Thread: Nov 22nd 1963 The Kennedy Assassination

I always thought conspiracy myself , until an article in Guns n Ammo about Elephant Poachers caught my attention... they were talking about medium velocity (2000-2500 fps) rifle rounds using heavy for caliber jacketed bullets being able to bring down an elephant and the bullets almost being able to be re-loaded because there was very little deformation...

I started looking at the Magic Bullet a bit differently after that, then the fact that when the lower and inside jump sets of the Limo that Connelly and his wife were sitting in are taken into account, it straightens out the path...
Forward movement of the Limo and the kinetic energy of the bullet explain the head shot and whip action in the Zapruder film...

Two things I am still not so comfortable with though,,,
1.) The fact the one bullet created 7 wounds and had virtually no upset when the head shot bullet left only jacket shrapnel...
2.) Most shooters feel that the first shot should have been the most accurate yet that was the miss (they think)... Now some weak evidence is showing that perhaps the first shot was taken from more of an off hand standing position and/or perhaps a Traffic Signal light might have deflected it.. Then LHO settled in and fired the last two shot from a rested postion...

Also for many years we were told that the shooting was done in 6 seconds, now they are saying as high as 11 seconds which changes the scenario a bit.