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In a collision of 21st-century science and decades-old conspiracy theories, a research team that includes a former top FBI scientist is challenging the bullet analysis used by the government to conclude that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating President John F. Kennedy in 1963.

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Aidenag
May 16, 2007, 11:59 p.m.
About time the someone brought up the Magic Bullet theory with a scientific intent. Not just conspiracy theories, but to finally put some real evidence on the table.
This guy has the pretty good reputation and list of credentials too.
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Ratskii
May 17, 2007, 3:59 p.m.
Depending on the cartridges, a single bullet can behave in very odd ways, but it certainly won't hurt to give the evidence another look-see. I have to admit that I've always been extremely skeptical that a mafioso, who just happened to have advanced cancer, assassinated Oswald in a fit of patriotism. I wonder if anyone checked to see if large sums of money were paid to his survivors and who paid them.
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HannibalBarca
May 17, 2007, 4:04 p.m.
Yeah we know torrent 29 "is he peer reviewed?"
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JohnChasWebb
May 17, 2007, 5:11 p.m.
Re: Scientists Cast Doubt on Kennedy Bullet Analysis
(Quote) The House assassinations committee,...concluded that Oswald probably was part of a conspiracy and that it was possible a second shooter fired one shot that missed the president. (end quote)
There is no doubt in my mind that the 'shooter who missed' was Oswald. He was set up (nevertheless culpable) and given the cartridges.
Oswald 'missed' because Nitrate tests (not very reliable) performed on Oswald supported his claim that he had not fired a rifle in the previous 24 hours. Additionally there was no reliable 'chain of custody' (to account for the rifle's custody after seizure) regarding the rifle allegedly used by Oswald.
Not to mention the fantastic 'magic bullet' theory that defies physics & common sense. Especially in light of what the Zapruder film reveals combined with the initial medical reports from Parkland Hospital regarding entrance and exit wounds.
See, http://www.jfk-online.com/jfk100alibi.html
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texangelwings
May 17, 2007, 5:30 p.m.
I was just coming out of the lunchroom, in my Junior year in high school, when a kid blurted out that The President had been shot. The rest of the day we went from classroom to classroom, listening to the news over the PA system. It is a day I will never forget! (I lived 30 miles from Dallas.)
I won't live long enough to know what is in Pres. Johnson's papers that have been sealed up for 100 years, but I truely believe the answers will be found in those papers!
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capn_caveman
May 17, 2007, 8:42 p.m.
I feel pretty confident that if another shooter was involved and there are bullet fragments from more than 1 weapon, science will be able to prove there was more than 1 shooter. If that's the case, then I wonder how much our government will release to the public.
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KingOfTruth
May 18, 2007, 2:10 a.m.
They got the wrong Kennedy, as far as I am concerned.....
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rblackbird
May 25, 2007, 12:47 a.m.
This "analysis" does not mean that there were more than two bullets. The only way a third bullet could have hit President Kennedy is for the second shooter to have shot Carcano-Manlicher ammunition from the same batch that Oswald used, and shoot the bullet with ANOTHER, identical Carcano-Manlicher rifle causing the same striations as Oswald's weapon. What are the chances of that occurring?
As I understand the story, one of the two bullets that hit the President's body remained intact; the other one fragmented. The researchers compared these fragments to the same batch of identical, intact ammunition. They did not find, however, that the fragments added up to more than one bullet. So far, we are still at two bullets.