Fifty Years Ago Today...

[bobabode]

President Kennedy was assassinated.

[Zeke]

I believe it was a lone gunman. I have stood in the upper floor of the depository and have studied with Masaad Ayoob questioning in reference to the difficulty of the shots, themselves.

1. Very easy shot.
2. Accurate enough weapon.
3. Trained marksman.
4. Open car.

We always want the great tragedies to be caused by larger than a single fool. Most often, Occam's Razor rules.

I believe it does, here.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Zeke

I believe it was a lone gunman. I have stood in the upper floor of the depository and have studied with Masaad Ayoob questioning in reference to the difficulty of the shots, themselves.

1. Very easy shot.
2. Accurate enough weapon.
3. Trained marksman.
4. Open car.

We always want the great tragedies to be caused by larger than a single fool. Most often, Occam's Razor rules.

I believe it does, here.

Agreed.

[piece-itpete]

What a horrible thing.

An aside, the former Mrs Kennedy continues to be a huge hit. I saw her on a magazine cover at the supermarket the other day.

And, agreed x2. He was a loon.

Pete

[donquixote99]

But Zapruder shows shot coming in the front, out the back.

We'll likely never really know the true story, but Oswald didn't fire that shot.

[bobabode]

Not really. The exit wound was in the front with a small entry wound in the rear of his head. The reason his body jerked back is that there was a massive clenching of his muscles with the back muscles being the strongest. The complete Warren Commission Report has been digitized and is available on line. PBS has a good episode debunking the second gunman theory.

[donquixote99]

Won't argue this stuff.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

But Zapruder shows shot coming in the front, out the back.

We'll likely never really know the true story, but Oswald didn't fire that shot.

I believe that he did.

I'd have to look it up for specifics but I have seen tests conducted using the same weapon (which is an odd chambering and has some unusual penetration qualities) where shots fired into melons, ballistic gel, or whatever they were using caused a pressure wave and the struck object moved in odd directions due to lack of bullet expansion...

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

What a horrible thing.

An aside, the former Mrs Kennedy continues to be a huge hit. I saw her on a magazine cover at the supermarket the other day.

And, agreed x2. He was a loon.

Pete

Jacqueline Bouvier was six months older than me, she died in 1994. She was extremely attractive, and I saw the magazine -People.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

But Zapruder shows shot coming in the front, out the back.

We'll likely never really know the true story, but Oswald didn't fire that shot.

Always looked to me like the exist wound was in the back of the head.

But who asked me, huh?

Chas