(09-27-2014 03:10 PM)jh Wrote: this seems really hard to believe. An off-balance secret service agent accidentally fires his gun and manages to hit the one person he really wasn't supposed to?
I know, I know. To say the odds against it were a billion to one is probably an exaggeration of the likelihood.
To me, the evidence in support of the theory boils down to this:
1. Several witnesses in Dealey Plaza -- about 20 different people, IIRC -- claimed to have smelled gun-powder at street level in the moments after the shots. Perhaps they were all mistaken, or acting under the power of suggestion (they obviously knew that shots had been fired, but didn't necessarily know where the shots originated). But that's still a lot of people, and they obviously were not smelling anything from the sixth floor of the School Book Depository.
2. From a ballistics standpoint, the bullet that caused Kennedy's head wounds acted very differently than the bullet(s) fired earlier. While fully acknowledging that this is not an exact science, it still remains the the case that the "head shot" bullet impacted Kennedy's head differently than what a Carcano bullet might be typically expected to do, if fired from that distance (6th floor of the Depository). Yet it impacted Kennedy's head
Exactly as a bullet from an AR-15 might be typically expected to do, if fired from the position of the follow-up car.
3. The driver of the follow-up vehicle (Agent Sam Kinney) did, in fact, suddenly accelerate the car after the first two shots, as many people (including Kinney himself and other Secret Service present at the time) later testified.
4. There is an AP photograph by James Algens that does, in fact, show the Agent in question (his name was George Hickey) standing on the back seat of the car in Dealey Plaza.
None of these facts, separately or together, "proves" the theory is correct. But it does place it in the realm of the non-crazy, non-absurd possible. IMHO.