# Kennedy assassination question

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [October 4, 2011, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kennedy-assassination-question/598515 "2011-10-04T02:56:42Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kennedy-assassination-question/598515/17 "2011-10-04T10:53:18Z")

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> [@Consensus](#):
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> To me it looks like he’s bending forward from the throat shot and then gets pushed back from the head shot, indicating the head shot came from the front and not from the back.

While this sounds like common sense, the problem is that physics doesn’t allow it (and I don’t know that anatomy does either). You can’t draw conclusions about where the shots came from based on the movement of his head.

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