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Every time I think of this video, I think about how absolutely fucking insane it has to be to be sitting next to the love of your life one minute, and the next minute, his whole fucking head explodes.
I really can’t wrap my head around how horrific that has to be…..and I’ve been through some shit.
Agree. The fact that she was able to regain a life again is amazing.
At this exact moment, he has already been shot through the neck and the man in front of him has been hit by the bullet. Which is why his face looks like that and why JFK is clutching his throat.
I was looking for someone else who saw that. You’re the first I’ve found. He has definitely been hit at this point. He’s turning his head and she’s leaning in too far for it not to be.
The poster above is stating known facts about this assassination. I’m not sure how familiar with it you are. The man in the front is the governor of Texas who was hit with the bullet that first went through Kennedy’s throat. The governor was slightly turned so it hit him in the side (and the lung I believe). The first bullet Oswald shot actually missed. But he was on with the next two.
This bullet came from a whole different direction
No. Only oswald shot.
No it didn’t. Oswald was the only shooter. This has been hashed out so many times. The only reason to believe anything other than it being Oswald is a complete disregard for all of the evidence we have that he did it.
This is a known fact about what happened
What, that he turned towards Jackie and she towards him?
I don't know if it was the intention of your phrasing but the way you say this makes it look like these facts are still up for debate and you are observing these things as if you are trying to figure out what happened, while in actuality, these things are already known facts.
I mean, sure, if that's all you decide to take from it, I mean having your husband shot in the throat isn't exactly an event that you'd just brush off, it's easy to conclude why they leaned to each other when it is a well known fact that he's been shot in the throat at this point, right?
Once again, crime scene investigations and autopsies and several other forms of research already proved this was the situation, there is no need to try and figure out what happened through their body language, there's no doubt anymore to what the situation was at that exact point by now.
Plus look at the driver of the car looking behind himself, the driver of the US president should have his eyes forward when he’s driving, you can see something’s wrong from the drivers reaction too.
? This isn’t new information. I’m actually surprised this is the first person you’ve found.
First in this thread of this discussion saying he’d been shot when this photo was taken. I was agreeing with the post I was commenting on. It’s not as deep as you all are taking it. Title of post says “before he was fatally shot” and I was saying he was already shot in this photo.
Ah got it!
She is lucky she wasn't hit either, the way she was leaning toward him. He was definitely shot in the throat before the head.
That was the governor of Texas at the time, John Connally
As Kubrick pointed out on Full Metal Jacket, it's insane to score two fatal shots on a moving target with a bolt action carcano and no optic in short succession.
The people who say you can't fire three shots within a certain period of time often make the mistake of diving the time (say,, three seconds) by the number of shots, which is WRONG. It's time divided by two, not three. You start the clock AFTER the first shot, so it's SHOT (time) SHOT (time) SHOT.
I can easily fire a carcano that fast, but not with 66% accuracy on a moving target.
Better accuracy than that. Yes he hit 2 out of 3. But his spread was pretty tight. Throat to head on a moving target w an old bolt action rifle. Pretty sporty.
To be clear. He had already been shot in the throat by this point
TIL he was shot in the throat first. Unless it was mentioned in 11/22/63 by Stephen king then I forgot
Best book ever
For a book called 11/22/63 it sure takes its time getting to that date. I'm enjoying it but I'm starting to wonder if he will ever actually meet Oswald ...
Trust me, the climax when it arrives to 11/22/63 is quite simply, incredible. There’s a bit of a lull when he is staking out his house from what I remember (read it a few years ago now) but the thrilling end is just literary perfection. The science fiction elements at the end of the book are also fantastic and don’t take away from the fact that, at its heart, the book is a love story.
Second that
Best TV series ever
Tv series was fine. Book was wild.
What book?
11/22/63 by Stephen King. Excellent read!
Til as well wow
Came here to say this. Keep it real
According to doctors from both Parkland and Bethesda that throat would would have been survivable as it didn’t touch any major arteries or his trachea and windpipe.
I remember the Family Guy cutaway about Mayor McCheese getting shot like JFK and he did get shot twice lol.
LEMMiNO did an amazing piece on the JFK incident if you have some time to watch. It’s a 98 minute piece.
https://youtu.be/5u7euN1HTuU?si=2t7O-_1MkMh_ocqD
Zapruder’s heirs sold the original film to the National Archives for $19 million in 1999 (after originally asking for $30 million in arbitration).
I don’t know how I feel about that.
I remember reading all about it, the wikis, some articles, but a lot of it was in one ear and out the other. I don't entirely think it was a terrible thing they did, selling it. Sure it's more "noble" to donate it, but it's private property, and that price is a drop in the ocean. Easily one of the most important pieces of film in US history, I'm sure the US is happy to pay that for it. They probably could've used some kind of "eminent domain" thing to get it anyway.
"In one ear and out the other". Bravo.
“Is that where they got the saying?”
/s
Bravo?
It’s gotta be the most important by a country mile, right?
Hard to really qualify. Footage of Pearl Harbor, footage of 9/11... I wish I could think of more positive examples... It's incredibly unique, that's for sure.
Moon landing
A more positive example- I think Kennedy's "we choose to go to the moon" recording is extremely important. The "I have a dream" speech. Of course, those are moments that were planned, not quite happenstance.
A much less positive example- The Rodney King video...
I’ve never thought about it, but I wonder if MLK and JFK (speech) have footage shot by anyone other than the famous footage we’ve seen. Multiple people must have been filming?
Better than Trump's "late, great Hanibal Lecter", would you say?
I live in America. If I have anything worth $19 million you bet your ass I'm not "donating" it.
This is what capitalism does to most of us.
That money is tiny tiny peanuts compared to what is spent on things of questionably lower value every day.
Good for them 😎
That’s a tough one. On the one hand, your family will be set for a long time if you sell that film, everyone you care about will be elevated financially. On the other, the most important man in America was brutally assassinated, he left behind kids and a wife and it seems wrong to sell the video considering its importance in American history. That’s a tough call.
i think most of us are choosing the 19 million dollars every time.
Haha, yeah I think I’d sell as well.
I would have sold it for $19
Morally, I’m with you.
My rent went up though.
Right after the first shot that went through JFK’s neck and also hit Connelly
that is one magic bullet
A 6.5 Cardano can easily go through two people. What doesn’t happen is finding that bullet in a gurney completely unphased by the force of going through 2 people. Thats the magic bullet.
He is already shot here
Frame 313 in the headshot
Yes but he was first shot was through his back, exits his throat, he slumps left and forward as here. I guess we dont disagree
Well, he was shot in the back and the throat, supposedly the same shot but the ED docs all swear the throat was an entrance wound. Luckily, the navy did the worlds worst autopsy and then tried to gaslight everyone into thinking they did a good job
Good thing that doctors - especially ER doctors - don’t know shit about ballistics
It's actually upwards of 30 milliseconds.
It was slower than that, about 55 milliseconds
55 is upwards of 30, yes.
Well, somewhere between one and about 60 milliseconds.
So one frame, not a millisecond.
People like to make things sound dramatic
Wasn’t there a theory one of the bullets came from a secret service on accident?
Yes. There was a theory that the second shot was an accidental discharge by Special Agent George Warren Hickey Jr. who was carrying an AR-15 behind JFK's limo. A book called Mortal Error was written based on the theory.
This is the only conspiracy I find absolutely plausible.
same
well you must not know much about anything then lmfao
Imagine if that were true. One of the people who were supposed to protect him accidentally killed him
I swear that theory was put out by the CIA to make other conspiracies into the JFK assassination seem silly and get instantly compared to the most ridiculous claim ever made
Last podcast on the left do a long series on the assassination and talks about this at length if someone is interested.
BY accident. Good grief.
I agree but it's a losing battle. Remember when impacted only referred to teeth?
Really sad
Where is the floating tree in relation to this photo? To the left?
So why would the CIA want to kill him? I am not knowledgeable on the topic
Well he did supposedly say “I would like to splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter them to the winds.” I believe this was in part due to the Bay of Pigs debacle.
If the CIA can do regime changes to countries for defense manufacturers, oil corporations, and united fruit company, they could certainly do the same to ours by overthrowing counter-special-interest leadership.
Pretty sure a couple weeks before his assassination, JFK signed an order to have all troops out of Vietnam by 1965, but that was revoked after his assassination and LBJ ordered 250,000 troops to nam.
Read The Devils Chessboard if you are interested in the CIAs involvement with the assassination. It makes a very strong argument that Allen Dulles had the connections, the power, and the temperament + motive to be behind it all. I just finished it yesterday and it’s made me question everything I’ve previously believed about the assassination
Dulles was one crooked bastard. Unlike LBJ, there isn't a 30ft fence around his grave so you can't spit on it.
That quotation was an unsourced comment made during the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis whose earliest source was years after the assassination. If Kennedy actually intended to reduce the power of the CIA, he wouldn't have continued to back and invest into it, and he wouldn't have used it as late as mere days before his assassination in South Vietnam.
This was when he was trying to get AIPAC register in federal government as foreign country lobby...but they kept stalling and stalling till he was murdered and the whole thing completely disappeared...and to this day they still aren't registered...and thats why more and more politicians are getting corrupted with the 100k plus more money to change their stance on US domestic policies... imagine if he was successful in registering them...just saying the assassination came right when it was convenient for a specific group...