Inexplicable Wounds made by Special Bullets

[Bob Prudhomme]

Hi Drew

I'm glad you brought this up. You're right, of course. Think of the muzzle blast of a rifle as a cone encompassing everything beside and forward of the rifle. It is very loud, much louder than standing behind the rifle, and involuntary startle reactions invariably occur. Remove the muzzle blast, and all that is left is the sonic crack. Although it can be heard by people in the same zone of influence as the muzzle blast, it only produces a startle reaction in those close to it; much the same as being beside someone cracking a whip or across the street from it.

NOW, with this in mind, let's take another look at the Altgens 6 photo:



And a closeup:



Who are the only two people in this photo, outside of JFK and JBC, who would appear to be reacting to something out of the ordinary? If you said the two Secret service agents on the starboard side of the followup car, and possibly the two on the port side (plus maybe the motorcycle cop), you'd be correct. An unsuppressed rifle shot six storeys above this crowd and behind them, five seconds before this photo was taken, should have everyone looking around.

Back the limo up a few feet to where the first suppressed shot was fired, likely from one of the lower floors of the Dal-Tex Building, across Houston St. from the TSBD, and I'll bet money the bullet JFK is seen reacting to in Altgens 6 just missed the tops of the heads of the two SS agents seen gawking around and trying to figure out what they just heard.