The Magic Bullet

[Walt Cakebread]

That?s because he was shot in the brain.

The non-severe woundings bit refers to bullets maintaining structural integrity through other parts of the body, usually the torso, which end of leaving focal, less serious and more easily treatable wounds than the explosive, diffuse and sometimes inoperable destruction left by hollow points.

The best you can hope for after being shot in the brain is not having too drastic behavioural or personality changes.

You're FOS....Many soldiers were shot through the head with military FMJ bullets and survived...some with no ill effects from the wound.

I have a friend who was shot through the head in Vietnam and he is perfectly normal...

As the article YOU posted says....FMJ bullets can pass right through a persons body and cause little damage.....JFK was not hit in the head by a FMJ bullet.....

[Jerry Organ]

You're FOS....Many soldiers were shot through the head with military FMJ bullets and survived...some with no ill effects from the wound.

The Vietnam Head Injury Study: "the low velocity penetrating fragment wounds typically sustained resulted in relatively focal defects". Something like shrapnel and handguns. Seems they couldn't find many who survived the bullet from a high-velocity sniper rifle.

I have a friend who was shot through the head in Vietnam and he is perfectly normal...

As the article YOU posted says....FMJ bullets can pass right through a persons body and cause little damage.....JFK was not hit in the head by a FMJ bullet.....

Could be your friend's helmet stopped the bullet and a metal chip from the helmet then went through the brain.

[Gary Craig]

That?s because he was shot in the brain.

The non-severe woundings bit refers to bullets maintaining structural integrity through other parts of the body, usually the torso, which end of leaving focal, less serious and more easily treatable wounds than the explosive, diffuse and sometimes inoperable destruction left by hollow points.

The best you can hope for after being shot in the brain is not having too drastic behavioural or personality changes.

If JFK had been shot through the neck with a bullet traveling @ 2700 fps from the TSBD Carcano as the WC

claimed, the shock wave created by that bullet would blown out a large hole in the front of his neck.

The doctors at Parkland described a 3 to 5 mm clean cut wound of entrance.

[Walt Cakebread]

If JFK had been shot through the neck with a bullet traveling @ 2700 fps from the TSBD Carcano as the WC

claimed, the shock wave created by that bullet would blown out a large hole in the front of his neck.

The doctors at Parkland described a 3 to 5 mm clean cut wound of entrance.

You raise an excellent point....  Is it possible for two bullets from the same gun to perform completely opposite?....

I doubt it....   If FMJ bullets had been used there would have been neat clean small wounds on the victims.....And the bullets would have been found intact in the car.

[Jake Maxwell]

Was there any bullet entry/exit damage at the back of John Connally's car seat?

[Jake Maxwell]

Was there any bullet entry/exit damage at the back of John Connally's car seat?

Maybe that's why they rushed the car off to be stripped down and repaired ASAP...

[Jake Maxwell]

...and look at all the damage to the president, governor, Tague, and limo...
Both the windshield and the chrome trim look like direct hits...
The "magic bullet" theory is really an IQ test...

[Gary Craig]

You raise an excellent point....  Is it possible for two bullets from the same gun to perform completely opposite?....

I doubt it....   If FMJ bullets had been used there would have been neat clean small wounds on the victims.....And the bullets would have been found intact in the car.

The fragmentation that occurred in JFK's head/skull is typical of  a soft nosed projectile, not a FMJ.