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How plausible is it that one bullet could have done all that this one is required to have done? For the magic bullet to have done what it had to do to satisfy the three-shot requirement, it would have had to pass through Kennedy's back, out Kennedy's neck, into Connaly's shoulder, richochet down and to the left to strike Connaly in the arm hard enough to break the bone, pass through his arm and into his leg with enough residual force to chip another bone, exit the leg, then hide in Connaly's clothes until he gets to the hospital, then exit Connaly's leg by means of worming its way free onto a strecher at Parkland Hospital, then conceal itself long enough so that it was not dicovered until JFK's body was already back in Washington.

The back wound was inferior to the first thoracic vertebra and did not penetrate more than the first joint of the finger.

The throat wound was a wound of entry.

The Connallys have both maintained from day one that the governor was not hit by the same bullet that struck the president.

And it would have to do all that without losing almost any of its mass and with almost no deformation! An identical bullet was fired through a cadaver's arm and came out as smashed as a toadstool. The 'magic' bullet supposedly passed through five times as much bone and tissue but came out looking almost new.

Specter admitted none of the test bullets duplicated the feat of his Magic Bullet, which he concocted never having seen the X-rays.

The first outsider to see the X-rays was Lattimore the urologist who pronounced Kennedy's adrenals normal--

--this despite the fact they would only appear with special dye. The autopsists make no reference to special dye so--

--Lattimore was hallucinating or looking at someone else's X-ray.

For the Warren Commission's version of events to be true,that same pristine or 'magic' bullet not only had to be invulnerable to damage, it had to be able to change course in mid-air and hover. The entry wound on JFK's back was about three inches below the shoulder, but the exit wound was in his throat, almost six inches higher. Somehow, once it entered JFK's back, the bullet did an instant 90 degree turn upwards without deflecting off anything, then another 90 degree turn back toward the same direction it had originally been going as it exited Kennedy's throat. Then, as shown by the Zapruder film, the bullet had to wait in the air almost two seconds before taking off again to put all those wounds in Connaly.

Connally's wounds present fragments which could not have originated from the Magic Bullet.

Arlen Specter asked the President's autopsist, Dr. Humes, whether the "magic bullet" could have been the same one that was embedded in the Governor's thigh. Humes replied, "I think that extremely unlikely. The reports [from Parkland] tell of an entrance wound on the lower mid-thigh of the Governor, and X-rays taken there are described as showing metallic fragments in the bone, which apparently by this report were not removed from . . . Governor Connally's thigh. I can't conceive of where they came from this missile." Drs. Pierre Finck and J. Thornton Boswell, also present at the autopsy, concurred with this statement.

The amazing thing to me is that there is anyone who still believes Oswald acted alone or that Oswald wasn't a patsy. There was a conspiracy. Get over it.

The back wound was inferior to the first thoracic vertebra and did not penetrate more than the first joint of the finger.

That's what I thought I had read. And you answered an earlier question of mine, Phil!

Good post.

While I agree with 99% of your statements, I disagree with the notion that the throat wound was an entry wound. There has never been, to the best of my knowledge, any dispute over the belief that the throat wound was anything other than an exit wound.

Can you cite your sources or reasons for this statement? I would like to understand why you believe it to be an entry wound.