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In reply to the discussion: Mortal Error: The Shot That Killed JFK [View all]DanTex
(20,709 posts)and were matched to JFK's rifle? Probably not. I wonder why? Could it be that the book was trying to ignore evidence that the head shot came from Oswald's rifle? That's a little harder to explain than the shell casings, don't you think? One bullet missed, the other was the "magic" bullet, and the third hit JFK in the head, and then broke into two large fragments and bunch of small ones. The bullet that missed was not found. The other two were traced to Oswald's rifle, to the exclusion of all others. That leaves zero shots left for the accidental AR-15.
Did the book mention the three TSBD employees that were standing in the window one floor down from Oswald, and who testified that they heard three shots from above them? One of them, a gun guy, even heard the sound of reloading and of shell casings hitting the ground. Wonder why they omitted that evidence?
Did the book mention the fact that the HSCA had a panel of photographic experts examine the Zapruder film, and found that the angle of JFK's head was such that the bullet trajectory was lined up with Oswald? Probably not. The guy who came up with the accidental AR-15 story was a gun expert, but had no expertise in analyzing photographs.
Also, despite the fact that many people have reproduced Oswald's shot, doing it even faster and with more accuracy than he did, you still question whether he could have done it. But you are ready to believe that an AR-15 went off by accident, and of all places it could have gone, it hit JFK directly in the head. Did they do any experiments to see how unlikely it would be to swing an AR-15 around at random and then score a direct hit?
About the fact that the WC only called witnesses that supported their original theory, yes, you are making that up.