Posted on 04/12/2020 10:28:17 AM PDT by Rummyfan
There's too much chatter about movies that are "so bad, they're good." These admittedly amusing musings distract from a truly insidious phenomenon:
Movies "so good, they're bad."
No such creature as "just a movie" exists. We may (believe ourselves to) be capable of separating fact from fiction, but millions of people never will.
Take the "Hitler's Pope" canard. It was popularized by, of all things, a Soviet-orchestrated stage play called The Deputy, back in 1963. How many individuals have heard of this play, let alone seen it performed? A few thousand? Yet the Vatican's supposed collusion with the Nazis is widely considered "common knowledge," despite all the well-researched critiques which have not, in like fashion, been rendered down into easily digestible, entertaining, two-hour public performances.
I remain perturbed by Ben Affleck's reduction of Canada's crucial role in the rescue of American hostages in Argo. Brits object, among other things, to the portrayal of their ancestors as war criminals in The Patriot. James Cameron had to apologize for slandering a Titanic officer. Do not get me started on Thirteen Days...
And it gives me no (okay, a little...) pleasure to inform those of you forced to sit through corporate "team building" exercises based on the "square peg in a round hole" scene in Apollo 13 that, in actuality, one man came up with that lifesaving fix; as in most situations here on planet Earth, a team probably would have taken much longer and just screwed things up.
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No.
It wasn’t planted. The “magic bullet” wasn’t pristine. It was deformed (laterally flattened), and behaved precisely as you would expect if it went through JFK’s throat without hitting bone, and then was slowed down and tumbling when it exited JFK and hit Connolly.
A tumbling, slowed bullet would deform just like that if it hit Connolly’s ribs sideways. Connolly’s back entry wound indicates this.
Posner did a better job explaining this than I could, but I found it convincing.
LOL!!! Back when Teddy the Whale was alive I used to say “When is somebody going to get a hat trick?”
Exactly the point. If for nothing else in his short pathetic life Lee Harvey Oswald did become a United States Marine. And I know for a fact, because my oldest brother was Marine lieutenant 1st. Marine Division in the late 70’s that if you don’t qualify as a marksman, not ‘close enough’’, or well that’s not bad shooting’’. No. It doesn’t work that way. You pick up that rifle and hit that target dead on or it’s no Globe And Anchor. You don’t become a Marine if you don’t qualify as a marksman.
Also Connelly's position was not sitting upright and facing straight ahead as portrayed usually. He was twisted looking to the right and his torso in that position, makes the 7 hits perfectly align.
I read some MSM commentator’s comment about how the British weren’t as brutal as they were portrayed in the film, that for instance they didn’t burn a church with people in it. I later read that they actually did do that. The Brits have not been angels in their treatment of their colonists by any stretch.
I have, twice, and looked out the window from the sixth floor adjacent to the sniper’s nest. It was an easy shot. The limo was more or less stationary in relation to Oswald’s position as it was moving away from him, with only a slight deviation upward and to the right, the same direction as the error in the rifle scope.
There is simply NO evidence of anyone’s involvement other than Oswald.
Correct. The kill shot was a piece of cake for someone with Oswald’s experience.
Correct. The conspiracy theorists also ignore the oblong wound in Connelly’s back, evidence that the bullet was tumbling after striking JFK.
Also, the killshot from the Zapruder film was fired from the front, and was not from a 6.5 Carcano.
“Correct. The conspiracy theorists also ignore the oblong wound in Connelly’s back, evidence that the bullet was tumbling after striking JFK.”
Yes. What makes the most sense is the bullet had been slowed so much by going through two torsos, that it finally came to rest and lodged under the skin of Connolly’s right hand. Which is why it easily worked free and popped out at Parkland, and was found on Connolly’s gurney.
Sorry, got my tags wrong; hate typing on ipads
“Also, the killshot from the Zapruder film was fired from the front, and was not from a 6.5 Carcano.”
No. The entry wound in the back of JFK’s head, and is well known from the autopsy photos, with the bullet shattering inside the skull and blowing out the right side of his head.
JFK’s head goes backwards because that was the direction of the shot. The entry wound produces almost no energy transferred to the body. The exit wound is what causes the head to move backwards. Penn and Teller (of all people) demonstrated this by shooting bullets at melons, and seeing which direction they moved after the bullet hit them. The melons moved in the direction OF the shooter, not away from it.
The entry wound does nothing, the exit wound transfers kinetic energy to the body.
I’m arguing from memory based on the book I mentioned, which I haven’t read recently. But that’s the gist of it.
JFK Conspiracy Theories are a Leftist plot to detract from the fact that it was a Commie that killed JFK.
Watch Cronkite the day of the assassination, he just *knew* it had to be a right-winger that did it.
“Trained Marine rifleman from several stories shooting a moving target moving down and away, with a $25 mail order rifle/scope combo. Thats how I’d plan it”
He would have trained in the Marines with an M1-Garand. A fine weapon, 8 round clip, semi-automatic. With such he could have gotten off 8 well aimed shots in under 10 seconds. The distance was only 265 feet. You really did not need a scope, however the M1-Garand Model D has a side mounted scope. Thus one can use the open sights or the scope.
For a marine this would have been the most logical weapon to use. The 30:06 147 grain slug at 2700 feet per second would be devastating.
Yes they did.
I Love that England elected someone sensible and did Brexit.
But we, as conservatives, don’t believe in history being rewritten to fit an agenda.
They were brutal.
Now they are (I still think) one of our most loyal allies.
It is what it is.
Yeah they were Brutal.
Doesn’t make them less of a country now or less of an ally.
But history should be told the way it was.
Changing history is for communists and fascists.
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