Forensic Science and JFK

Every wondered about the science behind the JKF assassination? Well it seems like the guys over at Discovery have been thinking long and hard about this and marking the 45th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Discovery Channel examines that fateful day in Dallas.

The documentary uses modern blood spatter analysis, new artificial human body surrogates, and 3-D computer simulations to then determine where the shot occurred. According to the documentary, the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository was the most likely origin of the shot that killed the 35th president of the United States.

“The question we were trying to answer is, given the spatter evidence in a vehicle, and knowing an individual was sitting at a particular location, is there something we could use to determine where the shot originated?” said Steve Schliebe, a blood spatter and trace evidence specialist with the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, who was part of the special investigation.

They methodically employing cutting-edge forensics and Zapruder film archives to definitively prove that the fatal bullet was fired from the Texas School Book Depository. The investigation is detailed in a world premiere special JFK: INSIDE THE TARGET CAR, premiered Sunday, November 16, 2008, at 9 PM (ET/PT).

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