A New Turn for the Magic Bullet

{Historian Robert S. McElvaine is Elizabeth Chisholm Professor of Arts & Letters at Millsaps College & author of:
The Great Depression: America, 1929-1941 (Random House) and
Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letters from the "Forgotten Man" (North Carolina).
His latest book is Grand Theft Jesus: The Hijacking of Religion in America (Crown).}

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[LeftRight]

02:55 PM on 04/29/2009

Okay, I know that this isn't the point of your post, but the so-called magic bullet didn't do what it is supposed to have done. JFK was sitting in the back seat of the limo, and the seat was at a higher elevation than Gov Connally, which means that the bullet went at the down angle of JKF, out through the front of him (at a lower position due to the angle of descent) continued down and then hit Gov Connally in a straight line!