JFK Assassination bullet trajectory
Posted by rustyMcclaine@reddit | mythbusters | View on Reddit | 15 comments
Hey, I'm a massive fan of the show. Have you/ would you ever cover this on the show? I've just finished watching a documentary about the incident and I was left feeling very convinced that the bullet came from the sewer drain with how JFK's head moved after being shot. I thought with all your know how and resources that it could be a very interesting experiment to see which angle the fatal bullet came from.
midnightrambler108@reddit
There is Zero chance a bullet came from the sewer.
I'm Quite confident that JFK was killed by a single assassin in Lee Harvey Oswald.
Watch the PBS documentary Cold Case: JFK
persistenceofvision@reddit
And Oswald was conveniently silenced too. The police really know how to protect a murder suspect and not just any murder suspect but a murder suspect who assassinated the President of the United States.
midnightrambler108@reddit
Holy shit, you doing a deep dive on JFK responding to an 8year old post?
I still think it was just Oswald. No conspiracy. Just one lone nut with a gun.
Secret service and police learned from the event. It was 60 years ago. Protocol was very different at the time. You don’t see that kind of exposure any more.
GreenDimi@reddit
This aged badly
midnightrambler108@reddit
Still was just Oswald.
If you are referring to the recent Trump assassination attempt as a proof of this “aging badly,” keep in mind he wasn’t the President. Also it was just a lone gunman again that nearly pulled it off.
HappyClippersFan@reddit
Respectfully, your contradicting yourself by stating "Protocol was very different at the time. You don’t see that kind of exposure any more." And then stating a lone gunman nearly pulled off a assassination attempt again 60 years later.
How has protocol changed? How was Trump's exposure in PA so much different from JFK's?
midnightrambler108@reddit
I think more precautions would have been taken in the Trump case if he was President at the time due to Secret service protocol. Nonetheless the lone gunman is still the culprit.
suq-madiq_@reddit
They might have run into difficulty given the whole “I WANT A RALLY LIKE HITLER” requirement. Open air, imposing ornate venue resembling the middle of a Pennsylvania field, and Nazis.
To be fair, they took away everyone’s guns except the bad guy who to be fair also was legally carrying his, and only audience members were killed.
Sad.
persistenceofvision@reddit
Whether the post is 8 years or 80 years it’s still relevant. The thread itself is about something that happened in 1963. I say conspiracy because could it have been any easier for Oswald to be silenced? The cops walk Oswald out so anyone can just go up to him and easily kill him? That’s a mob hit without a doubt. The IQs of those in charge must be pretty low because they thought it a good idea to put the president in a convertible? I’m not buying that they were that incompetent. It was an American coup. The same with RFK too. He was murdered because of his no tolerance towards the mafia.
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ThatCanadianPerson@reddit
I thought the entry wound was two small. I read that it was a 6mm entry wound, which would be consistent with the entry wound of a 5.56 NATO round.
Solid-Dog-8600@reddit
He was shot by his driver
Aggressive-Ad-6423@reddit
When? When was that?
StrategyStatus1988@reddit
There are several problems with the lone gunman idea and the single bullet theory, one of the bullets that illegally missed the limousine travelled across Dealey Plaza striking a curb on South Side of Main St about two feet before the manhole cover some 20 to 30 ft from the triple overpass, a fragment from this impact hit a bystander causing a scratch to his face! This theoretically left only two bullets to create all the injuries and damage in the presidential limousine, which lead to the single bullet theory but this is problematic because when Kennedy is obviously struck by the first bullet he reaches for his neck, while Connally reacts by lifting his stetson with what should be a broken wrist but isn't and shifting in his seat, then twisting his body to see over his right shoulder and seat, supposedly with 4" of his 5th rib already destroyed by but Connallys wrist only appears to be broken after he completed his turn and then he collapses onto his wife behind him! Seconds later Kennedy is obviously struck in the head but the bullet path through the victims head and the limousine does not line up with the 6th floor of the Schoolbook depository building!🤔🤨🙄😬🤯
SouthernBenefit1612@reddit
Yes, and the bullet in the Mythbusters' recreation comes out of the Kennedy-dummie's chest, not his throat. In other words, it is ridiculous to claim this so-called "re-creation" proves Arlen Specter's single bullet.