Cheerful Spring wrote: » The U.S. government was in danger Thursday of missing the deadline to release a trove of previously classified records from the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, adding an unexpected twist to a saga already rife with rumors and conspiracies. The law says the National Archives must release the 35,000 documents by midnight unless President Donald Trump objects on national security grounds. On Thursday evening, U.S. officials said that some material would be released, and other documents would be withheld to give agencies more time to figure out what they want redacted. There you have it folks. 50 years later they still covering up this event.
NIMAN wrote: » I used to read a lot about the case and always believed in the conspiracy theories, until I read a book called Case Closed by some guy Posner. It convinced me it was LHO who did it on his own. Then lately I saw a documentary about a guy who has been researching it for decades and he thinks the secret service man in the car behind discharged his gun by accident and blew JFKs head off.https://www.amazon.co.uk/Case-Closed-Harvey-Oswald-Assassination/dp/1400034620/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1509055503&sr=8-1&keywords=posner+case+closed
Itssoeasy wrote: » "time to Figure out what they want redacted" What have the agencies of the government been doing for 25 years exactly ? They knew this day was coming so if they wanted stuff redacted they had plenty of time to do so and state the reasons why.
tomwaterford wrote: » I don't see any benefit in covering up a conspiracy as those who partipated or benefitted will surly be dead/retired by now??
mark_jmc wrote: » I've been to the museum in Dallas and I can't comprehend why Oswald didn't shoot him when the motorcade was travelling towards the book depository but instead waited until they were moving away down toward the underpass- from the vantage point of the window in the building it was a more difficult shot to take
Charmeleon wrote: » It would be a much harder shot when he was traveling left to right across Oswald’s field of view. When JFK was moving in a straight line in front of the window he was also traveling downslope towards the underpass. The effect of moving away (upwards in the gunsight) was largely cancelled out by his moving downslope (downwards in the gunsight) so he appeared to be close to stationary for a time, from Oswald’s point of view. The shot Oswald chose was a very easy shot. His record in rifle shooting in the army shows he was unusual in actually improving in accuracy the faster he shot.
Laois_Man wrote: » It's quite unfortunate alright when your gun goes off by accident 3 times in 8.3 seconds and 2 of them, out of a crowd of hundreds, happen to hit the one person who is the US President
Charmeleon wrote: » It would be a much harder shot when he was traveling left to right across Oswald’s field of view. When JFK was moving in a straight line in front of the window he was also traveling downslope towards the underpass. The effect of moving away (upwards in the gunsight) was largely cancelled out by his moving downslope (downwards in the gunsight) so he appeared to be close to stationary for a time, from Oswald’s point of view. Any of the ‘snipers couldn’t match Oswald’ type TV reconstructions usually have a car traveling on a flat surface, a much harder shot than Oswald had. The shot Oswald chose was a very easy shot. His record in rifle shooting in the army shows he was unusual in actually improving in accuracy the faster he shot.
Cheerful Spring wrote: » The shot was never the problem. It was shooting 3 bullets in 6 seconds using a bolt action gun, hard to use. Never mind the Magic bullet that barely got damaged after passing through Kennedy and Connolly.
Are Am Eye wrote: » Was Oswald left handed? There seems to be conflicting claims on this - looking on the net. If he was a leftie, I think the shot to his left out the window would be a little awkward. If I'm not mistaken Oswald was facing roughly westward - so the Sun would not factor into either shot.
Charmeleon wrote: » It wasn’t 3 bullets in six seconds, he had all the time in the world to line up the first shot. So if you are timing the rapid firing of the gun then the timer starts after the trigger is first pulled. 2 shots in the following 6 seconds. Some people have timed it and it may have been 8 seconds between the first and last shots. There’s no ‘magic bullet’. It is simple physics. The bullet passed through JFK’s throat and exited without hitting any bones. That slowed the bullet down considerably before it entered Connolly’s back. The first bone it hit was the soft, thin bone of his rib cage on exit. By then it was traveling at a fraction of the original speed because it was spinning after it left JFK and then entered Connolly lengthways. The first hard bone it hit was Connoly’s wrist and by then it was traveling at a low speed for a bullet. For bone to deform hard metal (the bullet had a full metal jacket), it has to be traveling very fast.
Are Am Eye wrote: » I think the myth that that bullet was undamaged has been well and truly debunked. Wasn't based on fact. The magic bullet's trajectory is also not so magical when they later factored in that Connolly was sitting a half bodies width more into the centre of the car than JFK behind him. Connolly was half turned to his left. JFK's seat was very slightly higher than Connolly's in the front. The angle of the shot from the Depository fits with these alignments.
Cheerful Spring wrote: » Skeptics have tried and every time have not be able to replicate the magic bullet shot.
Cheerful Spring wrote: » Fragments broke off, but the bullet was intact. And the bullet was mysteriously found at the hospital? Why was it not found inside the car Kennedy was travelling in?
Cheerful Spring wrote: » Skeptics have tried and every time have not be able to replicate the magic bullet shot. There bullet when recovered was smashed and deformed. A bullet would suffer severe deformities after it hit the skin, then ribs, the wrist and finally the thigh of Connolly.
Charmeleon wrote: » Because it was embedded in Connolly’s thigh before it worked it’s way out. As I have explained, it was traveling very slowly for a bullet before it came to rest, so was not deep in Connolly’s thigh.
Cheerful Spring wrote: » Only Fragments of a bullet were extracted from Connolly. There is no evidence whatsoever the bullet in the Archives ( magic bullet) was fired by Oswald. It was found on stretcher, it was never taken out of any part of Connolly body,
tomwaterford wrote: » One would wonder how hard a skeptic would try??
Charmeleon wrote: » Except every gun leaves a specific set of markings on a bullet that was fired through it. The bullet has been sitting in the archives as well as the gun, if someone could prove it wasn’t fired by that rifle, I think we would have heard about it. The ballistics experts that examined it showed it was fired from the recovered gun.
