JFK was shot from sixth floor of Texas depository, claims new analysis
Friday 14th November, 2008
(ANI)
Washington, Nov 14 : Using modern technology, a team of scientists
have recreated the assassination of John F. Kennedy (JFK), the 35th
president of the United States, to determine that the sixth floor of
the Texas School Book Depository was the most likely origin of the
shot that killed him.
On November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. Central time, President John F.
Kennedy was shot twice while traveling in his limousine through
Dallas, Texas. The first shot entered Kennedy's back and exited out of
his throat.
According to a report in Discovery News, the team of experts, which
was assembled by the Discovery Channel, used modern blood splatter
analysis, new artificial human body surrogates, and 3-D computer
simulations, to recreate the assassination.
"The question we were trying to answer is, given the spatter evidence
in a vehicle, and knowing an individual was sitting at a particular
location, is there something we could use to determine where the shot
originated?" said Steve Schliebe, a blood spatter and trace evidence
specialist with the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, who was part of
the special investigation.
While blood spatter analysis existed in the 1960s, modern innovations
have greatly improved its accuracy and the amount of information that
can be gleaned from drops of blood.
According to Tom Bevel, an independent expert forensic investigator,
"Because of innovations like high-speed photography, we have a much
better appreciation of what is actually taking place."
A mock-up of the Dallas, Texas crime scene was set up, including the
depository, the "grassy knoll," and other nearby landmarks.
Artificial surrogates of Kennedy were placed in a car.
Sharpshooters then shot the surrogates from the model depository, the
grassy knoll, and four other plausible locations.
Schliebe, along with Bevel, were brought in to examine the simulated
crime scene.
The two experts found a simulated gunshot would to the head that
closely matched the wound Kennedy suffered.
In addition to the physical environment, a virtual environment was
also set up, in the form of a 3-D model of the crime scene.
To animate it, the team looked at a video of the assassination filmed
by Abraham Zapruder.
Computer graphics expert Doug Martin highlighted the red parts of the
frames and the blood resulting from the wound, and plotted them onto
the computer simulation to see where the fatal shot came from.
"We might never know if Oswald pulled the trigger, but when you look
at the wind pattern, the spread of the debris, the angles and
distances involved, it's consistent with a shot from the sixth floor
depository," said Martin.
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