The head shot was from the front, the neck was from the back from what the ER doctor told my aunt, of course the "Official Version" all shots were from the rear. And of course we have not even started to talk about the shots that hit Gov. Connelly. I remember on one of the many documentries that some "expert" was saying that is was not necessarily so that Kennedy's head moving back did mean that the shot was from the front, that often it could happen where the object would move towards the direction of the shot when being struck. Kind of defies physics but what the hell, most of us "could not pour piss out of a boot", and we will believe anything we are told, even when it difies common sense and logic
Originally Posted by carpenter
By now it should be clear that the head shot was from the front. The principle ER Doctor treating JFK has written a book explaining what he witnessed, and was clearly a shot from the front.
Most witnesses in the Plaza heard that particular shot from the fence atop the "Knoll," and it was in pursuit of such that the Dallas Police Officer had his encounter with the suited man with the Secret Service ID.
That Officer actually encountered one of the assassins, as did other Officers who stopped two other people leaving the Book Depository who also had Secret Service IDs.
It's interesting that three of the four likely actual assassins were stopped by the police but they were allowed to escape.
While all this was going on Oswald was seen elsewhere in the Depository building, and then he left, eventually waiting in the theater for someone to meet him....the Dallas police found him there and he was pissed when he saw what was happening.
There were many, many people who had knowledge of the events, but there was just nothing anyone could do about it.
After the assassination the government went forward like a runaway train and everything else was left in the dust.
Under Kennedy the Federal government was very quiet. Kennedy had few legislative or any other initiatives. His philosopy wasn't to expand the role of government or the powers of the President. He did however consider that he as President should have final word on how the government was run.....when wars should be fought, when covert actions should be mounted, what kind of money was created and how, etc. etc.
Johnson was the opposite.
Johnson didn't exercise any oversight over how the government was run.
He let the CIA do whatever it wanted, the Pentagon decide what wars to wage, and so on.
But he sought to expand the role of the Presidency and the Federal government into all manner of other areas of public life. He forced the states to accept Federal mandate of just about everything.
I think Kennedy was right and Johnson wrong.
If Kennedy had lived the US would have pulled out of Vietnam, and the CIA would have been disbanded and a new agency formed [likely ran by Bobby Kennedy]*.
There would have been no Voting Rights Act, no Civil Rights Act, no Public Broadcasting, no Federal oversight over Education, probably no Medicaid, none of those things.
The Cold War with the USSR would have been ended by 1970.
*Bobby was no saint, but if it wasn't for his particular talents the US and USSR would have had a nuclear war in October 1962. Bobby alone steered the government away from an invasion of Cuba, buying time for a settlement to be reached. Bobby had proven to everyone that his skills in managing foreign affairs was superb. Only the CIA resented Bobby, and that resentment never abaited until he was shot in the head like his brother.