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Posits that a single bullet, known as "Warren Commission Exhibit 399" (also known as "CE399"), caused all of the non-fatal wounds in both President Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connally. A one-inch-long copper-jacketed lead-core 6.5-millimeter rifle bullet fired from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository passed through Kennedys neck and Connallys chest wrist and embedded itself in the Governors thigh
The Magic Bullet theory is contributed to the Warren Commission by Arlen Specter posits that a single bullet, "Warren Commission Exhibit 399", caused all of the non-fatal wounds in both President Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connally.
The bullet that is supposed to have done all the damage was found on a stretcher in the corridor at the Parkland Memorial Hospital, in Dallas, after the assassination.
The bullet that is supposed to have done all this damage was found on a stretcher in the corridor at the Parkland Memorial Hospital, in Dallas, after the assassination.
The bullet traversed 15 layers of clothing, 7 layers of skin, and approximately 15 inches of tissue, struck a necktie knot, removed 4 inches of rib, and shattered a radius bone.
In its conclusion, the Warren Commission found "persuasive evidence from the experts" that a single bullet caused the President's neck wound and all the wounds in Governor Connally
A one-inch-long copper-jacketed lead-core 6.5-millimeter rifle bullet fired from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository passed through Kennedys neck and Connallys chest wrist and embedded itself in the Governors thigh
The 1978 House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations agreed with the Single-Bullet Theory but differed on the time frame
The HSCA agreed with the single bullet theory, but concluded that it occurred at a time point during the assassination that differed from any of the several time points the Warren Commission theorized it occurred
The HSCA agreed with the single bullet theory, but concluded that it occurred at a time point during the assassination that differed from any of the several time points the Warren Commission theorized it occurred
A 1993 a computer animator named Dale Myers embarks on a 10-year project to completely render the events of November 22 1963 in 3D computer animation
Myers uses a close-up examination of the Zapruder film to justify the "single bullet theory". Myers animation finds that the bullet wounds were consistent with JFKs and Connallys positions at the time of shooting, and that by following the bullets trajectory backwards could be found to have originated from the Texas School Book Depository
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