The President Was Shot...

Oswald did claim he was a patsy, but that may have just been obfuscating words.

I don't believe the lone gunman theory.  However I've not read much about the JFK Assassination so I cannot really comment.

Amusing detour taken by this thread.

I'm trying to get it back on track...

Cheers, Dean.

 ^ Correct, nothing magic about it.   And thanks, Dean, for the reference back to that old thread.

James:   Connally's wounds [he had a total of about five, as the bullet passed through his chest, wrist, and stopped in his thigh] were reasonably analyzed right after the shooting in Dallas at the same hospital JFK was taken to.   There is little doubt one bullet hit him from the upper rear after traveling through the President.   We're told that bullet, the famous "magic" one, was found on his stretcher at the Dallas hospital.   Much has been made as to how it got there, and that Jack Ruby ~ who we know was at Parkland when this was all happening based on several very credible witnesses (who were never called to testify) ~ may have planted it.   This is pure speculation, though it is odd Ruby would be racing around Dallas, first at Dealy Plaza "to see the fireworks" as a friend reported, and then 20 minutes later at Parkland.   What was he doing there?

Dean wrote: I wouldn't pick on him, he's only thirteen years old, he know four-fifths of f___ all about anything.

Yet another example why kids should not be allowed on this web site...

Indeed.  Far too much coverage was given to Lady Di.  But I won't mention that again. 

It's unfortunate that J.F.K. died that day as I'd say the death of Huxley and Lewis were great losses too.  They obviously died natural deaths.

smartpatrol wrote: Dean wrote: I wouldn't pick on him, he's only thirteen years old, he know four-fifths of f___ all about anything.  Dean wrote: I wouldn't pick on him

Edited by irrelevant - November 18 2013 at 02:56

Channel 5 in the UK last week aired a documentary whose particpants claimed that after the first shot was fired a secret service agent sitting next to JFK in the car sprang to his feet, grabbed his rifle intending to protect the president and when turning round accidentally pulled the trigger and blew his brains out. There then followed a 'conspiracy' to keep this quiet, which explained all the irregularitites in procedure around thr autopsy, and the rush to get the body out of Texas and back to D.C. Apparently it's law in Texas that a body cannot leave the state until the autopsy is complete.

I don't know if these claims are any more or less believable than Oswald acted alone, or there was a 'triangulation of crossfire' invloving gunmen on the grassy knoll, and the Cubans/CIA organised it all etc etc etc. I know Kennedy pissed off a lot of people with his anti war rhetoric, disgust at state secrecy and mistrust of the Federal Reserve. You can take your pick really. I guess we will never know and if there was some dubious conspiracy it will not see the light of day until all players have died off.

Blacksword wrote: Channel 5 in the UK last week aired a documentary whose particpants claimed that after the first shot was fired a secret service agent sitting next to JFK in the car sprang to his feet, grabbed his rifle intending to protect the president and when turning round accidentally pulled the trigger and blew his brains out. There then followed a 'conspiracy' to keep this quiet, which explained all the irregularitites in procedure around thr autopsy, and the rush to get the body out of Texas and back to D.C. Apparently it's law in Texas that a body cannot leave the state until the autopsy is complete.