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Title: Nov. 22, 1963: A Magic Bullet, a Grassy Knoll, an Enduring Mystery
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Published: Nov 22, 2007
Author: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries
Post Date: 2007-11-22 16:01:07 by tom007
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Nov. 22, 1963: A Magic Bullet, a Grassy Knoll, an Enduring Mystery By Tony Long 11.22.07 | 12:00 AM President John F. Kennedy and Texas Gov. John Connally ride in a motorcade in Dallas Nov. 22, 1963, moments before a sniper' would shoot the two men, fatally wounding Kennedy. Photo: Bettmann/Corbis 1963: President Kennedy is assassinated as his motorcade passes through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas. Texas Gov. John Connally, riding in the same car as Kennedy, is seriously wounded. The Warren Commission, set up by order of President Johnson to investigate the assassination, concluded that Kennedy was killed by a lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald, firing from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. Although the report was widely accepted at first, skepticism grew as more information concerning possible conspiracies leaked out. Oswald denied having anything to do with the shooting at all, let alone being part of any conspiracy, but he was killed -- and silenced -- two days after the assassination while in the custody of Dallas police. That, coupled with the FBI's miserable handling of the initial investigation, did nothing to quell the suspicions of those who believed Kennedy's assassination was the work of (pick one, or more than one): the CIA, Johnson, the mob, Fidel Castro, the anti-Castro Cubans, J. Edgar Hoover. Whether the shooter was acting alone or as part of a bigger conspiracy may never be known. Most of the available evidence, such as the Warren Commission Report, is inconclusive. But the other big assertion -- that Oswald (or whoever the Book Depository gunman was) had help from shooters on the ground -- has never been adequately supported by hard evidence, either. The so-called "grassy knoll" theory maintains that there was one, and possibly two, gunmen at ground level in Dealey Plaza. A number of eyewitnesses claimed to have heard gunfire coming from the grassy knoll, but nobody actually saw a gunman and no shells were ever recovered. The Warren Report, basing its findings on the autopsy and forensics reports, concluded that two bullets struck Kennedy. They came from the same weapon, a bolt-action Mannlicher-Carcano military rifle of Italian manufacture that was later recovered at the Book Depository. Three shots were fired, all from above and behind the target. The first missed. The second, the so-called "magic bullet," passed through Kennedy and tore into Gov. Connally, causing all his wounds. The third shot, the killing one, exploded into the right side of Kennedy’s head. Conspiracy theorists point to the impossible trajectory of the magic bullet, and to the Zapruder film, which shows Kennedy’s head snapping backwards as the fatal third shot takes off the right side of his head, as evidence that shots came from more than one direction. Forensics experts disagree, however, arguing that the described path of the second bullet, while improbable, was not impossible and that Kennedy's head snap at the moment of impact suggests a reaction to the first bullet striking him and not the second. Forty-four years on and we're still not entirely sure what happened in Dallas that day. All we do know is that something changed in an instant and America has never been the same country since. It’s a dark line that grows only more pronounced as the day recedes into history. (Source: Various)
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#1. To: All (#0)
O yes we are. The US had a coup d'etat (sp)fourtyfour years ago.
"Satan / Cheney in "08" No doubt a planted article. The layout is pretty standard disinfo/PsyOps - "it's not knowable", "it's all so confusing", "we can never really know the answer", "the evidence is inconclusive", "there isn't any evidence", "if it's Tuesday it must be Belgium", etc, .... "Of course it was a lone nut firing a rusty rifle through a canopy of trees", unloading his damage in under 6 seconds, blah, blah, blah ... "now go back to grazing sheep", "there is nothing here to see", "your betters have spoken", "don't think", beeeeeeeeeeeeeeelieve the government", gag. There is nothing to see here, the media and the government have spoken and all contrary evidence is to be ignored. "You really didn't see what you thought you saw." The whole point is to create confusion in the reader's mind, and convince them that all of the contrary evidence is inconclusive and just too confusing to look into. It's easier to not think about it and just go back to watching "Futboll" and "Nazcahr". Have another Beer.
"How many surrealists does it take to screw in a light bulb? One to hold the giraffe and one to fill the bathtub with brightly colored power tools." - Unk.
Excellent summary in my estimation.
"Satan / Cheney in "08" Thank you.
"How many surrealists does it take to screw in a light bulb? One to hold the giraffe and one to fill the bathtub with brightly colored power tools." - Unk.
Why did we leave the “Israelis” from the list?
Because the trail leading to them is most likely a planted false trail. The evidence available strongly supports, through circumstantial evidence, CIA, and Secret Service complicity. There were the "Oswald Sightings" in Mexico City. The set-up and murder of Oswald after the "hit". The control of the autopsy. And an endless litany of other actions that could only have been accomplished by powerful domestic interests. Given CIA Ties to the Oil Industry, and the International Banking Cartel, (Don't forget that Poppy Bush ran a CIA Front Company in the Oil Biz - Zapata Offshore and his father Prescott Bush worked for the Banking Cartel), and Kennedy's ultimate loyalty to the United States and not the Bankers, the most likely scenario is a cabal of top Oil Industry and Banking Cartel leaders working through the CIA. Attempting to tie Israel to it is a false trail designed to link research into the Kennedy Assassination to anti-semitism and to discredit the research.
"How many surrealists does it take to screw in a light bulb? One to hold the giraffe and one to fill the bathtub with brightly colored power tools." - Unk.
At the very least.
"I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price." Vir Cotto, Babylon 5
Some idiot at work..a woman..after making comments about miscellaneous bad things that were happening today, said "I wish I was stupid. Then I wouldn't have to worry." She said she was an ex Federal employee [leech.] How ignorant can you get?! This country is in serious shit when we are composed of spineless plankton, whose only wish is to float at sea, blissfully ignoring the entities about to ingest them for supper.
Law Enforcement Against Prohibitionand we're still not entirely sure what happened in Dallas that day.
#2. To: tom007 (#0)
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#3. To: Original_Intent (#2)
The layout is pretty standard disinfo/PsyOps - "it's not knowable", "it's all so confusing", "we can never really know the answer", "the evidence is inconclusive", "there isn't any evidence", "if it's Tuesday it must be Belgium", etc, .... "Of course it was a lone nut firing a rusty
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#5. To: tom007 (#0)
[…] quell the suspicions of those who believed Kennedy's assassination was the work of: the CIA, Johnson, the mob, Fidel Castro, the anti-Castro Cubans, J. Edgar Hoover.
#6. To: karelian, tom007 (#5)
#7. To: Original_Intent (#6)
The evidence available strongly supports, through circumstantial evidence, CIA, and Secret Service complicity.
#8. To: Original_Intent (#2)
The whole point is to create confusion in the reader's mind, and convince them that all of the contrary evidence is inconclusive and just too confusing to look into. It's easier to not think about it and just go back to watching "Futboll" and "Nazcahr". Have another Beer.
"There is no 'legitimate' Corporation by virtue of it's very legal definition and purpose."
-- IndieTx
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