Did a hungover Secret Service agent accidentally shoot JFK?

The Globe and Mail ^ | Nov. 02 2013 | JOHN DOYLE

[rickmichaels]

And so it begins – the plentiful coverage of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of U.S. president John F. Kennedy. The date itself is weeks away and there will be countless commemorative programs, specials and copious punditry on TV.

JFK: The Smoking Gun (Sunday, Discovery, 8 p.m.) is one of the most controversial of the bunch. Made for the tiny U.S. cable channel Reelz, it’s a two-hour docudrama based on the book of the same name by former Australian police detective Colin McLaren. He claims to have spent years on “the forensic cold-case investigation of JFK’s assassination” and says he believes he has found “the smoking gun” that killed the president. His conclusion is not the accepted story.

[smoothsailing]

Given the circumstances, it was exactly where it was supposed to be.

[fanfan]

Did you “see” the evidence at the location in Dallas?

[PLMerite]

Here's an interesting image:

[ladyjane]

You are wrong. You should be more careful before calling another freeper a liar.

The book depository was open for many years before they hung a window behind plexiglass. I visited there when the museum first opened. Visitors could walk right over to the spot where Oswald supposedly stood.

BTW -people who call others liars are always suspect in my book. You may apologize any time.

[Oatka]

Maybe Jackie was the target. Why doesn’t anybody say that.

Hey, THAT's an idea. :-)

[smoothsailing]

That’s really something. For someone like me who finds the premise of this thread to be compelling, that photo is downright chilling.

[ExGeeEye]

Stone/Costner placed them in a straight line (in the courtroom scene) requiring the bullet to zigzag all over the place.

Connally’s jump seat was both lower, and closer to the centerline, of the car, thus the bullet did go straight.

[LucyT]

Babushka lady:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nwoB5kKj0c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmpIVwK1qVc

LBJ:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd1wuXrVPjo

[laplata]

I’m waiting for your answer, smart ass.

[laplata]

Don’t hold your breath waiting for an apology, ladyjane. You deserve an apology but some people can’t man up.

[Timber Rattler]

Connally was sitting slightly to the front left of Kennedy---his seat was offset, and the limo was turning into Elm Street's slight curve.

[laplata]

Thanks-

[logi_cal869]

Nope. I know that Oswald shot JFK and was the lone gunman; the government told me so and sealed a bunch of the files for 50 years because it was the truth. </sarc>

[Ditter]

You maybe be right and until I read a 3 volume biography of LBJ by Robert Caro, I would not have an opinion one way or the other. Deep into the 3rd volume a light came on in my brain (I know I'm slow). LBJ was a driven man, he had to be POTUS, I mean he HAD TO BE POTUS!!!! The ONLY way he could get there is if JFK died in office. “When there a will there's a way!”

[Ditter]

Read my post #154.

[cumbo78]

They showed the forensics of the tumbling bullet which, after striking JFK, exited and tumbled, entering Connally’s back in an oblong fashion. The bullet than made its way through Connally. The fragments from Connally and from the recovered shell were tested in a nuclear reactor and matched up. I, too was skeptical of the “magic bullet”, but this show convinced me. Very well done.

[Popman]

Please let me know what you think after you’ve seen the autopsy photos. There are lots of them.

If you watch the film JFK head was turned toward the left and down when he was hit with the kill shot...The film matches the autopsy pictures...

He was shot from behind...

[InvisibleChurch]

back and to the left.... back and to the left

[kalee]

Placemarker

[TStro]

Saw a great special on this recently. Went to the railroad overpass, grassy knoll, and set up the shots where the car was at the time of the shot, with actors in place as they were in the Zapruder film. From the grassy knoll, the shot was blocked. From the railroad overpass, the shot could not have been made. In one spot where there was a clear shot from the passenger side, Jackie would have been hit when the bullet exited (at the point of the head shot she was cradling JFK).
Then the shot was set up off site with the proper distances and angles, with the correct rifle and ammunition. Several heads were made that mimicked a human skull (modeled after JFK) and used to replicate the shots. A fan was used to duplicate the car speed/wind for the effect of the blood spray and the head was set to the angle when the head shot was mad.
I have always believed the second shooter theory. This convinced me. The skull damage, shot from the rear upward angle, was exactly what JFK got down to the exit wound, with the head tilting back, and the blood blowing backward due to wind and car speed. Blood spatter was the same. A fragment of skull in the floorboard even matched what was reported from the JFK car. Changed my mind.