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Chris Martenson@chrismartenson · Nov 19, 2025

A .30-06 round did *not* enter the side of Charlie's throat at a mild angle, and then magically take a 30-degree hard…

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Thread analyzes the ballistic physics of the JFK assassination, specifically challenging the single-bullet theory by demonstrating that a .30-06 round could not have made the required trajectory changes through soft tissue without forces far exceeding what's physically possible.

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  1. #1

    A .30-06 round did *not* enter the side of Charlie's throat at a mild angle, and then magically take a 30-degree hard turn to hit the vertebrae and then deflect and tumble about in his chest cavity. Unless we're supposed to suspend the laws of physics. 🧵

    Shawn Ryan@ShawnRyan762 · Nov 18, 2025

    “If the bullet had hit bone at all, there is no bullet — it’s just fragmentation, and the doctor told us the bullet came in, tore up everything in the wound cavity, hit the vertebra, crushed it, and kept going down..."

  2. #2

    First, some have speculated that "bullets do weird things in bodies" (without understanding the physics involved). The blue dotted line is the path the bullet would have taken if shot from the Losee bldg position. The black line traces the needed deflection to hit solid bone

  3. #3

    Leaving aside the fact that the bullet would not, could not, have instantly deflected upon striking soft neck tissue, the calculations for the force required to turn it 20 degrees within, say, an inch are astronomical. It would take 74 KN, or 16,800 pounds of offsetting force.

  4. #4

    In conclusion, since the human head is only about 12 pounds, say 20 pounds with the neck, we are left very far short of explaining how a bullet could have magically taken a hard turn in Charlie's neck. I don't do magic bullet theories anymore. Physics only.