JFK again - Mortal Error, the book

[T.G.G. Moogly]

Lots of great skeptical minds here. Was wondering if any are familiar with this theory about JFK's death. I've not seen it discussed or mentioned here.

Let's hear it. Crackpot conspiracy fodder? Ballistic bullshit? What do you all think?

Did SS agent George Hickey accidentally kill the president?

Sounds crazy, I know.

 

[BH]

I have lots of family members that shoot rifles and guns. There are rare instances of entrance wounds being bigger than the exit wound. It just depends on what your firing at, the angle, and what with. I think Oswald was involved in it though I think there is more than has been admitted.

 

[Colonel Sanders]

I saw a documentary about it this. It isn't implausible. But it's even less satisfying than the idea that a little weasel like Oswald could so dramatically change the course of history. People want a conspiracy theory to explain the assassination, even all these years after it happened.

The possibility that some guy, who, in a moment of panic, flipped off the safety and accidentally pulled the trigger and de-brained JKF is so real yet so mundane turns the stomach. It's really easy to picture it happening. A shot is fired, the agent readies himself for action. So he immediately flips the safety off his weapon and fingers the trigger while looking around for the shooter. Then the driver of the car he's in/on guns the engine, the force of which propels the agent backward, and then in an involuntary muscular reflex, his trigger finger pulls back and suddenly Kennedy is dead.

It's like building up evidence for years that your house is haunted, only to find that all the commotion was just a leaky pipe that warped a stud behind the kitchen sink.

 

[skepticalbip]

I thought everyone knew that it was LBJ that did it so he could get into the White House, besides he always hated Kennedy...

 

[credoconsolans]

I saw the documentary as well, and while it has some persuasive aspects, I wonder at the angle.

Maybe military guys can advise us here.

The agent supposedly STOOD UP in the chase car. He is already higher than the president's head. So his weapon would be raised in order to be prepared to be used, when he flips off the safety. So now his weapon is also higher than the president's head. The car accelerates forward, he falls back. Wouldn't that mean his weapon aims even higher?

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

I saw the documentary as well, and while it has some persuasive aspects, I wonder at the angle.

Maybe military guys can advise us here.

The agent supposedly STOOD UP in the chase car. He is already higher than the president's head. So his weapon would be raised in order to be prepared to be used, when he flips off the safety. So now his weapon is also higher than the president's head. The car accelerates forward, he falls back. Wouldn't that mean his weapon aims even higher?

What I find somewhat persuasive about the evidence is that the bullet disintegrates, unlike the others. Plus the fact that there is so much conflicting and uninvestigated testimony like the smell of gunpowder at street level. Far too many people smelled this for it to not have happened. Do rounds ricocheting off pavement and striking solid objects make burning, gunpowder smells? Or were we just so flustered that we botched the autopsies and lost all the evidence?

 

[Colonel Sanders]

I saw the documentary as well, and while it has some persuasive aspects, I wonder at the angle.

Maybe military guys can advise us here.

The agent supposedly STOOD UP in the chase car. He is already higher than the president's head. So his weapon would be raised in order to be prepared to be used, when he flips off the safety. So now his weapon is also higher than the president's head. The car accelerates forward, he falls back. Wouldn't that mean his weapon aims even higher?

It depends on where he was pointing the gun when the car accelerated or hit a bump or whatever. If he was holding it at a downward angle, and then fell backward to some degree, then he could have pulled the trigger at a level height or at just such an angle that it hit JFK right in the melon.

But I'll be damned if that head shot doesn't look like it comes from the front. You can see it on Youtube close up and in slo-mo. I'm no expert on this kind of thing, and you can't always believe what your eyes tell you, but my eyes insist that that shot came from the front.

 

[BH]

Oswald, if he were the lone shooter, probably would have already had a bullet in the rifle and ready fire after the President turned the corner. The next two rounds would not have taken too long to fire off.

I do agree that claims of a second gunman may have some credence and should have been followed up on with more vigor.

I think there is more to Oswald himself than the government has disclosed. They saw he wanted to go to Cuba after living in the Soviet Union, but then he had ties to anti-castro Cubans and picketed for them at times. I am wondering if he was just an evil little prick being paid by one side to take out the president or that he simply did it on his own initiative with the hope people would think he did it for the Russians or the anti-Castro Cubans, ect. They say the guy was a narcissistic or psycho and he was disappointed with how his life went. If he couldn't have a nice wealthy home and nice job with power he thought no one esle should either. Kill the president, let it lead to a nuclear war, his narcissistic injury was appeased in his own sick mind.