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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: Hot Tabasco
Yes, the statement I quoted was a false statement, as pertains specifically to the so called "magic bullet", as I stated.

Your point is valid in that once the proper seat arrangement is analyzed, then the trajectory does line up. Thus the bullet is no longer a "magic bullet".

141 posted on 11/22/2019 3:18:34 PM PST by Michael.SF. (Youth, speed and energy can always be overcome with experience and treachery.)
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To: Kickass Conservative
Magician Penn Gillette could shoot the Rifle Oswald used just as fast, and he wasn’t a Marine Rifleman like Oswald was.

OK, so what's your point?

142 posted on 11/22/2019 3:21:28 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Never take a centipede shopping for shoes)
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To: Hot Tabasco

This is a fascinating article. Thanks for posting.


143 posted on 11/22/2019 3:23:00 PM PST by Lazamataz (We can be called a racist and we'll just smile. Because we don't care.)
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To: Lazamataz
Thanks for posting.

Thank YOU for taking the time to read it.........It is fascinating

144 posted on 11/22/2019 3:27:29 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Never take a centipede shopping for shoes)
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To: gr8eman
lesse...JFK gets hit from behind (Likely, not definitely Oswald) his body goes forward, then gets hit from the front and his head explodes going backward. Who shot from the front? Was that investigated or covered up?

That must have been Arlen Spectre's "magic bullet" that did that.

145 posted on 11/22/2019 3:35:54 PM PST by Fresh Wind (The Electoral College is the firewall protecting us from massive blue state vote fraud.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

If you have ever stood in the 6th floor window you would realize how easy a shot it was. Hell, I could have thrown a rock and hit JFK. A pistol could have made the shot.


146 posted on 11/22/2019 4:12:47 PM PST by CodeToad
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To: CodeToad
f you have ever stood in the 6th floor window you would realize how easy a shot it was.

Nobody's disputing Oswald made the shot and if you had read the entire article you would have understood that.........

147 posted on 11/22/2019 4:25:14 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Never take a centipede shopping for shoes)
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To: mfish13

It’s seems to be a stretch because the camera gives the perception that the area is larger than it really is.


148 posted on 11/22/2019 4:37:33 PM PST by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: ifinnegan

Isn’t that why one’s finger should not be on the trigger before the target is acquired? Even for SS??

// Hickey reaches for the AR-15 under the seat, releases the safety and begins to lift the gun. The second shot is fired by Oswald, hitting the president and Texas Governor John Connally. The president’s car and the follow-up car containing Hickey suddenly speed up. This is attested to by Secret Service agent Clint Hill. Agent Hickey, who is unstable because he is standing on the cushion of the seat, rather than the floor of the car, begins to fall back due to the acceleration of the vehicle, pulling the trigger of the AR-15. The gun is pointed toward Kennedy at that instant, and the bullet strikes him squarely in the back of the head. //


149 posted on 11/22/2019 4:59:24 PM PST by cyn
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[Conjecture; movement of his finger onto trigger may also have been due to sudden movement of car & his loss of balance.]


150 posted on 11/22/2019 5:14:56 PM PST by cyn
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To: Hot Tabasco

Three things that don’t hang themselves:

1) Christmas ornaments

2) Drywall

3) Jeffrey Epstein


151 posted on 11/22/2019 5:15:26 PM PST by ALASKA (Watching an attempted coup by a thousand cuts....)
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To: Hot Tabasco

If you had read my comment, I was commenting on your statement that Oswald wasn’t likely to have made his shots.


152 posted on 11/22/2019 5:21:08 PM PST by CodeToad
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To: Hot Tabasco

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYMP0o1j0zo


153 posted on 11/22/2019 5:35:07 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (Is it Hil)
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To: LS
56 years ago today
154 posted on 11/22/2019 5:40:43 PM PST by Texan4Life
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To: Hot Tabasco

Yes. It’s the one theory that makes perfect sense. Even if it was a freak accident.


155 posted on 11/22/2019 5:46:39 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: Col Frank Slade

“JFK didn’t kill himself.”

If this happened today and JFK had dirt on the Clintons, it would be reported as a suicide.


156 posted on 11/22/2019 5:49:43 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland (I have no incriminating evidence on the Clintons)
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To: DiogenesLamp

But there WAS a big hole. In the BACK of JFK’S head. According to the person from the Dallas funeral home employ who was tasked with covering the ENTRANCE ( small) wound and the back of the skull wound that he stated was as big as a fist. If Mewsmax ever shows The Men Who Killed Again, it would be well worth watching


157 posted on 11/22/2019 5:54:54 PM PST by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON.)
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To: Hot Tabasco
I keep on telling people that it was Jackie.

Nobody wants to believe it but it is the only thing that makes sense.

158 posted on 11/22/2019 5:56:12 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (A hero is a hero no matter what medal they give him. Likewise a schmuck is still a schmuck.)
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To: Ann Archy

Mrs. Epstein sent a note to Mr. Kotter to that affect.


159 posted on 11/22/2019 6:55:11 PM PST by newbie 10-21-00
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To: Ann Archy

Mrs. Epstein sent a note to Mr. Kotter to that affect.


160 posted on 11/22/2019 6:55:13 PM PST by newbie 10-21-00
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