It's easy to see, if one takes the time to learn about this evidence, that this bullet can easily go through two people. And one good choice, of course, is President Kennedy.įLATOW: And so your bullet theory matched the actual testing evidence and the actual - the body, of how it entered Governor Connally. So if you use some scientific thinking, something had to destabilize that bullet. And when Robert Frazier, the senior FBI examiner, examined the clothing of Governor Connally, he also reported and testified that the bullet that produced that entry hole in the coat was destabilized. It's the consequence of a destabilized bullet, a bullet that's going end over end. Shaw examined it and later testified, is not a nice round hole. HAAG: Well, Connally's entry wound, when Dr. But as soon as the bullet emerged into the air, it starts yawing or tumbling like a badly thrown football.Īnd that is of great importance when we come to Connally's entry wound. And no matter what Mike and I fired these bullets through, they stayed stable in the tissue simulate, just as they did in John F. HAAG: Well, that's true when it goes through a soft tissue simulate, meaning something that simulates muscle tissue in human beings, and there are a number of those. It certainly doesn't become deformed like a lot of people would think or expect.įLATOW: And you discovered that the bullet, when it came out, actually started to tumble. And even though wood is not a more modern simulate for tissue, it also goes to the fact that if you just put it through tissue, like the president's neck, it really doesn't lose as much speed. I think it was over three feet of wood, and one of the important aspects learned from this was just that this is a very stable bullet that as long as it stays nose forward, it takes quite a bit to stop it. HAAG: I just went up and dug the bullet out. HAAG: Well, actually, Mike made the shot. Frankly weren't available until more recently.įLATOW: And in the program you actually shot the bullet through three feet of pine, right? It went through - and then it emerged intact. So those are some examples of things that weren't available in the '60s. So Mike and I have tracked this bullet through a variety of soft tissue simulates with Doppler radar, looked at deflection issues, filmed it with high-speed video, some of which you saw in the "Nova" program, a lot of which still has yet to be shown. It was unknown to the forensic community then, still pretty much the case now. Welcome to SCIENCE FRIDAY.įLATOW: Luke, as a ballistic expert, what kind of test did you carry out on the magic bullet to prove whether there could really be a magic bullet or not? He's a senior forensic scientist with the Albuquerque Police Department and he joins us from Albuquerque. That's good news, I think.įLATOW: Michael Haag is also a forensic scientist specializing in ballistics. LUKE HAAG: Thank you, Ira, from a rainy Phoenix.įLATOW: Well, yeah. Luke Haag is a forensic scientist specializing in ballistics, also the former technical director of the Phoenix crime lab.
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"Cold Case JFK" aired on PBS series "Nova." It features the father and son ballistics team of Luke and Michael Haag and in the film the Haags use old school shooting reconstruction, plus they use modern high tech gadgetry not available to the Warren Commission or others that followed to probe the grassy knoll and the single bullet theories, and what they found is quite revealing.
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Well, also this month a new PBS documentary asks whether modern technology could crack the cold case. Was there a second shooter on the grassy knoll? Could a single bullet really hit the president and Texas Governor Connally and remain intact? This month Gallup reported that 61 percent of Americans still believe JFK's murder was a conspiracy. But 50 years later the basic facts of the case are still debated. It was murder in plain sight, seemingly the easiest kind of crime to solve. President Kennedy's assassination horrified and transfixed the nation. Those of us of a certain age can remember exactly what we were doing on a Friday this hour 50 years ago when we heard the news.