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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)The idea of CE399 being a "magic bullet" rests on two uninformed (simple-minded?) fallacies.
1. The claim that JFK and Oswald were seated in the limo in such a way that the bullet had to magically turn mid-air after exiting JFK's throat to enter Connally's back. This is, of course, an outright lie/rank stupidity, because it's clear from the EVIDENCE that JFK and Connally were, in fact, aligned in such a way that any bullet hitting JFK and passing through him had nowhere to go but into Connally. That truth is supported by the fact that Connally was seated anywhere from 3.5 to 6 inches inboard from the side of the presidential limo.
What's strange is that you - Octafish - have a problem believing this. Yet it doesn't stop you from providing links to CTists like Pat Speer who AGREE that JFK and Connally were aligned in such a way that the second shot hit both men. You cite people who you consider to be "experts" to support one aspect of whatever your CT du jour happens to be, apparently unaware that those same experts shoot down another aspect of your CT du jour.
2. The claim that a bullet passing through both men could not have caused all the damage it did and still appear to be relatively undamaged. Of course, this ignores the fact that a) the fully jacketed round that hit JFK and Connally acted EXACTLY the way a fully jacketed round would be expected to act if it encountered only soft tissue passing through JFK, yawing as it exited JFK and never impacting Connally nose-first, and b) that the bullet was not in any sense of the word "pristine."
It also ignores the fact that numerous tightly controlled and well-documented tests over the decades have produced rounds that are just as "pristine" as CE399 wasn't after passing through soft tissue, impacting bone, etc, in the same way CE399 impacted both JFK and Connally.
Continuing to call CE399 a "magic bullet" says nothing about the path of the bullet, the alignment of the victims in the limo or the likelihood that CE399 caused all the damage it did, and everything about the willing (studied?) ignorance of the person making such a claim.