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The trouble with Nicholas Nalli's paper on "Gunshot-wound dynamics model' for JFK assassination
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The trouble with Nicholas Nalli's paper on "Gunshot-wound dynamics model' for JFK assassination

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Jefferson Morley
Jun 14, 2018
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This paper, published in the scientific journal Heliyon, represents an attempt to salvage Professor Luis Alvarez's model of the gunshot that killed President Kennedy. Alvarez tried to explain the rearward recoil motion of Kennedy’s head, seen in Abraham Zapruder's film, by what he called a “jetting effect."

Alvarez experimented by firing bullets into a l…

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