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In reply to the discussion: Who murdered JFK? [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)91. Impossible Bullet
Here's the Warren Commission's entire argument ... The Magic Bullet.
JFK Exhibit F-294
Photo of 5 bullets fired from the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle: (left to right) the "magic bullet" (CE 399), two bullets fired into cotton wadding(CE 572), a bullet fired through a goat rib (CE 853), and a bullet fired through the wrist of a human cadaver (CE 856).
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?absPageId=45739
The magic bullet appears to have been fired into cotton wadding.
That makes clear why the Warren Commission's case is bogus.
Few, if any, of the Warren Commission's claims for CE 399 are supported by the evidence. On the contrary, there is a mass of evidence that refutes the SBT. This includes:
Eyewitness testimony - particularly that of John Connally himself.[3] Connally always insisted that he was hit after JFK was wounded in the throat.
Photographic evidence - the Zapruder film shows John Connally still holding his Stetson after JFK has been hit.[4]
Ballistics evidence - Arlen Specter even disproved his own theory when trying to line up the locations of wounds on JFK and Connally in a reconstruction using wires in a garage.[5] The picture of the reconstruction shows Specter having to hold a straight wire well above the marked location of the JFK back wound in order to line up JFK's throat wound with Connally's back wound.
Physical evidence - the bullet itself, CE 399[6], which is barely distorted and almost intact despite claims that it smashed 10cm of Connally's fifth rib and shattered his radius (a hefty bone). CE 399 also has a very dubious chain of evidence. This alone would probably result in CE 399 not being allowed as evidence in a court.
Medical evidence - the bodies of JFK and John Connally.
CONTINUED...
http://www.acorn.net/jfkplace/09/fp.back_issues/22nd_Issue/sbt.html
Thank you for asking your question, gopiscrap. While it's been 50 years soon, this world continues to change in an awful way because of the assassination of President Kennedy.
JFK Exhibit F-294
Photo of 5 bullets fired from the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle: (left to right) the "magic bullet" (CE 399), two bullets fired into cotton wadding(CE 572), a bullet fired through a goat rib (CE 853), and a bullet fired through the wrist of a human cadaver (CE 856).
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?absPageId=45739
The magic bullet appears to have been fired into cotton wadding.
That makes clear why the Warren Commission's case is bogus.
Few, if any, of the Warren Commission's claims for CE 399 are supported by the evidence. On the contrary, there is a mass of evidence that refutes the SBT. This includes:
Eyewitness testimony - particularly that of John Connally himself.[3] Connally always insisted that he was hit after JFK was wounded in the throat.
Photographic evidence - the Zapruder film shows John Connally still holding his Stetson after JFK has been hit.[4]
Ballistics evidence - Arlen Specter even disproved his own theory when trying to line up the locations of wounds on JFK and Connally in a reconstruction using wires in a garage.[5] The picture of the reconstruction shows Specter having to hold a straight wire well above the marked location of the JFK back wound in order to line up JFK's throat wound with Connally's back wound.
Physical evidence - the bullet itself, CE 399[6], which is barely distorted and almost intact despite claims that it smashed 10cm of Connally's fifth rib and shattered his radius (a hefty bone). CE 399 also has a very dubious chain of evidence. This alone would probably result in CE 399 not being allowed as evidence in a court.
Medical evidence - the bodies of JFK and John Connally.
CONTINUED...
http://www.acorn.net/jfkplace/09/fp.back_issues/22nd_Issue/sbt.html
Thank you for asking your question, gopiscrap. While it's been 50 years soon, this world continues to change in an awful way because of the assassination of President Kennedy.
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Although I voted Oswald, it is strongly possible that he was set up by the Mafia.
GreenStormCloud
Sep 2013
#14
A lot of people just can't seem to bear the idea that a big event might have a small cause.
Silent3
Sep 2013
#65
The HSCA did not identify suspects. Many they wanted to interview ended up dead by violence.
Octafish
Sep 2013
#87
Oswald acted alone. ZERO evidence on ANY other scenario. Evidence overwhelming.
RBInMaine
Sep 2013
#27
My fave theory is that Oswald acted alone, but that he was aiming for Connally.
Benton D Struckcheon
Sep 2013
#42
Werner Herzog once gave a long speech about how good the Warren Commission report is
Recursion
Sep 2013
#46
JFK. Albiet a JFK from an alternate timeline where he survived the assasination attmept...
TheMightyFavog
Sep 2013
#68
I do not know, but the story told by the state smells like poo-poo. n/t
PowerToThePeople
Sep 2013
#77
As long as we're prancing far afield with every option for creative speculation, why not include
MADem
Sep 2013
#104
I thought only right-wingers believed conspiracy theories to this sort of extent.
PlanetaryOrbit
Sep 2013
#120