The Warren Report was upheld in 1979, though the single-bullet theory - which some call the “magic bullet theory” - remains one of most hotly contested claims the government has ever made. Kennedy, Jacquelin Onassis, and John Connally in the Lincoln limousine motorcade moments before the President’s assassination. With a growing distrust in the government during the mid-to-late 1960s, and a flurry of books suggesting there was an internal conspiracy at play to kill the president, the single-bullet (or magic bullet) theory garnered as many detractors as genuine believers. One of the shots - either the first or the second - missed.Īt least that was what the official, government-sanctioned Warren Commission concluded in its September 1964 report. Oswald’s third shot was the clincher, hitting Kennedy square in the skull and changing the course of history forever. John Connally’s back and shattered his fifth right rib bone.Īfter exiting Connally’s chest, the bullet entered the governor’s right wrist - breaking yet another bone - before exiting and burrowing into his left thigh. It exited below his Adam’s apple, hit his necktie knot, and continued into Texas Gov. Kennedy in the back, to the right of his spine, and then left his body through the front of his neck.

On Oswald’s first or second shot, a 6.5-millimeter bullet hit President John F. The bullets that left his bolt-action Carcano M 91/38 rifle from a sixth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository in downtown Dallas killed the president of the United States, and - depending on who you ask - one of them defied the laws of physics as we know them. 22, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald fired off a shot with enormous repercussions. The crazy thing is, it's not as crazy as it sounds. The Warren Commission concluded in 1964 that the same 'magic bullet' that struck President Kennedy proceeded to slice through multiple layers of skin, bone, clothing, and muscle tissue.

The original magic bullet