Editing Single-bullet theory (section)

==ABC's ''The Kennedy Assassination: Beyond Conspiracy''==
In 1993 computer animator [[Dale K. Myers|Dale Myers]] embarked on a 10-year project<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jfkfiles.com/jfk/html/intro.htm |title=SECRETS OF A HOMICIDE: Introduction |publisher=Jfkfiles.com |access-date=August 3, 2010}}</ref> to completely render the events of November 22 in 3D [[computer animation]]. His results were shown as part of ABC's documentary ''The Kennedy Assassination: Beyond Conspiracy'' in 2003, and won an [[Emmy]] award.

To render his animation, Myers took photographs, home footage, blueprints and plans, and attempted to use them to create an accurate computer reenactment of the assassination. His work was assessed by Z-Axis, who have been involved in producing computer-generated animations of events, processes and concepts for major litigation in the United States and Europe.

Their assessment concluded that Myers's animation allowed the assassination sequence to be viewed "from any point of view with absolute geometric integrity" and that they "believe that the thoroughness and detail incorporated into his work is well beyond that required to present a fair and accurate depiction".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jfkfiles.com/jfk/html/zaxis.htm |title=jfkfiles.com |publisher=jfkfiles.com |access-date=August 3, 2010}}</ref>

Myers's animation found that the bullet wounds were consistent with JFK's and Governor Connally's positions at the time of shooting, and that by following the bullet's trajectory backwards it could be found to have originated from a narrow cone including only a few windows of the sixth floor of the School Book Depository, one of which was the sniper's nest of boxes from which the rifle barrel had been seen protruding by witnesses.

In the same ABC documentary, Myers uses a close-up examination of the [[Zapruder film]] to justify the single-bullet theory and calls attention to frames 223 and 224 on the Zapruder film, where the right-side lapel of Governor Connally's jacket appears to "pop out," as if being pushed from within by an unseen force. Myers theorizes that this is the moment of impact, when both Kennedy and Connally were struck by the same bullet from Oswald's rifle. Myers also argues that in frames 225–230 both Kennedy and Connally are simultaneously reacting to the impact of the bullet. There is no other point on the film which shows either Kennedy or Connally reacting because they have been shot. They both react at the same time, frame 225, because that is when the single bullet hits both of them.

If the bullet exited Connally's chest below the nipple, the lapel would be too high to have popped out due to direct contact with the bullet.<ref>Greg Jaynes [http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/jaynes2/soc.htm Lapel Flap?] Accessed November 21, 2013</ref> Surgeon John Lattimer has argued that the jacket bulged out because of the "hail of rib fragments and soft tissue" as the bullet tumbled in Connally's body.<ref>{{cite journal |pmid=8167893 |year=1994 |last1=Lattimer |first1=JK |last2=Laidlaw |first2=A |last3=Heneghan |first3=P |last4=Haubner |first4=EJ |title=Experimental duplication of the important physical evidence of the lapel bulge of the jacket worn by Governor Connally when bullet 399 went through him |volume=178 |issue=5 |pages=517–22 |journal=Journal of the American College of Surgeons}}</ref>