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JFK Assassination Discussion & Debate / Re: The First Shot
« Last post by Andrew Mason on Yesterday at 11:01:16 PM »Dans Z224 1st shot sequence fits better than any other of the LN 1st shot miss sequences with a 3rd shot that could possibly have hit the manhole cover. It’s an unaimed shot 2 secs after Z313. If it’s possible a lead fragment separated from the copper jacket and flew across the green to strike the curb near Tague, then that fragment was probably traveling at least 1500ft/ sec which would have been enough to cause some concrete debris from the curb causing Tagues cheek wound. It fits closer with Norman’s shot spacing and with Tagues recollection ( he said it was the 2nd OR the 3rd shot).There is no way that a fragment from the head shot was travelling 1500 fps or anything close to that. But a fragment deflecting off the manhole cover enough to miss the curb and drop a further 10 feet down to the road near Tague (it is a 3 degree downward slope over the 200 or so feet to Tague) would have to be moving much slower than 1500 fps. It takes .8 seconds to fall 10 ft. So it could have a horizontal speed of no more than 200/.8=250 fps.
By the way, Tague said he believed he heard a shot after the shot that hit him on the cheek and he heard exactly three shots.
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Andrew’s Z190-Z270-Z313 sequence is the only other LN proposal but where in there could the manhole cover have been hit?There is not only no evidence that the manhole was hit but there is abundant evidence that the head shot was the last shot.
