But for the record I have always believed it to be an inisde job; it was never, and could never have been Lee Harvey Oswald. For those Brits who are curious watch BBC2 this Sunday, 9pm. I shall be. And if any of you guys the other side of the pond can pick up BBC 2 on sattelite I'd recommend it to you as well.

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Just finished watching the programme and I have to say I'm speechless

The information I saw in the BBC2 documentary totally contradicts the exact same film used as evidence to prove more than one assassin was at work in a similar documentary broadcast 15 years ago on Channel 4. The latter programme looked at each frame in very slow motion and it showed clearly that the head was not only shot from the front but half the skull was removed, and you clearly saw the head shocked backwards! This was totally glossed over in tonight's program. Almost no attention was drawn to it, apart from a vague comment that the head moving backwards is not a significant factor. Well, it is if the matter you can see erupting from the gunshot wound is not moving forwards!!! Also, somebody will have to correct me if I'm wrong on this one, but the kind of rifle bullets Oswald was using were piercing types and didn't cause too much lateral disruption to the target. The final shot caused major trauma to the head of the president, as can be seen by the Zapruder footage from frames 312 to 315 if viewed close up and in slow motion. Any ballistics experts out there tell me what you think, but personally I'm still tied to my belief that Oswald did not fire the fatal shot. This has nothing to do with the 'magic bullet' theory, I'm interested in the final, fatal shot. Looking at the footage I would have to conclude that there was a second assassin.

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Originally posted by guidon:
Dunno if we're talking about the same documentary, but the one showed on BBC2 last night concluded that Oswald was acting alone. Was quite interesting though.

Never knew that Oswald tried to kill a US Army major some time before the Kennedy-case as well...

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Yep the same...

The Army Major snippet...Neither had I until Sunday night.

It definitely appeared to me that the programme set out to prove Oswald's guilt and nothing else. The bit that clinched it for me was when they projected the path of the second 'magic' bullet in the simulation back to a possible source and bingo! It was traced back 100% on the nose to the base of the far right window in the 6th floor of the book depository! I'm sorry, but this just is too good to be true. There is little doubt the shot came from behind, but for them to pinpoint the source exactly??? Come on please! If they had gotten to within about 5-10 feet of the window I think most of us would have been sold, and this would have been far more realistic. But that immediately told me that this was going all out to show Oswald was the sole assassin. The programme was as much a whitewash as the enquiry soon after Kennedy's death was, although it is clear now that information was withheld from the team who conducted it, thus the conclusion they came to.

And yes, the Zapruder footage is chilling to me also. Even now that final shot makes me sick to the stomach. Doesn't matter how many times I see it, I never get desensitised. Maybe because it is an actual killing I am witnessing makes it all the more poignant. But that 20 or so seconds proved to me that there was more than one person involved that day. Maybe not as a team, that much I would admit. But definitely more than one individual.

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