Experts Now Say JFK Bullet Analysis Was Wrong

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.'"

Comments

Get your tinfoil shelters out.

[Anonymous Coward]

Time travllers came back and fired invisible bullets from the grassy knoll.

Re:Get your tinfoil shelters out.

[Rude Turnip]

No, that's not right...Chuck Norris' beard actually deflected the bullets in a *failed* assasination attempt. Kennedy's head exploded out of shear amazement.

JFK, blown away.

[Anonymous Coward]

What else do I have to say?

Re:JFK, blown away.

[DrDitto]

Moderating this as "Funny" is sick.

Re:JFK, blown away.

[Anonymous Coward]

What, too soon?

Re:Finally

[untaken_name]

I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you.

You'd be really blue after 44 years even if we did find out the truth then.

Oh good grief

[$RANDOMLUSER]

He's dead - get over it. Marilyn Monroe: dead too. Elvis: him too.
Get over it.

Re:Oh good grief

[niceone]

Yeah, yeah, JFK and Monroe, sure. But not Elvis.

Re:seriously

[UbuntuDupe]

In my defense, I rejected the official story on the grounds that the Freemasons had to be involved. So I'm immune from criticism.

In other news

[niceone]

The researchers believe that the chunk of "grassy knoll" they found among the fragments might also be significant.

Re:seriously

[Hijacked Public]

Unless, of course, the Discovery documentary you watched was a propaganda piece carefully orchestrated by the FBI (or whomever) specifically designed to make you think that the magic bullet people are wrong so that you will dismiss their arguments and accept the official story!

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:I can hear it now

[dr_dank]

I was just down in Dallas, Texas. You know, you can go down there and to Dealey Plaza where Kennedy was assassinated. And you can actually go to the sixth floor of the Schoolbook Depository. It's a museum called ... "The Assassination Museum". I think they named it that after the assassination. I can't be too sure of the chronology here, but ... anyway, they have the window set up to look exactly like it did on that day. And it's really accurate, you know, 'cause Oswald's not in it.

- Bill Hicks

Re:MOD PARENT UP

[jfengel]

Your statement implies that they were ever going to RTFA. I find that a rather bold and unwarranted conclusion.

We're Slashdot: we already know everything we need to know. We're just waiting for everybody else to find it out.

Huey Long shot by own body guard

[Latent Heat]

There is one screwball theory upon which I read a book about (yeah, yeah, there are books and books on this). The theory is that the kill shot was from an accidental discharge of a Secret Service AR-15.

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:Finally

[Brad Eleven]

I could go on and on and on and on.

Ehhhh, you kind of did.

Re:seriously (as in "heart attack")

[The_REAL_DZA]

Dude, if you think the X-Files movie being available On Demand at the same time this research has come to light is merely a coincidence then you might want to get that wool off your eyes before you fall down and have an "accident".

Re:Not "wrong"... Just "not proven"

[cayenne8]

"Of course it's all the other problems with the official story that naturally push my mind in the direction of there being multiple shooters upon finding out that the proof of the single shooter was incorrect. But I still didn't take the summary as implying that this was now proven."

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)

:-)

Re:Not "wrong"... Just "not proven"

[grassy_knoll]

That Oswald was really trying to be a hero, and shot only at the sniper he saw hiding in the grassy knoll!!

There was no sniper on the grassy knoll.

[eyes shift back and forth]

ps: dont look at my user name. ;-)