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In reply to the discussion: Justice for JFK [View all]stopbush
(24,409 posts)That's not to say that the bubble top couldn't have saved the president's life had it been on the limo.
The bubble top was assembled out of six separate plexiglass pieces, attaching into metal strips. A bullet fired could have deflected off one of those metal strips. However, a bullet shot from a high powered rifle would not deflect off the plexiglass itself. The trajectory may have been changed a bit, but it would still pierce the plexiglass and keep on going right into JFK.
Another way the bubble top may have helped was that it could have reflected glare from sunlight, making the easy shot that Oswald took that killed JFK a lot harder if not impossible.
Most of all, many people at the time believed that the bubble top was bullet proof, even though it wasn't. It's possible that Oswald could have been one of those people who believed that, and it might have dissuaded him from shooting at all if he thought that the bubble top would deflect any shots he fired.
Again, I'm just disabusing Amanda of the mistaken idea that the bubble top was bullet proof, which is different than asserting it may have been assassin deterring.
BTW - even some of JFK's Secret Service personnel were under the mistaken impression that the bubble top was bullet proof.