Interesting Facts About Death Of Jfk

The assassination of former United States president John F Kennedy has always fascinated people since that November day in 1963 when it is reported that Lee Harvey Oswald gunned the president down from a window in a Dallas, Texas book depository. Conspiracy theorists insist that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone and many still maintain that Oswald did not act at all. They maintain that Oswald was a pre-ordained scapegoat for a larger organization of ruthless assassins that wanted the president dead and out of the way. But what are some of the facts that people can use to help them decide who really killed JFK? There has been a lot of conjecture on exactly what happened but a look at some of the more interesting facts might help to shed some light on what happened on that day in Dallas.

Conspiracy theorists maintain that Oswald could not have shot the president because the president's vehicle was moving and at the distance that the president's vehicle was from the book depository was no one could have hit the president with any kind of rifle. The fact is that the president was only a couple of hundred feet from the window Oswald was said to be stationed at during the assassination and Oswald was actually an expert shot from his days in the military on targets smaller than the president's head from distances of several hundred yards away. An expert shot only a few hundred feet away from a target only moving at approximately 20 miles per hour would easily hit their target.

Another commonly held notion is that there had to have been more than one shooter because of the rapid fire nature of the shots and the fact that the fatal blow obviously hit from the front of the president because of the graphic nature of the entry wound that can be seen on the film of the assassination. The fact is that the rifle that Oswald used when used by an expert, which Oswald was, was more than capable of firing off the number of rounds that were fired in the amount of time they were fired. It is estimated that three shots were fired in a time ranging somewhere between 8 and 10 seconds. The Carcano rifle that Oswald was said to have used was more than capable of firing three accurate shots in that amount of time.

As for the fatal wound it has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that what you see on the Zapruder film of the assassination is actually an exit wound and not an entry wound. The entry wound is a small hole in the back of the president's skull that has been documented in pictures in various now public records. Publicly published ballistics tests have shown that the shell used from Carcano rifle will produce a large and dramatic exit wound such as the one seen in the Kennedy assassination. The force of the shot entering the president's head is what causes the head to seem to pull violently backwards. In reality what is happening is that the president's head lurches forward and then violently backwards. This is a consistent reaction with a fatal shot to the back of the head.