Experts Now Say JFK Bullet Analysis Was Wrong 550
Spy Handler writes "Researchers analyzing bullet fragments from the 1963 Kennedy assassination using new techniques say that the government's 1976 conclusion that the bullets came from only one gun (Oswald's) is wrong. 'Using new guidelines set forth by the National Academy of Sciences for proper bullet analysis, Tobin and his colleagues at Texas A&M re-analyzed the bullet evidence used by the 1976 House Select Committee on Assassinations, which concluded that only one shooter, Oswald, fired the shots that killed Kennedy in Dallas. The committee's finding was based in part on the research of now-deceased University of California at Irvine chemist Vincent P. Guinn. He used bullet lead analysis to conclude that the five bullet fragments recovered from the Kennedy assassination scene came from just two bullets, which were traced to the same batch of bullets Oswald owned.'"
Get your tinfoil shelters out. (Score:4, Funny)
JFK, blown away. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Finally (Score:4, Funny)
You'd be really blue after 44 years even if we did find out the truth then.
Then who did it? (Score:1, Funny)
Oh good grief (Score:4, Funny)
Get over it.
Re:seriously (Score:5, Funny)
In other news (Score:5, Funny)
I can hear it now (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Zapruder film (Score:2, Funny)
Chuck Norris Killed JFK (Score:1, Funny)
Subsequent analysis shows that JFK's head exploded in sheer amazement of Norris' ability to stop the bullet.
Re:JFK, blown away. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I really wonder if this is just (Score:2, Funny)
Re:JFK, blown away. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Oh good grief (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Zapruder film (Score:3, Funny)
Re:seriously (Score:5, Funny)
You'll have to pardon me for that, the X Files movie is available On Demand on my cable system and I keep watching bits and pieces of it.
Re:Does anyone really care anymore? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I can hear it now (Score:5, Funny)
- Bill Hicks
Re:MOD PARENT UP (Score:5, Funny)
We're Slashdot: we already know everything we need to know. We're just waiting for everybody else to find it out.
Re:Get your tinfoil shelters out. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Finally (Score:2, Funny)
You think *that's* puzzling? (Score:3, Funny)
Huey Long shot by own body guard (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, Oswald was up in his sniper's nest in the Book Repository building and popped off some shots, and his was the "magic bullet" that wounded the President and Governer Connely. As to the bullet being pristine, there is this thing about full-metal jacket military bullets that are supposed to go through you instead of fragment or mushroom, and it was not pristine but rather deformed, and high-energy 22 cal bullets can take strange paths through body tissue.
The big mystery is how Oswald could have popped off the "single bullet" and then the kill shot -- was he that good a marksman at a moving target or was he lucky and the rest of the world so unlucky? The theory is no, the kill shot came from somewhere else -- the commotion of the shooting, a Secret Service agent dropped what was at that time an experimental AR-15, the thing discharged (in front and below the President), and the peculiar ammo inflicted the horrific, fatal wound on the President.
Government coverup? You bet! How could the government admit to the President being killed by his own bodyguards, althought that is what happened to Huey Long -- also an accident. Oswald the lone killer? Also true -- that the fatal shot was an accident in response to someone trying to kill the President doesn't let Oswald off the hood.
Re:seriously (Score:4, Funny)
For every documentatary and book stating it was Oswald only there are opposite documentaries and books stating otherwise. Don't believe everything you see, read and hear on one source alone. Come on now, you are the post 9/11 crowd. Use your head.
John F., Bobby, MLK, all of those shootings were too convenient, too easy and too mysterious to be so cut and dry.
Stone made a movie, and he made one hell of a one. It still stirs up controversy. That documentary you saw was meant totally to discredit the movie, JFK, and Stone. It appears to have one at least one convert....
Re:Finally (Score:5, Funny)
This ISN'T the truth - JFK was killed by bears (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Get your tinfoil shelters out. (Score:5, Funny)
You are the conspiracy! (Score:4, Funny)
JFK IS NOT DEAD. The CIA cloned him and that was what was really shot. He faked his death so that he could live with Marylon Monroe, who also faked her death, and they are currently living on Cuba as a guest of Fidel Castro with their good friend Jimmy Hoffa.
A fake conspiracy of who really killed JFK was drawn up to give the nut jobs who think everything is a conspiracy something to chew on, leaving just enough evidence to keep them going. To manufacture the evidence the Borg brought back a federation replicator which is powered by a V8 with a 500 mile per gallon carbarator with those tablets that convert water into fuel.
If it seems like Deja-vu, its just another gliche in the Matrix.
Re:seriously (as in "heart attack") (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Oh good grief (Score:2, Funny)
OK, people. Let's get this straight. Elvis is dead. Period. He's been dead since 1991. Otherwise the US Postal Service would never have made a stamp with him on it. Best as I can figure, the CIA must have told the USPS about his demise as soon as it happened.
Re:Not "wrong"... Just "not proven" (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe now, FINALLY, the truth will come out!!
That Oswald was really trying to be a hero, and shot only at the sniper he saw hiding in the grassy knoll!!
(with apologies to Family Guy)
Oblig Full Metal Jacket Quote (Score:4, Funny)
No response
HARTMAN: None of you dumbasses knows?
COWBOY raises his hand.
HARTMAN: Private Cowboy?
COWBOY: Sir, he was that guy who shot all those people from that tower in Austin, Texas, sir!
HARTMAN: That's affirmative. Charles Whitman killed twenty people from a twenty-eight-storey observation tower at the University of Texas from distances up to four hundred yards.
HARTMAN looks around.
HARTMAN: Anybody know who Lee Harvey Oswald was?
Almost everybody raises his hand.
HARTMAN: Private Snowball?
SNOWBALL: Sir, he shot Kennedy, sir!
HARTMAN: That's right, and do you know how far away he was?
SNOWBALL: Sir, it was pretty far! From that book suppository building, sir!
The recruits laugh at "suppository. "
HARTMAN: All right, knock it off! Two hundred and fifty feet! He was two hundred and fifty feet away and shooting at a moving target. Oswald got off three rounds with an old Italian bolt action rifle in only six seconds and scored two hits, including a head shot! Do any of you people know where these individuals learned to shoot?
JOKER raises his hand.
HARTMAN: Private Joker?
JOKER: Sir, in the Marines, sir!
HARTMAN: In the Marines! Outstanding! Those individuals showed what one motivated marine and his rifle can do! And before you ladies leave my island, you will be able to do the same thing!
Re:seriously (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Not "wrong"... Just "not proven" (Score:4, Funny)
There was no sniper on the grassy knoll.
[eyes shift back and forth]
ps: dont look at my user name.
Don't blame the mods (Score:2, Funny)
We didn't start the fire.
Re:In other news (Score:3, Funny)
I'll have you know I'm not missing any chunks.
Re:Finally (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Finally (Score:2, Funny)
I wish it were that easy with the kind of nuts who deal in this kind of conspiracy. Then again, I actually married a woman who believes the Moon Landing was a hoax.
Re:Finally (Score:3, Funny)
I'm a member of the Illuminati and I have to fess up that we did not do that one. It was the Freemasons.