Re: Resolving Kennedy's Assassination

From: Steve Harris sbharris_at_ROMAN9.netcom.com (sbharris_at_ix.netcom.com)
Date: 10/12/04 

Date: 11 Oct 2004 20:17:52 -0700

brodix@earthlink.net (brodix) wrote in message news:<a09976c7.0410101558.351991e6@posting.google.com>...
> Adding to the conspiracy aspect of this forum...

> There were three primary wounds and two secondary wounds.
> The first shot struck Kennedy in the upper back and travelled at an
> upward trajectory, exiting out his neck.

That's actually a downward trajectory, as it was the extreme upper
back, and JFK tended to slump.

I don't recall any
> description of internal damage, but there were minor fragment wounds
> around the entry wound. This bullet apparently lodged in the window
> frame, next to the rearview mirror.

No. Those fragments were tiny, and could just as easily have been
fragments from the final shot to the head, which fragmented badly.

> It seems likely that this bullet did not hit Kennedy directly, but
> struck directly behind him and ricoshetted at an upward angle.

No, it hit him directly, as shown by the very tiny and round entry
hole. The exit hole was destoyed by the trach, but witnesses testimony
suggests it was round as well.

All these are probably the second shot Oswald fired. His first no
doubt hit a tree limb on the oak, and probably then the curb and
underpass down the street. I recommend a good reading of G. Posner's
_Case Closed_. (Posner only screws up once-- there is a picture
proving that 15 yo Oswald was in the Civil Air Patrol with Ferrie in
1955, weird as that may be).

  
> The second shot struck Connelly in the back and grazed a rib as it
> was exiting. This bullet then entered his leg and fell out on the
> hopital gurney. It was this bullet that the Warren Commision claimed
> had hit both Kennedy and Connelly, thus earning the "magic bullet"
> designation because it was in such good condition.

No, the magic moniker was because of a screwup in doing angles. But
when you get everybody placed right, it works. See Case Closed.

> Even Connelly didn't believe this. According to an interview with Dan
> Rather that I saw, he said that after the first shot, he turned around
> and saw that Kennedy was hit. He turned back forward and was struck.
> He also said the third shot was louder than the first two.

Alas, the Zapruder film shows Connelly is wrong. His lapel flips up
after the bullet goes through his chest, and you can see this before
JFK even exits from being hidden behind the Stemmons sign (where you
see he's been shot also). So Connelly is hit HERE, and it's with the
same bullet that hits JFK through the neck. Connelly doesn't glance
back until after this. Yes, it takes Connelly a few tenths of a second
to react to being shot, and probably even to feel it. But that's how
getting shot is.

> One of the first two bullets also went through Kennedy's right wrist.

No, that's Connelly's wrist, and it's the same magic bullet.

 
> The third shot struck Kennedy in the head and caused massive damage
> to the right side. There were fragments in his brain that showed up on
> x-rays taken at the hospital.
> Presuming this bullet struck him in the back of the head. It must
> have fragmented on contact.

Correct.

>
> So there were five wounds. Four were the normal entry/exist wounds
> expected of a high-powered military round of the sort used in Oswald's
> rifle. The last one was caused by a round that fragmented completely
> on contact.

No. Tests with 6.5 mm ammo show that even 140 gr FMJ slugs like Oswald
used, can fragment completely in hitting something hard like a skull.
And yet can also go through a slabs of meat without being deformed,
but simply slowing a lot. Which happened with the JFK-neck
Connolly-chest bullet.

>
> Consider that one of the memorable clues was that on the motorcycle
> dictagraph recording, the were three clear spikes that were clearly
> the result of gunshots, but a seventh of a second after the third
> shot, there was another spike that wasn't quite as prominant. This was
> held up as evidence of a fourth shot.

The dictabelt contains conversation that proves it didn't happen at
the time of the shooting, but later. It's irrelevent.

> Earlier this summer, there was an episode of Histories Mysteries that
> was about the various photographers on the scene and the information
> that could be gleaned from them and their pictures. Toward the end of
> the show, one of them was describing how shocked he was as it
> happened. Then he said that when he felt the pressure of the third
> shot on his face, he knew it was for real.
>
> Of the conspiracy theories, the main contention has been that there
> was a shooter on the grassy knoll, behind the fence. The primary
> reason for this was because the acoustics made it sound as if the
> third shot had come from a different location and it was the closest
> possibility.
> Another reason was an apparent puff of smoke in one of the pictures.
> It should be noted that "smokeless gunpowder" had replaced black
> powder when modern guns replaced muzzle loaders.

Which makes this idea especially dumb. Maybe they shot JFK with a
civil war Springfield muzzle loader and black powder??

> Another conspiracy theory is that Oswald had not actually been the
> one firing the gun, but had been set up.

A man fitting Oswald's description was seen firing from the 6th floor
window. Oswald's description was broadcast, and that's why he was
stopped by Officer Tibbets (whom he certainly killed).

>If you accept the possibility
> that the first shot ricoshetted, then the first two shots actually
> missed. This doesn't seem as though it would be the work of a
> professional.

Oswald wasn't a professional, though he did shoot well. His weapon
wasn't a pro weapon.

> Oswald had tried to kill a general some months previously and had
> missed with the one shot he fired. If this was his trial run, an
> obvious lesson would be not to count on only one shot.

Yep. Read _Case Closed_

SBH

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