The President Was Shot...

I've read that theory before. Yes, the body brace is said to have prevented JFK from reacting like any normal body would after a shot in the throat and probably bend over in pain, or backwards gasping for air, making it more difficult for the shooter to aim so precise a shot as the one that actually killed him. He was a sitting duck thanks to that brace. The first shot went clear, no bone, no essentials destroyed. JFK would have survived.

But that's like saying that he would have lived if he had been traveling faster or on a different road or anything else. In the end it's all nothingness.

The T wrote: I've read that theory before. Yes, the body brace is said to have prevented JFK from reacting like any normal body would after a shot in the throat and probably bend over in pain, or backwards gasping for air, making it more difficult for the shooter to aim so precise a shot as the one that actually killed him. He was a sitting duck thanks to that brace. The first shot went clear, no bone, no essentials destroyed. JFK would have survived. But that's like saying that he would have lived if he had been traveling faster or on a different road or anything else. In the end it's all nothingness.

The brace may have played a significant role, it certainly didn't help.

But that doesn't necessarily mean he would've lived.   The shot through the neck was quite serious, bruising his cervical spine and windpipe.   JFK was also a terribly afflicted man with Addison's (a malfunctioning of the adrenals), a not-fully-healed spine from an old operation, and numerous other ailments caused by the steroids and pain-killers he was taking daily.  

Another interesting thing about the neck wound is that, in my opinion based on years of research, the shot that went through Kennedy's neck hit him at a steep angle at the top of the neck right at his hairline, traveled through the trachea and went on to wound Connally.   But JFK was hit again, the second shot that hit him, in the upper back just right of the spine as seen in autopsy photos of his back.   This bullet only went in an inch or two, embedded in JFK's large back muscles, and somehow was dislodged.   Only then did the head shot strike.   This has caused much confusion because the Warren Report claimed only three shots could be fired from Oswald's old Italian rifle during the time frame of the shooting ~ approximately 5 to 7 seconds ~ and that the first shot missed, the second hit JFK in the back and then hit Connally, the third shot hit the President's skull.  

I believe the Commission was wrong, and after locking themselves into the 'Only three shots were possible and one missed' conclusion, had to avoid the issue of more shots.   This was a shame and tainted future investigations.   Whoever was shooting at the President, if it was only one person, must've got off at least four rounds, assuming the timing is right and one shot missed.





Edited by Atavachron - November 19 2013 at 21:55

Yeah we'll see

Maybe you'll find some interesting material here.

I am not sure what to think anymore. Too many options and information that goes in all directions. What I always found a little puzzling though, was the subsequent assassination of Robert. Back when I was younger I felt there was a connection there, but then again both of the brothers made powerful foes with their outspoken opinions on race discrimination and (anti) war. 

Blacksword wrote: ^^^ I think there was a 70 year injunction slapped on some new evidence in the Princess Diana death fiasco. This was apparently done out of "respect for the families feelings" etc You can make what you will of these things.

I can try and understand it (but fail to do it) in the case of a president... But Diana? Why?

2 years ago?  Almost the day after she died the conspiracies started.

Oh wow, was gunna make a thread on the actual day...but  I see this is already going strong.

^  It's an old theory first presented in a book called Mortal Error.    There is almost no real evidence for it other than a few photos of the agent in the car behind JFK's with his machine gun drawn after shots were fired.    A couple witnesses said they saw the two SS men in the President's car holding handguns, but no one has ever confirmed that.

As for the origin of the Magic Bullet Theory, it was first proposed by Arlen Specter, then a Washington lawyer, who, after talking to gun experts, decided it was both possible and probable a bullet passed through both men.   And in fact, it is.   But  it doesn't tell us anything about who shot the gun(s) and/or who planned the crime, and it became a huge distraction from more important evidence.

The T wrote: By the way, and even though I like JFK (posthumously of course, I didn't even exist back in 1960-3), the CIA and everyone around him planned and tried to execute the murder of another president, Fidel Castro. So it might have been karma-kanic to use prog terms that JFK himself was murdered.

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