Response to Critics:
No One Saw
The argument that there were no witnesses, that “No one saw”
Hickey shoot (http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/D%20Disk/Donahue%20Howard/Item%2002.pdf
“No Solid Witnesses”) falls short for several reasons. Critics of the
Donahue theory who use the argument that no one actually saw Hickey shoot the
rifle seem to think that people are going to see a bullet from a high-power
rifle traveling through the air. Either that, or they think that someone should
have seen Hickey take aim. (He didn't. It was an accident that happened while he was falling.) Or if these critics are talking about the muzzle
flash from the shooting, there’s a real reason no one saw the flash.
After reading the Menninger and McLaren books, one can see
that there is plenty of witness testimony and other evidence to support the
Donahue theory. The idea that “no one saw” is misleading. People did not see
Hickey aim, because he didn’t. He fell over (there are witnesses to that), and the gun discharged
accidentally. Moreover, Hickey was shielded from view by agents on the running
boards of both sides of the follow-up car. People didn’t see the muzzle blast,
because the AR-15 was equipped with a flash suppressor. And most especially,
human beings are afflicted with a condition known as “Inattention blindness.”
