• ArbitraryValue
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    What could they have done to prevent what happened?

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      There’s a theory that one of them accidentally shot JFK after Oswald’s initial shot. They could have not done that.

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        The president cannot be killed by an assassin, if his bodyguard kills him first. Thinking outside the box. Great job!

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          No it isn’t.

          Why did the first round put a hole in his neck and the second one blow his head apart?

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            There’s a channel called Lemmimo that did a pretty interesting documentary on it that explains it. Also explains a lot of the reasoning behind popular conspiracies and why some of them are obvious bunk. Dude is very talented only came across the video a couple days ago due to his music he made for the video.

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            This as all been explained. I’m not a ballistics expert so I can’t give you the details. But they have recreated these wounds exactly with ballistic gel and a recreation of the vehicle. No magic bullet nonsense. All straight shots into a moving vehicle and the difference in wound height of the two victims is explained by the fact that one was in a fold down jump seat that sat lower. One shooter, one rifle.

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              What are you even talking about a magic bullet for?

              It is a simple question of ballistics, entrance wounds vs exit wounds.

              First shot into the upper back does not match the second shot into the skull.

              Wouldn’t he have a gaping hole either in his upper back or throat similar to the damage done to his skull?

              The second shot doesn’t match the first that’s always been the question

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                Take a screwdriver and stab ballistic gel. Then take a screwdriver and, with the same force, stab an ice cube. Notice a difference in how the substance responds to the force?

                It’s quite possible not to encounter anything hard (bone) going through a neck or chest. A skull not so much.

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            A friend’s brother, who was in forensics, explained it to me like this:

            If a head gets hit by a bullet, the shockwave op the bullet traveling through the brain can bounce off the skull and blow back out the entry wound (and make the head snap backwards instead). I gotta go with that as he’s the most relyable source I’ve spoken to myself.

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    If there had been the massive conspiracy everyone imagines, at least one of the people involved would have left a deathbed confession.

    “Deep Throat” was one guy and they couldn’t kept his identity covered up.