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CE 399, the single bullet described in the theory. The single-bullet theory, also known as the magic-bullet theory by conspiracy theorists, [1] was introduced by the Warren Commission in its investigation of the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy to explain what happened to the bullet that struck Kennedy in the back and exited through his throat.
The "Magic Bullet" theory graphically assumes that the media's message is a bullet fired from the "media gun" into the viewer's "head". [2] Similarly, the "Hypodermic Needle Model" uses the same idea of the "shooting" paradigm. It suggests that the media injects its messages straight into the passive audience. [3]
Magic bullet theory may refer to: Single-bullet theory , a theory relating to the assassination of John F Kennedy Hypodermic needle model , a theory of a direct effect of the mass media on audiences
Ex-Secret Service agent Paul Landis has broken his silence six decades on from Kennedy assassination to challenge the official findings
The magic bullet is a scientific concept developed by the German Nobel laureate Paul Ehrlich in 1907. [1] While working at the Institute of Experimental Therapy (Institut für experimentelle Therapie), Ehrlich formed an idea that it could be possible to kill specific microbes (such as bacteria), which cause diseases in the body, without harming the body itself.
Chapter 4, The Single Bullet Theory presents Donahue's analysis of the shot which, according to the Warren Commission, struck both Kennedy and Connally, and suggests that the "magic bullet" trajectory is only necessary because the estimated position of the Governor was wrong. One of Oswald's shots could, it claims, therefore have caused both ...
A Secret Service agent who was just feet away from former President Kennedy when he was assassinated is raising new questions about the “magic bullet” theory. Paul Landis, who was one of the ...
[11]: 19 Several lines of inquiry were followed to both reaffirm the single shooter/single-bullet theory as well as to disprove specific conspiracy theory allegations. The HSCA concluded that these scientific studies of assassination-related evidence do "not preclude the possibility of two gunmen firing at the President." [12]