[Mr. K]

For more reasons than I have the time to explain here I am 100% convinced that the Zapruder film shows the fatal head shot from in front.

(Including the tell-tale ‘ripple’ circle in FRONT where the bullet enters)

Feel free to disagree, but I have a degree in physics... I am reasonably certain of what I think I am seeing.

One thing i have never seen so far is a compter generated film reproduction where they idolate his head and freez the motion of his head, or a fixed position in the car, to remove the jerkiness of the hand held camera.

I think that would convince a lot of people if you could see his head snap back and the spray come out the back, if the motion could be isolated that way.

Any computer geeks out there know how to freeze motion of a fixed point?

[Tublecane]

“For more reasons than I have the time to explain here I am 100% convinced that the Zapruder film shows the fatal head shot from in front.”

From frame 312 to frame 313, when the bullet hits, you can clearly see the president’s head move forward. Plus, how do you explain the fact that the right front of Kennedy’s head explodes while the back of his skull appears to stay completely intact?

[fungoking]

I don't have a degree in Physics but when I shoot my .270 at soda bottles full of water they end up in front of the bench they were on. The empty bottles end up behind. What I was told was that the bullet compresses the liquid in the bottle and the liquid forced out the exit hole acts like a jet pushing the bottle forward, spraying water forward.

NOVA did a good video on this subject. A guy filled a human skull with white paint and animal brain tissue and shot it off a ladder from behind. Instead of the frying forward it went backward just like Kennedy.

[word_warrior_bob]

For more reasons than I have the time to explain here I am 100% convinced that the Zapruder film shows the fatal head shot from in front.

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Get your money back for that degree in physics!! LOL

There has been a computer generated reproduction, here’s the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSBXW1-VGmM

Here’s the whole thing, this is the whole show except the final segment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMrpbGl7_1o

Here’s the simple physics explaining the head wound and reaction of the head.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62gvoKyODu4

Maybe your physics training didn’t involve ballistics and what happens when a bullet strikes a head from behind, no harm, no foul. Here’s more evidence.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szGciJo0iPo

The bullet entered JFK from the back and pulled the brain matter through and left a large exit wound, as bullets are wont to do. The head then moving back is a natural reaction to being struck from behind, like in the video demonstration with the melon.

[Rockingham]

This stabilized version of the Zapruder film may be of interest:

http://www.jfkmurdersolved.com/film/Zapruderstable.mov

[unkus]

I agree, the fatal shot came from the front.

[ExGeeEye]

Where did the bullet go? (HINT: Yes, it was found in/did damage to the car.)

Why did it make a massive entrance wound and a small round cratered exit wound, and has that ever happened anywhere else in the long sad sordid history of people shooting each other?

What is the consistent result of the frequently repeated test of firing a 6.5mm M-C bullet into a human skull filled with “brain” analog, as far as direction of skull movement is concerned?

A copy of the Zapruder film, stabilized to eliminate camera shake (though some frames show smear-blurs resulting from shake), is widel available. When you have found one, which you will after expending minimal effort, locate the frame showing the head shot and the frame just prior to it, and determine the direction and rough distance of the movement caused by bullet impact.