That JFK doc on Netflix got me digging into the magic bullet theory

I was reading through the Warren Commission exhibits last night and found out the bullet that hit JFK and Connally supposedly changed direction midair based on the angles in the Zapruder film. The official report says it traveled at a specific speed but the wound paths don't match up if you actually map them on a 3D model. Has anyone else tried plotting those trajectory lines themselves and gotten something contradictory?

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lindab4917d ago

Plot those lines yourself and you'll see the so-called "magic bullet" pulled off more moves than a gymnast at the Olympics. My coffee table now has a mess of string and paper clips from trying to make it work and it still looks like a pretzel. Either JFK's car had invisible force fields or somebody really wanted that one bullet theory to stick no matter what the physics said.

piperb9317d ago

Honestly yeah I spent like three hours last weekend doing exactly that with some free software and a PDF of the Zapruder frames. I plotted the entry and exit wounds against the limo position and it was wild because the bullet would have had to somehow curve around a bunch of metal and glass inside the car to hit both guys. My buddy who's a physics teacher looked at my lines and just laughed, said even a magic trick wouldn't work like that. The velocity numbers they gave don't add up either because the bullet would've lost way too much speed going through JFK's neck to still punch through Connally the way it did. Honestly the more you dig the less sense the official story makes, it's like they just wanted a quick answer and stuck with it.

nora_dixon17d ago

Did you ever read that old report from the House committee that said the same thing?