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327:, the corpus of reliable evidence in the case changed. With respect to the forensic evidence in particular, Thompson claims that advances in scientific research with regard to both acoustics and ballistics removed what had been thought to be major facts from the table of genuine evidence, by showing them to be mistaken.
190:, a seaside village just north of San Francisco. He serves as registered agent for the Bolinas Cemetery Corporation, defending the 150-year-old graveyard from vandals, litterbugs and developers. Their daughter, Lis, died of breast cancer in 2015. Their son, Everson, practices as a criminal defense private investigator in
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some 54 years earlier, Thompson eschews all speculation as to who the conspirators may have been as well as their motives. Focusing on the final second of the assassination, he contends that
Kennedy was hit twice in the head, just 0.71 seconds apart, by bullets fired from diametrically opposed
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Kennedy assassination, including some of his conclusions. Combined with personal memoirs and accounts of his investigation of the evidence, the 475-page illustrated result (361 pages of text, plus appendix, extensive notes and index),
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in 1966 and 1967. In the end, Thompson writes, he concluded that the cleansed forensic arguments confirm what numerous eye-witnesses reported just after the shooting in
November 1963, that is, that Kennedy had been shot from the front as well as from behind.
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in 1957 and immediately entered the Navy, serving in
Underwater Demolition Team 21. Returning to Yale, Thompson earned his Ph.D. in 1964. He joined the Yale faculty as Instructor in Philosophy and then moved on to teach at
152:. Thompson worked as a PI for thirty-five years, retiring in 2011. He worked mostly in criminal cases, including the investigation of dozens of murders. Among his better-known cases were participation in the defense of
399:. In this interview, Thompson deploys both his philosophical and his criminal investigative skills to elucidate the difference between logical inferences premised on facts and speculative conspiratorial theorizing.
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