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In reply to the discussion: Octafish to attend JFK assassination conference. Do you think JFK still matters? [View all]Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)Simple facts: bullet fragments and largely intact though deformed bullet matched to Oswald's rifle, to the exclusion of all other weapons. Oswald's rifle discovered at the scene; a man with a rifle seen by eyewitnesses in the 6th floor TSBD window, Oswald the only TSBD employee unaccounted for at the time. When you eliminate the impossible, etc. It's impossible that the shots came from any other rifle; it's impossible that they came from anywhere other than the 6th floor of the TSBD (based on trajectory analysis and wound ballistics), and given the other evidence, it's impossible that anyone BUT Oswald can have been the shooter. It's really that simple.
And there's no "physics-defying" about it; the "magic bullet"? Not so magic; Kennedy struck in the back, bullet passes through, not deflected by bone, continues along its trajectory, strikes Connally, deflected by a rib and breaks his wrist. The relative positions of Kennedy and Connally show that the trajectory works and that a line drawn back from the entry wound in Kennedy's back along the path the bullet would have taken goes directly to the 6th floor TSBD window. And three shots from a bolt-action rifle in 8.3 seconds is not difficult.