The windshield was hit from the front.
We have eight witnesses, including a doctor, two federal agents, and two police officers, who saw a hole in the windshield.
You have 8 people who knew JFK had been shot, saw the defect in the windshield and understandably assumed he had been shot from the front through the windshield. None of them was able to examine the windshield closely. The Secret Service agents were able to examine the windshield closely and determine that the windshield had been struck from the inside and that the missile and not gone through the windshield.
Dr. Glanges saw the hole minutes after the shooting when she saw the limo outside Parkland Hospital.
What difference does it make when she saw it. Do you think that gave her a better look at it than the Secret Service agents who examined it that night in Washington DC?
One of the police officers who saw the hole at Parkland even stuck a pencil through it.
In addition, the lone-gunman shooting scenario cannot explain the round dent in the chrome above the rearview mirror. The WC suggested the dent may have already been present before the shooting, but this idea was debunked decades ago with photographic evidence from the previous motorcades in Texas.
The bullet that passed through JFK's head broke apart with some fragments leaving the limo and others striking inside the limo. One of those cracked the windshield and another likely caused the dent. Not hard to figure out.
It definitely wasn't the first shot.
Thank you for that, Captain Obvious.
Oswald didn't fire any shots.
NAA testing of the paraffin cast of Oswald's right cheek shows he did not fire a rifle on 11/22/63. PSA/VSA analysis of Oswald's televised statements at the police station that he didn't shoot anyone indicate he was telling the truth.
Paraffin tests don't prove anything. They produce both false positives and false negatives. An FBI agent fired Oswald's rifle and was administered the same paraffin test and he too tested negative. Either you are pretending you didn't know that or you really don't know that which makes you are really bad researcher.
PSA/VSA tests don't prove anything either. That is why they are not admissible in court. They are used in pretrial hearings to help judges decide whether a defendant is a flight risk or not but the judge has the discretion to disregard the results of the test and make the decision on his own. They do not and cannot prove guilt or innocence. Why would you even propose that they prove Oswald was innocent?
And, there were more than three shots, as the Zapruder film alone proves to anyone who is willing to acknowledge what their eyes can plainly see.
Just how does the Zapruder film prove more than three shots. We see visual evidence of JFK and JBC being struck at about Z222 and JFK obviously being shot in the head at Z313. Evidence of an earlier missed shot lies in combining JBC's statement with what we observe him do in the Z-film prior to being shot. We see him turn to look over his right shoulder just as he said he did upon hearing the first shot. While not proof positive, it is still highly probative. Beyond that, there is no visual evidence of any other gunshot.
"Reactions to Six Shots in the Zapruder Film"
The numerous witnesses who reported hearing shots from the grassy knoll and/or four or more shots were not dreaming.
Most witnesses remember hearing three shots. Some only remembered hearing two. Those who thought they heard four or more shots were a small minority.
There were numerous witnesses who said all the shots came from the GK and numerous others who said all the shots came from the TSBD. Do you think the latter group was dreaming? CTs never want to apply the same questions to their beliefs that they apply to the WC findings. Why is that.
The simple fact is both groups cannot be right. One or the other has to be wrong. The way to determine which group got it right is to look at other evidence. We had eyewitnesses who SAW a gunman on the 6th floor of the TSBD. No eyewitnesses to a GK shooter. Thress spent shells were found at the location where witnesses had seen the gunman. A rifle was found a short distance away that was positively matched to the shells that were found and also to the only two recovered bullets. No shells or weapon was found on the GK.
Every qualified medical examiner who has reviewed the medical evidence has agreed both JFK and JBC were shot from behind. There is no medical evidence of a shot from in front of or to the right of the victims. Even Dr. Cyril Wecht who believed there was a frontal shooter did not base that belief on medical evidence but on his interpretation of what the Z-film showed. As a film analyst he was no more qualified than you or me. Both of you are entitled to your opinion but those opinions are not evidence that any court would accept as valid.
