The next time a discussion on JFK comes up....

Bound to happen again sooner or later.

Anyuways I was talking to a mate who's in the army today when I was down the pub and he was tellign me all about his training and operations he'd been on and one thing he said is that one of his mates had shot an Iraqi through the head and the bullet had come out through his side.

I asked him how that was possible and he explained that bullets are designed to ricochet off bones inside the body and the only time a bullet will go clean through is if it doesnt hit any bones or goes through soft flesh.


soooooooooooooo kinda pointless post but I found it quite interesting and I think it can pretty much shoot down (no pun intended) the magic bullet conspiracy theory with regards to JFK.

The gov.'t killed him. I have always believed that.

wrong. Goose did it.

I think organized crime was behind it. They wanted JFK and especially his brother Bobby out of the picture.

I never thought about that theory...

How can you shoot someone in the head (ie through the forehead) if the bullet is supposed to ricochet off bones?



Ponrauil

He actually explained it. can't remember exactly how it works but he said the bullets are designed to start spinning when they're in the air and for some reason or other this help them ricochet through the body which obviously does more damage than it going straight through.

Wrong. The magic bullet theory describes the 'magic' direction changes in the air BETWEEN the bodies of JFK and Conelly, while you described what happens IN a body, which btw is well known generally, I thought.

I have noticed growing confidence in your posts recently. A confidence that says 'my view is correct and yours isn't'. Just take the title of you post about Mel Gibson's Christ film: 'An opinion.....'. A normal person would just use 'My opinion........'

While I don't know anything about bullets, I do know about mechanics, and I wondered that if bullets are designed to 'ricochet off bones' like your 'mate who's in the army' said, then how would the bullet penetrate the skull in the first place? So anyway, I typed it into google and found the following.

Can bullets ricochet inside a person's skull?

Yes. It's been reported -- and I've seen a number of cases -- where a bullet enters the skull and strikes the back part of the skull, but instead of going through the skull, it strikes the bone at a very sharp angle and ricochets. Then the bullet continues around the inside of the skull. This does happen, although it's not very common. It usually happens with smaller caliber bullets, like twenty-two caliber bullets. Most bullets, ninety-eight percent of the time, go in a straight line.

And even when the bullet strikes bone it can be deflected a little bit, but not very much. Not all skulls are the same hardness and thickness; some skulls are an eighth of an inch thick, some are a half an inch thick. And that has an effect on the bullet's path. The thicker the skull, the more likely the will strike the bone and go off at a tangent, almost going three hundred and sixty degrees around the inside of the skull.




It's nice to see that they don't just let anyone in to the army these days...

Elvis killed him.