What’s the official US government stance on the JFK assassination? Are they still saying there was a single shooter from the TSBD as the Warren Commission said?
Was the Zapruder film available to the public at the time of the Warren report? If so, how were they able to say that the shots came from behind when the fatal shot in the film shows that it originates from the front right.
The film wasn’t available to the public, but the frames were published in the Warren Report
irregardless the film doesn’t show that the shots came from the front right
There must be thousands of videos demonstrating the fact that a shot from the rear, exiting the front, shoves the head back.
Oh, God, this again.
There is no “official US government stance” on the JFK murder, since this is a state crime, not a Federal one. And the state of Texas never prosecuted or convicted Oswald, since he was killed in custody.
The Zapruder film (plus several others) were all available at the time, and were examined closely by the Warren Commission.
The Zapruder film doesn’t show the “fatal” shot at all, since a highway sign blocks the view of his camera at that point. (And it’s likely that either of the last 2 shots would have been ‘fatal’ ones.)
Every expert, except for conspiracy fans, agrees that the Zapruder film doesn’t show that at all – it shows shots hitting from the back, and exiting from the front. Like the autopsy showed on JFK’s body.
But how can a shot from the back blow his head back?
I think me and you are talking about the wrong bullet. I’m talking about the one that hit the right side of this head and you’re talking about the neck one.
The only bullets came from Oswald from behind. There were no other shots.
The arguments for a shot from the back are much weaker than the argument that a shot came from the front.
The Zapruder film indicates that the shot was from the front.
Some scientist invented some effect which he named the ‘jet effect’, or else, he used an already existing ‘jet effect’ and ramrodded it into the assassination scenario.
There aren’t jillions of videos showing the shot coming from the back. Some of the videos, no make that all of the videos, which show that the shot came from the back, are ‘reconstructions’, ‘recreations’, ‘simulations’ etc…
The ‘fatal’ shot was the one that took him ‘back and to the left’, unless there is some new interpretation of the Zapruder film.
People feel important to be able to ‘debunk’ something that everybody else ‘knows’. That is why there is no rational discussion from the non CT crowd.
Get ready for the wit to come: “It was the Illuminati, using a death ray from Judge Crater’s house, given to him by the CFO on the grassy knoll…Hahahahahahahahahahaha!” And they do consider this wit…
At any rate, per the government’s ‘official stance’: The last ‘government’ (i.e. US Senate? House of Rep?) investigation, IIRC, said that there was ‘probably a conspiracy.’ There have been other ‘studies’ but, again IIRC, they were not done by any of the 3 branches of the government.
Pretty easily, actually. A high-speed bullet travelling through the skull generally does not dump very much momentum into the head at large; however, it causes a lot of chaotic movement of the fluids and tissues inside, a large quantity of which are ejected through the exit wound. This ejecta acts like a miniature rocket; the conservation of momentum causes the head to be pushed back in the direction the bullet came from.
If you have a rifle, a cantaloupe, and some duct tape, you can try it yourself.
Agreed. This is exactly what I’ve read many times written by many experts.
Penn and Teller demonstrated that the jet effect not only exists, but is pretty obvious.
And since the wound in the back of JFK’s skull was higher than the wound in the front, it would m meant that any shooter from the front would have to be inside JFK’s car. Any film to back that up?
One of the most ironic names/post count combinations ever.
The only mystery about JFK’s assassination is how the unclued can keep asking the same stupid questions over and over without ever being bothered to look up the readily available answers. They’re like drunks in a room full of physicists perpetually shouting, “But NO, goddammit, why is the sky REALLY blue?”
+1 to NitroPress. This has all been explained over and over for five decades.
Anybody who knows anything about ballistics understands that the exit wound is often an exploding crater compared to the entry wound. The paradoxical motion effect has been demonstrated repeatedly by live fire experiments on human skulls. Old news.
I don’t think that’s the case with the second shot (the “magic bullet”). It made a need little exit wound without doing any serious tissue damage. There is some question about possible spinal cord damage due to hydrostatic shock, but the extent of what that would have been we’ll never know.
There was more bullet damage in Dealy Plaza than can be accounted for with LHO’s 3 shots.
I don’t see how anyone who knows the whole story can believe Oswald was acting alone.
But whatever. I’ve been following it since before most of you were born and reached my own conclusions long ago.
The universal hallmark of the deniers, doubters and CTists is that they pick one datum, misinterpret it, and insist that invalidates all 22 volumes of the Warren Report.
And are usually unaware that the Warren Report consists of 22 volumes. They seem to believe it’s a pamphlet scribbled out by Jerry Ford so he could get back to his golf game.
Really. Like what?
Funny, I don’t see how anyone who actually knows the whole story - as opposed to the reconfigured and limited version presented by most CTists - can believe anything but that LHO acted alone.
The only genuine mystery left is Oswald’s real motivations, which we will never know.
Obviously. Look, kids… fossils!
Yes, let’s take a moment and consider Congress’ record on official inquiries…
That wasn’t pleasant, was it?
Why did Congress declare a conspiracy?
What does science say about this evidence?
Lots, and I mean lots, of people have gone over the evidence with a zillion times more computing power than the House had in 1978. Silliness like yours is dismissible today.