[Pistolshot]

The second shot, the 'magic' bullet shot, Did enough damage to Kennedy that he would not have survived. Here is the chest x-ray showing the damage to his neck area on his right T1 and C7 area. The shock damage alone to his transverse process, lungs and heart would probably also have killed him had the third shot not hit him in the head.

[Tublecane]

“The second shot, the ‘magic’ bullet shot, Did enough damage to Kennedy that he would not have survived.”

That’s all well and good, and I suppose it’s silly to say that a kill shot was a miss. However, I was assuming Oswald wasn’t simply aiming to kill, wherever that happened to be, rather he was aiming for a specific part of Kennedy’s body. Namely the head. If so, he missed his target twice.

It’s not an important disctinction, though. Save perhaps to counter conspiracists’ claims that his marksmanship was too good to be true.