Really wacky JFK Zapruder thing. I'd like your thoughts

[mrgorth]

OK. I lived in Boise for a while and knew this dude that was pretty much into UFOs and conspiracy theories and whatnot. At some point he loaned me a copy of a video of WIlliam Campbell (yeah, right wing conspiracy nut) doing a speach in Sedona. In the video he goes into the JFK assasination which he says was because JFK was about to tell the american people the truth about UFOs/aliens. That's not the important part. He shows a sequence of the Zapruder film and he says that in this one, that noone ever shows, the driver of the car shoots JFK. Now, I couldn't make out what they were showing but the whole crowd oooed and ahhed. Has anyone ever heard this theory or seen this verison of the tape? I'm not saying I believe it but I do have a problem with the single shooter/magic bullet theory.

Fight the power.

[JackSwift]

1. Never heard of it

And as everyone else in the car survived, I can assure you that it did not go down that way.

[leftofthedial]

2. You mean George HW Bush was JFK's chauffeur?

man. DU is awesome.

[aeon flux]

3. The driver??

I thought he was going to say a UFO did it.

[Adjoran]

4. Nah, the butler did it

in the study, with a candlestick . . .

[wheresthemind]

9. HEYY

I had just taken a big sip of tea!

.... damnit, now I gotta clean my moniter and keyboard off!

[Ridley Park 704]

5. why would the chauffeur shoot Kennedy in front of 5,000 people?

he could have done it in the White House with a silencer if he wanted him dead that bad. sounds like an ad-hoc theory to me. What, Jacqueline Kennedy didn't see the driver turn around and open fire? Maybe it's all magic.

[Merlin]

6. Typical oddball theory designed to embarass truth tellers as "kooks"

Mixing the JFK assassination truth tellers up with UFO believers is a typical way to disparage and marginalize them (us).

[elperromagico]

7. It's a wacko theory

Apparently the driver turns just before the fatal headwound. I guess it never occurred to anyone that the driver was turning in reaction to the chaos in the car (Connally had just shouted "I'm hit," I believe).

There are a few such theories floating around. One of the theories holds that a man seen in the Zapruder film opening an umbrella shot Kennedy. Apparently his umbrella doubled as a gun. Still another theory suggests that Kennedy was shot by someone hiding in a sewer drain.

However, surely the most wacky theory of all is one which suggests that a single bullet caused Kennedy's throat wound and all of Connally's wounds. I can't remember who came up with this wacko theory, but it's my understanding he achieved a tiny amount of success as a Pennsylvania politician...

Maybe it was Bud Dwyer...

[Nlighten1]

8. I saw this at a gun show once.

And to make it even more surreal a Jehovah's Witness was the person selling the tapes.