the fatal head wound came.The lower picture is a screen frame from a recent Discovery Channel program. It shows what a shooter may have seen from the south side of the overpass through the scope of a weapon.
Went to Dallas last weekend and a friend asked me what are the prevailing theories on the JFK Assassination ? I replied:
Thanks for asking.
Prevailing theories is an interesting way to think of the JFK assassination!
Briefly, my interest started back in the eighties when I read a couple books about the assassination and there seemed to be areas that were not clearly answered in my mind.
One of the chief points seemed to be the shot that hit Kennedy in the throat. It is generally assumed by every official theory and every Oswald-did -it book that Kennedy was wounded in the back with a bullet that exited his throat. This so-called magic bullet passed through Kennedy went on to wound Gov Connally, sitting in front of Kennedy, wounded him twice, so the theory goes, and ended up on a stretcher in the hospital to later be identified as the bullet from Oswald's Mannlicher Carcano, rifle.
Anyway, no serious researchers, historians, or lawyers believe this. I am discounting the well-known authors who have perpetuated this impossibility such as Gerald Posner http://www.posner.com/ , Vincent Bugliosi, http://reclaiminghistory.com/?page_id=7 or webmasters like John McAdams. http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm As you know, hundreds of books have been written about the assassination, so it is easy to be totally confused, if one has not kept all these writings in context, as a few nuts like me have tried to do.
Before I go further, let me just say that there are excellent books out there- to name a few: Breach of Trust, by History professor Gerald McKnight of Hood College, Pa. Another is The Unspeakable by James Douglass, a Jesuit cleric, I guess you'd call him. Another is Larry Hancock's, Someone Would Have Talked.
Now back to the point: if Kennedy was hit in the throat, while facing forward, by a shot from in front of him, what does this tell us? Well, to me, it says the whole Conspiracy of One that the Warren Commission put over on us is a pipe dream. I won't get into why they did this, or who was the driving force, or forces, behind having a Blue Ribbon Commission sell us a completely bogus story about the wounds to Kennedy, but it is important to address that wound to understand who didn't kill Kennedy.
The throat wound Kennedy had when observed in Dallas at Parkland Hospital was a small, 3 to 5 mm "penetrating" hole, as described by doctors at the time. that is approximately 1/4 inch round. James Carrico, the first doctor to observe this wrote this. The doctor who then operated on his neck to insert a breathing apparatus, Dr. Malcolm Perry also described, at the time, (or actually within an hour or so after Kennedy was pronounced dead) at a news conference that it was a wound of entry. The throat wound was also observed by Nurse Henchcliffe before it was opened up wider to allow the trach tube apparatus to be inserted in his throat. She called it an entry wound. Perry was young, but an experienced hunter and had seen many gunshot wounds.
How that wound came to be known as an exit wound is the stuff for volumes of contemporary American History. But, in a nutshell, the Warren Commission was charged with showing Oswald did it with three shots. And so they did. One member of that Commission a young Philadelphia lawyer named Arlen Specter, now a US Senator form Pa, along with another attorney, David Belin, conceived the idea that since there were only three shots, something only hypothesized since there was not time for Oswald to have gotten off any more!, that since one was known to have missed, and one obviously blew Kennedy's head apart, then the third had to be the one that did all the other damage- two wounds to Kennedy, one in his back, and one in his throat- AND three wounds to Connally- one, in back, one in front, one in his wrist, and even a sliver in his thigh- so actually four to Connally!
I won't bore you with any more, but I am convinced after all this time, and especially after finding original testimony and studying the very inept autopsy, and learning from the disclosures which came from the Assassination Record Review Board ARRB, that Kennedy was hit in the throat with apparently a small calibre bullet from the front. The official autopsy never probed this back to front wound to see if it was what it was claimed to be. Instead, it was simply assumed by the militarily controlled Drs at Bethesda, Drs. Humes and Boswell and Finck, that the bullet went through from the back and out the front. If you reread that sentence you should question my sanity, veracity, and grasp of reality. But, I am not kidding.
Some of the esoteric aspects are , was the shot that hit him in the front of his throat from behind the fence to his right, or from his left on the south side of the overpass, train trestle. Both sites are good for getaway and hidden, or relatively hidden, shooters.
One last point, having gone down that rabbit hole with an open mind and looking for facts and not pre-drawn conclusions, I am quite jaded about information that comes from our government and purports to be either official or accurate. This is especially true about some major events in our time, to wit: RFK's and MLK's murders, the carnage at Waco in 1993, the crash of Flight800 off Long Island in 1996, and the 911 Commission's report.
Thanks for listening.
I can give you citations for all I have said above, if you are interested. I have a theory on why he was killed, and it jives pretty much with James Douglass's, as drawn out in his book, The Unspeakable.
Thanks for asking.
Prevailing theories is an interesting way to think of the JFK assassination!
Briefly, my interest started back in the eighties when I read a couple books about the assassination and there seemed to be areas that were not clearly answered in my mind.
One of the chief points seemed to be the shot that hit Kennedy in the throat. It is generally assumed by every official theory and every Oswald-did -it book that Kennedy was wounded in the back with a bullet that exited his throat. This so-called magic bullet passed through Kennedy went on to wound Gov Connally, sitting in front of Kennedy, wounded him twice, so the theory goes, and ended up on a stretcher in the hospital to later be identified as the bullet from Oswald's Mannlicher Carcano, rifle.
Anyway, no serious researchers, historians, or lawyers believe this. I am discounting the well-known authors who have perpetuated this impossibility such as Gerald Posner http://www.posner.com/ , Vincent Bugliosi, http://reclaiminghistory.com/?page_id=7 or webmasters like John McAdams. http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm As you know, hundreds of books have been written about the assassination, so it is easy to be totally confused, if one has not kept all these writings in context, as a few nuts like me have tried to do.
Before I go further, let me just say that there are excellent books out there- to name a few: Breach of Trust, by History professor Gerald McKnight of Hood College, Pa. Another is The Unspeakable by James Douglass, a Jesuit cleric, I guess you'd call him. Another is Larry Hancock's, Someone Would Have Talked.
Now back to the point: if Kennedy was hit in the throat, while facing forward, by a shot from in front of him, what does this tell us? Well, to me, it says the whole Conspiracy of One that the Warren Commission put over on us is a pipe dream. I won't get into why they did this, or who was the driving force, or forces, behind having a Blue Ribbon Commission sell us a completely bogus story about the wounds to Kennedy, but it is important to address that wound to understand who didn't kill Kennedy.
The throat wound Kennedy had when observed in Dallas at Parkland Hospital was a small, 3 to 5 mm "penetrating" hole, as described by doctors at the time. that is approximately 1/4 inch round. James Carrico, the first doctor to observe this wrote this. The doctor who then operated on his neck to insert a breathing apparatus, Dr. Malcolm Perry also described, at the time, (or actually within an hour or so after Kennedy was pronounced dead) at a news conference that it was a wound of entry. The throat wound was also observed by Nurse Henchcliffe before it was opened up wider to allow the trach tube apparatus to be inserted in his throat. She called it an entry wound. Perry was young, but an experienced hunter and had seen many gunshot wounds.
How that wound came to be known as an exit wound is the stuff for volumes of contemporary American History. But, in a nutshell, the Warren Commission was charged with showing Oswald did it with three shots. And so they did. One member of that Commission a young Philadelphia lawyer named Arlen Specter, now a US Senator form Pa, along with another attorney, David Belin, conceived the idea that since there were only three shots, something only hypothesized since there was not time for Oswald to have gotten off any more!, that since one was known to have missed, and one obviously blew Kennedy's head apart, then the third had to be the one that did all the other damage- two wounds to Kennedy, one in his back, and one in his throat- AND three wounds to Connally- one, in back, one in front, one in his wrist, and even a sliver in his thigh- so actually four to Connally!
I won't bore you with any more, but I am convinced after all this time, and especially after finding original testimony and studying the very inept autopsy, and learning from the disclosures which came from the Assassination Record Review Board ARRB, that Kennedy was hit in the throat with apparently a small calibre bullet from the front. The official autopsy never probed this back to front wound to see if it was what it was claimed to be. Instead, it was simply assumed by the militarily controlled Drs at Bethesda, Drs. Humes and Boswell and Finck, that the bullet went through from the back and out the front. If you reread that sentence you should question my sanity, veracity, and grasp of reality. But, I am not kidding.
Some of the esoteric aspects are , was the shot that hit him in the front of his throat from behind the fence to his right, or from his left on the south side of the overpass, train trestle. Both sites are good for getaway and hidden, or relatively hidden, shooters.
One last point, having gone down that rabbit hole with an open mind and looking for facts and not pre-drawn conclusions, I am quite jaded about information that comes from our government and purports to be either official or accurate. This is especially true about some major events in our time, to wit: RFK's and MLK's murders, the carnage at Waco in 1993, the crash of Flight800 off Long Island in 1996, and the 911 Commission's report.
Thanks for listening.
I can give you citations for all I have said above, if you are interested. I have a theory on why he was killed, and it jives pretty much with James Douglass's, as drawn out in his book, The Unspeakable.
