This updated and expanded step-by-step guide enables ordinary folks to construct more than 13 awesome ballistic devices using inexpensive household or hardware store materials. Clear instructions, diagrams, and photographs show how to build projects ranging from the simple, a match-powered rocket, to the more complex, a tabletop catapult, to the classic, the infamous potato cannon, to the offbeat, a Cincinnati fire kite.

Describes the science of ballistics, including the types of weapons and ammunition used in crimes, clues guns and bullets leave behind, techniques used by ballistics experts, and how ballistics evidence is used to solve crimes.

"Last Second in Dallas reveals new forensic discoveries since 2000 that overturn previously accepted "facts" about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy: that at least some the bullets recovered from the scene were not specifically tied to Lee Harvey Oswald's rifle; that the two-inch forward movement on Zapruder slides Z 312 and Z 313 was an optical illusion, and so the shot in Z 313 came from the grassy knoll; that there were two shots to...