Reasonable Doubts?

[Dan O'meara]

Royell has hit the nail on the head about your Looney Tunes grasp of reality.
You are clearly unaware that you are suggesting the bullet tumbled 180 degrees, straightened up while it passed through his jacket, then resumed a-tumbling.
It is physically impossible for a bullet rotating at such an incredible speed to make such a small hole in his jacket.

In your cartoonish view of the world the bullet exits JBC's chest backwards.
It must then tumble a further 360 degrees in order to enter his wrist (and leg) backwards.
The distance it has to travel is around 12 inches/1 foot.
Let's say the bullet exiting Connally's chest is travelling around 1000 feet per second [Sturdivan estimated "somewhere between 1,100 and 1,300 feet per second, roughly."]
This means the bullet is spinning 1000 times per second!!!
 

1] Where does this incredible rotational energy come from?
2] How can a 3 cm object spinning 1000 times per second leave such a small hole?
3] What nonsense are you going to come up with next?

Bumped for Corbett.
I see a deleted post from you, was this some half-assed attempt at a response to my post.

[John Corbett]

Bumped for Corbett.
I see a deleted post from you, was this some half-assed attempt at a response to my post.

I don't know how to dumb this down for you any more than I have. Even the picture Steve Galbrath posted for you didn't seem to help. It's impossible to say precisely what the orientation of the bullet was at any given instant but we can make reasonable estimates. The smaller hole in the front of JBC's jacket suggests it had continued to tumble after entering his back in a near perpendicular orientation. Whether it had tumbled 150, 180, 210 degrees or somewhere in between is impossible to  say. What we do know is the base was flattened from the side. That indicates the base received the brunt of the blow when the bullet struck bone which is evidence the bullet was tumbling. Further evidence is that lead fragments were deposited in JBC's wrist and thigh. That came from the lead core which was only exposed at the bottom of the bullet.