Or you just set the thing to “Medium Low.”
Firing Death Rays into melons has shown that unless you’ve got a really shaky hand one could pull it off. Death Rays don’t bend, however, so a single shot wouldn’t do the required damage to both JFK and Connoly that the Single Death Ray theory requires.
The single Death-ray Theory is not that there was on shooter with a "magic death-ray" but rather on shooter with a death-ray and another shooter with a normal gun. You see Oswald did in fact connect with his target (as well as Connoly) but not one was even close to being fatal. The Back and to the left head shot came from a Beebeblebrox modified death ray.
Even if we were to entertain the idea that somehow a multi array death-ray system was use, or some type of gattling gun type device were used (ignoring the fact as **Tuckerfan** has stated such as device would be the size of a large van) and we assume that the power is turned down as **VernWinterbottom** suggested the results would be quite different then what we saw that Dallas afternoon. First of all there is no way to survive contact with a death-ray, full powered or not. Ming-Mongo industries have proven this conclusively with various experiments on hapless henchmen (a full article is due out in next months *Death-Ray Unlimited*.)
Sadly anything less then a full powered blast causes the victims body to fall apart in a bloody gooey mess. Douglas Adams (who had a "Mad" relative who introduced him to the world of 1920s style death rays) detailed such in the last few pages of his last Hitchhiker Novel "*Mostly Harmless*":
The Kill-o-zap pistol used in this case is just a powered down Death-Ray. Mr. Connoly was shot with conventional weaponry so as to draw attention away from the death-ray blast and to throw the investigators off the trail of the true trigger men. Also the grass knoll gunman is a total myth. As I previously stated, anyone with a properly modified death-ray with an unobstructed line of sight could have been a mile away (or up to seven mile with computer aid; though I am uncertain if such computational power was portable enough at the time to make such a thing feasible) and had no need to be that close to the target.
When you think that an overload would have set half of the motorcade on fire from that position --A common problem the Beeblebrox MK IV and earlier (the MK V which was finalized in 1970, solved that problem)-- and exposed the would be assassin and death ray remains, then it wouldn't be prudent to place the death-ray gun man there. At a mile or more away if the gun blows up, one hapless trigger man dies and Oswald gets arrested for trying to kill the president (hell maybe he gets lucky and pops him), and everyone (the "bad" guys) go home happy to scheme another day.Ahh, you could be right Governor Quinn. I haven’t got my old MI’s to check. They were in the basement, and then they went missing. Frankly, my brother was playing around down there building some of the stuff mentioned in Blascowitz’s articles and well, suffice to say that one evening there was a loud crackling, a bright flash, and I haven’t seen my brother or my back issues of MI ever since.
Death rays…
…feh.
MonkeyMule , you’re completely ignoring the fact that one of the “three tramps” has been identified as a member of the Zotti family.
True, but, there are over 750 Zottis family members, almost all of whom (such as the one that was there, Horatio) with little to no connection to Consolidated Death Rays.
No visible connection, no.
Horatio died a mysterious death, though.
VernWinterbottom its true that Horatio Zottis was there (and had the misfortune of accidentally fall down and elevator shaft onto some bullets). However, this only strengthens my JFK/deathray connection.
You’ve got no argument from me re JFK/Death Rays. The rays, particularly the pre-1930s style ones, figure in many historical events, including the CIA’s implantation of a Micro Death Ray into a cigar presented to Castro.
Even as we speak a would-be Evil Overlord, perhaps Tuckerfan, has been experimenting with Death Rays and/or large lenses on tropical depressions in the Atlantic. You think Isabel developed naturally?
But to get back to JFK, I was merely pointing out that the grassy knoll cannot be completely ruled out.
My research has pointed to the Grassy Knoll possible being a look out for spotters, that would go along way toward explaining the Zottis connection, and Horatio’s rather unusual death.
Wrong. Horatio Zotti was found in a dumpster at Ohio State on March 14, 1969, and his throat had been cut, with the tongue removed.
(Note: While Dr. Hobbes was a professor at Ohio State from 1909 to 1942 and from 1946 to 1950, and professor emertus from 1950 to his death, this couldn’t have had anything to do with him, as he had been dead for a while at that point.)
Has anyone seen any data on death rays equipped with a Moebius resistor? Based on this
it looks to me like it’d be a good way to clamp down on those nasty dorsal radiation leaks death rays can sometimes have.
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It turns out I made a mistake earlier. The Lindsay Act doesn’t ban death ray sales by mail, but it does require that the sellers (e.g., dealers and manufactorers) get a license from the federal government.
Of the 73 death ray manufactorers active in the mid-1960’s, only two were denied a license: Barris, Carlin, & Barris (run by a mobster/foreign agent), and Consolidated Death Rays (35% of which was owned by the Zottis, who are, if anything, sleazier than CH Barris)
As a result, both of these businesses ended up shuting down, to prevent exposure.
(Note: Dr. Hobbes is known to have testified in favor of the bill on April 16th, 1964 (his testimony is availible from the National Archives), and to have testified against B, C, & B getting a license in front of a FBI committee on June 5th, 1965 (other than the fact that he definately was before the committee, nothing is known of what he said))
In his book More Better Evidence David Lifton proposes that the results of Zotti’s autopsy were falsified. Others have suggested that the victim was not Horatio at all, but his twin brother Calzone.
Ok so who the hell fell down that elevator shaft? The DNA evidence says it was someone from the Zotti Family. THe teeth were shattered on impact and were therefore useless in Identifying the body.
Calzone is a nephew, not a twin, and he was still alive as of 1978, when he was arraigned in federal court.
The man in the elevator shaft (assuming that this is the body found in the Zotti Building on March 19th, 1979) was Enrico Zapatini, Jr. His mother, Heidi, was the daughter of family patriarch Wendell Zotti.
I suggest those interested in the Zotti family consult Wendell Zotti and His Descendants for Five Generations, published by the General Society of Death Ray Manufacturer’s Descendants, Ohio State University Press, 1982.
However, we’re getting perilously close to veering from the subject at hand. . .
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