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SidDithers

(44,228 posts)
Wed Nov 27, 2013, 11:25 PM Nov 2013

New Theories Suggest Kennedy Wasn't Shot

DALLAS—A controversial new book about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy has raised questions not about the role of a lone gunman or a conspiracy of shooters, but about whether the late president was even even shot at all.

While the book, Outside the Crosshairs, does not dispute the fact that a massive portion of Kennedy's skull was separated from his head during the 1963 Dallas visit, it maintains that the president suffered fatal explosive- cranial trauma through means completely unrelated to gunshots.

"Certainly extreme force was involved in this tragic death," said Dr. Horace Musashi, the book's author and a professor of computer science at Mount Union College in Alliance, OH. "However, none of the available photographs or recorded footage provides even a shred of evidence that an actual bullet did anything to Kennedy's body. As scientists, therefore, we must consider all other possibilities, no matter how much they challenge the status quo."

Musashi himself favors an explanation known as the single-massive-spike-in-blood-pressure theory.


http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-theories-suggest-kennedy-wasnt-shot,2244/

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New Theories Suggest Kennedy Wasn't Shot (Original Post) SidDithers Nov 2013 OP
He blew his top? randome Nov 2013 #1
It was a really really bad migraine maybe? Katashi_itto Nov 2013 #42
Well, it's bizarre, but then, so was Arlen Specter's insistence on the "pristine bullet." WinkyDink Nov 2013 #2
Yep, that's just what we needed...... Curmudgeoness Nov 2013 #3
Not sure if this is in good taste. BlueJazz Nov 2013 #4
Too soon? itsrobert Nov 2013 #5
....or not. BlueJazz Nov 2013 #7
The article has nothing to do with JFK's death. It's about ridiculing CTists and their stopbush Nov 2013 #6
The Onion in on it? Hmm...The Onion mustard bean collard and threatened or paid off. pinboy3niner Nov 2013 #9
Did you learn that on Wikileeks? cyberswede Nov 2013 #10
Yep. I follow them arugulaly. pinboy3niner Nov 2013 #14
Olive them, too, but I'm going to give them up for Lentil... cyberswede Nov 2013 #16
This dialogue caused inflammation in my puncreas. krispos42 Nov 2013 #23
It made me hungry...nt SidDithers Nov 2013 #25
It must have been the pungent aroma. nt pinboy3niner Nov 2013 #28
It should have been squashed Aerows Nov 2013 #31
Who gourd your ox? You are hard to peas and parsleymonious, to beet. pinboy3niner Nov 2013 #32
You may pepper your statements all that you like Aerows Nov 2013 #37
Silly theory Warpy Nov 2013 #8
Ah yes. The old 'trepan while sleeping' gambit... SidDithers Nov 2013 #11
CIA's Operation Northwoods is a extremely important part of the story: blkmusclmachine Nov 2013 #12
Gee... MrMickeysMom Nov 2013 #13
That bullet was NOT magic. cherokeeprogressive Nov 2013 #38
It could make the rabbit appear, but it didn't last long pinboy3niner Nov 2013 #39
You are on a roll today, My Man. cherokeeprogressive Nov 2013 #40
I've always said that if it wasn't for the Zapruder film dflprincess Nov 2013 #15
This message was self-deleted by its author guyton Nov 2013 #17
Obviously you are part of the conspiracy Major Nikon Nov 2013 #18
Release the files!11!!1!1 The Midway Rebel Nov 2013 #19
I bet some DU CTers believe this! nt Logical Nov 2013 #20
Ah No we don't Politicalboi Nov 2013 #21
LOL, science. Emotion you mean! n-t Logical Nov 2013 #30
Too much hair pressure? krispos42 Nov 2013 #22
Come on... jmowreader Nov 2013 #24
Oh, The Onion! Had me going for a minute, I was having a massive spike in WTF's! LOL n/t RKP5637 Nov 2013 #26
"America is still a democracy, after all, and one idea is just as good as another..." alcibiades_mystery Nov 2013 #27
Lousy thing to say about a good Democratic president. Octafish Nov 2013 #29
The CTs should be ashamed. They keep this shit going. n-t Logical Nov 2013 #33
Right you are, Logical. The smear artistes should take it back to Free Republic. Octafish Nov 2013 #34
Nice try. Just drop it. Oswald did it. Game over. n-t Logical Nov 2013 #36
Better than thinking Oswald may have been a hero. zappaman Nov 2013 #41
Spontaneous Human Detonation? JustABozoOnThisBus Nov 2013 #35
 

randome

(34,845 posts)
1. He blew his top?
Wed Nov 27, 2013, 11:27 PM
Nov 2013

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Precision and concision. That's the game.[/center][/font][hr]

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
3. Yep, that's just what we needed......
Wed Nov 27, 2013, 11:32 PM
Nov 2013

another conspiracy theory. Like it isn't controversial enough. Leave it to the Onion.

stopbush

(24,378 posts)
6. The article has nothing to do with JFK's death. It's about ridiculing CTists and their
Wed Nov 27, 2013, 11:40 PM
Nov 2013

idiotic theories.

Let's hear it for The Onion!

Wait...does this mean The Onion is in on the conspiracy???

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
9. The Onion in on it? Hmm...The Onion mustard bean collard and threatened or paid off.
Thu Nov 28, 2013, 12:24 AM
Nov 2013

I yam aghast. Lettuce pray.

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
32. Who gourd your ox? You are hard to peas and parsleymonious, to beet.
Thu Nov 28, 2013, 12:31 PM
Nov 2013

A warning: Tread gingerly a mung us and do not turnip your nose at our puns if you carrot all about consequences. We shallot forget...

Warpy

(110,913 posts)
8. Silly theory
Thu Nov 28, 2013, 12:20 AM
Nov 2013

His brain would have herniated (partially forced through the opening in the skull for the brain stem) before any blood would have blown the skull apart.

Unworthy for the onion.

However, maybe Nixon's people did a trepan while he was sleeping and stuffed in a package of firecrackers!

SidDithers

(44,228 posts)
11. Ah yes. The old 'trepan while sleeping' gambit...
Thu Nov 28, 2013, 12:30 AM
Nov 2013

They didn't call him Tricky Dick for nuthin'



Sid

dflprincess

(28,057 posts)
15. I've always said that if it wasn't for the Zapruder film
Thu Nov 28, 2013, 12:54 AM
Nov 2013

the Warren Commission probably would have told us the cause of death was a cerebral hemorrhage.

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Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
21. Ah No we don't
Thu Nov 28, 2013, 04:31 AM
Nov 2013

Good try though. We go by science, unlike the Warren Commission and the 9/11 Commission.

jmowreader

(50,453 posts)
24. Come on...
Thu Nov 28, 2013, 07:36 AM
Nov 2013

you know what really happened: Governor Connally leaned over to him and whispered in his ear, "Jack, fifty years from now an extreme right-wing faction of the Republican Party called 'tea baggers' are going to claim you as a conservative."

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
29. Lousy thing to say about a good Democratic president.
Thu Nov 28, 2013, 11:40 AM
Nov 2013

Everyone who thinks this is in any way funny should be ashamed.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
34. Right you are, Logical. The smear artistes should take it back to Free Republic.
Thu Nov 28, 2013, 01:11 PM
Nov 2013

Hating President Kennedy is one of the things they do.

zappaman

(20,605 posts)
41. Better than thinking Oswald may have been a hero.
Thu Nov 28, 2013, 02:23 PM
Nov 2013

That's the kind of shit that belongs at Free Republic.

"As for Oswald, I don't know if he was a hero in all this or not."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2232672

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