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I know…who the heck is Cyril Wecht? Well, the AF vet part is legit (albeit in a non-distinguished sort of way – he’s a doc who made Captain O-3 on this first hitch and got out in 1962). Well, you have heard of his ‘work’.<\/p>\n
This is the fella who was asked to review the Warren Commission Report on the assassination of John F. Kennedy and declared it to be balderdash, kicking off decades of conspiracy theories which continue to this day. Mafia hit?
\nCIA\u00a0 rub-out? MIC taking out a Vietnam buildup obstacle? Have at it, pretty much every conspiracy theory links back to him.<\/p>\n
After reviewing the autopsy documents, discovering the president\u2019s brain had gone missing and viewing an amateur video of the assassination, Dr. Wecht concluded the commission\u2019s findings that there was a single bullet involved in the attack that killed Kennedy and injured Texas Gov. John Connally were \u201cabsolute nonsense.\u201d Wiki<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
If a missing Presidential brain triggered him, we should have conspiracy theories about almost all of the recent ones, no? One may note that there were THREE bullets, not one.<\/p>\n
\nDr. Wecht\u2019s lecture circuit demonstration detailing his theory that it was impossible for one bullet to cause the damage it did on that November day in Dallas made its way into Oliver Stone\u2019s movie \u201cJFK\u201d (1991) in the courtroom scene showing the path of the \u201cmagic bullet.\u201d<\/p>\n
Noted defense lawyer F. Lee Bailey called Dr. Wecht the \u201csingle most important spearhead of challenge\u201d to the Warren report. Dr. Wecht\u2019s verbal sparring with future U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, a staffer on the commission, also became well known, culminating in an accusation in his book \u201cCause of Death\u201d that the politician\u2019s support of the single-bullet theory was \u201can asinine, pseudoscientific sham at best.\u201d\u00a0 WaPo<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Reading his famous cases, seems to me he had at best a 50% track record on celebrity causes, but I tend to support Occam’s Razor, too.<\/p>\n
\nOut of the four official examinations into the Kennedy assassination, Wecht is the only forensic pathologist who has disagreed with the conclusion that both the single bullet theory and Kennedy’s head wounds are mutually consistent. Wiki ibid<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The three legs of the Kennedy theory – the “magic bullet”, the impossibility of Oswald firing so accurately so fast, and the ‘second shooter’ sounds.<\/p>\n
1) The magic bullet trajectory through several layers of obstacles (mostly soft) has been proven – and demonstrated – to be possible. In short, Carcano 6.5 ammo used a very heavily jacketed round nosed bullet and has extremely good penetration. One or two bodies and a seat cushion? Not a worry? Matter of fact, 6.5s are NOTED for penetration as good as or better than larger .30 caliber equivalents. Some of the ballistically best cartridges in history were and are 6.5s, too. Is the Carcano the best rifle in the world? Not especially, but surplus Carcanos bagged an adequate share of venison for years after the war.<\/p>\n
2) Impossibly fast? Go to Dealey Plaza. Believe I read once that the furthest shot was something like 79 or 80 yards. That is NOT a long distance, folks, especially when your target is traveling in a straight line away from you AND you have a 4X scope AND are shooting from a rest. And Oswald qualified Expert at least once in the Marines – may not have always, but it shows he at least was trained. Fast? Believe all three rounds were fired in something like 7 seconds (note – 8.3 per linked article below.) Much is made of some ‘experts’ who claimed on TV that chambering and firing three rounds that fast was impossible – except Oswald started with one in the spout, so he was only chambering TWO rounds in 7 seconds. In a relatively soft-recoiling rifle, too…bet a HUGE chunk of readers could easily do the same. His actual group was close to a foot in diameter, too – pretty lousy at 80 yards but again, with a 4X scope, very, very possible.\u00a0 Try this:<\/p>\n
The official Warren Commission inquiry into the shooting concluded the following year that Oswald was a lone gunman who fired three shots with a Carcano M91\/38 bolt-action rifle in 8.3 seconds.<\/p>\n
But when the Italian team test-fired the identical model of gun, they were unable to load and fire three shots in less than 19 seconds – suggesting that a second gunman must have been present in Dealey Plaza, central Dallas, that day….\u00a0 History Network<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So they claim it took them NINE SECONDS to run the bolt once?\u00a0 (Insert Italian Army joke here). As PINO Joe would say, “C’mon, man!” (Try looking at a timepiece, say ‘Boom!” and wait for 9 seconds to pass. Try to stay awake.)<\/p>\n
3) Sounds – if you have been to Dealey Plaza, buildings enclose it pretty well on two sides – it echoes a bit. Trees blocking his shot? Nowadays, yes – but at the time they were much smaller and his shots were pretty much unobstructed.<\/p>\n
Could Oswald have done it with what he had? Three rounds (two chambered) with a bolt action and a 4X scope at less than 100 yards? Have at it.<\/p>\n
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