11-22-2017, 09:39 PM
OK, sensational subject line, and the idea that Kennedy's back brace made it more difficult for him to bend forward (and avoid the final bullet) is a stretch, but the depiction here of just how bad his back pain was is a revelation to me....I knew he had back pain, but holy sciatica, I never realized it was that bad. I'll never bitch about my aching back again.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/22/health/jfk...index.html
JFK's assassination aided by his bad back, records showEvery November, America remembers the end of Camelot: a shining time of promise led by John F. Kennedy, our nation's youngest president, brought to an abrupt and bloody end by Lee Harvey Oswald's second shot, a bullet to the brain.
While conspiracy theorists debate who pulled that trigger, there's another culprit that often goes unmentioned: Kennedy's lifelong struggle with back pain.It was his habit of wearing a tightly laced back brace that may have kept him from recoiling to the floor of his car after the assassin's first bullet to the neck, setting him up for the kill shot...
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/22/health/jfk...index.html
JFK's assassination aided by his bad back, records showEvery November, America remembers the end of Camelot: a shining time of promise led by John F. Kennedy, our nation's youngest president, brought to an abrupt and bloody end by Lee Harvey Oswald's second shot, a bullet to the brain.
While conspiracy theorists debate who pulled that trigger, there's another culprit that often goes unmentioned: Kennedy's lifelong struggle with back pain.It was his habit of wearing a tightly laced back brace that may have kept him from recoiling to the floor of his car after the assassin's first bullet to the neck, setting him up for the kill shot...
