Although speculation remains mixed about the presence of a shooter on the grassy knoll, at least one witness's testimony can be disregarded as evidence of a shooter: S.M. Holland.

“I saw a puff of smoke still lingering among the trees in front of the wooden fence."

Unless the "professional assassins" were using Civil War heirlooms to shoot at the president, smoke is not an indication of weapon discharge. Small arms have used smokeless ammunitions since the late 19th century.

Mrs. Oswald’s third and final day of testimony established the opposite of reasonable doubt. The examination queried Mrs. Oswald’s satisfaction with her treatment by the Secret Service and FBI during her time in protective custody after the death of Mr. Oswald, during which she stayed at various hotels and finally with the Martin family – a non-Russian speaking household - that allowed Mrs. Oswald to acquire limited English.

Mrs. Oswald indicated that she had been treated well by her government escorts, had not been denied freedoms, nor had she been denied visitors.

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LBJ trying not to look like the cat that shot the canary.

Breakfast speech in Fort Worth, day of.

Some pundits have dismissed witness testimony placing shots in the area of the grassy knoll because Dealey Plaza is an echo chamber.

But Dealey Plaza isn't an echo chamber, is it? Among the witnesses who identified a shot location, it was one of two places: The TSBD Building or the grassy knoll. An echo chamber would have created multiple sound sources such that the shots couldn't be pinpointed, or witnesses would have identified more than two sources.

JFK Assassination witness Howard Brennan is the mostly like source of the description of the shooter that was sent to the Dallas PD fifteen minutes after the assassination that resulted in Oswald’s arrest by 1:50pm.

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