Aug 26, 2026 · 47 min · 9 segments
We have finally gotten to the end of our series-within-a-series about the assassination of JFK. We close out with Nikki's favorite theory (shout out to The Last Podcast on the Left) and Joy's final…
So I think JFK was killed in the world's biggest workplace accident, the world's most, uh, seen workplace accident.
All right, let's go.
Ballistics expert Howard Donahue was once asked by CBS, along with 10 other, uh, cert- different kind of experts, to participate in a recreation of the assassination.
Then this expert, Donahue, was asked to write an article for a men's magazine that justified the ballistic evidence that was presented in the Warren Report.
He couldn't do that.
He said that shot number three did not make sense.
He said the sh- third shot exploded.
It did not go through the body like the first and second ones did.
The first two bullets were Full Metal Jacket bullets, which, listen, I'm taking this guy's word for it, 'cause I know nothing about bullets or weapons or anything.
But, uh, apparently Full Metal Jackets are designed to wound and not kill.
The third shot was a frangible bullet, which are a type of bullet that are designed, upon impact, to shatter, to cause as much damage inside a body as possible.
Donahue also said that the trajectory from the book depository would've been wrong for that third shot as well.
He concluded that the first two were definitely from Oswald, but the third shot had come from somewhere else.
So in the book depository, there were three shell casings found, but one was bent and found in a different spot.
That casing may have been a chamber plug, which is basically like a spent casing used to prevent jams in the chamber of a gun.
It's something like Oswald would've had to eject that shell before, like, before taking the spot to shoot.
He would've had to expel that, like, whatever, chamber plug, and he would've done that before walking up to the window.
Donahue deduced that the fatal shot could have only come from the left rear seat of the Secret Service car that was behind the limo.
So from the article, Gun Woo- [laughs] This is an intense article I read.
[laughs] It's called Gunshot Wound Dynamics Model for John F. Kennedy Assassination by Nicholas R. Nalley from the National Library of Medicine.
Concise
ConciseYes.
So I did a little side...
This is just a side note.
So I think JFK was killed in the world's biggest workplace accident, the world's most, uh, seen workplace accident.
All right, let's go.
Ballistics expert Howard Donahue was once asked by CBS, along with 10 other, uh, cert- different kind of experts, to participate in a recreation of the assassination.
Then this expert, Donahue, was asked to write an article for a men's magazine that justified the ballistic evidence that was presented in the Warren Report.
He couldn't do that.
He said that shot number three did not make sense.
He said the sh- third shot exploded.
It did not go through the body like the first and second ones did.
The first two bullets were Full Metal Jacket bullets, which, listen, I'm taking this guy's word for it, 'cause I know nothing about bullets or weapons or anything.
But, uh, apparently Full Metal Jackets are designed to wound and not kill.
The third shot was a frangible bullet, which are a type of bullet that are designed, upon impact, to shatter, to cause as much damage inside a body as possible.
Donahue also said that the trajectory from the book depository would've been wrong for that third shot as well.
He concluded that the first two were definitely from Oswald, but the third shot had come from somewhere else.
So in the book depository, there were three shell casings found, but one was bent and found in a different spot.
That casing may have been a chamber plug, which is basically like a spent casing used to prevent jams in the chamber of a gun.
It's something like Oswald would've had to eject that shell before, like, before taking the spot to shoot.
He would've had to expel that, like, whatever, chamber plug, and he would've done that before walking up to the window.
Donahue deduced that the fatal shot could have only come from the left rear seat of the Secret Service car that was behind the limo.
So from the article, Gun Woo- [laughs] This is an intense article I read.
[laughs] It's called Gunshot Wound Dynamics Model for John F. Kennedy Assassination by Nicholas R. Nalley from the National Library of Medicine.
Concise
ConciseYes.
So I did a little side...
This is just a side note.
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