Do you remember what you where doing 50 years ago?

[Ken Hughes]

Mum was luxing the carpet in the sitting room,I was 10 yrs old,and the radio made an important broadcast telling us that JFK had been shot,very sad it was.No TV in those days as well.He was well liked at home then.

[jack neville]

I have trouble remembering what I did yesterday half the time, let alone when I was five.

[Catherine Blair]

Dad had joined the air force two days prior.

[Marc Montgomery]

happened in the afternoon. very young but a special announcement made over school speakers .. I was a bit too young to understand the significance but remember that such a mid-afternoon announcement over the speakers (tannoy for Brits) was really unusual and that there was strange atmosphere in the school for the rest of the afternoon.

Interesting shows on TV recently including ballistics tests of that type of rifle and the somewhate unusual full jacket bullets.. (long, round nose , vs more typical pointy nose)

Ballistics and simulated tests showed one bullet could indeed have passed through Kennedy into the governor and through him.

also head shot recoiling backwards explained. and skull fractures show bullet came from behind. (recreations used human skull filled with ballistic gel- results very similar to kennedy autopsy results)

somewhat mysterious third bullet recreated showing timing etc, and as such it hit an overhead street sign and deflected.. the sign/traffic light, long since replaced along with the evidence.

Shell casings resting place noted, recreated showing that as Oswald moved to adjust shot, the ejected casings would end up in similar locations.

verdict...one shooter.

[John McGillivray]

A recent show on Discovery Network has a different conclusion about the third bullet.
http://jfkthesmokinggun.ca/

[maple_leaf_eh]

I was a toddler.

[Lang]

I love the theories about the shooting.

The most significant feature was if it was Oswald alone, he was an absolutely outstanding marksmen to get away 3? shots, unpracticed, at a moving target with such accuracy.

Numerous recreations have been done but a recent one from the same spot with lasers at a moving car and passengers using top trained snipers with the same type of rifle resulted in failure from people who knew what was going to happen and under no pressure. Actually I think I recall they said one sniper did get the shots off on target after his 3rd practice go.

The street sign theory is a beauty as are the cartridge positions on the floor. Microscopic measurements from a sign that no one saw hit and is no longer there and a cartridge that could have bounced or been kicked by the shooter (or someone else) are far from conclusive evidence. Every investigation so far is supported somewhere by a zero evidence "fact" and is basically underwritten by the premise that "If the queen had balls she would be king".

We have a program gap - what say we do another show on a Kennedy assassination theory?