The Magic Bullet

[Mike Orr]

All you have to do is look at CE 399 and come to a conclusion that CE 399 hit nothing ,much less go through " 2 " bodies breaking bones ( a rib and a wrist ) !!! Are we really this "Na?ve" ?

[Jerry Freeman]

  Are we really this "Na?ve" ?

Yeah...apparently
The only other alternative = more than one shooter = a conspiracy.
Invent a theory and declare it a fact.
Convey the improbable and proclaim it the most likely.
Take a conjecture and state it a certainty.
A little smoke and mirrors and presto-chango WA-la

[Andrew Mason]

Yeah...apparently
The only other alternative = more than one shooter = a conspiracy.

No it isn't. That is the fundamental error most LNs and all CTs make.  The second shooter is only required if JBC is reacting to his chest wound by z235 or so.  But, if one follows the evidence, there was only one shot to that point.  The last two were noticeably closer together to the vast majority of those who recalled a shot pattern. The second shot SBT is impossible with that shot pattern.

But that is not all. A second shot SBT is also excluded by the Connallys and about 22 other witnesses who said that JFK reacted to the first shot (in distinctly different way than the smiling and waving seen prior to z195 or so).

Again, that is not all: a second shot SBT is excluded by dozens of witnesses along Elm and in the motorcade who put the first shot after z186-z191.

A first shot SBT is excluded if you believe that the Connallys were right in their observation that JBC was not struck in the chest on the first shot.

So the demise of the SBT does not imply multiple shooters unless you are convinced that all these witnesses are wrong. 


Three shots fired from the SN fits all the evidence. It just does not fit your subjective view that Gov. Connally must have been hit in the chest at the same time JFK emerges from behind the sign showing signs of his neck wound.

[Jerry Freeman]

  It just does not fit your subjective view that Gov. Connally must have been hit in the chest at the same time JFK emerges from behind the sign showing signs of his neck wound.

I didn't write that.
I just say there was no 'Magic Bullet'.

[Jerry Freeman]

Seconds after the assassination, a crowd gathered near the Triple Underpass where gunsmoke had been seen and smelled by many witnesses.

[Gary Craig]

Seconds after the assassination, a crowd gathered near the Triple Underpass where gunsmoke had been seen and smelled by many witnesses.

The area in the picture you posted isn't where witnesses saw the smoke.

[Andrew Mason]

I didn't write that.
I just say there was no 'Magic Bullet'.

You said: 1. "The only other alternative = more than one shooter = a conspiracy.".  My point was: 2. that is only the case if JBC was reacting to his chest wound within a few frames of JFK's response to his throat wound seen after he emerges from behind the Stemmons sign.  So by writing 1. you are saying 2.