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Originally Posted by logdog
There was a very interesting documentary on TV last week called JFK - The Smoking Gun. It showed that the fatal head shot could not have come from Oswald's gun because the entry hole was smaller than the bullet diameter that Oswald was using. Also, Oswald was using full metal jackets and JFK's head exploded from a fragmented bullet. The theory is that he was hit by an accidental discharge from an inexperienced Secret Service agent who was on the protection detail because the rest of the agents had been drinking all night.
The Secret Service destroyed their documents and autopsy evidence years ago rather than comply with a House subpoena investigating the assassination. They also gave Robert Kennedy, the AG at the time, JFK's brain which was never seen since. We'll probably never know for sure what happened that day.
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I've already posted a credible source for debunking most of the conspiracy theories so I'm not going to respond to them one by one on this thread, but I can't pass on the absolute BS theory that Special Agent Frank Hickey accidentally shot JFK from the Follow Up Car.
There were three people, one a trusted Kennedy aide, sitting within three feet of the muzzle of Hickey's M-16. Does anyone REALLY believe that none of them would have heard an M-16 fired near their head?
It is laughable to say that the Secret Service destroyed autopsy evidence or that they gave JFK's brain to RFK. The autopsy was performed at Bethesda Naval Hospital by Naval personnel. The Secret Service had no access. Besides which, the autopsy photos and drawings can be found on the Internet.
As I said, if you have been caught up in any of the multitude of "conspiracy theories" I recommend reading the book Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi. Bugliosi, who prosecuted the Charles Manson family members in California, has written an exhaustive book which debunks all of the popular conspiracy theories.
I certainly can't review all of them here; the book is over 1600 pages long.