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JFK Assassination Discussion & Debate / Re: The First Shot
« Last post by Benjamin Cole on Today at 12:52:21 PM »Typical bullets for handguns in 1963 were ordinary lead, especially for .38s.
Hollow points were rare to non-existent in 1963.
FMJ for more-powerful handguns did exist.
Only lead was detected on the curb strike near Tague.
Hard to see how FMJ's fired at the limo subsequently made a lead-only strike on the Tagee curb. I put very low odds, indeed vanishing, on that.
The second official investigation into the JFKA, the HSCA, concluded there had been a gunshot at the GK.
As a JFKA amateur-layman-hobbyist-buff, you are entitled to disagree.
Respectfully, I put more weight on the HSCA's findings than yours. That was a serious investigation, by a lot of smart and skeptical guys, many professionals.
Reasonable JFKA speculation is that a handgun, fired on the GK, could have send a lead slug towards Tague and the nearby curb.
Does that explain the Tague shot? It is a reasonable explanation. No more, no less than that.
No, the LNT'ers and CT'ers cannot prove their views.
Hollow points were rare to non-existent in 1963.
FMJ for more-powerful handguns did exist.
Only lead was detected on the curb strike near Tague.
Hard to see how FMJ's fired at the limo subsequently made a lead-only strike on the Tagee curb. I put very low odds, indeed vanishing, on that.
The second official investigation into the JFKA, the HSCA, concluded there had been a gunshot at the GK.
As a JFKA amateur-layman-hobbyist-buff, you are entitled to disagree.
Respectfully, I put more weight on the HSCA's findings than yours. That was a serious investigation, by a lot of smart and skeptical guys, many professionals.
Reasonable JFKA speculation is that a handgun, fired on the GK, could have send a lead slug towards Tague and the nearby curb.
Does that explain the Tague shot? It is a reasonable explanation. No more, no less than that.
No, the LNT'ers and CT'ers cannot prove their views.
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no one is saying that.