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In reply to the discussion: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy believed President Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy. [View all]stopbush
(24,396 posts)1. 3 shots by Oswald: the Zapruder film proves that Oswald had 8.5 seconds to take his three shots. The cartridge for the first shot was already loaded in the firing chamber, so you start the clock on the three shots the instant first shot is fired. That gives Oswald 8.5 second to fire TWO MORE SHOTS. Get it? That gives him 4-plus seconds to take the second shot AND another 4-plus seconds to take the third shot. That is not only well within the range of possibility, it is almost TWICE the amount of time that it took the test shooters for the Warren Commission to get off 3 shots WITH Oswald's rifle - misaligned scope and all - and WITH accuracy. One shooter accomplished the task in 4.6 seconds.
But you don't know that because you've never bothered reading THE EVIDENCE.
2. The neutron activation analysis proves that CE399 struck Connally. Period. It is indisputable. End of crazy talk.
3. Smear the FBI because you don't like the results they got.
And what does Ken Rahn have to do with the examination and testing of the bullet fragments that was done by John Lattimer? You provide a link to an article critical of a statistical analysis done by a guy who had nothing to do with Lattimer's examination of the physical evidence.
4. Wow! Now, this is embarrassing - for you. That looks like the laugh riot of a drawing that appeared in Livingston and Groden's "High Treason."
You're repeating the fanciful seating of JFK and Connally that is disproved by 1. the Zapruder film, 2. every still photo and video photo ever taken of the two men in the limo, and 3. the actual location of the seats and positions of the men in the limo when the shots were fired. You're basically presenting the Oliver Stone LIE about how they were positioned.
There IS NO CONTROVERSY about how and where the men were seated in the limo IF YOU BELIEVE IN SCIENCE. Here's the evidence that proves how stupid that drawing you presented is:
First, check out the height difference between JFK and Connally as shown conclusively in this photo:
Second, here is a picture of the limo after it was returned to DC. Notice the difference in the seat heights:
Third, a picture taken by Dallas photographer Duane Robinson CLEARLY shows the alignment of the men as seen from the rear of the limo. Is Connally seated directed in front of JFK as proposed in your ridiculous drawing? Or is he seated INBOARD from JFK, and LOWER than JFK? Duh!:
Here's a drawing by Thomas Canning, a NASA scientist who studied the Single Bullet trajectory for the House Select Committee on Assassinations. He used the Betzner photograph to establish a line to the right of which Connally could not have been. He also estimated the rotation of Connally's torso from the Zapruder film. The result was an alignment that showed the bullet leaving Kennedy's throat to strike Connally in the back near the shoulder which is where Connally was actually struck (rear of the limo is to the right of the drawing).
Here's a computer-generated look from the sniper's nest at how the men were seated, produced by Dale Myers using the Zapruder film and other physical markers to determine the positions of the men in the limo. Notice how closely it mirrors the photograph shown above:
Failure Analysis Associates, in work done for a 1992 "mock trial" of Lee Harvey Oswald for the American Bar Association, used 3-D computer animation and modelling techniques to research the bullet trajectory, and concluded that the Single Bullet Trajectory works:
Yeah, that seating diagram you provided is a HUGE gaffe on your part and a real embarrassment. No wonder you're so wrong and deluded about what happened that day when you're trusting such idiotic drawings to inform your beliefs about the killing.