Posted on 11/22/2006 8:19:47 AM PST by don-o
The big problem with criticisms of the "magic bullet" theory is that they mislocate Connally relative to Kennedy.
And the only people hit were Kennedy and Connally, despite the hailstorm of bullets that would have been flying across the plaza and into the crowds?
Wow, so Hillary was involved. They obviously waited until 2017 because she will be out of office by then.
Bystanders who were stopped on the Stemmons overpass to watch the parade were seen pointing towards the parking lot behind the bushes where this shot would have come from. They testified that they saw a person in a Dallas Police Officer Uniform run from the scene and drive off in an unmarked car. According to DPD no uniformed officer was assigned to this vantage point!
The uniformed soldier died recently but maintained his story. the Parkland autopsy was botched. The coffin that transported JFK back to Washington was flown out into the Atlantic and deep sixed after JFK was taken to Bethesda. Too many mysteries!
Get the History Channel show and watch it with an open imnd.
The Magic Bullet Theory was not put forth by conspiracists.
It was suggested by then-Warren Commission counsel Arlen Specter. Specter was hardly a tool of the "JFK was killed by a conspiracy" crowd.
As for the witnesses, there was one who had military training (and I believe was a combat veteran) who said emphatically that he could be shot coming from behind him and over him. The guy in the railroad tower (behind the picket fence) saw several individuals back there with weapons. He saw gun smoke and heard shots from there. The individuals left right after the shooting.
As for the bullet marks, let me clarify. It was two. In fact, afterwards investigators cut away the part of the curb that was struck. They never said "Yes, a bullet hit here" nor did they say "No, a bullet didn't strike here". Your attempt to say "Was it 2 or 1 or none" doesn't change this.
You're free to discredit the evidence of course. The evidence is less than perfect. But using a rational analysis of all the evidence combined, it becomes clear that there was a strong probability that there were multiple shooters.
Until someone comes forward (or new evidence comes out into the open) that can reasonably say that there was one shooter and it was Lee Harvey Oswald, there's no compelling reason to avoid believing that there were multiple shooters.
You will notice that in my posts I have been using the words "strong probability" and strong likelihood" in describing why there were multiple shooters. Unlike you, I'm not prepared to rule out any possibility. You, on the other hand, have clearly ruled out the possibility of multiple shooters.
Like I said above, we're gonna have to agree to disagree on this one - until the day (hopefully) where new evidence comes forth.
A hailstorm of bullets?
Hardly.
Best guesstimates point at 4-6 shots, all aimed at the limousine.
Aldous Huxley and C.S. Lewis also died that day. Poor saps.
Let's assume your theory is correct (it isn't, as I will demonstrate), using the conspiracy buffs' favorite alleged shooting sites. For a "triangulated crossfire," everyone's capping off at least three shots (anyone who was in the Army, like me, knows this). Try a minimum of 9 bullets, more likely 12-16. We've accounted for four of them. Where'd the rest go?
Well, as any law enforcement officer (again, like me) knows, they would've gone into the backstop.
Said backstop, in this case, being the crowds of people on each sidewalk.
How come nobody but Kennedy and Connally got hit? Did they use special bullets that, if they miss their intended target, just disappear in a puff of illogic?
You're assuming that what happened in Dealey Plaza turned into a one-sided shoot-out.
The individuals doing the shooting were highly trained. They weren't a bunch of gang-bangers unloading on someone during a drive-by shooting.
I'd have to go back and look as to where the missed shots went - but I am aware that at least one was recovered by either the Dallas Police or Secret Service afterwards.
I wish I could tell you that (for example) that Sniper 1 only fired once and hit his target) and Sniper 2 fired twice (missed once, hit the target once), etc. etc...but I can't.
No one knows for sure. But on the basis of my previous post, evidence seems to point towards multiple shooters.
As I also said, I hope that someday new evidence comes out that will authoritatively say "Yes, there was one shooter in the 6th floor corner of the Book Depository". With that will come the end of the conspiracy murmurs.
Until that point, it's fair to say (and safe to say) that there is a strong likelihood of multiple shooters.
And part of that training is "you keep shooting at maximum accurate rate of fire until the target(s) go(es) down." You do not waste an opportunity to engage the target(s).
I'd have to go back and look as to where the missed shots went - but I am aware that at least one was recovered by either the Dallas Police or Secret Service afterwards.
That's included in the total shots fired--four shots, three bullets in Kennedy and Connally, one recovered from the street.
And those bullet marks were cemented over within hours of the President's death.
I was 13 also - at school - they sent us home. Dad (it was his birthday) picked me up and took me home, but left it to my Mom to explain. Then they let me go to a friend's house to watch television. We didn't have TV, Dad really hated them. I happened to be watching TV at that friend's house when the shooting of Oswald took place.
What I remember most was how shook my parents were by those events. I was pretty much lost in my own world in those days - that was the first time I started to pay attention to the outside world.
I was in 4th grade - the priciple came in and announced to the class what had happened and our teacher told us to pray for the president. And that was in a public school! Imagine what would have happened to her if she did that now.
Malcolm X comment: "President Kennedy never foresaw that the chickens would come home to roost so soon... Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they always made me glad."
15 months later, Malcolm's chickens came home.
All you need do is roll the Zapruder film frame by frame.
You can see there are missing frames.
The most plausible theory I've heard is that the Mafia did it.
I've never done that. But I have heard that before.
Hard to say why there are missing frames.
Also, who did it?
So many unanswered questions. I wonder if we'll ever know who killed Kennedy and why.
I'm reminded of the final scene in the movie "The Rock" when Nicholas Cage runs out of the church, hops into his car and as they're driving down the road, he's looking at a microfilm and says to his wife "Honey, do you wanna know who killed President Kennedy?"
Half humorously, I wonder if that's how we'll ever find out.
I've heard there was for sure one, possibly two more films.
Trouble is, so much time has passed, so much evidence lost and/or intentionally modded, that even a death bed confession of the real shooter would fall on deaf ears.
The one thing we know is this: It was a very, very professional job done by some group that had resources and influence.
No matter what the ballistics evidence, the acoustic evidence, the eyewitness reports say, there is no way Oswald could have pulled it off.
Oswald, after all, was dead. He couldn't have participated in the cover up.
And there WAS a cover up.
"We've accounted for four of them."
If there were four shots, this presents a problem for the Lone Gunman Theory, since even the true believers of the Warren Commission Report do not claim that Lee Harvey Oswald got off more than three shots.
There could have been more than one shooter without there being a conspiracy, of course. My reading of the evidence leads me to conclude (albeit with less than complete certainty) that there were at least two, and possibly three, shooters who were operating independently that day.
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