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...Italian rifle was planted in the Book Depository sniper's nest to frame him, that Jack Ruby was part of a widespread plot to eliminate Oswald before he squealed, that slain Patrolman J. D. Tippit was likely in league with the assassins, and that a bullet fired from Oswald's rifle and found on a stretcher at Parkland Hospital had been planted there by unknown conspirators...
...thorniest points of specific controversy is the commission's "Single Bullet Theory"-the belief that one bullet from Oswald's rifle struck Kennedy in the neck, exited through his throat, then plowed on through Governor Connally's torso, smashed his right wrist and finally lodged in his left thigh...
...After a frame-by-frame analysis of a movie, film taken by a tourist named Abraham Zapruder, commissioners decided that 1.8 seconds-at most-had elapsed between Kennedy's first visible response to being hit in the neck and John Connally's first measurable reaction to a bullet striking him. The early assumption had been that the two were hit by separate shots. But since Oswald's bolt-action rifle could not be operated any faster than once every 2.3 seconds, the commission finally adopted Specter's theory that one bullet had struck both men-even...
...tossed a soft pass toward Hornblower. Ray turned and took it at the goal, and stepped in, making it 14-13 Yale. The big crowd knew Coach Henry Lamar would go for the two. This was, after all, Yale. Reynolds took the snap, stepped back, and fired a bullet groundward. It didn't look like much of a pass from the sidelines, but Hornblower was there on his back to take it, and Harvard...
...varmint" rifle; yet it can spray short bursts at the rate of 750 rounds per minute, though reloading time cuts the effective rate to a far lower figure. Its muzzle velocity is so great that within 100 yds.-the range of most Viet Nam fire fights-an M-16 bullet generates supersonic shock waves that can collapse internal organs into bloody mush, shatter bone or leave arms and legs dangling drunkenly...