What We Know and Still Don’t Know About JFK’s Assassination

https://time.com ^ | NOVEMBER 21, 2023 | OLIVIA B. WAXMAN

[Beowulf9]

his Wednesday marks 60 years since America’s youngest President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, at the age of 46 by Lee Harvey Oswald. He was shot while riding in a car with his wife First Lady Jackie Onassis and Texas Governor John Connally during a tour of the state. Two days later, local nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot Oswald on Nov. 24, 1963.

[mfish13]

The acoustical evidence was seen to be questionable. All bullets and fragments were from the same lot number as the bullets found at the snipers nest. Tested twice. From the front? Through the windshield? Impossible. Try again.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

From the front? Through the windshield? Impossible. Try again.

The major problem with the single-shooter theory is that you don't have enough bullets to fit the crime scene.

The Warren Commission concluded that Oswald fired three shots:

- one bullet caused Tague’s (bystander) wound
- one bullet caused JFK’s fatal head wound
- one bullet caused all of Kennedy’s and Connally’s non–fatal wounds by entering Kennedy’s back, exiting through his throat, entering Connally’s back, exiting his chest, passing through his right wrist, and lodging itself in his left thigh: the single–bullet theory
(Warren Report, p. 137)
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=946#relPageId=141

Governor Connally testified to the Warren Commission that the bullet which struck him in the back was fired later than the bullet which caused at least one of President Kennedy’s non–fatal wounds. Connally maintained for the rest of his life that he was struck by a separate bullet, after Kennedy had already been wounded.
(Warren Report, Vol. 4, p. 135f)
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=34#relPageId=143

Connally’s wife, who was sitting to his left, testified, “I turned over my right shoulder and looked back, and saw the President as he had both hands at his neck. … Then very soon there was the second shot that hit John”
(Warren Report, Vol. 4, p. 147)
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=34#relPageId=155

Also, James Chaney was one of four police motorcyclists who had a close–up view of the shooting. None of the four was invited to testify before the Warren Commission. Chaney’s opinion is known from the testimony of another policeman, Marrion Baker: “I talked to Jim Chaney, and he made the statement that the two shots hit Kennedy first and then the other one hit the Governor”
(Warren Report, Vol. 3, p. 266)
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=39#relPageId=274

And you can look at the Zapruder film yourself.

The film shows Kennedy emerging from behind a road sign at about frame 225, with his hands reaching to his throat. He has clearly been shot by this point.
(Zapruder Film, Frame #225)
http://www.assassinationresearch.com/zfilm/z225.jpg

Connally, however, is sitting upright and holding a cowboy hat with his right hand after JFK has been struck. He shows no sign of being shot in the back until two–thirds of a second later, at about frame 238, when he starts to twist and fall to his left.
(Zapruder Film, Frame #238)
http://www.assassinationresearch.com/zfilm/z238.jpg

You and the Warren Commission have run out of bullets. Nevermind the impossible trajectory of the "magic bullet" that caused seven wounds in two people, you need a fourth bullet, and a second shooter, to account for the fact that Kennedy was shot prior to Connelly.

[mfish13]

The bullet that went through Kennedy and into Connaly was shown to be possible by an expert crew from Australia, who duplicated the shot. The Zapruder film shows that the timing is correct on this shot.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

The Zapruder film shows that the timing is correct on this shot.

Do you really believe that? Zapruder used a camera that shot 18 frames per second. In order for your theory to be true, the bullet would need two-thirds of a second (frame 225 to 238) to travel from Kennedy to Connelly. Bullets cannot travel this slow. It is physically impossible.

Look at the Zapruder film - I sent you the link - and see for your own eyes. When do you think Connelly is shot? What frame?

[mfish13]

I’ve seen it. When analyzed and enhanced you see Connaly’s lapel of his jacket moves out from flat with his body in the proper timing. Also the camera is 18 frames per second Plus or minus an error. Not a consistent camera.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

When analyzed and enhanced you see Connaly’s lapel of his jacket moves out from flat with his body in the proper timing. Also the camera is 18 frames per second Plus or minus an error.

At most, the camera error is -1/+1 per second. It is irrelevant.

In what frame of the Zapruder film do you think Connelly is actually shot? This is important information in support of your single-bullet theory.

And what of the governor and his wife's testimony that Kennedy and Connelly were hit by separate shots? Were they lying to Arlen Specter? The motorcycle police officer too?

[mfish13]

No evidence supports your theory. All bullets recovered, all fragments recovered match the bullets in the box recovered at the snipers perch on the sixth floor. As well as the bullet in the chamber of Oswald’s rifle, These were tested twice for lead content, and impurity content. Did your bullet just disappear and leave no trace?

[Right_Wing_Madman]

No evidence supports your theory. All bullets recovered

No, only two bullets were recovered: the bullet discovered on Connelly's stretcher at Parkland hospital and three fragments of one bullet found in JFK's limo. The third bullet was never found. You can view the bullet and fragments here:

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2019/12/kennedy-assassination-bullets-preserved-digital-form

The Warren Commission concluded that the three bullet fragments in the limo were from the bullet that struck JFK's head and the bullet on Connally's stretcher was the bullet that struck Kennedy in back, exited his throat, entered Connally's back, exited his chest, entered his right wrist, exited his wrist, and entered his left thigh.

Except the bullet found on Connally's stretcher could not have been the so-called "magic bullet." Bullet fragments were removed from Connally's wrist at Parkland hospital and bullet fragments were left permanently in his left thigh. You can see in photo that the bullet found on Connally's stretcher is almost a pristine, undamaged projectile. The House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1977 concluded that the bullet on Connelly's stretcher could not have been the one to hit Connelly. It is forensically impossible.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1993/06/18/connally-takes-bullet-pieces-to-grave/1cab4644-c1be-4499-8d85-ed3bae858d17/

[Pelham]

“The only reasonable explanation is that the US government killed JFK.”

That’s certainly what Mark Lane, author of “Rush to Judgement”, was hoping that Americans would conclude.

Of course Lane belong to the National Lawyers Guild, the legal action front of the CPUSA , so he did have a motive.

It wouldn’t be good for the Left to have Americans blame comrade Oswald and other Soviet fellow travellers for murdering Kennedy.

[mfish13]

Impossible? I don’t think so. The first bullet wounded a person down by the south end of the triple overpass. Was not any fragments found from that wound? Also you have not said where your bullet came from. And the so called Magic bullet shot was duplicated by some experts from Australia who duplicated the shot.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

Also you have not said where your bullet came from.

I don't know where the fourth bullet came from, but it couldn't have come from Oswald. He didn't have enough time to fire four shots.

In December 1963, the FBI's official investigation concluded:

- one bullet caused all of Governor Connally’s wounds by passing through his torso and shattering his right wrist
- one bullet caused President Kennedy’s fatal head wound
- one bullet caused one of Kennedy’s non–fatal wounds by entering his back, but did not cause his throat wound

FBI Summary Report
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=10402#relPageId=8

The FBI's investigation is better than what the Warren Commission came up with, but it still doesn't account for JFK's throat injury and the injured bystander. Three bullets are not enough to account for all the wounds at the crime scene.

The Warren Commission was not a criminal investigation, nor was it intended to be. It convened to solve a political problem: not enough people believed Oswald was the killer. The commission was a political expedient solution whose conclusions ignored and contradicted its own findings, with the single-bullet theory as its most ridiculous conclusion.

Here, famed criminal pathologist, Dr. Cyril Wecht, shreds the single-bullet theory, stating at 7:55, "Bullets move in a straight line, they don't zigzag."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYRi65Pkc4I

In 2023, a forensics lab, with modern technology, visited Dealy Plaza and conducted 3-D analysis of the magic bullet's trajectory and rejected its theory, stating at 3:20, "You have to slide Governor Connally to the left (6-10 inches) to get that alignment."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss8XOQD1hEE

And here's another fact of the case that troubled the FBI when they conducted their investigation: the surgeon, Dr. Perry, who treated JFK at Parkland hospital stated three times at his press conference that JFK's throat wound was an entry wound, not an exit wound. This medical finding, along with all the other evidence I've shared, makes the single-bullet theory impossible.

https://randallbeach.substack.com/p/jfks-death-are-we-finally-getting

[linMcHlp]

In modern terms, Lee H. Oswald was a dedicated Anti-Fa, imagining all who were not fellow socialist travelers as being “fascists.”

Oswald imagined that he was not alone in his (their) cause to plant, and perfect, socialism.

[mfish13]

Well,

Where is the bullet? It did not disappear. If it went through Kennedy’s throat it would have been in the car.