NBC footage, the real Jonestown vehicle (i.e., not<\/span><\/b> the attack vehicle; see<\/i> \u201cThe Vehicle Used in the Attack\u201c), was just a stone\u2019s throw away.\u00a0 So the departing passengers yes, saw the real Jonestown tractor-trailer — in fact were filmed right in front of it minutes prior to<\/i> the attack.\u00a0 They also saw it after<\/i> the attack.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What a huge shock that no one was identified during<\/i> the attack!!\u00a0 They were, you say?\u00a0 No, the primary evidence, the NBC film footage, confirms that they weren\u2019t<\/i>.\u00a0 <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Quite a charge.\u00a0 How can we know<\/i> that?\u00a0 Because even with confusion, mistaken identity, key details missing and the like, don\u2019t you also have to prove that it was someone else?<\/i><\/b>\u00a0 Maybe you just haven\u2019t picked the right<\/i> three<\/i> out of the twelve from Jonestown to nail as \u201cthe assassins.\u201d\u00a0 Maybe it was a different three<\/i>.\u00a0 But that would still be \u201cThey did it!,\u201d wouldn\u2019t it?<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No, it was in fact \u201csomeone else,\u201d and the NBC film footage is still the primary eyewitness.\u00a0 But let\u2019s first clarify how<\/i> \u201cconfused, mistaken, and missing details\u201d were the accounts:<\/span><\/p>\n

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They All Saw Something Different?\u00a0 How Could That Be?<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To begin with, there were just two<\/i> accounts of anyone specific shooting anyone else specific — one fingering \u201can unknown individual\u201d (not too helpful) on page 381 of the FBI report; the other claiming to have FIRST fled fifty yards and THEN \u201clooked back and observed\u2026at point blank range\u201d (not too believable) on page 61 of the FBI report.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In that sense, there were no<\/span><\/b> viable eyewitness identifications. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The rest is a hodge-podge of \u201cI saw this one, I saw that one.\u201d\u00a0 No agreement on the shooters, no agreement on the vehicle, no agreement on how they disembarked.\u00a0 So how would they even know if it was the real Jonestown vehicle?\u00a0 They wouldn\u2019t.\u00a0 <\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Indeed, one of the newsmen (see<\/i> panel 14<\/a> ) tried to tell the FBI that there was another vehicle,<\/i> an unidentified<\/i> tractor-trailer \u201cwith canvas over the top,\u201d carrying strangers (= \u201csomeone else\u201d)<\/b> who inquired which plane were the Peoples Temple people on?\u00a0 His account was buried and ignored.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So it is already clear that it could have been<\/i> \u201csomeone else.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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How Could So Many People Have Gotten It Wrong?<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But first, how could all the eyewitnesses have gotten it wrong?\u00a0 Not so difficult to explain.\u00a0 This was a tiny airstrip with no known outsiders.\u00a0 The defectors knew everyone from Jonestown.\u00a0 They knew the vehicles, they knew the men.\u00a0 They looked<\/i> and they saw them parked at rest (as did the NBC camera!) under the wing flap of the smaller plane.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Then they were boarding.\u00a0 Then came the sudden, swift, brutal, fleeting attack.\u00a0 Maybe like someone comes up from behind and hits you with a lead pipe, then two minutes later you come to and look around.\u00a0 Who do you see?\u00a0 You look again and you see the same men you saw before!\u00a0 <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So what were they doing during those two minutes rather than<\/i> looking<\/i><\/b> their attackers in the face?\u00a0 Wouldn\u2019t that be the key question for every so-called \u201ceyewitness\u201d?:\u00a0 \u201cDid you see anyone during the attack? <\/i><\/b>\u00a0If you didn\u2019t, what were you doing instead?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Well, it is clear from the FBI report \u201cwhat they were doing instead\u201d:\u00a0 They were falling to the ground, they were fleeing, they were hiding under plane seats and the like.\u00a0 This was an open airfield.\u00a0 There was no one hiding around some corner looking<\/i>.\u00a0 There wasn\u2019t even someone hiding behind a plane wheel looking<\/i> — the wheels were shot out.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The only one who even claimed he was looking<\/i> at a gunman in the act was a reporter (not a defector) lying on the ground, looking at he said, \u201can unknown individual.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So you look,<\/i> then you\u2019re assaulted with two minutes of violence, then you look again<\/i>.\u00a0 And the mind \u201csews the whole thing up.\u201d\u00a0 Did you know that six<\/span><\/b> defector \u201ceyewitnesses\u201d swore<\/i> that Stanley Gieg, a young, blond, fair-skinned white man was driving the attack vehicle, because they saw him before<\/i> the attack and possibly after?<\/i>\u00a0 But what about during?<\/i>\u00a0 The NBC film footage reveals only a dark-skinned black man up front.\u00a0 In plain sight. <\/i>\u00a0Not fair-skinned white.\u00a0 Dark-skinned black.<\/span><\/p>\n

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How Do We Know that the Assassins Were NOT<\/span><\/i> From Jonestown At All?<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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O.k.\u00a0 So the eyewitness reports were confused, mistaken, missing details, etc.\u00a0 Traumatized people, did the best they could, no blame.\u00a0 But there\u2019s no legal value<\/i> in their accounts, moreover they lack believability<\/i>.\u00a0 The accounts cancel each other out, they are so conflicting.\u00a0 (Panel 13<\/a> samples the mix-and-match disgrace that got labeled \u201can investigation.\u201d) <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But still, how can we know that the assassins were not from Jonestown at all?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Well, we know that from the primary eyewitness, the NBC film footage.\u00a0 It\u2019s old, it\u2019s worn, it\u2019s lopped off after several seconds, the faces aren\u2019t close up. \u00a0It might not have decided the matter.\u00a0 But it does.\u00a0 <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In many respects.\u00a0 Not the Jonestown vehicle, not Jonestown men, too practiced and professional to be ad hoc<\/i> vigilante bumblers.\u00a0 All that will be addressed in various parts of the \u201cIn Plain Sight\u201c project.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But let\u2019s go right to why the assassins could not have been from Jonestown:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The disembarkation was into a triangle<\/i> formation.\u00a0 (That will be traced out frame by frame in \u201cLogistics:\u00a0 Military Execution.\u201d)\u00a0 Properly it\u2019s called a \u201csquad diamond,\u201d but all we need to note here is that the lead assassin charges out first with soldiers behind him on his right and left flanks, respectively.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Every \u201cdramatic reconstruction\u201d ever done, except for showing the NBC film footage itself, has been fiction.\u00a0 There was no standing up and shooting.\u00a0 There was no chaos of shooters tumbling off the trailer.\u00a0 There were no shooters in a line.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No.\u00a0 There was a fiercely kinetic, aggressive, professionally-trained lead assassin charging forward with two soldiers on his flanks.\u00a0 But it\u2019s way more.\u00a0 That lead assassin (photographed in plain sight!!<\/i>) was about seven feet tall and dressed in solid green military camouflage including long sleeves in the tropics!!\u00a0\u00a0 Yet no one (I repeat:\u00a0 no one<\/span>) seemed to have even noticed \u201cThe Terminator.\u201d\u00a0 <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There was zero<\/b> possibility of missing this guy were anyone only looking right at him.<\/i>\u00a0 He was the one no one could miss, yet they all<\/b> missed him!\u00a0 No one mentioned anyone near that tall.\u00a0 No one mentioned anyone in military dress at all.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But it\u2019s worse.\u00a0 Enough to make the whole FBI eyewitness report cascade down like a house of cards?\u00a0 Easily.\u00a0 Because no one at Jonestown was that tall, period.<\/i><\/b>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What am I saying?\u00a0 That the lead assassin was not only not<\/i> on the list of the twelve accused, but could not have been from Jonestown at all?\u00a0 <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Well, how do you know someone\u2019s height from looking at a film?\u00a0 You don\u2019t.\u00a0 But if someone is standing right next to him, then you can gauge height proportionally<\/i>.\u00a0 And proportionally (as detailed in panel 11<\/a> ), there had to have been a minimum of 18 inches height discrepancy<\/i> <\/b>between the lead assassin and the soldier on his right flank.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The short guy would have to have been five feet, zero inches even (no grown man, much less anyone on the list of the accused) for the lead assassin to even be as \u201cshort\u201d as 6\u20195\u201d.\u00a0 And 6\u20195\u201d was maximum<\/i> height at Jonestown.\u00a0 In fact, the only two that tall were Stephan Jones, in Georgetown with the whole not-even-as-tall basketball team at the time of the tragedy; and Jim McElvane, photographed seeing passengers off minutes earlier in civilian clothing and never implicated in the attack.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Even 6\u20195\u201d is a no-probability baseline.\u00a0 If any of the white accused (the short man was visibly white) were even as short as 5\u20193\u201d (they weren\u2019t), then \u201cthe giant\u201d was 6\u20199\u201d.\u00a0 And so on proportionally.\u00a0 Moreover, the assassins that most were \u201csure of\u201d (see<\/i> \u201cEyewitness Identifications?:\u00a0 The View from Jonestown), were all more in the range of six feet.\u00a0 There is no accounting for the height discrepancy <\/i><\/b>between shooters.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The lead assassin wasn\u2019t from Jonestown.\u00a0 None of these men were.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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Didn\u2019t the FBI At Least Use the \u201cCongressional Assassination Statute\u201d to Figure Out Who Killed the Congressman?<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So who killed the Congressman?\u00a0 Don\u2019t expect to find out from the FBI report.\u00a0 It says he was hit, it says he went down, but \u201cwho did it\u201d is not even addressed.<\/i><\/b>\u00a0Apparently \u201cit must have been someone from Jonestown,\u201d but you would never know who.\u00a0 You have twelve accused, take your pick.\u00a0 They\u2019re all dead anyway.\u00a0 \u201cIt must have been them\u201d will have to do.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But then again, from the looks of the film footage, it was the seven-foot-tall \u201cterminator\u201d rather than anyone<\/i> on the list of the accused, who was leading the charge; so wouldn\u2019t that mean that \u201cit wasn\u2019t<\/i> anyone from Jonestown\u201d?\u00a0 <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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A Synopsis of the Findings<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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To introduce findings so shockingly at odds with the official story, what follows is a summarized preview so the reader can see where we will be going and how we will get there.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The seventeen panels of pictures and documents are laid out step-by-step as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1.<\/a>\u00a0 Four views of the Massey Ferguson 178, the make\/model tractor at Jonestown which was used to transport the Congressman\u2019s party back and forth from the airstrip.\u00a0 Picture 1<\/i> was taken from the internet for the clarity of its \u201c178\u201d and \u201cMassey Ferguson\u201d insignias on the side.\u00a0 Picture 2<\/i> shows same tractor photographed on site at the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project.\u00a0 Pictures 3 and 4<\/i> show the vehicle as filmed transporting the Congressman\u2019s party on November 17 and November 18, 1978, respectively.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2.<\/a>\u00a0 On-site NBC film footage from the Port Kaituma airstrip just minutes prior to the Congressman\u2019s would-be departure showing same Massey Ferguson 178 tractor from Jonestown in plain sight <\/b>of the departing party.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 3.<\/a>\u00a0 Shows the approximate distance between, as well as the directional angle between where the real tractor was parked and the plane that was about to transport the Congressman back to the States.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Note that Jim Cobb (black man in green shirt), the government\u2019s main eyewitness is filmed right in front of the real Jonestown tractor.\u00a0 He and everyone else saw this vehicle shortly prior to the shootings.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Also note that this photo panel is critical to assessing the trajectory <\/i>between the smaller plane on the side of the airstrip (under which wing flap the real Jonestown tractor was parked) and the larger plane ready for the Congressman to board at center stage of the airstrip:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Note that the two photo extracts from the NBC film footage are spaced just seven seconds apart:\u00a0 01:26:05 and 01:33:04.\u00a0 A young man named Chris O\u2019Neal (blue shirt with insignia over the left pocket, suitcase in one hand, duffel bag in the other) is first shown first leaving the area of the smaller plane and then shown approaching the larger plane.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Note that in the bottom photo, O\u2019Neal is not moving in the direction he is facing — he is looking backwards, as confirmed by the complete patch of footage.\u00a0 He and Brenda Parks next to him look back, perhaps to see who is still coming, then move on forwards towards to larger plane.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Now consider the angles at which the cameraman had to be facing to shoot these respective shots<\/i>:\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The cameraman was first facing Chris O\u2019Neal approaching him;\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Then Chris O\u2019Neal would be passing by the cameraman\u2019s right on his way to the larger plane to board;\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Then the cameraman had to turn to his right 180 degrees <\/i>(i.e. the opposite direction) to film what would have been O\u2019Neal\u2019s back moving towards the larger plane.\u00a0 This shot was chosen, however, as O\u2019Neal had momentarily turned back making visible the insignia on the front of his shirt as a proof-positive identification.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It will be helpful for the reader to review panel 3 when approaching picture panel 7, showing the physical logistics of the crime scene.\u00a0 You will then see that \u201cstone\u2019s throw away\u201d is the few seconds elapsing between the top and the bottom photo; and the diagonal between POINT A and POINT C <\/i>is the trajectory traced by the cameraman in these two respective photos.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 4.<\/a>\u00a0 Verifications from both the on-site footage and eyewitnesses that they neither saw nor heard the attack vehicle approach.\u00a0 Note that the departing passengers had their backs to the staging point for the attack.\u00a0 Note also that the footage itself features the loud noise of the engines revving up, confirming the eyewitness report of sound being blocked out.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 5.<\/a>\u00a0 Quotes suggesting that alleged eyewitness identifications of the assassins were based upon the earlier <\/i>sighting of the real Jonestown vehicle, where it and its occupants were viewed out in the open.\u00a0 One eyewitness specifies that by contrast,<\/i> the occupants of the vehicle used in the attack had been \u201chid\u201d prior to the shooting, suggesting two different vehicles. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Identification of \u201cStanley Gieg as the driver of the [Jonestown] tractor that brought seven men –including at least three gunmen– into the vicinity of the plane.\u201d\u00a0 This is a key to X-ing out the so-called \u201ceyewitness identifications.\u201d\u00a0 The NBC footage shows no white blond Stanley Gieg at all but rather a dark-skinned black man.\u00a0 If it was Gieg who allegedly drove seven assassins to the staging point of the attack, and it\u2019s clearly not<\/span><\/b> Gieg but \u201csomeone else,\u201d than what about the other seven (or however many) others?<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Note also that the lengthy FBI eyewitness report never questions this allegedly hard-and-fast finding.\u00a0 (Panel 14 examines the one eyewitness who saw a different vehicle<\/i> but that eyewitness was ignored.) <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Note also that this panel introduces key components in the huge shocker of mass blanket misidentifications.<\/i>\u00a0 The most direct proof is of course <\/i>the photos of assassins in the act.\u00a0 If any reader wants to skip ahead to see that first, they should feel free to do so.\u00a0 But the reader will still have many questions as to how this could have happened and panel 5 begins addressing that. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 6.<\/a>\u00a0 This begins to sketch in misidentification of the attack vehicle.<\/i>\u00a0 Not the target of this section, but introduces a key cross-reference <\/i>in any eyewitness identification snafu.\u00a0 I.e., if this is proven to have been another vehicle, a different vehicle, a second vehicle, one provably not from Jonestown at all, then how could the assassins<\/i> have been from Jonestown?\u00a0 Different vehicle, different occupants, different assassins.\u00a0 (See also, \u201cThe Vehicle Used in the Attack.\u201d)<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 7.<\/a><\/b>\u00a0 How could so many people have been wrong? <\/b>\u00a0For the first time we see the layout of the crime scene as verified by on-site NBC film footage.\u00a0 This clarifies how none<\/i> of the would-be departing passengers might have been positioned to identify the advancing assassins.\u00a0 Where the victims were at the time, backs turned or already on the plane; falling, fleeing, hiding, the direction in which they fled; the direction the vehicle came from and fled to; the proximity of the real Jonestown tractor to the would-be-departing plane.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Remember that we have not yet viewed photos of the assassins directly.\u00a0 We are still laying the groundwork for how such a massive mismatch could have happened. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 8.<\/a>\u00a0 Summary of indirect proof<\/i> as a prelude to the direct proof <\/i>of photos of the assassins on-site.\u00a0 Indirect proof (spelled out in length in other sections) is briefly cited, such as the vehicle mismatch and that this was professional military, not the work of untrained ad hoc vigilantes.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Direct proof<\/i> will be photos of the assassins.\u00a0 The two most flagrant mismatches are previewed on this panel:\u00a0 that the only \u201cidentification\u201d given by (many of) the eyewitnesses of the driver was a blond, fair-skinned white man (Stanley Gieg) whereas the actual footage reveals a dark-skinned black man; and that the lead assassin was outlandishly tall, taller than anyone at Jonestown by far.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a09.<\/a>\u00a0 Black man wasn\u2019t white man.\u00a0 Photos examined.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 10.<\/a>\u00a0 Same black man was not any of the black accused either.\u00a0 Photos of the accused printed.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a011.<\/a>\u00a0 Lead assassin, referred to as \u201cThe Not-So-Jolly Green Giant,\u201d a huge military brute dressed in solid green military camouflage khakis including long sleeves in the tropics, was never noticed, identified, nor was it remotely possible that he was from Jonestown.\u00a0 This assassin was \u201cimpossible to miss,\u201d yet he was missed by everyone!<\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a012.<\/a>\u00a0 Names of accused assassins eliminated by the evidence applied to the FBI\u2019s list of the accused, leaving no one.\u00a0 The black shooters were already eliminated.\u00a0 The only two white shooters \u201cpositively identified\u201d as alleged seen shooting specific individuals (Tom Kice and Bob Kice) were both fairly tall, both had ram-rod erect posture; whereas one of the assassins shows curvature of the spine; another was unusually short; a third abnormally tall.\u00a0 No match.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 13.<\/a>\u00a0 Examples of alleged eyewitness identifications ruled out by factors covered thus far.\u00a0 The reader is welcome to peruse the 417-page FBI report for anything better.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Note especially center page, testimony of Jim Cobb, p. 61:\u00a0 \u201cTom Kice, Bob Kice, Joe Wilson and Albert Touchette shooting the victims in the head at point blank range\u2026\u201d\u00a0 <\/i>This was the only<\/b> (I repeat, only<\/b>) eyewitness in the entire FBI report who claimed to see any specific shooter fire at any specific victim.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Moreover, his claim isn\u2019t of him<\/i> being at \u201cpoint blank range\u201d at all!\u00a0 <\/b>It\u2019s that he [allegedly] saw that<\/i> a shooting was happening at \u201cpoint blank range\u201d from a distance of<\/i> \u201cfifty yards away\u201c!! <\/i>\u00a0In other words, he claimed that FIRST he fled fifty yards away, THEN he \u201clooked back and observed\u201d that the shooter<\/i> was at \u201cpoint blank range\u201d from the victim<\/i>.\u00a0 He himself was fifty yards away and could see no one\u2019s<\/span><\/b> face!\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It is unlikely enough that any shooting could be spotted (i.e., shooter, victim, seeing shot fired) at a distance of fifty yards, especially when the victim was already wounded on the ground; all the less so, identification of a shooter\u2019s face.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Also note that Cobb speaks for himself on a \u201cBiography\u201d special saying that he neither saw nor heard the attack vehicle approaching; yet he told the FBI that he \u201cspotted Peoples Temple hitmen at a distance.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Was this just a classic case of \u201cWe need to put names on the shooters.\u00a0 Sign on the dotted line.\u201d?\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 14.<\/a>\u00a0 The ignored eyewitness, in context probably a reporter:\u00a0 He saw a different<\/i> tractor-trailer, one \u201cwith canvas over the top\u201d and transporting strangers who did not even know who the Peoples Temple people were.<\/i>\u00a0 Certainly not the uncovered, wide-open Jonestown vehicle parked under the wing flap of the smaller plane on the edge of the airstrip.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No one ever questioned this eyewitness further.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 15<\/a>–16.<\/a>\u00a0 Summary of the evidence presented in sequential order.\u00a0 Again note exact quote from the \u201ceyewitness testimony\u201d of Jim Cobb, in points 12-14 on panel 16 of this summary:\u00a0 \u201cUpon arriving at the edge of the clearing [which he had already specified as \u2018fifty yards away\u2019] he look back and observed [i.e., from a distance of fifty yards] Tom Kice [Peoples Temple] shot Don Harris [a newsman already wounded on the ground] in the head at point blank range\u2026\u201d\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Note that a) Cobb is claiming a physically impossible (due to distance) \u201ceyewitness identification\u201d; b) he had no line of vision to identify anyone on the ground; and c) Tom Kice has been ruled out visually using the NBC film footage:\u00a0 he would have to have been black (no), excessively short (no), excessively tall (no) or have had curvature of the spine (no).\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a017.<\/a>\u00a0 A declassified log. evidence directly from the U.S. government of the only outside party known to enter Jonestown, or the area at all, that night:\u00a0 the C.I.A.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This section examines the alleged eyewitness identifications of the Port Kaituma assassins using the NBC film footage, the FBI eyewitness reports and other authenticated documents. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Note that this is a process that has not only never before been done, but is full of surprises and shocks.\u00a0 As will be verified in this section: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":33311,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-33318","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33318"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51145,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33318\/revisions\/51145"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}