JFK had no earlobes (right half of picture, obviously):
Posted on 11/24/2003 11:56:47 PM PST by kattracks
For all the coverage generated by the 40th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination this past weekend, the media managed to miss the only genuine news to emerge from the commemoration.Nellie Connally, wife of former Texas Gov. John Connally and the only person still alive who rode in the presidential death limousine, publicly disputed for the first time the Warren Commission's "magic bullet" theory, a scenario absolutely essential to its finding that Lee Harvey Oswald was Kennedy's lone assassin.
A year after the assassination the Commission concluded that Kennedy and Gov. Connally were both wounded by the first shot fired by Oswald from the Texas School Book Depository. A second shot missed completely. A third shot slammed into Kennedy's head and splattered his brains throughout the car.
But Mrs. Connally told CNN's Larry King that Kennedy and her husband couldn't have been struck by the same bullet, because she watched her husband react over a period of two seconds after the first shot struck the president.
"John [Connally] sitting right in front of him knew it was a shot," the former Texas first lady said. "He's a hunter and a shooter, you know. . . ."
Mrs. Connally continued:
"So he turned quick to his right and he couldn't see [Kennedy] because he was directly in front of him. And he said, 'No, no, no' and turned to his left. . . . Now this is a second or two. Then, as he whirled back, the second shot hit John . . ."
When pressed about the single bullet theory adopted by the Warren Commission, Mrs. Connally told King, "Do you think a bullet that went through the president's neck can hang there in air between the two seats while John turned to the right, turned to the left and came back?
"That's what I asked the Warren Commission," she explained. "I said, 'I don't believe a bullet could do that. That bullet -- the same bullet did not hit both of them.'"
No, the autopsy said that the bullet hole was 45 degrees downward in the body. It would've came out at the stomach if it would've made it that far.
The ont thing all the SBT apologists continue to gloss over is that Connally continues to hold his Stetson in his right hand long after he is supposedly hit by the same shot that causes Kennedy to reach for his neck. ABC's computer illustration and most other computer recreations conveniently leave the Stetson out of the simulation.
If his right wrist has been shattered by the gunshot, why is he still holding his hat? That's the one thing that still makes me doubt the whole SBT scenario.
I also noticed ABC simulation seems to move Connally well over into Nellie's side of the limo in time for the head shot. That, too, doesn't seem plausible to me although it's pointless except to say computer animation is not pure science.
And a total of at least 5: The first one that missed. This one to his back that didn't penetrate. One to his throat that had to come at him from the front, since it didn't come through from the back. One to his head, whether from front or back.
Not to mention the one (minimum) that hit Connelly.
Arlen Specter--who saw no X-rays, had no ballistic expertise--attempted to account for seven wounds with a single bullet.
The back wound did not penetrate. One shot.
The throat wound--per Crenshaw, Perry, Baxter, Peters, Carrico, Jones (six Parkland physicians)--was small, neat, round. A second shot.
Kennedy's head was hit and moved: from behind and forward: a third shot.
From the front: to the back and left: a fourth shot.
Connolly had five wounds: back, chest, wrist entry, wrist exit, thigh: a fifth shot.
Tague was hit by concrete from a bullet hitting the curb: a sixth shot.
Other witnesses report seeing uniformed officers and presumed law enforcement officials in suits picking up bullets in the grass: additional shots.
The limousine was kept out of public sight and cleaned immediately, concealing additional ballistic evidence, possibly additional shots.
While witnesses heard three shots, many heard the second two within less than a second of each other.
In the acoustical canyon of Dealey Plaza, simultaneous shots would not be heard as distinct shots but as a single shot.
The use of silencers (suppressors) would have reduced the noise level of one or more shots, perhaps reducing the speed to subsonic.
Reduced speed of bullets might have produced nonpenetrating wounds.
Kennedy's body was taken from the sole legitimate criminal jurisdiction, all evidence was taken from Dallas police by the FBI.
Texas and Congress were prevented from investigating, while the Commission relied completely on Hoover's Bureau.
Johnson sealed the files for seventy-five years, a suppression of evidence inconsistent with a single nonaligned killer.
The appearance of a coverup to conceal a conspiracy did not come from Jim Garrison or Oliver Stone: it came from Johnson and Hoover.
JFK had no earlobes (right half of picture, obviously):
Many have speculated it kept the president in the sitting position making him a better target.
The President's personal physician, Dr. George Burkley, drafted the death certificate on November 23, 1963.
It stated the back wound was "at about the level of the third thoracic vertebra."
One of the autopsists, Pierre A. Finck, was questioned under oath February 24, 1969, in State of Louisiana v Clay L. Shaw:
Q Can you give me approximately how far this probe went?
A The first fraction of an inch.
Also, re-considering that the throat wound was an entry wound versus an exit wound, it might also explain why there was no spray of blood and tissue from the front of Kennedy's neck as the bullet exited.
QED the wound was one of entry.
I am sticking to the physical evidence. He's still holding onto his hat in his right hand after the wrist has supposedly been shot. And I notice all the SBT apologists ignore that physical evidence.
Do this little experiment. Hold a cup of water in one hand. Then shoot yourself in that wrist. Still holding the cup?
Nor is it the entire windshield, as about a quarter of it on the left is missing from the photo.
Easier said than done, if the evidence has been tampered with...
Some say the Altgens photo shows a hole in the windshield and it was taken just after the throat wound, long before the head shot, but I've never seen a close up of the area in the picture.
Exactly right. No way those are JFK's ears.
Insane? What do you call believing in magic bullets and magic ears? lol
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