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In reply to the discussion: Question: How Many Books On The JFK Assassination Have YOU Read ??? [View all]Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)34. Not really, no.
here is no "bolt problem". The time between the first and last shot? 8.3 seconds (estimated based on the known average framerate of Abraham Zapruder's 8mm Bell & Howell camera. One miss, two hits. On a target less than a hundred yards away, moving at a speed of about 12 mph. The "approximately six seconds" (or 5.6, if you prefer) so often cited is the elapsed time between the two shots that hit. Not all three total. It's not only quite achievable, it's been replicated. (Not the precise, exact shots, but multiple hits, same distance, moving target.) Asserting that it's "problematic" is making a claim directly contradicted by physical evidence and empirical testing.
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None. It makes me too sad. Glad they are out there though. Bobby, too. The last of the great
libdem4life
Nov 2013
#2
Just one. The second one you posted. I grew up assuming it was a 'lone wolf' right wing lunatic
sabrina 1
Nov 2013
#5
Check Out Jim Marrs' Crossfire... Even In The Preface He Tells You Not To Trust The Book...
WillyT
Nov 2013
#13
A shot of less than 100 yards on a slow moving target is not only likely...
Gravitycollapse
Nov 2013
#36
I still have that paperback edition of On The Trail of the Assassins somewhere.
nyquil_man
Nov 2013
#16
I saw that episode of The X-Files with the Cigarette Smoking Man. Does that count?
Orrex
Nov 2013
#39
One. Four Days: The Historical Record of the Death of President Kennedy
ScreamingMeemie
Nov 2013
#46