“Oswald’s first bullet.” Hahahahahaha!
If he wasn’t schtupping everything in sight, maybe his back could have healed.
Camelot? More like Came-a-lot.
"...President Kennedy’s tightly-laced back brace..."
Well, I’m not sure if having a better back would have changed the outcome of basically having his head blown off.
No one else in the car ducked after the first shot. Maybe they were all wearing back braces. /s
The kennedys, a sex predatory crime family whose time has come and gone. They need to be removed from Arlington cemetery and dumped in the mexican desert where they belong.
So are we speculating JFK had brain damage from the concussions he got playing football too?
This entire line of thinking is Total B.S.
What football at Harvard???? He did not play and his back problems were congenital and predate his college days.
Teddy and Joe Kennedy Jr. played football. JFK did not.
This is decades old theorem. I guess the medicos will say that Lee Harvey Oswald was also a medical doctor who knew just where to shoot Pres. Kennedy.
Next: Oswald was a CIA agent working for Big Oil. Oh, wait. I think that one has been floating around like a turd in a toilet, for decades too.
Gotta come up with something new, imaginative, different. Got it> Manafort did it. My bad!
Is back surgery EVER successful? I know 7 people worse off since, and 4 more much worse since foot surgery.
“In it, he ties JFK’s death to a possible inability to duck down after Oswald’s first bullet, all because he was wearing a stiff, “tightly laced” back brace with a figure-eight Ace bandage wrapped around it that kept him locked in an upright position.”
Doesn’t seem new. The back brace holding him upright was talked about very early on.
Oswald never shot anybody. At least, not JFK.
http://thejns.org/doi/full/10.3171/2017.2.SPINE151524
“John F. Kennedy’s back: chronic pain, failed surgeries, and the story of its effects on his life and death”
” ... his chronic, debilitating back pain, CNN reports. ... which stretch back to his football-playing days at Harvard”
The Kennedy Myth. For a long time his faithful retinue maintained that JFK’s back pain was attributable to the PT 109 sinking and his stalwart attempts to save his crew. Now it’s football.
John Kennedy had back pain and other serious physical problems well before college. As a young man, cortisone shots were the only thing that allowed him to move about. Before those he was pretty much strapped to a board. He endured back pain for the rest of his life but was functional. He also suffered with Addison’s disease and other ailments that required daily injections and medicines from his own Dr. Morell. John was a frail, sickly lad while his older brother Joe was heir to the Kennedy crime family throne.
But John was given the Navy Cross, after losing his motionless patrol boat to a Japanese ship that rammed it in half, instead of the court martial his commander demanded because obviously Lt. Kennedy was not running a tight boat.
So then big brother Joe volunteered for a (hare-brained) mission: flying a bomber that was so packed with explosives that it blew up on take-off, killing the entire crew.
`Jack’ reluctantly signed on to carry the torch, because father Joe could be very persuasive, although he was more interested in ladies, one a Nazi femme fatale, kibosh put by Pop.
But it’s CNN, so it must be true: JFK was a football hero too; junior varsity with a lot of bench splinters but details, schmetails.
No, he would be either dead or just brain dead, regardless of his spine conditions.
Just think, boys and girls: fifty years from now, people will still be mooning over the Obamas and the Clintons, insisting they were railroaded.
I have a neurosurgeon friend who says, “Most problems in neurosurgery can be avoided by sleeping with your own wife.”
JFK might have benefitted from this.
JFK never played football for Harvard. Teddy did - second string tight end.