JFK - Oswald - Lincoln: Forensic Firearm Examination

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

A solid understanding of firearms and their function and purpose is essential to being a successful investigator. Failure to understand the things encountered in the street... there is no telling what kind of interpretation one will wind up making . Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack look at the weapons used in the murders of Lincoln, JFK, and Oswald and Joe explains why It is important to be "studied up" when working in the field.

Transcript Highlights
00:00.07 Introduction

02:33.91 Brief History of firearms

06:08.03 $12 mail order gun supposedly killed JFK -- how do you figure it out

09:04.62 The Rifleman

15:48.72 The weapon used to kill Lincoln

20:12.47 Baseball bat favored by Dave

25:20.33 Never say gunshot wound on report in the field

30:25.58 JFK neck wound used for creating airway

35:14.95 The "Magic Bullet"

40:12.97 Oswald shooting injury

45:05.23 Projectile would have defect

49:28.41 Round traveling out of weapon

55:46.90 Conclusion

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:05.5	Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:09.8	There are certain individuals throughout history who, for whatever reason,
0:15.7	have been linked to specific historic events.
0:23.3	One such person is a gentleman that I have mentioned previously on bodybacks, who was the chief
0:34.8	medical examiner for Dallas.
0:40.3	His name was Dr. Earl Rose.
0:43.3	And for his time, he was highly educated, highly trained,
0:50.3	and was one of the leading experts in the country on death investigation.
0:57.3	It just so happens that his life intersected with three of the principal people involved in the JFK assassination, actually four.F.K. assassination. Actually four. And three of the four had something in common.
1:21.5	They all died as a result of gunshot wounds.
1:37.5	Today on body bags, in a continuing effort to offer our friends out there, a bit of forensic education, if you will,
1:46.6	we're going to be talking about gunfire and gunfire-related deaths because, let's face it, it's part of the fabric of who we are in America it happens every single day there are many cases out there that are quite high profile
1:54.1	but there are others that go without a whisper but the one thing they have in common is the trauma which they are
2:04.8	subjected to at the hands of someone that has fired a weapon into their body. I'm Joseph Scott
2:13.9	Morgan and this is body bags. It's really hard to know looking back through time
2:23.2	who the first victim of a gunshot wound was. And I'm not even talking about lethal. We know that the Chinese invented gunpowder,
2:38.5	and we know that as early as the 1,200s, they had a firearm. This is something that they would load. It's essentially a tube packed with gunpowder.
2:56.9	They would spark this thing off, and they just put all manner of shrapnel down the barrel,
3:03.1	which essentially turns this into a gigantic shotgun, if you will.
3:08.2	Not very aerodynamic, but for its time, I'm sure that it was quite frightful for those that were on the business end of the weapon, if you will.
3:18.1	To have these items flying through the air at you and slamming into your body, things that in the past maybe you wore armor for like to defeat a sword or a spear blow
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