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shawa
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 Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 11:21 pm Post subject: Old theory, new doubt |
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Interesting. Just how did the blowhard hotshot Specter come up with the single-bullet theory?
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Editorial
Friday, August 25, 2006
Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory studying the assassination of President John F. Kennedy have done what many thought impossible -- their research suggests that the single-bullet theory is even less credible than it seems.
And by extension, it further casts doubt on the credibility of Arlen Specter, the U.S. senator who, in another career, invented the magic bullet scenario -- a tumbling, direction-changing projectile that long has defied the laws of physics and common sense.
The Pennsylvania Republicrat, who at the time was an assistant district attorney in Philadelphia, was an assistant counsel for the Warren Commission, charged by President Lyndon Johnson with investigating the crime.
Pat Grant, director of Livermore's Forensic Science Center, and metallurgist Erik Randich say that key evidence such as the crime scene bullet fragments might have been misinterpreted. They contend the so-called chemical fingerprints that supposedly identified which bullets the fragments came from are anything but conclusive. Those "chemical fingerprints" are not the equivalent to the one-of-a-kind human fingerprints; they're more like generic tire tracks.
And because of that, the scientists say there could have been one to five bullets instead of the three supposedly fired by alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. Mr. Specter's lone-gunman theory is that much closer to being disproved.
Librarians always should be prepared to move "Passion for Truth," Specter's ironically titled book about finding JFK's single bullet, to where many believe it always should have been:
The fiction section.
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Schadow
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Do we have any links to the Livermore study? I've seen recent analysis that completely and logically supports the single bullet theory when the positions of JFK and Connally are carefully reconstructed from photo evidence.
Not that I think that the tumbling, direction-changing senator is a saint, but this piece sounds more like a conspiracy theory blog than a newspaper.
Schadow
EDIT: OK, I found a little more in a piece in the San Jose Mercury News
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LimaCharlie
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I saw a Vietnamese sailor hit by a single bullet on a Swift Boat near Qui Nhon in 1971. It hit his lower right arm and broke the bone. It continued to his upper stomach area causing a flesh wound and ended up lodged in his left thigh. Don’t tell me that bullets don’t tumble! I have always heard that full metal jacket, military style, boat-tail bullets were designed to tumble and cause more collateral damage.
I read a review in a magazine of a derringer in .45/70 caliber. At seven feet, the bullet went through the target sideways. The article said that wasn’t such a bad thing given the purpose of a derringer. The shorter the barrel, the less spin and therefore more likely the bullet will tumble. Old worn-out barrels will also cause less spin on the bullet.
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Schadow
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| Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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| LimaCharlie wrote: | | I read a review in a magazine of a derringer in .45/70 caliber. At seven feet, the bullet went through the target sideways. |
A .45/70 derringer? Good grief. It's a wonder the shooter (or, at least his shooting arm) didn't go sideways through the barn he was standing in front of. 
Schadow
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LimaCharlie
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| Schadow wrote: | | LimaCharlie wrote: | | I read a review in a magazine of a derringer in .45/70 caliber. At seven feet, the bullet went through the target sideways. |
A .45/70 derringer? Good grief. It's a wonder the shooter (or, at least his shooting arm) didn't go sideways through the barn he was standing in front of.
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The writer said he only shot it once. The article had a picture of the target with an elongated hole at about a 45 degree angle from verticle. American Derringer still offers it as model M14570SST in single action/single shot.
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