The John F. Kennedy Assassination: Who Fired The Shots

For over thirty years the people of the United States were led to believe that a single gunman shot and killed Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963. However I am going to try and make a good case as to why this might not be entirely true According to some of my sources regarding the case of the JFK assassination, Kennedy he was supposedly was killed by a single gunman. On November 22, 1963. Kennedy was riding in an open limousine through Dallas, Texas. At this time, Kennedy was shot in the head and neck by a sniper. He was then taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Later, police arrested Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. solider, at a nearby theater.

By the next morning, Oswald was booked for the murder of President John F.Kennedy. Two days later, Oswald was killed by Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner, while he was being moved from the city to the county jail. At a glance, the above story sounds as if this should be an open-and-shut case. After all, according to most of the sources, Oswald must have fired John F. Kennedy. However, you must take a further look into this. Civilians who witnessed.

Assassination of JFK reject the statements above, saying that they heard shots from multiple places rather than one fixed place the book depository, and other things that may contradict what is stated above. One of these witnesses, Abraham Zapruder, captured the entire assassination on his personal camera. This movie, is the single handily best piece of visual evidence for the case of his Assassination case. In order to more clearly understand the Film, it is necessary to take a close look at it frame by frame to best under stand what is being shown in the video. It is expected that witnesses heard the shot at some point after the bullet passed. The following frames show a break down of the of the film The limousine comes into view at frame.

The first shot would have passed through both. Connally and the President. The second shot, which passed above the limousine, missed the President and hit the curb near a witness. This caused his minor wound. The fatal shot occurs, which blew out major portions of the Presidents brain and skull. A fourth shot occurred. As well as it's more distant origin, most witnesses were unable to hear this shot. Thus, the above is when the bullets hit either Kennedy or Connally, or passed through the frames of the film. Of one-hundred seventy-eight witnesses at Plaza, one-hundred thirty-two said that they hear exactly three shots 6th gunman, it would have taken him at least 2.3 seconds to reload his rifle. However, the general consensus of the witnesses is that they heard a single shot, followed by silence, with the second and third shots bunched together. For example one of the witnesses, testified, "I heard three shots, one, then a slight pause, then two very close together.” Then there was a little bit of time, and then there were two real fast bullets together. When the first one hit, well, the President turned from waving to the people, and he grabbed his throat, and he kind of slumped forward, and then I couldn't tell where the second shot hit from. Also, when the fatal shot hit Kennedy, his head went back and to the left, giving the impression that the bullet came from the front and right, not from the left.

Although many people disagree with the single bullet theory, this may be true. To understand why, you must understand the trajectory of the bullet and the angles involved. The bullet, if fired from the Texas School Book Depository, should have hit Kennedy at a 21 degree angle, and, in fact, it did. Also, President Kennedy was sitting nearly six inches above the level of Connally's seat.

Thus, when the bullet left the President, it hit Connally, who was turned. When the bullet hit in his back was more than twice as wide as tall. This means that the bullet was partially turned sideways when it entered Connally's back. Thus, the bullet must have hit something before it hit Connally. Also, the bottom of the bullet that was found was broken open and was extruding tiny particles of lead. However, even if the single bullet theory is true, it in no way lessens the fact that there were multiple gunmen, and there was a conspiracy.