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In reply to the discussion: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy believed President Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy. [View all]coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)having some possibility of recovering from brain death, said diagnosis done at a remove of 1,000s of miles and based upon television videos. I was telling a joke on myself, I thought.
The bullet (CE 399) 'glanced' off Connally's wrist because it was 'tumbling', its velocity having markedly slowed from having entered at the rear of JFK's neck and exited from the front of his throat first. Furthermore, before reaching Connally's wrist, the bullet smashed through Connally's chest, but encountered only tissue and not bone there. I think I've got this right, given my layperson's understanding of ballistics.
My point about the photo was that you show one and only one photo of CE 399 when other photos show that the bullet is not pristine. I know this b/c Bugliosi printed at least one such photo in RH.
With all due respect, I merely responded to your somewhat snarky statement that believing the WCR 'restored my faith in humanity.' I lost that faith once and for all starting in October of 2002 when the Dems (Gebhardt and Daschle) caved in to Bush on going to war in Iraq. The only thing that will now restore it is Bush and Cheney's prosecution for war crimes and crimes against humanity (something Bugliosi has called for, by the way).