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In reply to the discussion: JFK, laser trajectory analysis in Dealey Plaza [View all]stopbush
(24,852 posts)They were hit by blood and brains flying forward from JFK's head wound. The SA and the police office who got covered in his blood both reported running/driving through an atomized mist of his blood that was hanging in the air.
There are so many simple explanations for why people thought they heard shots from the grassy knoll when there were none that I can't recount them all. But one can start with the fact that the large majority of people claimed the shots came form the TSBD, that many people aren't trained or used to hearing gunfire, that Dealey Plaza has an echo to it which makes it harder to determine where a shot is coming from, etc.
BTW - there was no "official story" out there when the Dallas Police Department - which did an incredible job identifying the killer, capturing the killer and building a case against the killer in a short two days (and a not-so-good job protecting that killer) - did its work. It's work is only part of the record and the evidence that pointed to Oswald as the lone killer.