JFK in Trauma Room One: A Witness Remembers
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> The neck wound might have been entry or exit, but the back of the head clearly showed a huge exit wound; so the first bullet probably came from the back, and the second from the front, from different gunmen.
also from the same article:
>Several other aspects went on troubling him. There was no post-mortem in Texas, against state law; the body went at once to Bethesda. He was shown autopsy pictures at the National Archives in which the exit wound was covered up.
He gets shot in the neck, it appears to exit the front of his neck and enter the backside of the guy in the front seat (I think the governor).
He then gets the front of his head blown off, which definitely looks to be an exit wound as the front of his skull flies off and mist flies forward. An entry wound would not explode out like that. The thing that throws people off is that his head moves back when the front blows off. I think that would be a natural movement from the force of the bullet exiting and blowing off the front of the skull but you also have to remember that he had a terrible back with limited mobility. As a person who also has a bad back, if you get pushed forward to the fullest of your flexibility, you will recoil back with force.
I was raised to believe in multiple shooters but I don’t see it here. One shooter.
AFAIK sniper Swat teams do this when there are multiple targets. They coordinate through radio and shout on countdown.
Frankly I don't think it's complicated (for a pro).
I.e. create some confusion around an unimportant detail. Instead of who ordered Kennedy dead
A few years ago, Parkland built a huge new hospital across the street, and I doubt that that room is still in use. But I could be wrong,
During the West Wing, Sorkin was a master at dramatizing real life when it worked, or inventing plot points completely when that would play better.
Like Christan Slater destroying his $1400 glass ash tray with a hammer to demonstrate that it's expensive because it's designed to break in to dull pieces and thereby not be dangerous in the heat of naval combat, justifying the cost. Except in real life they'd just use one made of metal.
That so much of it was authentic (to a television standard) gave suspension of disbelief for the made up bits, and seasons 1-4 are consequently some of the best television ever made.
Masterful is the only word I can think to describe The West Wing. Masterful writing, acting, directing, etc...
It also happens to be one of the funniest shows. "WOOT CANAW!" "They won't let me smoke inside but you can pee in Leo's closet."
What are the odds of that. Maybe we need something like the Erdős-Number, but for the JFK assasination.
I find that comment interesting since current state of the art in trauma resuscitation is transfusing relatively early, based on solid data out of the Iraq war.
Well, I guess we will never get into the bottom of the story.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/book-review-a-cruel-...
After a bit of search I managed to find it again:
http://somesecretsforyou.blogspot.com/2010/04/why-bloomfield...
I've never had more than a passing curiosity about the conspiracy rabbit hole that is the JFK assassination. When I saw recently though someone suggest the possibility that a Secret Service agent may have accidentally hit Kennedy I saw suddenly how that explanation seemed not only to put a lot of the puzzle pieces together (at least the more common quandaries you hear about) but seemed to me plausible as well.
Then again, with all things, it seems impossible they could have covered up something like that without someone leaking/talking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBz3PqA2Fmc
"Back, and to the left ..."
What the hell is being hidden?
If it was "The CIA shot JFK", regardless of improbability, it would have to be a moon-landing level cover up with the sheer number of people that have flowed through over the years (some of which have been traitors let's keep in mind, although I'm not sure many would've had the clearance to find out)
An amazing story. Thanks to the poster.
But now we are in a situation where much of the Republican party does not dare to speak against Trump no matter how ludicrous it seems when he says he won the election because the election was "rigged". If Biden had NOT won the election the general official consensus might be that Muller investigation was a hoax and anybody who disagrees is a conspiracy theorist.
History is written by the winners. I think many people have a somewhat naive assumption that "truth will always come out"-- and therefore if it has not come out it can only be a conspiracy theory.
I mean... in some sense isn't that kind of the general consensus right now
> Because I was afraid. There were so many people who were associated with the assassination who had died, sometimes by questionable means.
Could have something to do with the speech from April 27, 1961:
> For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day.
I will do my best to expose them. I am not an American, but I am against communists and fascists as Americans were back then. Stay vigilant! Vote with your ideals.
Was he more scrupulous than the next businessman? Maybe not. Was he in bed with the mob? I doubt it.
Mobs have attempted to rig elections, but not I think The Mob. The most conspicuously rigged election in US history must have been Hayes over Tilden, at a time when organized crime was pretty small beans in the US.
I don't know the rest of the speach, but it sounds to me, he meant the various marxist groups and states.