Reply #126: Okay. Here's the things which bother me. [View All]

[Solomon]

To the average layman like myself who has no experience shooting guns, the Zapruder film looks like the head shot was from the front.
Blasted the right side of his head clean off.

I'm told that what I think is an entrance shot, is actually the exit shot, i.e., that the bullet went in the back of his head and exploded out the front right side. (By the way, I'm not impressed by a lot of people's claims that his head went forward first and then back, etc. - I don't see that watching the film and it looks like people are convincing themselves this happened to justify a back of the head shot).

Since I'm not familiar with gunshot wounds, this question of the bullet coming from the back and exploding out the front intrigues me. That is, I have to admit from my lack of knowledge of gunshot wounds that this is possible. BUT. I still have a problem with that theory because it seems to me the way his head was at the time of the shot is on the wrong angle from the depository window to have caused the bullet to exit the right front of his head. I would like to see a line directly from the window at the precise moment of impact so I can see if the angles match up.

Secondly, from what I saw on the Zapruder film, the autopsy photos of Kennedy's head (link provided in responses above) don't make sense at all to me. I mean the film shows that the right side of his head was practically blown clean off, yet the autopsy photo shows the right side of his head still there. And it's hard to see the entrance wound of the head shot in the photos of the back of his head. The pictures don't make sense at all to me.

Third, if the same gun was used, why wasn't there a similar explosion of the front of Kennedy's neck or Connally's shoulder when that bullet hit?

Fourth, I find it hard to believe that the C.I.A. or whatever spooks there were would not have sought to take advantage of Oswald's Soviet/Cuba thing to try to recruit him as an agent. Even if he was a lone nut trying to defect etc. it still seems to me the government would have been extremely interested in him to see what use they could get out of him.

The presentation was impressive, but I still don't quite buy the Oswald trying to be somebody thing. His brother was acting like it would be a tragedy if people didn't acceptm that Oswald acted alone. Very strange. Almost like he was enjoying his status as brother of the world's most famous assassin.

On the other hand, the fact that Oswald had the appearance of being connected to Russia and Cuba does support the position that the last thing the government wanted was the idea that Russia or Cuba was behind it. In other words, under that scenario they had a legitimate reason to lie about it. BUT. If this is so, why not tell us the truth now and say that "we were concerned about nuclear war" then so we did what we thought was best to preserve life on the planet.

All in all. I'm still not satisfied and still think it was a conspiracy. I don't believe it was the mob as some have said, because that kind of hit is not their m.o. They don't hit from long range.