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Today marks the 44th anniversary of the assassination of 35th U.S. President John F. Kennedy. So much time has passed that most media outlets don't even bother mentioning this fact but that's okay, you're reading about it now. Many of my friends know I read up on a lot of books on the subject after being riveted by the movie JFK. The film took artistic licence where it felt necessary, some of the characters were composites who did not actually exist (amongst other things the film portrayed) which angered many who believed in the "angry lone nut" solution. They wasted no time in trying to discredit Oliver Stone's movie. It was quite incredible to see these attacks begin before shooting even commenced with some journalists having access to stolen first drafts of the script. It was like they were either afraid of something the movie might show that they failed to reveal themselves, or they were bullheaded in protecting an old crime and did not want to accept the possibility that their own government was lying to the American people (and the world, for that matter) over one of the most tragic moments in U.S. history.

I Don't Believe in Magic Bullets

There is only one reason you need to look at to see why the whole "Lee Harvey Oswald did it alone" theory has no basis in fact. The entire government inquiry into the murder, the Warren Commission, had to rely on the "magic bullet theory" to prove its case. In the sixth floor window of the book depository where Oswald allegedly shot JFK with a mail-order rifle, three empty casings were found showing three shots were fired. One of the shots missed and hit the pavement, with some of the cement spitting up from the ground and hitting bystander James Tague in the cheek. Another shot was the fatal head shot that killed Kennedy as shown in the Zapruder film that captured the murder. So there remained just one bullet to cause SEVEN remaining wounds. The Commission claimed this single bullet hit Kennedy in the back, exited via his throat, hit Governor Connally seated in front of him near his right armpit, went through his body shattering a rib, exited under his right nipple, entered his lower right arm shattering his wrist, then finally crossing his body and hitting his left thigh. Down, up, side to side...the bullet travelled all over the place.

Then it fell out of Connally while he was lying in a stretcher in a hospital in almost pristine condition.

For this reason alone, Lee Harvey Oswald could not have shot the President by himself. Warren Commission defenders have tried to prove this is possible over the years by changing the seating positions of the two persons, moving the wound locations, and even Gerald Posner's book Case Closed claims a tree branch may have been responsible for altering the path of the bullet. Ironically, by changing these facts to make the magic bullet theory seem more plausible, they basically admit the Warren Commission was wrong in its final report.

Common sense wins here hands down. Absolutely NO WAY one gun killed JFK and wounded Connally with a bullet that defies all science & logic. This event was a conspiracy of many, of which we will likely never know who was ultimately responsible for it.