“As far as I am concerned the killer was Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone.”
I don’t think so. Oswald was described as a mediocre shooter.
“Oswald was described as a mediocre shooter.”
He was a mediocre shooter. Three shots, all under 100 yards, on a target moving slowly away from him. With a scoped rifle. Yet he missed completely with one shot and almost missed with the last shot.
I heard that he he was better than that. I checked wikipedia (yes, I know the warnings) which said that he passed the sharpshooter score in the Marines, but later dropped to marksman.
Dealey Plaza isn't that large and even then he only hit with two out of three shots using a scope.
I wish I could remember the show, but I saw something which plotted the shots and the upper floors of School Book Depository was the only place they could have come from. They even corrected for the fact that Connally was turning (after hearing the first shot as shown in the Zapruder film) in a jump seat which was lower and inboard from Kennedy's seat which completely eliminated the need for any "magic bullet" making turns in mid-air.
I would like to see where this "shooter" claims to have shot from.
this special is in fact about James Files.
If anyone is sincerely interested...they should read up. He’s very convincing. This particular documentary is very convincing also.
In addition...I’d recommend Roger Stone’s recent book about how LBJ killed JFK. It’s excellent.
My own view - not that it matters - is that there were a whole lot of shooters, and various compartments of plotting, but all of it was under the direction of LBJ. He was one ruthless psychopath.
Wasn't Oswald a Marine? Do they produce mediocre marksmen?
He got through Marine boot camp which means by definition he wasn't a mediocre shot.
Someday go to Dallas and look out that window where Oswald was. Even mediocre was far more than enough to pull off those shots.
I always has some lingering doubts until I stood there and looked out those windows. I always thought they were really long distance. They weren't. They were 60 to 80 yards with a 10X scope. They were damn easy shots.
Oswald was described as a mediocre shooter.
When I reported to Quantico for a specialty skills course, USMC instructors made a point of emphasizing how Marine Corps training made Oswald a great marksman. If we had trained with the bolt action Carcano 91/38, by the end of that course, given only iron sights, Oswald's feat would have been no problem.
BTW, in the mid-80's, a totally un-PC video game (I think for Atari) gave players an opportunity to duplicate Oswald's ambush. Needless to say, liberals were outraged, so the game was never released.
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Yeah, well he missed completely once, made a survivable wound the second time, and finally hit a fatal wound after the third try. I would describe that as mediocre.
He got some really lucky bounces with his ricochets, though.