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Hidden in Plain Sight - Did a Secret Service Agent Accidentally Shoot JFK?
Medium True Crime ^ | Oct. 8, 2017 | Bonar Menninger

Posted on 11/22/2019 9:52:46 AM PST by Hot Tabasco

early 1989, I was working as a business reporter in Washington, D.C., and interviewing a private investigator for a story about his company. At the end of our conversation, he casually mentioned he’d done some research into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

“Oh yeah?” I said, in an ironic, indifferent way. “So who killed him?” He said: “Well, I think this gunsmith in Baltimore, a guy named Howard Donahue, figured it out.” The private eye showed me a magazine article from 1977 and as I read it, my skepticism began to fade. Within a week, I was heading to nearby Towson, Maryland, to meet Donahue in person.

Donahue’s Dealey Plaza odyssey began 21 years earlier. The World War II veteran was a firearms specialist who’d testified as an expert witness in multiple shooting cases. He was also a well-known marksman. That’s why he’d been recruited to take part in a CBS News reenactment of the shooting in the spring of 1967.

The network wanted to know if Lee Harvey Oswald’s Italian military-surplus, bolt-action rifle really could have been fired three times with two hits on a moving target in less than six seconds. Donahue proved that it could. Of the 11 shooters participating in the experiment, only Donahue exceeded Oswald’s performance by scoring three hits in 4.8 seconds, well under the 5.6-second maximum....

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; History
KEYWORDS: 19631122; baltimore; carlosmarcello; dallas; dealeyplaza; howarddonahue; jackruby; jfk; mafia; maryland; no; nonext; oswaldwasapatsy; secretservice; texas; towson
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To: mfish13

Read statement by hickey Nov 23 1963. He said AR 15 in the statement.


121 posted on 11/22/2019 1:19:19 PM PST by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: plain talk
My problem is I have never been able to watch the Zapruder film and feel convinced the shot came from behind based on how his head reels backwards. Perhaps the car was speeding up at the exact moment the head shot was delivered. Dunno.

Best explanation i've heard is that when people get shot in the head, they sometimes "twitch" or "spasm" violently. I believe years ago I saw some documentary which stated this was the cause of his backward motion.

Besides, entrance and exit holes indicate direction of travel. Little hole for entrance, big hole for exit is the norm.

122 posted on 11/22/2019 1:25:46 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no oither sovereignty.")
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To: TheNext

You winz teh threddz 4ever!


123 posted on 11/22/2019 1:30:36 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: Michael.SF.

“I stopped reading at that point.”

You should have read the next couple sentences where they came to the exact same conclusion that you did.


124 posted on 11/22/2019 1:37:26 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Hot Tabasco

Thanks for posting. I took the time to read the entire article. It was long, but the author presented a solid case. Count me as convinced that his theory is plausible. And Epstein didn’t kill himself.


125 posted on 11/22/2019 1:37:53 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: karnage

It was an easy shot from that window.


126 posted on 11/22/2019 1:48:22 PM PST by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....)
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To: dfwgator

Psst...his code name that day was “Marvin”. Try to keep that a secret for now. Just like the Giant Rat of Sumatra, “a story for which the world is not yet prepared”.

LOL. We could spin this out for hours...


127 posted on 11/22/2019 2:02:15 PM PST by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Comic / Magician Penn Gillette could shoot the Rifle Oswald used just as fast, and he wasn’t a Marine Rifleman like Oswald was.


128 posted on 11/22/2019 2:05:03 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
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To: Fresh Wind
Where was Hillary in 1963?

And what did Kennedy know about that book report she copied off of Sally Jenkins?

129 posted on 11/22/2019 2:05:14 PM PST by TangoLimaSierra (To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Extremism.)
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To: Michael.SF.
I stopped reading at that point. The above statement is false and only made by people who have not analyzed the body positions and seat arrangements of the car.

Then you should have continued reading since it was subsequently discovered that the seat was not located where it was reported in the initial report. But you knew that, didn't you?

Continue reading............

130 posted on 11/22/2019 2:08:17 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Never take a centipede shopping for shoes)
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To: Vaquero

LBJ was ducking and hiding before the shooting started.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzaQz9vtGg8


131 posted on 11/22/2019 2:20:37 PM PST by Overtaxed (Ephesians 6:12)
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To: Michael.SF.
The above statement is false

You sure about that?????

Donahue studied photos of the presidential limousine and quickly grasped that the jump seat in which Connally rode was actually six inches further inboard and considerably lower than the Warren Commission and virtually everyone else had realized. When the seat was placed in its proper location and the governor positioned as he was when the bullet struck, the trajectory lined up perfectly.

132 posted on 11/22/2019 2:37:03 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Never take a centipede shopping for shoes)
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133 posted on 11/22/2019 2:42:16 PM PST by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: plain talk
Either Oswald made the head shot

Oswald made the back shot, there is no disputing that. What is at controversy here is that the bullet fragments found in the skull, along with the bullet hole in the back of the skull that is smaller than the diameter of the bullets Oswald shot do not match up with the bullets Oswald was shooting.......

134 posted on 11/22/2019 2:43:34 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Never take a centipede shopping for shoes)
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To: Tired of Taxes
hanks for posting. I took the time to read the entire article

Thanks for reading it. I very seldom post articles but I found this one worth the effort.

Unfortunately by doing so, I'm now put in a position to argue points in the article which have just as much meaning to me as to the people challenging me.........

The only arguments I can offer is to quote what is in the article simply because they never read it.............Whatever....

With that being said, it is a very thought provoking theory............

135 posted on 11/22/2019 2:52:30 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Never take a centipede shopping for shoes)
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To: Hot Tabasco
Of the 11 shooters participating in the experiment, only Donahue exceeded Oswald’s performance by scoring three hits in 4.8 seconds, well under the 5.6-second maximum....

and only on his 17th attempt

Oswald was the patsy

136 posted on 11/22/2019 2:56:28 PM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: Alberta's Child
The author says the SS agent who may have been the culprit was only on the presidential detail for a few months before the assassination, and wouldn’t have been assigned the responsibility for the AR-15 under normal circumstances ... but was given this responsibility because the veteran SS agents on the detail were hung over after a night of heavy drinking.

Yes, I saw that too. I believe that is exactly what happened.

137 posted on 11/22/2019 3:00:03 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Now that fedgov bungling and actual sedition is taking place so openly, people may be better able to consider the Donohue theory and accept that the Secret Service and other government officials of that time could, indeed, have participated in a cover-up. I have to admit, based on photos of Kennedy’s head wound I have seen in the past, this is the first theory I’ve read that makes sense regarding the trajectories of the shots.


138 posted on 11/22/2019 3:07:48 PM PST by Albion Wilde (It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. --Douglas MacArthur)
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To: gr8eman
"....then gets hit from the front and his head explodes going backward."

I don't believe the Oswald story. Having said that, I think that this idea is part of the problem that confuses so many people and leads to so many variations of the theories. More specifically what I mean is too much Hollywood and not enough real experience. In a target that is penetrated through there is no or very little ejection at the point of entry, just a hole. On a living target of course there is going to be some bleeding around the entry but the energy drives the explosion out the exit hole. For anything significant to have shot out of the entrance hole then Kennedys head would have to have been made of concrete or be so thick that there was no exit forcing the energy back out the only path available.

In other words, since we assume it was made of normal material and appeared to be of a normal size, the explosion is proof that it didn't come from the front unless the whole thing was a Hollywood hoax.

139 posted on 11/22/2019 3:07:48 PM PST by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Balmer ping.

Long, fascinating and detailed article about a Baltimore Irish-American gun forensics expert who put forward a very plausible explanation of who killed JFK, which of course met with disbelief. As I noted upthread, it’s the first theory that has made sense to me.


140 posted on 11/22/2019 3:12:23 PM PST by Albion Wilde (It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. --Douglas MacArthur)
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