From the site zg linked:
The Prouty Version
. . . Although the gunmen [in Dealey Plaza] may have used "automatic" weapons, it is more likely that what the reporters heard that day was the well-coordinated fire from at least three gunmen in different locations, and that they fired at least three times each.
This is an old firing-squad and professional hit-man ploy. It serves to remove the certain responsibility from each gunner as a psychological cleanser. If three men are to fire, they all know that two guns are loaded and one gun is firing blanks. The gunmen do not know who had the bullets, or who had the blanks. Each man can swear an oath that he was not the killer.
L. Fletcher Prouty: JFK, The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy, pp. 307-308.
A bit of basic Physics: Energy = .5(Mass)(Velocity
2).The "kick" of a rifle is Newton's "equal and opposite reaction" of
firing a bullet. In the .5(M)(V
2) equation for a gun firing blanks,
M, Mass, is zero, therefore there is basically no "kick". IOW, a shooter shooting blanks knows it.
This is the level of ignorance of the author WaterGeezer calls out as some sort of authority.
Another "Proutyism":
He says the U.S. lost 970 F-4 Phantom aircraft over Hanoi during the Vietnam War.
Ummmm ... no:When combined with U.S. Navy and Marine Corps losses of 233 Phantoms, 761 F-4/RF-4 Phantoms were lost in the Vietnam War.
Keep in mind: these are losses
anywhere in South or North Vietnam or in the Tonkin Gulf; this number
includes losses due to causes other than combat. An example of both would be the 7 F-4s lost in the USS Forrestal conflagration - the Forrestal in the Gulf and it was caused by a Zuni rocket carried by an F-4 that malfunctioned and fired while the F4 was on deck).
ETA: This Prouty character is hilarious! From zg's link:
Aside from advising Oliver Stone, Prouty is also extremely active with other conspiracy-hunters. He served, for example, as editorial adviser to publications of the futuristic Church of Scientology; as a consultant to the far right Lyndon LaRouche Organization, who also provided its convention with a presentation comparing the U.S. government's prosecution of Lyndon LaRouche (for mail fraud) "to the persecution of Socrates"; a board member of the Populist Action Committee, where he joined Robert Weems, a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, and John Rarick, the organizer of the White Citizens Council; and as a featured speaker for the anti-civil rights organization called the Liberty Lobby, whose founder, Willis Carto, also set up the Institute for Historic Review, a disseminator of books and videotapes that allege that the Nazi death camps in Europe were fictions devised by Zionist propaganda to justify tax money being donated to Israel. (It also published Prouty's own book, The Secret Team: the CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World.)
