boomerang wrote:The analysis of scientific evidence has come a long long way in the last 44 years.
Current acoustic science shows that there was no second shooter.
Current ballistic science shows that there was only one bullet and there was nothing magic about it.
That seems to me a great distortion of the facts.
From what I have read the Discovery Channel's documentary on *Wikipedia that while the single bullet theory "is much more plausible than previously thought," it is still "technically improbable." That is a far cry from "science showing that there was only one bullet."
But please, show or link the "acoustic science [that] shows that there was no second shooter." Also, please link or show the "current ballistic science [that] shows that there was only one bullet..." I'd really enjoy reading how scientist(s) have laid that element of the JFK conspiracy theorists theory to rest.
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Discovery Channel's reenactment of bullet CE399's path
A Discovery Channel special
attempted to replicate, as well as possible, the conditions of that day. The participants set up blocks of ballistics gel with a substance similar to human bone inside. These studies showed that largely undeformed bullets were possible to produce, if they were slowed by a passage though a tissue-like substance before striking bone. Next, two mannequin figures made of ballistic anatomical substances (animal skin, gelatin, and interior bone-like cast) were set up in the exact relative position of JFK and Connally. A marksman, from a distance equal to that of the sixth floor of the book depository building, fired the same rifle model found in the Book Depository, using a round from the same batch of the same "Western Case Cartridge Company" 6.5x52 mm ammunition purchased with the surplus Carcano weapon in early 1963 (and three expended brass and one live round from which, had been found with the Carcano, in the book depository Nov. 22, 1963). The path of their single bullet (followed by high speed photography) duplicated, almost exactly, the wounds suffered by the victims that day, the only difference being that the bullet did not quite have enough energy to penetrate the "thigh" substance in front of the Connally figure, due to striking an extra bone in the "rib" model (i.e., it fractured 2 ribs in the model vs. one rib in Connally). It was also slightly more deformed than CE 399, possibly for the same reason. However, this bullet came close enough to duplicating all wounds in both men with a single shot, with a bullet having little deformation, that the theory, while technically improbable, is much more plausible than previously thought [13]. [/quote]
" The signed autopsy sheet, including the placement and description of the back wound, was verified by Admiral George Gregory Burkley, personal physician to the president who directed the autopsy at Bathesda. Burkley filled out and signed John F. Kennedy's official death certificate on November 23rd, 1963. He verified the location of the back wound and signed the Kennedy autopsy sheet at Bethesda on November 24th. That death certificate revealed the back wound to be, in the Admiral's own words, at the president's "third thoracic vertebra."
