points. Most of these hung on the ballistic evidence. Now I do know something about ballistics including the effect of different types of bullet on the human body, and what the experts on the programme had to say made sense to me.

Without going into details, the conclusion of the programme was remarkable: that while Oswald fired two shots, seriously wounding the President with one of them, the third and most lethal shot was the result of an accidental discharge of a rifle by an inexperienced Secret Service agent in the car immediately behind the President's. Rather than admit to such an appalling mistake, the Secret Service closed ranks and did their best to destroy or conceal the evidence, thereby giving weight to the conspiracy theories. So according toon the matter, which I have had for many years now.

All the military evidence of the effects of sniper shots on the human body, and unfortunately there's tonnes of this dating back many decades, is they tend to leave small wound on entrance and a massive rupture on exit. That is the design of a sniper bullet - maximum killing effect.

The so-called "magic bullet", Oswald's second shot, could have indeed lined up Kennedy and Connolly through the chest and be fired by Oswald, and it survived basically intact having passed through two bodies including hitting bone.

And yet the next bullet, the third "kill shot" fired later, supposedly identical manufacture in every way and from the same gun, exploded on impact at the back of Kennedy's skull then exited