Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

CBS is broadcasting Cold Case: JFK as their contribution to the 50th anniversary propaganda. It involves a father and son team who fired a bullet through soap to prove that a single bullet could traverse the bodies of two men. 

First, here is the gist of the program:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57611764/jfk-single-bullet-theory-probed-using-latest-forensics-tech/

Second, here is Jim Fetzer's excellent rebuttal to it:

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/11/12/the-jfk-war-cbs-endorses-the-magic-bullet-absurdity/

In fact, Jim's treatment of it is so good, there's not much more for me to add. But, I will point out that if they wanted to see if a single bullet would traverse the bodies of two men, why use soap? We kill hundreds of thousands of animals every day in this country for food. So, why not get two freshly killed sheep or pigs and see if the bullet will traverse two of their bodies?

The older Mr. Haag made several references to the "tumbling" bullet which hit Connally. But, that bullet wasn't tumbling. The entrance wound was only 1.5 cm. Here is Millicent Cranor:

http://www.history-matters.com/essays/jfkmed/BigLieSmallWound/BigLieSmallWound.htm

"The wound in Connally’s back did not indicate a sideways hit any more than the wound in the back of Kennedy’s head. The latter was 1.5 x 0.6 centimeters, and the former, 1.5 x 0.8 centimeters, as documented on at least four occasions by the governor’s thoracic surgeon, Dr. Robert Shaw. (4WCH104, 107; 6WCH85, 86). The holes in the back of Connally’s shirt and jacket were as small as his back wound. (5WCH64) (See TABLE below.) The damage inside Connally’s chest also disproves a sideways hit. According to Shaw, the bullet created a "small tunneling wound" (7HSCA149) and he noted, "the neat way in which it stripped the rib out without doing much damage to the muscles that lay on either side of it." (4WCH116)"

And Jim Fetzer correctly points out that the Single Bullet Theory depends on the bullet having entered the back of JFK's neck, but it didn't. It entered 5.5 inches below his collar in his back. And it entered his back at a sharply downward angle- 45 degrees according to Dr Humes. So, how could such a bullet exit through the front of the neck when it was never deflected?

But, the whole idea that Kennedy's neck was turned into a doughnut is patently absurd. You understand that there are many vital structures in the neck, not the least of which is the spinal cord.

Look at the trajectory of that bullet. Even if it didn't sever his spinal cord directly, and it might have, it surely and absolutely would have blown through the spinal nerves on the right side, and I mean decimated them completely. Then think about the magnitude of the inflammatory reaction that would have followed. My Good God! Kennedy would have been incapacitated. He wouldn't have been able to go on sitting there. We see him raising his arms- both of them. What does that tell you? It tells you that his nerves were intact on both sides. But, if he had a fat bullet coursing through his neck, it would have blown right through the brachial plexus on one side.



But, look at Kennedy. His nerves were intact. Otherwise, he couldn't have moved his arms. Whether by volition or reflex, you have to have intact nerves to do it. The circuit has got to be complete. Look at him in Z228:

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According to Gerald Ford, the bullet entered the back of Kennedy's neck a little to the right of center. So, it would have affected the nerves on the right side- for sure. So, how could the signal have reached the muscles of his right arm to elevate them?

I maintain that until the fatal head shot, Kennedy wasn't really hurt all that bad. It's arguable that Connally was worse off than Kennedy until the fatal head shot. Like here in Z300:



That bullet had to pass pretty close to Connally's heart. But, at least the chest is a big area. The neck is small. You take a bullet through your neck from back to front, and there's no way to avoid serious disruption of neural tissue. Look how Kennedy is sitting up and maintaining is head/neck coordination. And don't tell me it was due to his back brace. He would have collapsed into his back brace. His back brace didn't hold him after the fatal head shot, did it?

John Kennedy did NOT have a bullet traverse his neck from back to front because the effect that would have had would have been much worse than what we see on him. And I challenge any neurologist in the world to come on here and argue with me about it. I dare them to.

Folks, this is all a big lie, and I'm not the least bit surprised that CBS is sticking to it. They've been lying since the beginning. Do you remember all that stuff with Dan Rather, where he first said that the reason Kennedy had an entrance wound in his neck is because he had turned all the way around to wave and he was shot through the front of his neck by Oswald? And that you could see it in the Zapruder film which hadn't been shown to the public yet? At the time, they probably thought it never would be.

Evil, wicked, wretched lies. It's what they were telling then, and it's what they are telling now. Come to Santa Barbara on November 22nd, and stand with us for JFK truth. This matters enough to do it.