On the Loss of Occam's Razor in the JFK Case

[Tom Graves]

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LOL!

[John Mytton]

Oh, here we go. If I wanted to bother to do so, I could post far more wartime and execution video clips that show victims being propelled in the same direction as the bullet. As I thought was understood, I am not saying this always happens. It depends on the muzzle velocity of the weapon, the distance from the weapon, and any acton the victim might be performing when hit. But there is ample footage showing victims being propelled backward when shot from the front and being propelled forward when shot from behind.

I'm not sure if you are aware of Newton's third law of motion, "for every reaction there is an equal and opposite reaction" and that being the case, why don't we see rifle shooters being "propelled" around like rag dolls? And even though the girl is prepared and braced for the shot, she isn't knocked off her feet, real life isn't a Hollywood movie.



And let's not forget that as soon as a bullet leaves the rifle, the bullets kinetic energy has to contend with air resistance and then upon the inelastic impact, the penetrating bullet further loses energy to damaging flesh, sound and heat. But as I previously implied, it ultimately comes down to momentum and the amount of force of an 11 gram bullet is barely significant as compared to the reaction of a full grown man.

Mythbusters did some practical experiments which illustrate the actual effects of bullet strikes.

BTW, the most insane aspect of this CT theory is why on Earth would the conspirators set up the Patsy to be behind and then put an assassin in front of Kennedy, DOH! And another nail in this bonkers CT theory is that the vast majority of earwitnesses say there was no crossfire, meaning all the shots came from only one direction and while there is some confusion of the exact location due to the echo chamber qualities of Dealey Plaza, over 95% didn't detect a variation in the sound direction, meaning that the gun shots didn't come from either end of Dealey Plaza and since we can know with 100% certainty that both Kennedy and Connally were shot in the back from behind therefore ALL shots came from behind!



JohnM

[Dan O'meara]

The first movement is forward.
JFK is shot in the head from behind.
At the moment of impact his head is already bent forward.
He is looking down, his chin resting near the top of his sternum.



The truly massive impact blasts his head forwards. As his head pivots forward it has nowhere to go and simply rebounds upwards and backwards. It happens so quickly in real time that the initial forward pivot of his head is lost to the eye and it looks like his head is moving backwards as a result of the shot.

Some here have argued that a bullet passing through a body/head imparts hardly any momentum and this is true if it passes straight through.
But this is clearly not the case with JFK's head shot.
His head explodes.
Not metaphorically or as an exaggeration.
It literally explodes.
Large chunks of skull are blasted high into the air and away from the limo.
A large chunk of skull is blasted forward into the limo.
The right side of his head is blasted downwards revealing the inside of his scalp with large fragments of bone still attached.
A giant plume of blood and brain matter is blown into the air above his head.

To compare this to a bullet passing straight through a body is ridiculous.
It requires a massive force acting on his head to produce this kind of damage.
This massive force is represented in the movement of his head - blasted forward and rebounding backwards.

Nalli is a joke, as is anyone else who believes that JFK's head acted like a balloon flying around the room as the air escapes.
I'd be more concerned about the loss of Common Sense rather than Occam's Razor.