Interesting Reloading twist on JFK Asassination

[Zombie Steve]

Stephen Hunter's new book - The Third Bullet (fiction, mind you)... has an interesting twist on the events in Dealey Plaza 11/22/63...


Spoiler Alert!!! Avert your eyes if you're going to be reading this book and want to keep it a surprise...























There is a second shooter (as backup for LHO) at roughly the same angle behind Oswald from the Dal-Tex building across the street (East of the School Book Depository). He's taken a bullet from the same batch of Oswald's 6.5 Carcano ammo and loaded it in a much more accurate model 70 in .264 Win Mag (suppressed). To ensure there would be nothing left of the bullet to match it to a different barrel (while being a metallurgical match to LHO's ammo), they cut off the round tip and drilled a hole up the middle, ensuring rapid fragmentation. In fact, only small parts of the third bullet were found. We've all seen what happened to JFK's head.

Aside from running a .267 bullet through a .264 bore, it sounds pretty interesting. Apparently, Dave Emary (inventor of the 6.5 Creedmore) from Hornady helped Stephen Hunter come up with this idea, and they apparently actually pulled it off with good success.

Hunter is a gun guy, and I really like his books. This is the first one where he really starts talking about reloading details... even brings up H4831.

You might remember in Point of Impact (the movie was Shooter) where they paper patched a bullet shot out of the main character's gun to frame him. This is a little different twist on that theme.


Anyway, interesting spin on things, and a decent read. Check it out if you can.


Any thoughts on the theory?

[Mazin]

Lmao I just got a copy and wanted to see the Bob Lee Swagger spin on this. I didn't read the spoiler so I will be reporting back.

[spqrzilla]

Hunter writes a good book, but if you are asking if I think the "theory" has any applicability to JFK's assassination - no.

Oswald was the only shooter. The autopsy evidence does not match a shot from the front.

[Zombie Steve]

Hunter writes a good book, but if you are asking if I think the "theory" has any applicability to JFK's assassination - no.

Oswald was the only shooter. The autopsy evidence does not match a shot from the front.

I agree... I think LHO was the one and only shooter. But in the book, the second guy is firing from the Dal Tex Building 7th floor... it would essentially be right over Oswald's shoulder.

[XC700116]

I've enjoyed Hunter's previous books, so I'll have to pick this one up as well.

As to the JFK assassination, I used to live in Ft Worth and when a friend of mine came down to visit, we went to Dealey Plaza to see the location. It's a really eery feeling to stand in that place that you've seen on video tape so many times and knowing exactly what took place there. I could do without the panhandler tour guides giving you their 2 cents on it every time you turn around, but it's really an interesting thing to see.

We also have our annual safety meeting at the Hilton in Ft Worth, which used to be the Hotel Texas, and was the place JFK stayed the night before. There's tons of plaques and signs explaining it all over the hotel. The second from the top floor has the presidential suite which has been loosely modeled after the original presidential suite on the top floor that you can stay in for the low low price of $2500 a night and a background check (yeah this isn't a joke). They turned the top floor presidential suite into hospitality suites (a long time ago) as they didn't want to have people stay in the original due to respect and sensibilities.