Well, wonder no more. In the last several years information has been available explaining many apparently mysterious aspects of the shooting. We are not including Holocaust Denying Assholes suggesting the driver shot Kennedy. No, the more prosaic ones, like the "magic bullet"
As it goes, the bullet's trajectory appears impossible to some as it would have t ziggzag or back track. See image :
But this is misleading because this was not the correct seating. The correct seating in the limousine was this:
Further more , the front seats were lowered so Kenndy could be seen better by the crowd, like so:
As they wrote at Cracked:
You'll also notice that Kennedy and Connally weren't sitting rigid and facing forward like robots, as the conspiracy theorists suggest, but were twisted in their seats and waving at the audience as though, like, they were at a parade of some kind. Rearrange their bodies that way, and the path of the bullet -- Oswald's bullet -- goes straight through them. Just like it should.
On this same subject Fred Kaplan at Salon writes:
For many years, long after I’d rejected most of the conspiracy buffs’ claims, the “magic bullet”—as critics called it—remained the one piece of the Dealey Plaza puzzle that I couldn’t fit into the picture; it was the one dissonant chord that, in certain moods, made me think there might have been two gunmen after all.
Then, in November 2003, on the murder’s 40th anniversary, I watched an ABC News documentary called The Kennedy Assassination: Beyond Conspiracy. In one segment, the producers showed the actual car in which the president and the others had been riding that day. One feature of the car, which I’d never heard or read about before, made my jaw literally drop. The back seat, where JFK rode, was three inches higher than the front seat, where Connally rode. Once that adjustment was made, the line from Oswald’s rifle to Kennedy’s upper back to Connally’s ribcage and wrist appeared absolutely straight. There was no need for a magic bullet.
I too bought into the JFK conspiracy, though more in a casual sense, like many people are non-practicing Catholics. There was no passion, just a cultural osmosis I'd been raised with that "something" was wrong with the Warren Commission. I never saw the Oliver Stone movie, but it's positive reviews seemed to vindict my acquired assumptions and I saw no need to look into it further.
It wasn't until the aforementioned Holocaust denier was caught mixed up with all sorts of 911 "Truth" frauds, that I started to wonder if the JFK theories were also invented hokum:
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Fetzer has published dozens of articles critical of the Warren Commission's findings,[7] and has edited three books of studies by experts on the assassination of Kennedy.[13] He is reported to have become interested in the subject after watching Oliver Stone's JFK in 1991.[7] Conspiracy debunker Vincent Bugliosi has described Fetzer as a "good and sincere" man and as "the editor of the only exclusively scientific books... on the assassination".[13] He has also been reported to be "a familiar and controversial figure in the JFK research community".[7] According to Josiah Thompson, author of Six Seconds in Dallas, Fetzer has proffered theories considered "off the wall" by other assassination researchers.[14]
According to Fetzer, the CIA, the American Mafia, anti-Castro Cubans, Texas oilmen, the "military–industrial complex", as well as Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, and J. Edgar Hoover, all may have been involved in a plot to kill the President.[13] He has asserted that approximately six gunmen were firing at Kennedy, and that the X-rays of Kennedy as well the Zapruder film were fabricated.[13][15] Maintaining that William Greer, the agent driving Kennedy's limousine, deliberately stopped the vehicle after the first shot to give the assassins a better target, Fetzer has written that it was "such an obvious indication of Secret Service complicity in the assassination" that "had to be edited out" of Zapruder's film.[13]
Fetzer appeared as a guest on the MSNBC program Jesse Ventura's America on the 40th observance of the Kennedy assassination. In response to questions from the host and audience, Fetzer spoke about his findings that the Zapruder film "had been massively edited" and that X-rays and forensic evidence had been severely tampered with or withheld.[5]
If this Fetzer clown (a close associate of the lying fraud Craig "Killtown"Lazo btw) was involved in the JFK conspiracy community...could that mean some of the JFK conspiracies were just as dubious as his protege Judy Wood's "space beams"?
Then I heard of his ridiculous the Driver Did it Theory, and thought no more of it...still keeping an open mind that maybe something was off about the Kennedy assassination.
And then I find out Stone failed to research thoroughly the seating arrangements, which 100% match the "magic bullet" path.
Not enough derp in the world...
I feel for Mr.Stone. He made a poplar movie and one day he's going to have to say, "Oops, my bad", at least on that point.
Recently I've read another JFK book and have my own conclusions about the supposed conspiracy:
1. Oswald was an asshole and wife beater. Get that out of the way.
2. He had some fantasy he was very important in the Russian ex-pat circles he moved in. I'm sure they found him useful for their own reasons, but he was never considered an equal.
3. While he had shady, dodgy associates, many perhaps hostile to the US government, they appear to be the bourgeois wine sipping, smoking jacket sort. Certainly not people willing to risk their emigration status plotting an assassination, no matter what their politics were.
4. That said, framing of Oswald as a "lone nut" is misleading. He had a support group who tolerated and encouraged his radicalism...in theory. However there is no evidence they knew about or participated in the assassination.
And so the osmosis of my youth has been put to rest. There is no magic bullet...just a bullet. No conspiracy, except for the delusional visions of grandeur held by a wife beating misanthrope.
The JKF conspiracy, is used as "proof" they "fooled us before, so maybe that's how the planned to fool us about 9/11!!" This is part of why conartists truthers like "casseia" are very invested in pushing, or at least tolerating, the Moon Hoax, Holocaust Denial and other "woo". Not that they believe any of it. It's just a cynical method to control people's perceptions. A bonus is if you can get someone to fall for the Moon Hoax, JFK and Holocaust Denial and 911 truth for that matter become much easier to sell.
But now we can now stop beating the dead horse. There was no magic bullet because there was no magic.
Now we can move on
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