yeah. the bullet which traveled through JFK’s neck and Connolly’s chest, wrist, thigh, etc., careered overed to JFK’s head, bounced off the street and whacked a bystander in the face, shot up and knocked bark off of a tree branch directly in the line of sight of the 6th floor of the depository, flew over to Parkland and chilled out for a while on a stretcher, flew northeast to Washington DC and stopped for a conversation over a cup of coffee with Arlen Spector (Spector: What was the name of that waiter? Spector and Magic together: Jean Luc!), and punctured the bejeezus out of RFK.
the bullet is still on the loose (after having been spotted over cape cod last summer). watch your fat ass, teddy!
I have to concur with Mr. JB on this one. My roommate saw the bullet knockin’ back a cold one with Elvis last week in Georgia. My roommate challenged it to a game of Foosball for beers but it repeatedly declined. Chicken bullet…
You must not have been there or you would have heard shots being fired from two directions. The one that blew the back of JFK’s head off came from the grassy knoll.
But if you don’t believe THAT, why would you disagree with the published (one gunman) conclusion about RFK?
…that comes off kinda argumentative doesn’t it? I am not doubting or debunking your statement. Actually this is just a Hijack and I am very curious if you were there that day, or if you just know someone who was, or do you just read a LOT?
Update: The bullet has been seen in several weapons shops during the past week and a half. It hasn’t shaved in that time, apparently, and has been making comments to passers-by about trying to do something to impress Jodie Foster.
Mjollnir, like most of the posters here I assume, I don’t know a lot about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. What was Sirhan Sirhan’s motive for shooting him?
My scant knowledge on that subject is that Sirhan Sirhan, a Jordanian, did not like RFK’s support of Israel.
This was not long after the neighboring Arab states had had their collective asses stomped by Israel in the Six Day War, which included the loss (by Jordan) of Jerusalem and the West Bank.
On a 1994 show on the Learning Channel titled What Happened?, they had an episode where Failure Analysis, Inc., did computer simulations of the JFK assassination, based on the positions and speeds of the vehicles, the angle from the book depository, the arrangement of the people and seats within JFK’s limo, etc… One thing they determined was that a single bullet could have ricoched around inside JFK’s limo and done all the damage that the “magic bullet” was supposed to have done.
They also did a simulation of what it would’ve looked like from Oswald’s point-of-view, if he were attempting to squeeze off 3 rounds in 6 seconds with a bolt-action 'scope rifle. Their simulation made it look nigh-on impossible for Oswald to have aimed the second and third shots accurately. However, this was because their simulation assumed that Oswald had to lower the rifle to cycle the bolt-action between shots. If Oswald were a skilled rifleman, and could keep the rifle shouldered and the crosshairs on the target while he worked the bolt, 3 seconds between shots seems eminently reasonable.
Stroll down to your local VFW and ask the snipers whether they would set up in such an open position. It was a better place to sell cotton candy. Remember also that this was 1963, almost every window along the parade route (conveniently published in the paper), opens.
IIRC Oswald’s brother (who is convinced that Lee acted alone) demonstrated on Dateline how 3 shots can be fired within the timeframe. It was also convenient for Oswald that the driver never changed speed (10-15 mph) or direction until after the fatal shot.
IMHO, Oswald’s killing of Kennedy is quite similar to Andrew Cunnanan’s (sp?) murder of the designer Versace. Pure opportunistic rage.
Sirhan Sirhan:
Not a Jordanian but a Palestinian. Rest assured if he is ever released he will receive a hero’s welcome in the Middle East.
Hah! Do you seriously think Cunnanan acted alone? Versace was caught in the crossfire between Cunnanan and the Grassy Knoll! The CIA put both Cunnanan and his still-at-large co-conspirator up to it, as part of a Bavarian Illuminati plot to get Elvis pregnant with bigfoot’s love child from outer space.