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To: Timber Rattler
Bullcrap! Last summer, I spent the greater part of a day at Dealey Plaza exploring the assassination site.

Former Jarhead here- so same training and a lifelong shooter. I went there in 2003 and did the same thing, after years of reading about what an impossibly technical shot it was that trained marksmen couldn't replicate, etc etc.

I was surprised that, once standing in the window (next to it, actually) it was a lot easier a shot that I'd been led to believe.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if there was a lot of funny business surrounding the events of that day, which I won't render an opinion on, but the shot wasn't as tough as it seems often made out to be, IMO.

63 posted on 07/31/2013 3:46:26 AM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: Riley
...but the shot wasn't as tough as it seems often made out to be, IMO.

That's right. Oswald had his rifle sighted in at a hundred, and was right on top of Kennedy as the limo turned onto Elm. the tree got in his way briefly, but after that, the shots were easy for a trained marksman. Oswald's kill zone really is tight, which the Zapruder film does not capture as the limo rounded the curve and then accelerated.

96 posted on 07/31/2013 10:29:11 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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