Kennedy "grassy knoll" theory shot down?

On Nov. 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. Central time, President John F. Kennedy was shot twice while traveling in his limousine through Dallas, Texas. The first shot entered Kennedy's back and exited out of his throat. A second shot entered the left side of Kennedy's head and exited out the right side, spraying a nearby officer agent and the car's interior with bodily material. Kennedy was pronounced dead at 1:00 p.m. at Parkland Hospital.

Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested an hour and twenty minutes after the shooting. Widely believed to have fired the shots that killed Kennedy, Oswald was shot and killed by Jack Ruby before he could be brought to trial.

Conspiracy theories abound on the number of shots fired, the number of shooters, and the location and identity of the shooter(s). The goal of Discovery Channel's Nov. 16th special, "JFK: Inside the Target Car," was to explore the theories and determine where the shots most likely came from using modern forensic science.

A mock-up of the Dallas, Texas crime scene was set up, including the depository, the "grassy knoll," and other nearby landmarks. Artificial surrogates of Kennedy were placed in a car. Sharpshooters then shot the surrogates from the model depository, the grassy knoll, and four other plausible locations.

A lot of this is still fairly new, from the last 10 to 15 years," said Bevel. "Before that we thought we knew what was going on, but because of innovations like high-speed photography we have a much better appreciation of what is actually taking place." reenactment of the JFK assassination.

The two experts found a simulated gunshot would to the head that closely matched the wound Kennedy suffered. Most of the simulated body material had spattered forward into the car, consistent with a shot that entered the back of the head and exited toward the front. There was some back-spatter �?material that flew back in the opposite direction of the bullet's trajectory �?but not much.

The general lack of back spatter and the preponderance of spatter in another direction are two of the clues, among others, that the investigators used to pinpoint the origin of the shots.

"After Tom and I looked at the scene, we pointed up and back away from the vehicle," said Schliebe. "Apparently that lined up perfectly with where the sharpshooter had hit the model head."

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{ The whole article makes for interesting reading. I wonder if this study [using technology not available until recently] will change the minds of any of the conspiracy theorists? As a rule they are a stubborn bunch who believe in their conspiracy theories with a religious intensity while relying on "faith" to carry them over the hump of logic. Often they simply ignore the obvious truth for the comfort of their fantasies. My favorite example was a case of several guys claiming it was a missile that hit the Pentagon on 9/11 and not an aircraft. This in spite of countless witnesses who saw the low flying plane heading toward and crashing into the complex. They kept saying "where are the plane parts from the crash? There were no pieces of an air plane found at the site!" When I showed them actual photo's of the site right after the attack with a plane engine clearly in view on the grass along with a wheel of an air plane their answer to the evidence was " The photo is a fake!" There was simply no talking to them.

I have looked at the murders of JFK, MLK, RFK, Malcolm X and the 9/11 attacks and though there are many unanswered questions remaining I can see no evidence of conspiracies in any of them other than what we already know. The only conspiracy theory I have ever heard that may have truth to it is that Minister Farrakhan may have had something to do with the murder of Malcolm X. There is evidence but no conclusive proof that he was responsible. If there was he would be in jail.

Do you think new evidence or technology will change minds? Will the conspiracy theories ever be put to rest? There are sites on the internet where people still argue about the assassinations of Lincoln, McKinley and Garfield. Why are people so attracted to these fancifully theories? Any interesting theories of your own?}