re: ***OFFICIAL*** 4th Annual JFK Assassination Conspiracy Thread

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Mortal Error: The Shot That Killed JFK is a 1992 non-fiction book by Bonar Menninger outlining a theory by sharpshooter, gunsmith and ballistics expert Howard Donahue that a Secret Service agent accidentally fired the shot that actually killed President John F. Kennedy.

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Conducting his own investigation, Donahue eventually decided that the bullet that struck Kennedy in the head had in fact been fired by Secret Service agent George W. Hickey Jr. from an AR-15 rifle carried in the car immediately following the President's vehicle. The series of events is as follows: After the first shot which hit the street was fired, Hickey turns completely around and acquires Oswald on the sixth floor of the school book depository building. His turned head is documented in an AP photograph by James Algens. Hickey reaches for the AR-15 under the seat, releases the safety and begins to lift the gun. The second shot is fired by Oswald, hitting the president and Connally. The president's car and the follow-up car containing Hickey suddenly speed up. This is attested to by Secret Service agent Clinton J. Hill. Agent Hickey, who is unstable because he is standing on the cushion of the seat, rather than the floor of the car, begins to fall back due to the acceleration of the vehicle, pulling the trigger of the AR-15. In the worst of luck, the gun is pointed toward Kennedy at that instant, and the bullet strikes him squarely in the back of the head.

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After visiting the TSBD I can say there is no way Oswald did it alone. Once you look at the scene from the sixth floor you realize it didn't make any sense for Oswald to shoot when he did supposedly.

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