The First Shot

[John Corbett]

The Litwin article is well done.  Bugliosi’s rebuttal of Lattimer are hard to dismiss. But the real problem is with a shot through JFK at z223-224. It strains credulity to suggest that JFK could have gone from smiling and waving at the time he was hit to a position and expression 200 ms or less later of this:


That may have been another reason Bugliosi wasn’t persuaded by the Lattimer theory.

All of your beliefs strain credulity.

[Andrew Mason]

All of your beliefs strain credulity.

I am not suggesting that Bugliosi was right in concluding that JFK was struck around z210. I was just suggesting that his comments about Lattimer’s theory are persuasive.  So it is Bugliosi’s reasoning that JFK was hit around z210 which appears to strain credulity for you. 

[John Corbett]

I am not suggesting that Bugliosi was right in concluding that JFK was struck around z210. I was just suggesting that his comments about Lattimer’s theory are persuasive.  So it is Bugliosi’s reasoning that JFK was hit around z210 which appears to strain credulity for you.

I'd have to go back to Reclaiming History to find out what Bugliosi had to say about this. I certainly don't agree that JFK was shot at Z210. That is the earliest the WC concluded that Oswald had a clear line of fire at JFK. That is how they concluded the two shots that hit JFK were no more than 5.6 seconds apart. 103 frames / 18.3 comes out to 5.63 seconds. In reality, the shot probably was fired at or about Z220 and struck at or about Z222.