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The young wannabe assassin (and bystander murderer) could have hidden himself in the compact stand of four Italian Cypress looking trees, 20’ high, right along with the 10’ ladder until he felt the coast was clear and it was time to get on the roof. The trees are about 20’ - 30’ from where the ladder was found leaning against the covered walkway between the buildings. The foliage would have easily hidden him.

[Zhang Fei]

[The young wannabe assassin (and bystander murderer) could have hidden himself in the compact stand of four Italian Cypress looking trees, 20’ high, right along with the 10’ ladder until he felt the coast was clear and it was time to get on the roof. The trees are about 20’ - 30’ from where the ladder was found leaning against the covered walkway between the buildings. The foliage would have easily hidden him.]

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The kid was canny, with an understanding of police rules of engagement, taking care to wait until the last minute or so before shouldering the long arm. Up until then, if apprehended, he would likely, at worst, have been brought up on trespassing charges.

Many accounts don’t mention a ladder. I suspect it was leaned against the building after the kid was shot. Defies logic for cops to rely on being boosted to get to the roof if the ladder had been available earlier.

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https://archive.ph/tmaPG
[Ben Maser, who was watching the event from just outside the security perimeter, told The Post that he reported to a police officer twice in the span of two minutes that he had seen a suspicious-looking man on the building roof. Maser, who confirmed that he is visible in the newly surfaced video clip, said he first warned the officer an estimated 30 seconds before the time period captured in the video.

The police officer “didn’t say anything” to Maser in response to either alert, he said. On the first occasion, when Maser saw the man on the roof moving forward in a crouched position, the officer looked in the direction of the building, according to Maser. On the second, when the man was lying down, Maser said that he advised the officer to move to a spot where he would be able to see the man.

“When I turned to go back to that spot is when I heard the gunshots, and then it was just chaos,” said Maser, a 41-year-old welder who lives near the event site.

Maser said he never saw a gun with the man on the roof, and no gun can be seen in the newly surfaced video.]

[Zhang Fei]

[The young wannabe assassin (and bystander murderer) could have hidden himself in the compact stand of four Italian Cypress looking trees, 20’ high, right along with the 10’ ladder until he felt the coast was clear and it was time to get on the roof. The trees are about 20’ - 30’ from where the ladder was found leaning against the covered walkway between the buildings. The foliage would have easily hidden him.]

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Another unremarked upon aspect is the rarity of long arm assassination attempts. IIRC, at the time, JFK was the first and only such attack on a president or presidential candidate. In the 80+ years since, RFK, Wallace, Ford and Reagan were all close-in, as before. So there was reason to think of JFK as a freak occurrence, a lightning strike.