Cold Case: JFK – NOVA program now online

[KurtNYC]

34. I saw another one of these recently where they had a team in Australia

which specializes in land mine research, build replicas of Kennedy's torso, Connally's torso and Connally's wrist and thigh, all separate. Then they positioned them as they would have to line up to be hit by one bullet. They got a shot through all of them BUT the bullet just spills out of the fake Connally wrist and bounces off his thigh. The bullet is badly mis-shapen which they attribute to it hitting several fake ribs. Contrast this to Bullet 399 which shows no signs of hitting anything with density or being out of symmetry.

Connally, his wife and other witnesses believe that he was hit about a half second after JFK is hit through the throat. In the Zapruder film you can see that he doesn't slump until he is turning back to his left. The bullet that hits him make a keyhole entry wound so it isn't the clean hit that can take a second to feel. Connally absorbs much of the energy of the projectile, as was shown in the Australian recreation.

The Zapruder film shows JFK's head going backward with the impact of the head shot as we have all seen for ourselves way too many times. Secret Service immediately went up the hill after being hit by part of the shot and tissue. ZApruder himself said th4e shot came form behind his position. The WCR published frames 314 and 315 in reverse order but that has been cleared up as a printing error. JFK's head goes backward and so does the stuff that comes out.

Here are a variety of object moving backward and/or spraying to the exit side as they are hit by bullets. Under the law's of physics Kennedy's head is no different: