And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
A lengthened version of this was JFK's death ride. That same car had a continuing history of Presidential usage leading all the way to Jimmy Carter. A defining moment in unlawful crime scene tampering occurred when it was immediately shipped to the factory and the windshield, with that troublesome bullet hole just above the wipers, entry from the front... got replaced pronto.
Wouldn't have been from the front. One of the rear guards, sitting on the cowl of the following car, grabbed the AR15 type rifle (US Air Force issue then) and tried to stand up on the seat to turn toward the sniper, but lost his footing and triggered off a burst as he dropped back to the cowling. One of the rounds hit JFK in the head. The one round that Oswald hit him with damaged his neck/spine, and he would have been a quad for a few months before dying of complications. (xrays of his skull showed characteristic debris of a .556 hit. The Carcano bullet NEVER broke up like that) Look for the book "Mortal Error" for the details of the story. The family didn't want the story to be that a bodyguard had actually killed him, even if accidentally. In real life, a bodyguard accidentally or intentionally killing his principal is somewhat common.
Oswald shooting him through the center of knot in his necktie and the bullet exiting out the spinal column from a shooting position above and behind him was quite the neat trick.
JFK's x-rays showed no such hit. His spinal column was smashed in the right side of his neck, in a downward angle. The bullet went on to hit the governor, and was found laying on the floor of the car, IIRC. The infamous "pristine" bullet. Anything but, actually. Bent like a banana, but not really obvious in some photos shot from the right angle. The Carcano round was a solid construction, and was used by a noted African hunter to kill elephants. Supposedly it would punch completely through a bull elephant.
BTW, the book's author concluded that Oswald only fired twice, as an examination of the 3 brass cases collected for the Commission showed one of them to have been used as a "snap cap", judging by multiple firing pin impacts.
He found it odd that the Commission did not employ anyone that was noted as a shooter or gun expert. The reason only became understandable years later after he found evidence of the guards being armed with the gun that the Secret Service swore didn't exist. He pointed out that the Commission only looked at about 1/4 of the evidence that was collected. He got to look at all the x-rays, and ran them past appropriate surgeons (without informing them of the patient's background) to get unbiased medical conclusions of damage and life expectancy. Aesop, as you are in medicine, and a shooter, I would expect that you would find the book very interesting. Took the author about 25 years to get confirmation on his initial conclusion of the caliber that was used for the head shot. The only building that was in the correct location for the angle of the hit was a sealed building, so it was a stopping point, until a photo surfaced of the guard's car enroute to the hospital, with the guard holding the rifle at port arms. Bingo!
As far as conspiracies involving Oswald go, there does seem to be a lot of odd things going on in that regard. Whole different subject, really.
Mostly, it appears to me that people who shun the book tend to be those who don't want their favorite JFK conspiracy to be undermined. As far as the shooting involved, the book delves into all the angles, and appears to clear up all the questions that have been raised. He was a ballistician, one of the top shooters in the country at that time. Looking at the shooting was a very long term endeavor of his, not some quick and dirty job done to sell an article for publication, as was done by several others. BTW, if you find a copy of his book, don't loan it out. Every copy I loaned has been lost, sigh...
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ReplyDeleteA lengthened version of this was JFK's death ride. That same car had a continuing history of Presidential usage leading all the way to Jimmy Carter. A defining moment in unlawful crime scene tampering occurred when it was immediately shipped to the factory and the windshield, with that troublesome bullet hole just above the wipers, entry from the front... got replaced pronto.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't have been from the front. One of the rear guards, sitting on the cowl of the following car, grabbed the AR15 type rifle (US Air Force issue then) and tried to stand up on the seat to turn toward the sniper, but lost his footing and triggered off a burst as he dropped back to the cowling. One of the rounds hit JFK in the head. The one round that Oswald hit him with damaged his neck/spine, and he would have been a quad for a few months before dying of complications. (xrays of his skull showed characteristic debris of a .556 hit. The Carcano bullet NEVER broke up like that) Look for the book "Mortal Error" for the details of the story. The family didn't want the story to be that a bodyguard had actually killed him, even if accidentally. In real life, a bodyguard accidentally or intentionally killing his principal is somewhat common.
DeleteOswald shooting him through the center of knot in his necktie and the bullet exiting out the spinal column from a shooting position above and behind him was quite the neat trick.
DeleteJFK's x-rays showed no such hit. His spinal column was smashed in the right side of his neck, in a downward angle. The bullet went on to hit the governor, and was found laying on the floor of the car, IIRC. The infamous "pristine" bullet. Anything but, actually. Bent like a banana, but not really obvious in some photos shot from the right angle. The Carcano round was a solid construction, and was used by a noted African hunter to kill elephants. Supposedly it would punch completely through a bull elephant.
DeleteBTW, the book's author concluded that Oswald only fired twice, as an examination of the 3 brass cases collected for the Commission showed one of them to have been used as a "snap cap", judging by multiple firing pin impacts.
He found it odd that the Commission did not employ anyone that was noted as a shooter or gun expert. The reason only became understandable years later after he found evidence of the guards being armed with the gun that the Secret Service swore didn't exist. He pointed out that the Commission only looked at about 1/4 of the evidence that was collected. He got to look at all the x-rays, and ran them past appropriate surgeons (without informing them of the patient's background) to get unbiased medical conclusions of damage and life expectancy.
Aesop, as you are in medicine, and a shooter, I would expect that you would find the book very interesting. Took the author about 25 years to get confirmation on his initial conclusion of the caliber that was used for the head shot. The only building that was in the correct location for the angle of the hit was a sealed building, so it was a stopping point, until a photo surfaced of the guard's car enroute to the hospital, with the guard holding the rifle at port arms. Bingo!
As far as conspiracies involving Oswald go, there does seem to be a lot of odd things going on in that regard. Whole different subject, really.
DeleteMostly, it appears to me that people who shun the book tend to be those who don't want their favorite JFK conspiracy to be undermined. As far as the shooting involved, the book delves into all the angles, and appears to clear up all the questions that have been raised. He was a ballistician, one of the top shooters in the country at that time. Looking at the shooting was a very long term endeavor of his, not some quick and dirty job done to sell an article for publication, as was done by several others.
BTW, if you find a copy of his book, don't loan it out. Every copy I loaned has been lost, sigh...
The suicide doors made that car
ReplyDeleteReginald darling, get the crystal dog bowl out of the trunk… I think Fifi’s hungry….
ReplyDeleteBetter in black with orange trim, with a water tank turret, and a steam whistle.
ReplyDelete"Ramming speed!"
Hell with the car, I love Irish Setters.
ReplyDeleteJust like the one my Dad ran off with his girlfriend in when I was 5 years old! Sorry, touched a nerve.
ReplyDeleteWhich? The dog or the car?
DeleteIt was the car. She was the dog. I like the way you think though!
DeleteNice car, female white dress on green grass followed by wet dog on her lap, not enough bleach to get those stains out.
ReplyDeleteTop 10 beautiful car design.
ReplyDeleteMy first thought was about the opening footage of "The Lincoln Lawyer".
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