Posted on 04/04/2013 11:15:40 AM PDT by virgil283
Retired Marine Sniper Bob Lee Swagger and former Washington Post film critic Stephen Hunter are back with The Third Bullet .....
In a move that is rather genius in its simplicity, Hunter has taken his old protagonist and thrown him a mystery that has haunted America for 50 years: who killed President John F. Kennedy? ......
However, Hunter has no time for foolish conspiracies. In his novel he presents a theory that is ridiculously plausible that is supported and sustained by the one thing most readers love about Hunter: his substantial knowledge about firearms......
Besides the central mystery, The Third Bullet still has a lot to offer. It's not one book, but two. We get Swagger's story and we also get the first-person account of the main conspirator in the JFK assassination (his identity is a nice surprise for longtime Hunter readers). Hunter weaves these two books together, so we get a thrilling account of not just Swagger's adventures, but an account of the day of Nov. 22nd, 1963 as well.
From its brilliantly amusing opening to its powerful final moments, it's easy to sense that The Third Bullet is the novel Hunter and Swagger were always meant to create. It's the culmination of years of writing, shooting and learning. It's the novel that sets in stone the fact that Hunter is a damn good writer and Bob Lee Swagger is a damn fine hero. And if the final moments of The Third Bullet are to be believed: these two old birds ain't done yet. "
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
“What if the one witness who could disprove all the other shooter theories really want him dead anyway?”
One witness? The First Lady was not the only person in that automobile, and not even the only one who was not wounded by the fire, since that would be an obvious distraction from the scene around them.
Furthermore, if you watch the films, Jackie was in fact completely distracted, paying no attention to events outside of the car, because she was completely consumed by what was happening in the seat next to her. As soon as the President is struck the first time, she turns to him and is focused on him up to the point when the fatal shot strikes him. So, her value as a witness to who fired the shots seems negligible.
It’s not simply a matter of being able to point the gun out of the narrow sewer opening in the direction of the motorcade. Even if you could do that, any trajectory emanating from that point couldn’t have struck the President.
Firing towards the car from basically ground level, the bullet would have been traveling upwards, and could only strike the President by passing through the car. Yet, there are no bullet holes in the car, so we know that didn’t happen.
Remember, by the time the fatal shot was fired, Kennedy was leaning forward, with his head down, after being wounded in the throat. Since his seat was elevated, you might have still been able to aim a trajectory from a standing position at ground level. Against a shot from a prone position, which is what a sewer shot essentially would have been, Kennedy had cover.
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