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From there, Landis’ account differs from the government’s official findings: In the ensuing chaos, he claims he picked up a bullet that was lodged in the back seat of the car where Kennedy had been sitting and placed it on the president’s hospital stretcher for investigators.
The 6.5 mm bullet, which had long been thought to have been found on the stretcher of Texas Gov.John Connally after it fell from a wound in his thigh.
Dubbed “the magic bullet,” The Warren Commission concluded that the shot, fired by lone gunman Lee Harvey Oswald, had incredibly passed through Kennedy’s throat from the rear, then hit Connally’s right shoulder, then somehow also wounded his back, chest, wrist and thigh.
The report found that one of the shots missed the motorcade, another was the “magic bullet,” and the final shot fatally struck Kennedy in the head.
Landis placed the bullet on Kennedy’s stretcher at the hospital, but now believes at some point the bullet shuffled from the president’s to the governor’s stretchers while they were pushed together, he told The Times.
The Warren Commission ruled out the bullet coming from the president’s stretcher.
[snip] “If what he says is true, which I tend to believe, it is likely to reopen the question of a second shooter, if not even more,” Robenalt told The Times. “If the bullet we know as the magic or pristine bullet stopped in President Kennedy’s back, it means that the central thesis of the Warren Report, the single-bullet theory, is wrong.”
originally posted by: surfer_soul
a reply to: FlyersFan
You can clearly see from the Zapruda footage (not sure how it’s spelt) that JFK is shot from the front as his head and body slams backwards upon impact, before slumping forwards…
Anyone who has looked even slightly into this knows Oswald was a patsy and the CIA teamed up with the Mafia in the assassination. America has been rotten at the core ever since, it’s not alone in that assessment however, there is a global criminal network pulling the strings in world affairs.
originally posted by: surfer_soul
a reply to: FlyersFan
You can clearly see from the Zapruda footage (not sure how it’s spelt) that JFK is shot from the front as his head and body slams backwards upon impact, before slumping forwards…
originally posted by: Observationalist
What did Jackie grab off the trunk of the car, detonator?.
originally posted by: abe froman
originally posted by: surfer_soul
a reply to: FlyersFan
You can clearly see from the Zapruda footage (not sure how it’s spelt) that JFK is shot from the front as his head and body slams backwards upon impact, before slumping forwards…
What you're seeing is his entire body stiffen due to the traumatic injury to the brain, it has nothing to do with the direction he was shot from.
Also, Governor Connelly's seat was lowered and tilted to the right to allow the crowds a better look at the president.
When you know this fact you realize there's no "magic bullet".
JFK was killed by Oswald alone.
he claims he picked up a bullet that was lodged in the back seat of the car where Kennedy had been sitting and placed it on the president’s hospital stretcher for investigators.
originally posted by: fringeofthefringe
Put it on the stretcher at the hospital?
That seems asenine, put the bullet on the stretcher...doen't anyone else think that is an odd thing to do?
Why would he put the bullet on the stretcher?
Words can't describe how stupid that sounds.
originally posted by: abe froman
originally posted by: surfer_soul
a reply to: FlyersFan
You can clearly see from the Zapruda footage (not sure how it’s spelt) that JFK is shot from the front as his head and body slams backwards upon impact, before slumping forwards…
What you're seeing is his entire body stiffen due to the traumatic injury to the brain, it has nothing to do with the direction he was shot from.
Also, Governor Connelly's seat was lowered and tilted to the right to allow the crowds a better look at the president.
When you know this fact you realize there's no "magic bullet".
JFK was killed by Oswald alone.
originally posted by: FlyersFan
originally posted by: Observationalist
What did Jackie grab off the trunk of the car, detonator?.
From what I read, she grabbed part of his skull that shattered off.
In the frenzy of the moment, she said she was going to put it back on.
I read that somewhere long ago.
He saw a loose piece of forensic evidence and put it where he thought the investigators would find it.
originally posted by: fringeofthefringe
Nothing personal but that reply is weak.
originally posted by: Observationalist
She moved more like an agent trained for crisis and less like a cute little woman in a cute little pink outfit.
JFK was killed by Oswald alone.