gibson.mark•23d agoMost Upvoted

I was looking into the JFK files and found a detail about the 'magic bullet' that made me stop

I mean, I always heard the term 'magic bullet' but never really looked at the actual path it was supposed to take. I was reading the Warren Commission report online last night, and it says bullet CE399 went through Kennedy's neck, then Connally's back, chest, wrist, and thigh. That's like seven wounds and it ended up almost perfect. I found a diagram from the National Archives that shows the angles, and idk, it just seems like a lot for one chunk of metal to do without breaking apart. Maybe it's just me, but seeing the exact number of things it hit made the whole 'single bullet theory' feel way more shaky. Has anyone else gone down this rabbit hole and found a specific fact that changed how you see a famous case?

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sethh5823d ago

Oh man, the magic bullet. Look, I get why it seems wild, but sometimes a weird bounce is just a weird bounce. That bullet was a full metal jacket, those things are made to stay in one piece. It went through two guys who were lined up just right in a moving car. I've seen crazier things happen at the range with a lucky shot. People have built whole careers on picking apart that one bullet path, but honestly? Occam's razor. Sometimes the simple, weird answer is the right one.

hayden_rivera22d ago

True, but my aim is so bad I couldn't line up two stationary watermelons. The magic bullet theory requires more faith in marksmanship than I'll ever have. Guess I just trust chaos over conspiracy most days.

noahlane13d ago

The Zapruder film shows the head snap forward before going back. That detail alone made me question the official story. It just doesn't look like a shot from behind.