TIL that on the day he was assassinated at least nine of Kennedy’s Secret Service agents were recovering from an all night bender that ended at 5:00 AM
https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/jfk-secret-service-agents-too-hungover-to-react.amp
https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/jfk-secret-service-agents-too-hungover-to-react.amp
16 Comments
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works · 45 pts · 2y
What could they have done to prevent what happened?
themeatbridge@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 2y
Is it possible that one or more might have swept the book depository, or the grassy knoll?
relative_iterator@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 2y
There’s a theory that one of them accidentally shot JFK after Oswald’s initial shot. They could have not done that.
daqu@feddit.org · 15 pts · 2y
The president cannot be killed by an assassin, if his bodyguard kills him first. Thinking outside the box. Great job!
Iapar@feddit.org · 3 pts · 2y
roofuskit@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
It's pretty well proven that Oswald alone did the job.
Doom@ttrpg.network · -11 pts · 2y
No it isn't.
Why did the first round put a hole in his neck and the second one blow his head apart?
CTDummy@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 2y
There’s a channel called Lemmimo that did a pretty interesting documentary on it that explains it. Also explains a lot of the reasoning behind popular conspiracies and why some of them are obvious bunk. Dude is very talented only came across the video a couple days ago due to his music he made for the video.
Doom@ttrpg.network · 1 pts · 2y
I will check it out the Kennedy conspiracy is a classic
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 2y
For one, hitting a neck won't cause a bullet to expand, but hitting a skull would.
roofuskit@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
This as all been explained. I'm not a ballistics expert so I can't give you the details. But they have recreated these wounds exactly with ballistic gel and a recreation of the vehicle. No magic bullet nonsense. All straight shots into a moving vehicle and the difference in wound height of the two victims is explained by the fact that one was in a fold down jump seat that sat lower. One shooter, one rifle.
Doom@ttrpg.network · -6 pts · 2y
What are you even talking about a magic bullet for?
It is a simple question of ballistics, entrance wounds vs exit wounds.
First shot into the upper back does not match the second shot into the skull.
Wouldn't he have a gaping hole either in his upper back or throat similar to the damage done to his skull?
The second shot doesn't match the first that's always been the question
WoahWoah@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
Take a screwdriver and stab ballistic gel. Then take a screwdriver and, with the same force, stab an ice cube. Notice a difference in how the substance responds to the force?
It's quite possible not to encounter anything hard (bone) going through a neck or chest. A skull not so much.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 2y
Try hitting a steak with a hammer, then try hitting an egg.
Akasazh@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 2y
A friend's brother, who was in forensics, explained it to me like this:
If a head gets hit by a bullet, the shockwave op the bullet traveling through the brain can bounce off the skull and blow back out the entry wound (and make the head snap backwards instead). I gotta go with that as he's the most relyable source I've spoken to myself.
buzz86us@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Damn maybe the guy on 1985 should have just called in a threat
Dagwood222@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
If there had been the massive conspiracy everyone imagines, at least one of the people involved would have left a deathbed confession.
"Deep Throat" was one guy and they couldn't kept his identity covered up.