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Gerald Posner is an investigative journalist and author of several books, including Case Closed (1993) , about the John F. Kennedy assassination. In this work, Posner attempts to prove that both John F. Kennedy's assassinator Lee Harvey Oswald, and that man's assassinator, Jack Ruby, acted alone, without the aid of a conspiracy.
Posner theorized that when Oswald fired his first shot he fired it into the foliage of a closeby tree, only 62' away from Oswald. Posner theorized that first bullet was deflected by a tree branch then traveled some 425', hit the south upper curbstone of Main Street, and caused the right facial cheek wound on James Tague (Tague has always stated he was struck concurrent with the second or third shot --or second or third volley of shots-- Tague remembered hearing). Tague has stated that Posner has never interviewed him, while Posner responds that he has tapes of himself interviewing Tague for his book and cites his phone bill (http://www.geocities.com/m_j_russ/phone.txt) as evidence of conversations with Tague and others. Posner theorized that Oswald fired a second shot less than one second after Kennedy became visible again from behind the tree at Zapruder film frame 207 to 208. Posner theorized that this second bullet was the "single bullet theory" bullet that passed through both Kennedy and Governor John Connally at Zapruder film frame 223, causing eight wounds while breaking two major body bones, yet the bullet was later found at Parkland Hospital in nearly intact condition, having lost only a documented 1.5% of its average weight. Posner theorized that the third and final 265.3' shot was fired by Oswald and killed Kennedy when it struck him in the right rear of his head between Zapruder frame 312 and 313.
The recent 2003 book by Posner, Why America Slept, discusses the conspiracy of the Arab al-Qaeda terrorists who were responsible for the September 11, 2001 attacks. Posner, a strong supporter of Al Gore, wrote a Wall Street Journal editorial on September 25, 2001 reversing his opinion of George W. Bush in light of the September 11 attacks.
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