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In reply to the discussion: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy believed President Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy. [View all]stopbush
(24,395 posts)Truth is, where that shot ended up cannot be accounted for in any definite sense. The bullet was never found.
We are pretty sure it was fired at frame Z160, that it probably hit the pavement behind the limo, and that a fragment of the bullet ricocheted off the curb (causing a piece of the curb to fly up and strike the right cheek of James Tague, who was watching the motorcade pass by at his spot 500 feet away from the TSBD). A number of witnesses claimed to have seen sparks flying up from the pavement behind the limo at the time the first shot was fired. But that's all we know.
That said, we certainly know more about when the first shot was fired, what it impacted and what it missed than we know about any of the phantom bullets proposed by the CTists.
Unlike CTs, real life rarely comes all neat and wrapped up in a bow. The end fate of the first bullet falls into this category.
There's a good account of this given in Bugliosi's book, pgs 467-472. I'd suggest you read it - it's too much to transcribe here.