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Posted by Eric Meece on my website, and proofread, with a few added notes in a few places

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Scientific evidence proves that that Lee Harvey Oswald was in fact the lone gunman who assassinated John F. Kennedy, on November 22, 1963! In response to appreciable controversy over the Warren Commission Report, the U.S. Congress conducted additional studies and evidentiary investigations into the assassination more than a decade later. As part of those proceedings, Professor Vincent P. Guinn (VPG) reanalyzed the bullet-lead evidence in the case and testified on the results before the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) in 1978 (6). He also published them in the scientific literature one year later (7). VPG reported an "extremely large variability" in the antimony content of Mannlicher FMJ bullets, which were manufactured by the Western Cartridge Company (WCC). He further reported that, in distinct contrast to other ammunitions within his experience (approximately 165 known brands and different production lots), this variation allowed him to reliably individualize bullets, not from lot to lot, but definitely among bullets from the same box sold commercially. Consequently, VPG testified that there was highly reliable evidence for two, and only two, bullets among the various fragments of lead recovered from the assassination, that both bullets were from Mannlicher-Carcano rounds, and further, from his recent analyses, that it was very probable that the three metal fragments recovered from JBC’s wrist (CE-842) derived from CE-399, the stretcher bullet. Likewise, the two lead fragments from JFK’s brain (CE-843) were from another single bullet, but definitely not CE-399.

These more modern analyses and assessment by an eminent nuclear scientist gave much-added weight to, and reinforcement of, the single-bullet theory. Recent papers by Rahn and Sturdivan (8, 9) have presented arguments to support this conclusion. Source: Proper Assessment of the JFK Assassination Bullet Lead Evidence from Metallurgical and Statistical Perspectives (Technical Report)

"The so-called "magic bullet," was a full metal jacketed bullet specifically designed to pass through the human body, and found to be deformed and not in a pristine state as some detractors claim. Though a side view seems to show no visible damage, the revised (sic) side of the bullet isn’t shown and is deformed and flattened, and a view from the end of the bullet shows a significant flattening which occurred when, according to the theory, the bullet struck Connally's wrist butt end first. The metallurgical composition of the bullet fragments in the wrist was compared to the composition of the samples taken from the base of CE 399.

Several of the same type 6.5 millimeter test bullets were test-fired by the Warren Commission investigators. The test bullet that most matched the slight side flattening and nearly pristine, still rounded impact tip of CE 399 was a bullet that had only been fired into a long tube containing a thick layer of cotton. Later tests show that such bullets survive intact when fired into solid wood and multiple layers of skin and ballistic gel, as well."
Single-bullet theory
"After examination of the remains of the bullets found and of the three cartridge cases found on the sixth floor of the Depository, Frazier, and Nicol, experts in the field of firearms, concluded that they had been fired in the C2766 Mannlicher-Carcano rifle to the exclusion of all other weapons. Two other experts from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who made independent examinations of the nearly whole bullet, bullet fragments, and cartridge cases, reached identical conclusions."
Source: Depositions given under oath to the Warren Commission.

Conclusions:
Only two bullets were found to have hit Kennedy and Governor Connally, the second that killed Kennedy with a headshot, and the first that passed through Kennedy to wound Governor Connally!

The Kennedy autopsy reported this to be consistent with their findings in that Kennedy was hit with two separate bullets fired from up high and from behind. The bullet fragments recovered came from Kennedy and Connally, were found to be from two separate bullets, one from Kennedy’s skull and the other from Connally’s wrist, with each bullet coming from Oswald’s Mannlicher-Carcano rifle!

This proved the pejoratively so-called "magic bullet" was the same bullet that exited Kennedy’s neck and hit Connally since Kennedy was hit in the back of the neck with the bullet exiting his throat resulting from the first shot which then hit Connally. Quickly following this, Kennedy was hit with a second kill shot to the top right-hand side of his skull.

Evidence found on the CE 399 bullet, the so-called "magic bullet", showed "slight side flattening on one side, and was nearly pristine on the other side with a still rounded impact tip". Further tests with similar bullets and Oswald’s rifle showed the same results as the "magic" CE 399 bullet which hit Kennedy and Connally "when fired into solid wood and multiple layers of skin and ballistic gel, as well."

It proves conclusively that Lee Harvey Oswald was the Lone Gunman!

Connally was sitting on a jump seat that was lower, in front of Kennedy, and slightly to his left, which explained how the first shot that hit Kennedy passed through the soft tissue of his neck and throat to hit Connally. This is completely consistent with the findings of the autopsy report showing that Kennedy was shot from up high and from behind with the shots coming from the general area of the 6th floor of the Book Depository Building.

Doctors Affirm Kennedy Autopsy Report

Breaking a 28-year silence, the two pathologists who performed the autopsy on President John F. Kennedy have affirmed their original findings that he was hit by only two bullets, fired from above and behind, and that one of them caused the massive head wound that killed him. And four of five other doctors who attended the President in the emergency room of a Dallas hospital said they observed nothing while treating him that contradicts the pathologists' findings.

They also criticized another doctor in the emergency room that day, one whose new book asserts a conspiracy to cover up evidence that the Doctors Affirm the Kennedy Autopsy Report
Doctors Affirm Kennedy Autopsy Report (Published 1992)
Doctors Affirm Kennedy Autopsy Report
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/20/us/doctors-affirm-kennedy-autopsy-report.html

Actual Evidence Connecting Oswald to the Kennedy Assassination

• The morning of the assassination, Oswald placed a long package wrapped in brown paper in the back seat of Buell Frazier's car, a friend who drove Oswald to work that morning. And when asked what was in the package, "Curtain rods," Oswald replied. Frazier, said he took Oswald's word for it. He then watched Oswald walk into work with the package under his arm.
• The FBI, having searched the building, did not find curtain rods, but did find Oswald's rifle along with brown paper wrapping, and when they searched the place where he was staying, they found that drapes were already in place held by curtain rods.
• The rifle was found where only Oswald was working on his own at the time of the shooting.
• His palm print was found on the underside of the barrel of the rifle.
• Oswald's fingerprints were found on the three empty shell casings found next to his mail-order rifle in close proximity to the open window on the 6th floor.
• Firearms experts concluded that the remains of the bullets found and three cartridge cases found on the sixth floor of the Depository had been fired in the C2766 Mannlicher-Carcano rifle to the exclusion of all other weapons. Two other experts from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who made independent examinations of the nearly whole bullet, bullet fragments, and cartridge cases, reached identical conclusions.
• The FBI had a picture of Oswald holding the rifle as taken by his wife.
• His wife admitted to taking the picture of Oswald with the rifle and identified the rifle itself as belonging to her husband.
• The lands and grooves on Oswald's rifle matched perfectly with the bullet that hit Kennedy and Connolly.
• The rifle was found to have been ordered and shipped by mail in the name of "A. Hidell," of Dallas. Oswald's New Orleans post-office box listed "A. J. Hidell" as entitled to receive mail.
• In Oswald's Dallas effects was a vaccination certificate signed by "Dr. A. J. Hideel," a variation the com­mission said was an Oswald forgery.
• Oswald's wife. Marina, testi­fied that he had compelled her to write the name "Hidell" as chapter president on member­ship cards of a fictitious Fair Play for Cuba Committee in New Orleans, ostensibly favor­ing the cause of Premier Fidel Castro.
• The name of "Alek James Hidell" was on a Selective Serv­ice notice of classification and a Marine Corps certificate of service, both found in Oswald's wallet when he was arrested. On the Selective Service card was Oswald's pho­tograph, with the signature "Alek J. Hidell" in what was proven to be his writ­ing.
• Oswald was the only employee who immediately left the building after the shooting.
• When the rifle and the sniper nest were found on the sixth floor, where only Oswald had been working, the Dallas Police immediately sent out an all-points bulletin, providing Oswald's description.
• On the run, Oswald was stopped for questioning by Officer Tippit who had spotted Oswald who happened to fit the all-points description which he had received on his car's police radio.
• When Officer Tippit approached Oswald, Oswald shot the officer four times with a kill shot to the head in order to escape capture. At least four bystanders witnessed the murder and identified the murderer as Oswald.
• Oswald then hid out in a movie theatre nearby, and when police officers approached him, Oswald tried to shoot and kill the arresting officer. Having been wrestled to the ground, and then in cuffs, Oswald voluntarily said, "Well I guess it's all over now!"
• After almost 60 years, the fact remains that no evidence has ever been presented to prove that there were other individuals or an individual responsible for assisting Oswald in murdering JFK.
• A total of 95 to 98% of all the files dealing with the assassination of JFK have now been released, and nothing has been found that would suggest that this was a conspiracy. All that is left are procedural inner office memos, as well as some clippings from newspapers, reporting on readers' feelings about the assassination itself. There was no smoking gun, no evidence to suggest anything other than Oswald single-handedly Assassinated JFK.
• Also, we know that Oswald had tried to assassinate retired General Edwin Walker previously because he was an outspoken critic of communism! So to suggest that Oswald acted on his own is more than conjecture, this was an angry, tortured man with strong beliefs, who was prepared to act on them, even to the point of committing murder.
• Oswald's attempted assassination of Walker shows a proven fact pattern, a pattern that was repeated when he single-handedly assassinated Kennedy!
• Oswald's wife told the FBI that her husband read magazine articles to her about the Kennedys and never said anything negative about JFK. Oswald believed, based on smears by the republican party, that Kennedy was soft on communism. However, once Kennedy approved the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, a communist country, Oswald, in a fit of anger, and feeling betrayed, turned on Kennedy believing he was no better than the rest of the American politicians, and was a threat to communism! (My note: Oswald may also have heard on TV JFK's declaration in Florida in Fall 1962 that he could assure Cuban exiles that Havana would soon be free)
• Keep in mind, that on almost a daily basis, in America, lone gunmen shoot people unknown to them as a matter of course and no one suggests that they were part of a conspiracy. (My note: and all assassinations of US public figures have been done by one assassin)
• After the fact, the FBI said that Oswald was a perfect match to their profile of a lone gunman, a troubled young man separated from his wife, awkward, with no friends, estranged from his family, unable to hold a job, delusional, and willing to give up his citizenship and then finding that Russia failed to live up to his ideal, he was prepared to take drastic means, including murder, in order to make his mark on the world.
• Oswald had the means, the opportunity, and the motive, and he acted on it by shooting JFK. It wasn't all that difficult for Oswald, a trained Marine marksman, or even a non-marksman to take three shots from an open window as an open limo passed directly below at approximately 11 miles per hour. This was an act that didn't require any type of sophisticated advanced planning, since the parade route was picked only by chance and would pass a building where Oswald was working. Conspirators would not have known soon enough to properly have had the time to identify, recruit, and set up Oswald as a "Patsy", as a number of conspiracies have falsely claimed!
• Most believe it had to be a conspiracy because they believed that that no one man could execute such an important person as the President of the United States, it had to be the mafia, Russia, the CIA, Cuba, or someone in power like LBJ. According to most, if not all of these conspiracies it was inconceivable that one man could take down the President of the United States! Yet, this false and tortured logic can be explained as a psychological case of "cognitive dissonance"! Most People can't accept the fact that someone as important as Kennedy could be shot and killed by a lone gunman, a lowlife, such as Oswald! But the fact of the matter is, he had the opportunity, the means, and the motive and he acted on it! And It wasn't all that difficult! Even Kennedy had mentioned on a number of occasions that if anyone wanted to assassinate him, there was nothing much anyone could do to stop it. (My note: he even mentioned this while looking up at the buildings along Main Street in Dallas on Nov.22, 1963)

SPECULATION

• If Oswald was part of a conspiracy headed up by a sinister group or a powerful individual, why in God's name would they pick a fuck up and whack job like Oswald, a man with a cheap imported mass-produced, and discarded Italian army rifle that he ordered from a mail order house? A murder weapon that proved to be easily connected to Oswald, the actual shooter, and not to the conspirators!
• Wouldn't the conspirators want a smarter and reliable hitman armed with the best sniper rifle possible, someone who was "professional"?
• If Oswald was part of a conspiracy, wouldn't the conspirators, provide or insist that Oswald have a dependable rifle in order to ensure that the "job" would been handled "effectively"?
• And wouldn't it make sense that if Oswald was part of a conspiracy he would have received at least some money upfront? Yet, we know for a fact that the FBI only found $170, and his wedding ring, which he left for his wife in her favorite tea cup!
• Oswald's rifle was found to have been ordered and shipped by mail in the name of "A. Hidell," of Dallas. He did likewise in ordering a revolver from a Los Angeles mail order house. This suggests he was purposely distancing himself from the rifle and revolver in an attempt to hide the fact that he was the recipient of the future murder weapons, and as a way of protecting his identity. The conclusion being that would be using the rifle and revolver (The revolver was used in the murder of Tippit) for a clandestine purpose.
• Contrary to being part of a conspiracy, by leaving all of his money behind and having ordered the murder weapons in a clandestine manner, it points to the fact that he was on a personally driven suicide mission since he left all of his worldly possessions behind for his wife. Oswald left home that morning with the expectation of either being shot and killed in carrying out the assassination, or being arrested and not being able to ever return home again!
• Oswald hated America and its culture, greed, and Jingoism, so this was his final fuck you to America, and what better way of giving a finger to a hated America than shooting the ultimate symbol of America itself, none other than the President of the United States, John Fitzgerald, Kennedy!
• Lee Harvey Oswald did achieve his goal in one respect since his name has gone down in infamy, not as a hero to the Communist cause, but for this despicable act of cowardice!

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