Arlen Spector Dead
I'm always slightly surprised whenever I re-stumble upon the fact that Arlen Spector is the author of the single bullet theory in the JFK assassination case.
I guess anytime something has passed so thoroughly into pop
culture/folklore, I'm always slightly surprised that a single person is
1) responsible 2) still alive. Not just a nebulous, painted-portrait
character from the annals of history. Like whenever I realize that Bobby
Plump is a real person and could be interviewed today for an issue of
Playboy and a fruit pie.
But it occurred to me today how surprised
I am that, after selling the county such a crock of shit SO universally
accepted, Arlen Spector never really made a serious bid for the
presidency. I mean for fuck's sake; you'd think anyone that can sell the
country on this could sell dick popsicles to Melissa Ethridge. Don't
you picture him backstage "really? they...they believe it? holy
shit!..." You'd think he'd be like fucking hell, these idiots will
believe anything from me...I think I'll run for President and invent the
female orgasm... - XMASTIME
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Discovery Channel's reenactment of bullet CE 399's path
A Discovery Channel special, Unsolved History: JFK — Beyond the Magic Bullet, attempted to replicate as well as possible the conditions of that day. The participants set up blocks of ballistics gel with a substance similar to human bone inside. These studies showed that it was possible to produce largely undeformed bullets, if they were slowed by a passage through a tissue-like substance before striking bone.
Next, two mannequin figures made of ballistic anatomical substances (animal skin, gelatin, and interior bone-like cast) were set up in the exact relative position of JFK and Connally. A marksman fired the same rifle model found in the Book Depository from a distance equal to that of the sixth floor of the Book Depository building, using a round from the same batch of Western Cartridge Company 6.5x52 mm ammunition purchased with the surplus Carcano weapon in early 1963. The path of their single bullet (followed by high speed photography) duplicated, almost exactly, the wounds suffered by the victims that day, the only difference being that the bullet did not quite have enough energy to penetrate the "thigh" substance in front of the Connally figure, because it struck an extra bone in the "rib" model (i.e., it fractured 2 ribs in the model vs. one rib in Connally). It was also slightly more deformed than CE 399, possibly for the same reason. However, this bullet came close to duplicating all wounds in both men with a single shot, with a bullet having little deformation.
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