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In fact, he said, he was the one who found the bullet — and he found it not in the hospital near Mr. Connally but in the presidential limousine lodged in the back of the seat behind where Kennedy was sitting.
When he spotted the bullet after the motorcade arrived at the hospital, he said he grabbed it to thwart souvenir hunters. Then, for reasons that still seem fuzzy even to him, he said he entered the hospital and placed it next to Kennedy on the president’s stretcher, assuming it could somehow help doctors figure out what happened. At some point, he now guesses, the stretchers must have been pushed together and the bullet was shaken from one to another.
“There was nobody there to secure the scene, and that was a big, big bother to me,” Mr. Landis said. “All the agents that were there were focused on the president.” A crowd was gathering. “This was all going on so quickly. And I was just afraid that — it was a piece of evidence, that I realized right away. Very important. And I didn’t want it to disappear or get lost. So it was, ‘Paul, you’ve got to make a decision,’ and I grabbed it.’”
Mr. Landis theorizes that the bullet struck Kennedy in the back but for some reason was undercharged and did not penetrate deeply, therefore popping back out before the president’s body was removed from the limousine.
Mr. Landis has been reluctant to speculate on the larger implications. He always believed that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman.
But now? “At this point, I’m beginning to doubt myself,” he said. “Now I begin to wonder.” That is as far as he is willing to go.[/color]
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The two highlighted statements seem contradictory to me...I need someone to explain to me how a bullet can back up back into a seat cushion if in fact it penetrated from the rear? If it didn't penetrate deeply how does that contradict the official and unofficial wound descriptions? Can a poorly penetrated bullet be expunged by flesh & blood organically? Probably need a pathologist to opine on that.
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Personally, I think Landis is a lying POS.
---You can view the bullet, the one found on Connally's stretcher at Parkland Hospital, in the Warren Commission photo archives--the rifling marks are visibly seen. Ergo, even the most idiotic investigator could easily match it to Oswald's rifle. Did they? Never heard otherwise, did you?
--he says the bullet struck Kennedy in the back, then became dislodged and fell into the back seat where he found it. So he admits, to his knowledge, the shot obviously came from behind. And just where was Oswald located? Behind the motorcade. Then he asserts "this makes him question the possibility of 2 shooters, not one." As Dr. Spock would say, "illogical, Captain."
--He claims the bullet must have struck Kennedy in the back, but is there autopsy records showing 2 wounds in his back, instead of the one made by the disparaging moniker, the "magic bullet"? The one he claims being there would have definitely "left a mark" even if only a bruise. Did it? Was there two indications of wounding on Kennedy's back?
I don't remember that being in the autopsy report. Proven otherwise, I will retract.
---Only a small portion of Kennedy's back was exposed, basically only the top 5 or 6 inches of this shoulders. If the round was undercharged as he claims, that means the wound it left would be lower than the neck entrance wound, which i am assuming it was if his allegations are to be believed. But how much lower?
When a round leaves the muzzle, there are 2 vectors of forces acting upon it: the force of the propellant driving it forward, and the force of gravity pulling it earthward. The greater the former, the farther it will travel before dropping to the ground. The lesser the former, the sooner it will drop to the ground. The constant at which ANY object falls due to the force of gravity acting upon it is 32 ft/sec
2 . Given all the known stats involved (if indeed there was a second, lower wound), just exactly how much lower than the magic bullet's wound would it be, if traveling a distance of 285 yds.? Multiple variables plugged int the equation would give a pretty good indication as to what that distance could possible be. Me? I doubt it would have even reached Kennedy's back, IMHO.
--he says he placed the round on Kennedy's stretcher. But it was found on Connally's. His (and others') "explanation" is that it must have rolled from one to the other when the gurneys bumped into one another in the hospital.
Yet the bullet was found, after transferring Connally from the gurney to to a bed, UNDER his leg, and out of direct sight.
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And one more crock put out by conspiracy theorists I'd like to debunk:
Many, in fact most, say there is no way possible for Oswald to cycle the bolt and fire the 3 shots in under the 6 second time elapsed for all 3 shots.
What they stupidly fail to realize is that 3 cyclings of the bolt is not necessary. Oswald would have assumed the firing position already locked and loaded with the first round ready for firing--no bolt cycling needed. He would have only needed to cycle the bolt 2 times, not 3.
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Go to the wiki page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_John_F._KennedyScroll through the pics and see just how it was.
Especially the diagram showing exactly how the so-called "magic bullet" traveled and hit exactly as the Warren Commission proposed.
Then look at the diagram showing how the critics of the report said it would have had to act in order for it to have hit all it is claimed to have hit in the report.
When I went to a Mark Lane lecture in 1977, the latter is exactly how he humorously parodied the bullet's trajectory.
Lane was an idiotic radical nutjob. Now whom are you going to believe, him or your lying eyes?
All evidence thus far points to one shooter and one shooter only: Oswald.
But as to who put him up to it, or even allowed him to do it...maybe--yet to be proven or revealed.