JFK Assassination Forum

As they used to say when I was an avid runner, "If you want to be an elite runner, choose your parents carefully." At the elite level of all sports, genetics is the one factor that can't be overcome. My father and half-brother were both professional golfers (not tour players) and I worked at PING, but I was never better than "sometimes I break 80" due largely to vision and back problems. There are sooooo many players who are "really good" or even "really, really good" but just do not have what it takes to play at the elite level - something that's difficult to admit to yourself. I used to stand in front of a mirror and try to contort myself into Ben Hogan's positions in his Power Golf-era swing before the bus accident. Not swinging, just standing there. I couldn't come close. When Tiger Woods was tested at the Stanford athletic department, he was off the scale in comparison to other athletes, not just golfers. Most modern instruction is for 20-year-olds and irrelevant (or harmful) for the rest of us.

Butch Harmon once said "Give me 100 six-year-olds who have never seen a golf club. I will tell you at the end of a week which of them, if any, has the potential to play tour-level golf." I also had a funny experience when I was 14. I visited my grandmother, who was a member of Kansas City Country Club. I played the course twice, thought it was harder than hell, and probably shot 97 or higher; I remember I ran out of balls the first round. Looking at the handicap sheet in the locker room, one guy had posted consistently 67-67-67-64-65 and was a +3 handicap. I asked "What's a +3 handicap?" (having no idea there even was such a thing as + handicap). The pro, Stan Thirsk, said "Oh, that means he averages several strokes under par - and the funny thing is, he's exactly the same age as you." Tom Watson. Genetics.

I always had a dream that technology would create some sort of plastic shell I could step into that would duplicate Tiger Woods' swing so I could experience what it felt like for five balls. Even those of us who worked at PING and saw pros every day agreed that it all seemed almost magical when a long-hitting pro took a swing that looked not much different from ours but the results looked jaw-droppingly different (and this was in the persimmon driver, balata ball era).

I briefly got down to a 3 handicap and kept a 4 for a couple years but as I aged, I gradually went up to double digits. I came close to shooting my age a couple years ago. I missed a 25 footer for birdie to miss by a stroke. Another time I birdied 2 of the last 3 holes to miss by a shot. The final hole I chipped in from about 15 years right of the green so I never threatened to hit the magic number. I've always thought golf was one sport where you could become very good through acquired skill rather than innate athletic ability but as you observed, there is a ceiling that most people could never break through. I read a long time ago that if you can't consistently shoot 65 on your home course, don't even bother going to the Q-school. I used to be part of a pot game on weekends of guys 40+ years old. One of them had a son who won a high school state championship, played college golf for a few years then tried it on the mini-tours. He would occasionally come out and play with us and had no trouble breaking 70. I saw him come out one day with a bad hangover. Our first hole is a 500 yard par-5 and he cold topped his first two shots. He than took out a 3 wood and knocked his third shot on the green from about 270 and made birdie. He shot 67 that day. He played on what is now the Korn Ferry Tour. I think it started out as the Hogan Tour. He never won enough to break even. He never came close to getting his card on the big tour. He did become pals with Nolan Henke on the Hogan Tour and caddied for him for a while but that was the only way he got on the big tour.

Who cares?  He is president and Kamala/Hillary are not.  If nothing else, Trump spared us an unmitigated disaster of a Kamala Harris or Hillary Clinton presidency.  That would have been the end game for the US.  Even with our media working overtime to undermine Trump, he still won.  The lunatics don't always control the agenda.  Even if they are loud and destructive.  Thankfully we still have some sane people.

The real danger is if the Democrats ever gain control of the White House, Senate, and House of Representatives which they probably will. When that happens, they will end the filibuster, pack the Supreme Court, and grant statehood to DC and Puerto Rico, making it very difficult for the GOP to take back the Senate. They will then be able to ram through their radical agenda. It almost happened in 2020 but we were lucky to have a couple sane Democrats in Joe Manchin and Kristen Sinema to prevent that from happening. The only one we have now is John Fetterman and I don't think he will be enough to stop all this if the Democrats get 51 senators.

SSA Hickey in the follow-up limo accidentally fired a 4 or 5 shot auto burst of his AR15 & the last slug (a hollow point slug) hit jfk in the head, & the remnant slug then cracked the windshield.
The 2nd last shot of Hickey's auto burst put a dent in the chrome trim above the windshield of the jfk limo.  As far as i know no-one has ever re-created that dent shot.  This would be a good test to show that the dent was made by an AR15 & not by Oswald's Carcano.

The Hickey-did-it-accidentally theory is as goofy as any conspiracy theory I've ever come across. It's right up there with Greer shooting JFK with a handgun. The evidence for a first shot while Zapruder was not filming is as thin as gruel.

My Two Cents is that JFK was assassinated by Oswald alone and that we have not been visited by Alien Spacecraft. Space is just too vast. Too hard to make the journey. And there are philosophical reasons to believe that we cannot visit other starts and aliens cannot visit ours.


First of all, the constants of fundamental properties of physics, strength of gravity, the strength of electric attraction of protons and electrons, just happened to be set perfectly to allow the existence of stars, planets, life and intelligent life. The odds of this happening by sheer luck alone are astronomical. How did this happen?

Well, for most people, the answer is obvious. God set up the universe that way.

I do not go along with this. I am biased against supernatural explanations. Maybe I am wrong, but that is my bias.

I go along with the theory that universes are being created all the time, with different properties. In most of these universes, life never forms. In a small fraction of universes, life can form and does form and sometimes develops intelligent beings that wonder how they could be so lucky.


Now, let's imagine a catalog that contains a card that corresponds to a star which has intelligent life. The majority of these cards should occur in universes with lots of civilizations. So, most likely, we live in a universe with lots of civilizations that develop around certain stars.

What kind of property should such a universe have:

* Lots of stars that provide potential for a civilization to develop.

* Some 'mechanism' that makes it basically impossible for a civilization, even with advanced technology, to visit other stars. Otherwise, an early civilization could form first, quickly colonize other star systems, and prevent other civilizations from ever forming. Such a universe would develop relatively few civilizations and so, statistically, we are probably not in such a universe.


Does our universe look something like this? Yes, it is vast. With hundreds of billions of galaxies, each with billions, even hundreds of billions of stars. And there is 'mechanism' that likely prevent the visiting of other solar systems, which will prevent one civilization preventing other potential civilizations from ever forming? Again, yes, the vast distances between stars which scientists just don't see a way of technology of ever overcoming.

So no, I do not think we have ever been visited by aliens.

I hadnt thort of it before now, but the crease in the front face of the hard tough chrome trim would have helped to stop the small frangible slug (possibly hollow point) from Hickey's AR15.
The remnant slug & some of the lead splatter would probly have ended outside of the JFK limo (ie on the road). This was the 2nd last shot of Hickey's auto burst.

The last shot of the accidental auto burst hit JFK in the head, & the remnant slug veered say  6 deg inside the skull to then crack the windscreen (just left of the mirror).
This remnant probly ended inside the JFK limo. In which case it must have been secretted by the SS. Unless it did end up on the road.
https://i.postimg.cc/C1TW9z5Z/chrome-trim-before-jfk-cropped-crack-dent.jpg


From 6:16 this video shows an open-ended jacketed bullet hitting something hard:

SSA Hickey in the follow-up limo accidentally fired a 4 or 5 shot auto burst of his AR15 & the last slug (a hollow point slug) hit jfk in the head, & the remnant slug then cracked the windshield.
The 2nd last shot of Hickey's auto burst put a dent in the chrome trim above the windshield of the jfk limo.  As far as i know no-one has ever re-created that dent shot.  This would be a good test to show that the dent was made by an AR15 & not by Oswald's Carcano.