# Who killed JFK?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [October 3, 2011, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-jfk/598495 "2011-10-03T23:49:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-jfk/598495/69 "2011-10-06T19:57:27Z")

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Sigh. [From the contemporaneous JFK thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=626625)…

> [@Kennedy assassination question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kennedy-assassination-question/598515/17):
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> 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.

> [@Kennedy assassination question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kennedy-assassination-question/598515/13):
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> Cite? The autopsy photos are online, you know, and that’s a pretty gaping hole at the top & front of his head. And the Zapruder film shows a jet of brain matter flying up and toward the front of the car, not the back.

> [@Kennedy assassination question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kennedy-assassination-question/598515/19):
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> Read this.[http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/headwnd.htm](http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/headwnd.htm)

> [@Kennedy assassination question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kennedy-assassination-question/598515/25):
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> 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.
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> Actually, don’t bother, other people already have. [Here you go.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45qUL681lmM&t=6m54s)
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> 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.

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