The "Magic Bullet" Theory
This is the glorious magic bullet trajectory that all the conspiracy experts subscribe to:
It "Magically" twists in mid air moves two feet to Kennedys right and hits Connelly. Problem is Connelly wasn't sitting in front of JFK. he was lower and to his left in a jump seat. This is a rare photo of the limo after it arrived in DC the day of the assassination
Notice the jump seat. See how the far the seat is from the door jam? Well fine and well but can't tell from that angle. Look at Connelly in this photo (behind Mrs. Connellys head hard to see I know).
See the top of his head is lower. "Yeah but what about to the seat to JFK's left?. Here's a real treat. A very rare 8 mm film shot by Dave Powers (a very close friend of JFK) on 11/22/63 from the car directly behind Kennedys. He unfortuniately ran out of film 10 mins before they got to Dealy Plaza (Right click on the link and save it to your desktop. Makes it easier to blow up for better detail to see where Connelly is sitting. Its only 3.5megs and you need Quicktime to view it)
Look at where Connelly is, directly to his left. So that kills the theory of the bullet making a sharp turn to the right.
So heres its official course:
This is what Oswalds 140 foot shot whould have looked like on 11/22/63.
The Oswald shot itself was recreated for A Discovery Channel special "Unsolved History: JFK — Beyond the Magic Bullet". It attempted to replicate, as best as possible, the conditions of that day. The participants set up blocks of ballistics gel with a substance similar to human bone inside. These studies showed that largely undeformed bullets were possible to produce, if they were slowed by a passage though a tissue-like substance before striking bone. Next, two mannequin figures made of ballistic anatomical substances (animal skin, gelatin, and interior bone-like cast) were set up in the exact relative position of JFK and Connally.
A marksman, from a distance equal to that of the sixth floor of the Book Depository building, fired the same rifle model found in the Book Depository, using a round from the same batch of "Western Case Cartridge Company" 6.5x52 mm ammunition purchased with the surplus Carcano weapon in early 1963. The path of their single bullet (followed by high speed photography) duplicated, almost exactly, the wounds suffered by the victims that day, the only difference being that the bullet did not quite have enough energy to penetrate the "thigh" substance in front of the Connally figure, because it struck an extra bone in the "rib" model (i.e., it fractured 2 ribs in the model vs. one rib in Connally). It was also slightly more deformed than CE 399, possibly for the same reason. However, this bullet came close enough to duplicating all wounds in both men with a single shot, with a bullet having little deformation. Thus the theory was proven to be much more plausible than previously thought.
If you like I can tell you about the Grassy Knowl shot and why it couldn't be done.