Like I said, this is one of those instances where “common sense” (his head moves back, which means it was pushed from the front!) will lead you to the wrong conclusion. I don’t think that bullet could have had enough momentum to push Kennedy’s head back that much and not as many people know about the jet effect for example. I certainly didn’t before getting into discussions about it here.
A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Right, the bullet doesn’t have enough monentum but the resulting jet does… makes sense.
edit :Removed direction, because its irrelevant.
Are you willing to read the scientific studies that explain the phenomenon?
Go get a honeydew and wrap it in several layers of fiberglass tape. Then put it on a pedestal and fire at it using the type of rifle Oswald used.
Actually, don’t bother, other people already have. Here you go.
Care to make a guess which direction the melon’s gonna go? Actually, forget it, just watch the video. We humbly await your “Oh fuck, you guys were right” post.
To nick the spinal cord, the bullet would have had to hit some vertebra bone, and it didn’t. It hit nothing but soft tissue as it passed through Kennedy, and still had lots of speed left to inflict all kinds of damage on Connally. I guess the pressure shock could have caused the Thorburn’s position that Posner talks about, but I don’t really buy that explanation.
That’s backwards - it’s the exit that leaves big gaping wound. The hole in Kennedy’s back was small, but so was the throat wound. The ER doctors thought that the throat wound was an entry wound because it was so small, but they didn’t know where or even if it came out. Of course, they weren’t trying to solve a crime, they were trying to save his life. It was later they figured out that the throat wound was kept small because it was held in place by his snug shirt collar.
Right…sorry. I blame it on the ambien last night. Should stop posting under the influence.
-XT
I’ve also heard that he kept sitting up straight and didn’t keel over like Connolly did after the first shot – thereby keeping his head nicely in Oswald’s sights – because of his elaborate back brace.
Oh no! Even his doctors were in on the conspiracy!
You can see his wife climb onto the back of the car, which she’s said she did to retrieve part of his skull that flew out the back. The photos, which are rather gruesome, show the entire rear right part of his head missing. This huge wound is facing the TSBD, and the skull fragment was thrown in the general direction of the TSBD. An exit wound from a shot entering his head from the direction of a sixth story window behind and to his right should neither have left a gaping wound in the right and right rear of his head nor ejected backwards a piece of skull large enough for the woman sitting next to him to chase after.
And yet it did.
The wound was on the top-right side of his head, which was lateral to the direction of the TSBD. At the time of the head shot, Kennedy’s head was facing pretty much directly away from Oswald’s window. Brain stuff was mostly ejected up and to the right, but in a wide pattern, and some of it ended up on the trunk.
Where do you think the head shot came from?
Why not? It’s often the shock wave from the bullet which causes the most trauma to the body, not the actual damage done from the physical passage of the bullet.
I put forth the following documentary which I find as convincing as any of the other alternative theories regarding the Kennedy assassination.
Prove to me that this didn’t happen!
Sorry, but I know the REAL identity of the killer. See here.
Possibly the TSBD. Possibly the Grassy Knoll. Possibly elsewhere. Unlike some people I won’t look at conflicting evidence and announce that I know the truth and all who disagree are heretics and fools.
I’m inclined to think it wasn’t from Oswald, though, although I wouldn’t rule out the possibility.
I stumbled on this, while noticing that it was LHO’s birthday the other day. Jim Garrison’s NBC programme response. I mean, it might not be a robot chicken, but I enjoyed it. He’s got a way with words, that one.
Maybe someday, after you’ve studied this for several years with an open mind, and you find that all the evidence points to exactly the same conclusion, and that all the contrary “evidence” is either misrepresented or just flat-out lies, you’ll be at a point where you don’t react well when someone brings up one of those old chestnuts that you’ve already been through a hundred times.
None of your alternate theories can account for Oswald’s documented conduct leading up to, and after, the murder. If Oswald didn’t do it, why’d he immediately leave the scene, get a pistol, and shoot the first cop who came near him?
[Dark City] There is no case, there never was![/dc]
Tippit was in on it, obviously.