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JFK and the corset that helped to kill a president
Houston Chronicle ^ | 11-23-2004 | By JAMES RESTON JR.

Posted on 11/24/2004 12:03:50 PM PST by weegee

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1 posted on 11/24/2004 12:03:50 PM PST by weegee
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So what does this say about the presumed affair Kennedy had with Marylin Monroe? Another legend building myth?


2 posted on 11/24/2004 12:07:52 PM PST by Yo-Yo
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To: weegee
I thought they played a lot of touch football.

Even during his Administration.

What gives?

3 posted on 11/24/2004 12:10:47 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (I'll take 1 good "LET'S ROLL!" over 1,000 meaningless & vulgar "ALLAH AHKBAR"'s, any day!)
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To: weegee
I thought Kennedy moved backwards after he was shot from behind. How did the corset make him do that?
4 posted on 11/24/2004 12:11:28 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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To: Yo-Yo
So what does this say about the presumed affair Kennedy had with Marylin Monroe?

Whose corset do you think he was wearing?

5 posted on 11/24/2004 12:12:11 PM PST by r9etb
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Whose corset do you think he was wearing?

Some say Marilyn's but I still maintain it was Hoover's.

6 posted on 11/24/2004 12:12:50 PM PST by rhombus
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To: Yo-Yo

"So what does this say about the presumed affair Kennedy had with Marylin Monroe? Another legend building myth?"

Perhaps another corset was keeping something else ramrod-stiff?


7 posted on 11/24/2004 12:13:33 PM PST by NRA1995 (Yew jes' go and lay yore hand on a Pittsburgh Steeler fan and I think yer gonna fin'lly understand)
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To: weegee

The corset may have contributed but trying to both use and eliminate the mob and trying to kill Castro had a lot more to do with his death than anything else.


8 posted on 11/24/2004 12:14:02 PM PST by hometoroost
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"Without the corset, the force of the first bullet, traveling at a speed of 2,000 feet a second, would surely have driven the president's body forward, making him writhe in pain like Connally, and probably down in the seat of his limousine, beyond the view of Oswald's cross hairs for a second or third shot."

Which one of us can ever actually be confident to say "would surely" about anything like this?

Conjecture.

There was not a lot of time, just mere seconds, between the throat wound and the head wound on that day. How can anyone PREDICT that such and such a thing would have happened.

The corset did not kill Kennedy.

The human being, who with malice and aforethought, squeezed a trigger on a rifle, pumping bullets into Mr. Kennedy, KILLED HIM.

9 posted on 11/24/2004 12:14:58 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (I'll take 1 good "LET'S ROLL!" over 1,000 meaningless & vulgar "ALLAH AHKBAR"'s, any day!)
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To: onedoug

ping


10 posted on 11/24/2004 12:14:59 PM PST by windcliff
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To: Yo-Yo

One more JFK book? This poses an intriguing contretemps, but it also raises the question, "If he was so rigidly
braced that he couldn't move to avoid the 2nd bullet that burst open his skull, HOW did he ever step into and sit down in the limo in the first place?" The McGruder film
also shows the President lifting his arms to wave to the crowds, turning his shoulders, bending an ear to Jackie,
and seemingly without restriction of any kind.
The damn limo should have had a bulletproof shield front and
back like those fitted onto the cars of the Pope!
!


11 posted on 11/24/2004 12:17:33 PM PST by Grendel9
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To: weegee
I've always felt that Oswald didn't have time to fire the shots, working the bolt between each one.

But, after downloading and using the controversial JFK Reloaded software where you can "be" Oswald, I now believe it's possible.

12 posted on 11/24/2004 12:18:04 PM PST by FReepaholic (Proud FReeper since 1998. Proud monthly donor.)
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People claim "you can't make 3 shots in x number of seconds". It is only 2 shots that must be made once the clock has started counting. Oswald had time to line up that first shot.


13 posted on 11/24/2004 12:22:04 PM PST by weegee (WE FOUGHT ZOGBYISM November 2, 2004 - 60 Million Voters versus 60 Minutes - BUSH WINS!!!)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

All this info is very old and has been hashed out decades ago.

One should remember however that it is not always the force and direction of a bullet that moves a body that has been hit. Nerve jump can do strange things. If Kennedy had not had on his back support, he might have remained upright anyway if the bullet passed through without hitting bone and then hit Connally passiing more energy to the governor's body than to Kennedy's.


14 posted on 11/24/2004 12:23:43 PM PST by Monterrosa-24 (Technology advances but human nature is dependably stagnant)
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To: Grendel9
The JFK shot in Dallas was actually a Disney animatron. Since it was widely recorded (by 2 home movie cameras, no less) that "Kennedy's" head exploded, he was unable to finish out his term of office. The Weekly World News has shown the pictures of old JFK.

Another little known fact is that LHO was ALSO a robot as no man could fire the shots so quickly.

15 posted on 11/24/2004 12:25:25 PM PST by weegee (WE FOUGHT ZOGBYISM November 2, 2004 - 60 Million Voters versus 60 Minutes - BUSH WINS!!!)
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To: weegee

JFK was a trans-vestite?


16 posted on 11/24/2004 12:26:27 PM PST by isom35
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Interesting, but, if the small round hole in Kennedy's neck was an exit wound, Oswalt must have been using a high powered bb gun. The exit wound almost always is ten times bigger than the entry wound.

Oops! No bone was hit, only flesh, but wouldn't the exit wound still have been larger, had the slug been lead, or hollow point lead?

After all his planning and practice, would Oswald have been so inept as to have used a steel jacketed slug? Not hardly.


17 posted on 11/24/2004 12:29:30 PM PST by F.J. Mitchell (If you were still in the womb, would you trust your life to Specter?????)
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My understanding of a typical reaction to the first shot would be an involuntary reflex of bringing both hands and elbows up to clutch the throat.
18 posted on 11/24/2004 12:29:51 PM PST by fso301
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To: weegee

Coulda, woulda, shoulda...


19 posted on 11/24/2004 12:30:20 PM PST by DouglasKC
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..."you can't make 3 shots in x number of seconds". ...Oswald had time to line up that first shot.

Thanks for this contribution. I had never heard this so cogently stated before.


20 posted on 11/24/2004 12:30:30 PM PST by Socratic (Death be not proud; but wear clean underwear.)
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