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In reply to the discussion: Let's have a poll on JFK [View all]Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)There's also a serious problem for your thesis: the bullets that struck Kennedy and Connally came from Oswald's rifle. From the sixth floor of the TSBD. The large fragment from the headshot recovered from the interior of the presidential limousine, and the intact bullet recovered from Connally's stretcher in Parkland, match the rifling characteristics of Oswald's rifle, to the exclusion of all other weapons. JFK's autopsy and subsequent forensic reviews of the evidence of autopsy photos and X-rays agree that both shots came from behind. There's nothing "magic" about the "magic bullet"; it did exactly what one would expect a fully-jacketed military round to do, and given the relative positions of Kennedy and Connally, they *have* to have been struck by the same bullet (the bullet that struck Connally in the back? Left a slightly oblate wound of entry, which means it was tumbling, which means it had already passed through something; that something was Kennedy). Reconstruction of trajectories from the entry wounds gives a cone that centres on the 6th floor "sniper's nest". Multiple witnesses (including the mayor of Dallas) saw a rifle in the sixth-floor window. Men on break on the fifth floor heard the shots coming from above them, heard the bolt being cycled, heard the spent brass hitting the floor. Oswald was the only TSBD employee unaccounted for. So, evidence: the shots came from the TSBD. They came from Oswald's rifle. (The rifle Oswald had left at Ruth Paine's house and went to get the night before, telling Wesley Frazier it was "curtain rods" . Process of elimination says that Oswald was the shooter, because who else would have been in the TSBD with his rifle?
Other problems with your thesis: Oswald got the TSBD job seven weeks before the assassination after Ruth Paine told him they were hiring (one of her neighbours was a foreman there). George de Mohrenschildt? Left Dallas for Haiti in June. Five months before.