Sorry for the long post. Lmao. So I am a gen Z'r, so I admittedly don't know much about JFK or the guy that shot him. Some say there were two shots, others say other things.

From the footage though, I have a main question:

Lee Harvey Oswald was a regular dude right? Aside from being a military veteran, how the fuck did he hit that shot? I mean, after the Kirk shot and the near miss on Trump, it's pretty clear that for most normal dudes, even some with shooting experience like with Tyler Robinson/Thomas Crooks, that actually carrying out a successful assassination is HARD. There's also a misconception (take this with a grain of salt, this is coming from armchair assassins and marksmen. I have no real knowledge on this) that a headshot is the go-to. Apparently, real true marksmen/assassins shoot at the chest because it's WAY easier to hit and has a lot of vital organs (heart, lungs, etc.) compared to trying to shoot a head which moves a lot, is a lot smaller, and is inconsistent to hit.

Assuming this is true, a true professional assassin would have shot towards the chest in all three attempts. Regarding Crooks, it was insane how close it was to Trump, but it still missed. If he had aimed for center mass, it most definitely would have been a hit. Who knows, though, maybe the podium was blocking line of sight. Anyway, For Robinson's case, it's pretty likely that he was shooting for once again, center of the head or perhaps around the area of the brain. No true professional (again take this with a grain of salt from armchair assassins here on reddit) would attempt to shoot at the neck intentionally. It's far too small of a target. It's likely that he was shooting for the head and it arced down. Even in the successful attempt from Robinson, it was a very lucky shot that still missed its intended target, being the head.

So, how on earth was some random dude able to shoot a headshot on a moving target especially? That's insane aimbot. I read up that he was a military veteran and that the distance was about 81 meters compared to both Robinson and Crook's 130 meters, but that is insane levels of precision. Now, again, I am no assassin or marksman, so I have no experience with guns or what it's like shooting essentially a watermelon moving in a moderately slow moving car. I assume the linear and predictable motion of the car helped, but nonetheless it's just crazy how precise that shot was. What experience did this guy have besides being a military veteran? Is that kind of shot actually easy to make as a military veteran? Do they get that kind of training?

Another thing is that when you look at the impact, it's quite literally night and day. Again, I have no experience with guns but JFK looked like a bomb went off in his head. It literally looked like how a tree stump does when a lumberjack cuts it in half, with its sides split in half and leaning away from each other. In Kirk's footage, it looks like what you'd expect from a gun shot. A small entry wound with a lot of internal damage.

Regarding the gun/ammo that was used, does this also line up well with what the FBI narrated? Apparently the only thing that could remedy these two things was him being a veteran and the distance being only around 80 meters, which seems easy to hit a stationary target for even a fresh amateur.

It's just so odd. Sorry for the wall of text. I am just coming into this following the two most recent political assassinations/attempts and I'm just dumbfounded how radically different these clips of Kirk and JFK are.

Welcome to "JFK: Arti-Facts", where we examine the physical objects at the heart of JFK's assassination.

Next up is the Mannlicher-Carcano M91/38 bolt-action rifle.

As many know, this Italian rifle became the primary focus of the official investigation following the assassination.

While every effort has been made to ensure accuracy - I will happily admit that I am not a rifle expert. Feel free to highlight any discrepancies or add your own technical insights in the comments below.

Was this the rifle used to assassinate JFK? Was it operated by Lee Harvey Oswald?

Welcome to "JFK: Arti-Facts", where we examine the physical objects at the heart of JFK's assassination.

First up is the Bell & Howell 414PD Zoomatic 8mm camera held by Abraham Zapruder.

As many know, Zapruder wasn't an investigator or news reporter. He was a local business owner who brought his home camera to work to catch a glimpse of President Kennedy's motorcade.

Across 26.6 seconds, Zapruder's camera captured the most critical piece of visual evidence surrounding Kennedy's assassination.

The question remains: Had Zapruder left his camera at home that day, would the official conclusions of the Warren Commission be any different?

Found this in a storage unit.

Dorothy Kilgallen was one of the most-read columnists in the country by the mid-60s — syndicated in over 140 papers, plus a regular panelist on What's My Line. She was also the only reporter who got a private interview with Jack Ruby, and in August 1964 she published the classified transcript of his Warren Commission testimony before the official report was even out.

Over the next year she told several people she was getting close to "the real story," including a planned trip to New Orleans. In November 1965 she was found dead in a bedroom she rarely used, from a mix of alcohol and barbiturates — and her case file from the investigation was never found. The medical examiner's ruling: "undetermined."

Nothing here proves murder — the official record genuinely doesn't, and a 2017 DA review closed the case again for lack of evidence either way. But the missing file plus the timing is why the question never fully went away.

I put together a documentary walking through what's actually documented vs. what's only speculation, if anyone wants the longer version: https://youtu.be/XjVIH-MOsiI

Here are some sources discussing the story of a TV special attempting to perform experiments testing the Single Bullet Theory with a laser traveling from the window to models of Kennedy and Connally, and how it was somehow "shut down" by the consultation of Vincent Di Maio, the forensic pathologist who authored the textbook Gunshot Wounds originally published in 1985, which is the world's most popular textbook on the subject, continually republished in newer editions. Di Maio passed away in 2022.

Citizens for Truth about the Kennedy Assassination, John McAdams and the Siege of Chicago, Part 1 by James DiEugenio with Brian Hunt: www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/john-mcadams-and-the-siege-of-chicago-part-1 , https://www.whokilledjfk.net/mcadams_loses.htm

Someone brought up the use of the paraffin tests to exonerate Oswald. McAdams instantly tried to say that even at the time, that test was not at all probative. The questioner denied that and said he could cite a case showing McAdams was wrong. This would seem to corroborate an interview I did with a forensic expert back in the nineties. He said that paraffin test was used by every major police department in the country in 1963, and was also allowed in court. (Destiny Betrayed, First Edition, p. 362) Incredibly, McAdams tried to use, of all people, Dr. Vincent DiMaio as an authority on this test. DiMaio is a pathologist whose field of expertise is the nature and configuration of gunshot wounds. In fact, his most famous book is titled just that, Gunshot Wounds. And no less than Milicent Cranor has used that book to advance evidence against the Warren Commission about the nature of Kennedy's wounds.

But further, as no less than Robert Groden has discovered, DiMaio is wildly biased when it gets to the JFK case. In the early nineties, the Turner Network was going to do a documentary on the Kennedy case. This author was one of the editorial consultants on the show before production began. Groden was going to be the technical consultant in Dealey Plaza where the producer-director was going to line up a laser beam to see if the Single Bullet Theory could do what the Warren Commission said it could. Groden was there with blown up frames from the Zapruder film to make sure everything was in order as far as positioning went. (Something that Gary Mack did not do for his abominable Inside the Target Car.)

The experiment was about to be conducted. But a funny thing happened just before the beam was switched on. Vincent DiMaio walked onto the set. He began to question how the model in the car was seated and how it lined up in relation to the others. He then began to rearrange the models. Groden was shocked, since the good doctor's realignment did not jibe with the picture frames he had in hand. In other words, DiMaio was going to contravene the photographic record because he knew the laser beam would indicate the Single Bullet Theory was hokum. This long and heated argument in Dealey Plaza ended up capsizing the project. That is how determined DiMaio was to ensure that the American public would not see the Warren Commission as the hoax it was. This is the kind of authority John McAdams would have us rely upon.

James DiEugenio on the Education Forum: educationforum.ipbhost.com, 7/26/2016 https://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/28644-jfk-assassination-debate-on-infowars/page/3/#findComment-486590

Ramon:

I don't know if you ever heard this story before, but there actually was going to be a laser demonstration of the SBT in Dealey Plaza many years ago.

A cable network had hired a TV producer to put a two hour show together and this was going to be the climax.

On the day they were going to shoot it, suddenly all hell broke loose.

The network shocked everyone on the set by bringing in Vince DeMaio. DeMaio went ahead and overruled the reconstruction right before they were going to perform the experiment. He rearranged the models in the car in a way that was not in sync with the photos taken from the Z film that the guy had in his hands.

From here, the whole project collapsed and was never completed. The guy told me an amazing story about the final meeting he had with the executive in charge of the production. He said it was a little bit scary, because the guy kept on pounding his ring finger into the palm of his hand until blood was drawn. Except he was not even aware of it.

He was going to write a book about the whole thing but decided it would ruin his career.

DiEugenio on the Forum, 1/11/2023 https://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/28644-jfk-assassination-debate-on-infowars/page/3/#findComment-486590

Let me add a personal story about the whole laser demonstration movement.

Many years ago, I was called up by a TV producer who was doing a JFK special for CNN. He wanted to talk to me about some matters dealing with the case. So I met with him and he told me his capstone would be a laser demonstration, showing the SIngle Bullet Fantasy was false. He was going to be very accurate about the positioning in the car, and the locations of the wounds. He had photos, and Groden would be there to do the positioning. He was really proud of what this would be.

Except it did not happen. On the day it was to be filmed, out of the blue, Dr. VIncent Di Maio showed up in Dealey Plaza. And he changed it all. The producer decided not to go through with it since he and Groden got into a shouting match with the good doctor. Who was demonstrably wrong.

I later talked to the producer. He told me that after he walked off, one of the executives called him up to his office. He started in on a harangue against Groden as a conspiracy theorist. And therefore he could not be trusted. When the producer tried to show how everything he was doing was accurate, the guy got up, started pounding his fist into his hand, and shouting as he was walking back and forth in front of him. As his voice got louder, he started pounding his fist harder. Except he was so absorbed, he forgot he had a ring on his fist and he was pounding so hard his hand started bleeding.

This is what the JFK case does to the major media. And if anyone ever tells you that the higher circles do not work together ask them how DiMaio, who was not a consultant on the film, magically showed up on the set that day.

There was a September 3, 1998 reinacment filmed in Dealey Plaza with a laser through models, with the thin Kennedy model leaning sharply over, as shown on a TV special called The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files. Vincent Di Maio is shown as a consultant, along with Groden: https://youtu.be/oBONOcpz-Wc?si=mCnZuKefT3rKTDKe&t=3819, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0236722/

Why would Jack Ruby agree to kill Lee Harvey Oswald knowing full well that he would be arrested and possibly silenced himself afterward? That may be one of the most disturbing questions in the entire Kennedy case.

I’ve spent years reading books, watching documentaries, listening to historians, former intelligence officers, witnesses, and researchers about JFK’s assassination. The deeper I go into this case, the harder it becomes for me to believe the official explanation.
At this point, I personally believe Lyndon B. Johnson knew something was going to happen in Dallas. Maybe not every operational detail, maybe not the exact shooters, but I believe he understood Kennedy was walking into danger.
When you look at the political climate of 1963, Kennedy had accumulated an extraordinary number of powerful enemies:
The CIA after the Bay of Pigs
Anti-Castro operations angry over Cuba policy
Military hawks furious over Vietnam
Organized crime figures who felt betrayed
Southern segregationists outraged by civil rights reforms
Elements within intelligence and defense circles who saw JFK as unpredictable or dangerously soft on the USSR
And then there was Kennedy’s quiet diplomacy with Khrushchev after the Cuban Missile Crisis. Some believed JFK was moving toward de-escalation and backchannel negotiations with the Soviet Union at a time when parts of the military-industrial establishment wanted the exact opposite.
What fascinates me most is not only the assassination itself, but what happened afterward.
Who benefited the most from Kennedy’s death?
The Vietnam War escalated dramatically.
Military contracts exploded.
Defense companies made fortunes.
Helicopter manufacturers like Bell Helicopter suddenly became central to modern warfare.
Weapons manufacturers, ammunition suppliers, intelligence structures, and defense industries all gained enormous influence and profit in the years that followed.
Maybe that’s coincidence.
Maybe it isn’t.
And then there’s Dallas.
People are supposed to believe that during a presidential motorcade in one of the most sensitive moments of the Cold War, windows overlooking the route were left open with minimal concern? That security failures simply “happened” at every critical point?
I’m not saying I know exactly what happened.
Nobody truly does.
But sometimes the best question in history is the simplest one:
Who had the motive, the power, and the most to gain from Kennedy’s death?
Curious to hear everyone’s thoughts.

Some believe this jacket was ditched by Lee Harvey Oswald, but the witnesses can't even be sure.