comment about this in at lest 100 words.I believe the argument that there was only one gunman is the most convincing. Let me caveat that by saying that I think this was a terrible investigation and there is some evidence (but not enough) that makes me believe the other side of the argument. Starting at the Book Depository, three shell casings, a rifle with a telescopic sight, and Lee Harvey Oswald’s palm prints were found. That along with the fact that he used his alias to buy that rifle and the hand gun (which was used to kill a police officer who tried to question him right after the assassination) marks him as the main suspect. They were not able to find any other potential scenes or any evidence of a shooter being in the grassy knoll. In the home movie mentioned, it shows Kennedy waving to the crowd and then reaching for his throat. A second later Connally is hit. It was mentioned that the rifle used takes approximately 2.25 seconds between rounds, so without bringing in the idea of an additional gunman, it would be thought that the bullet traveled through Kennedy and into Connally’s back. During the medical examinations, the doctors determined that the bullet that hit Connally first passed through Kennedy, then entered the right side of Connally’s back, exited through his chest, went through and broke his right wrist, and came to a rest lodged in his thigh. The next (and suspected last) bullet is one that hit Kennedy in the head, ultimately killing him. Finally, Oswald’s character comes into play as having the background of someone who could have accomplished this task. He was a former Marine sharpshooter and an avowed Marxist. He moved to the Soviet Union for 2 and a half years and tried to renounce his US citizenship. He had a Russian wife, many low paying jobs that he was fired from, and visited Cuban and Soviet embassies in Mexico City just months prior to the assassination. It doesn’t exactly paint a picture of a president assassin, but with all of the other evidence it definitely makes it easier to believe that he could have done the assassination without orders or the help of others. I think a piece of evidence used by people who believe that Oswald was a part of a bigger conspiracy, is from the video that shows the motion Kennedy’s head moves after being stuck by the second bullet. Conspiracy believers claim that because Kennedy’s head jerked backward after the bullet penetrated, he had to have been struck from the front. It makes sense that if you were previously shot in the back/neck, you would already be tense reacting to the shot. This could have been the reason as to why his head jerked backward, instead of forward, like what was thought to happen if shot from the front. Another big question is how many bullets were fired? For conspiracy believers, the number is four. They think that the bullet that passed through Kennedy and into Connally were two separate bullets altogether. As explained by the medical examiner, the bullet’s track through Kennedy was soft tissue. When is passed into Connally, it never hit any large bones that would majorly deform the bullet. The slight damage mentioned could have been caused when it hit his lower forearm, which could have flattened the bullet, but not cause as much damage to make a highly visible impact. If those two pieces of evidence were irrefutable, it could make all of the difference in the case.
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