Phantom Shot

[Bob Mady]

It doesn't matter how many witnesses heard how many shots when. Two shots accounting for all the wounds is still dependent on the SBT, which has been disproved any number of ways. The singular fact that there was a bullet hole in JFK's shirt, 6 inches below his collar means that for the SBT to work a shot fired at a downward angle would have to deflect upward at about 11 degrees and exit from the president's throat traveling at an upward angle. With nothing between JFK and Connolly but air, there is no way that bullet would change direction downward again to strike Connolly, in this physical universe. And don't tell me the shirt was bunched up. Any tailor will tell you that could not happen unless JFK jumped out of the limo during the motorcade to engage in a quick game of touch football and failed to tuck his shirttail back in prior to entering Dealey Plaza.

Eleven degrees upward referred to angle between the transverse plane of the torso/neck and the straight line joining the back wound to the throat wound. This transverse angle differs from the 21-degree declination angle between the geographical horizontal and the trajectory of the bullet by the victim's lean angle between the geographic horizontal and the transverse plane.

This suggested explanation required that JFK had an unrealistic 32-degree lean when a bullet entered his back. However, no such problem arises if a bullet were fired from an elevated weapon entered the throat and exited the back.

What ever it was you said is a mystery to me but I agree with your conclusion, "if a bullet were fired from an elevated weapon entered the throat and exited the back"

Herbert, ever contemplate where the bullet went, did it hit the Queen Mary or bounce off the street, what is your opinion when this shot was fired and why?