Posted on 12/16/2022 10:04:02 AM PST by bitt
My pilot training buddy asked if I wanted to visit the army general who was shot at by Oswald.
Of course, I said yes.
We sat in the living room which was fairly large, with high ceilings and it was dimly lit.
I remember him showing us the window and the hole in the wall.
I remember him talking about the CIA telling him that it was Oswald that shot at him.
I'm guessing that the reason that Oswald missed is that he shot at the general's shadow on a curtain and not at the general.
“I wish I was old enough to have been alive when the Dims were anti-communist.”
I was. And some were anti-communist, and some weren’t. That all started to change in the 1970s, when the “some weren’t” began to dominate the “some were.”
Here is a link describing the way the guy did it.
https://www.sctonline.net/local-news-front-page-slideshow/morgan-recreates-kennedy-assassination
And Biden saved him ? s/
Thank you. A niggling detail. The man who recreated the shots was on a platform 40 feet high, and the sixth floor of a building would be closer to 60 feet high. Don’t know how much difference that would make. Also he kept referring to 5-9 seconds to get the shots off. Why that big a range?
The Zapruder film shows Kennedy’s car disappearing behind a road sign with all being well and reappearing with Kennedy and Connelly reacting to the ‘miracle shot’, the one that went through Kennedy’s neck, through Connelly’s body, through his wrist and ending up in his leg. I guess the question for the ages is how long was the car behind the sign?
The assassination occurred when I was a junior in high school and I’m pretty sure that whatever facts are being withheld won’t be made public in my lifetime.
And, according to the Warren Commission report, that rifle was brought into the Texas School Book Depositary disassembled, but then reassembled and fired accurately by Oswald fired without any sort of calibration or test shots.
I don’t buy that it was the CIA.
They never were.
Oswald was a Marine. Those Freepers who were/are marines know you have to qualify as a marksman or you don’t get the Globe and Anchor.
Oswald passed and became a Marine.
They always give the distance in feet and not yards. That is because an 82 yard shot with a rifle is just not that difficult. Many a redneck has harvested deer with a 6.5mm Carcano at greater range.
I was in Dealey Plaza in June of 2022. I am always struck by how small of a place it really is. I have been there 5 times over the years. The friend I was with (it was his first time) was shocked at how small it is also.
“I am always struck by how small of a place it really is.”
So, basically, whomever shot JFK had a fish-in-the-barrel situation...?
An easy set-up for a shot at a running deer in the open West. Made a few shots at a running deer from those distances and angles myself - like I said easy.
I've also been there, and in the 6th fl museum. what struck me is why Oswald didn't shoot JFK when his car was coming down Houston street.
JFK's car was coming straight at Oswald's position. Oswald was at a perfect angle, right above him. The car was traveling very slowly due to the crowds lining the road. It was open-top, so Oswald had a full body shot. Yet Oswald waited until the car turned onto Elm and started to speed away, to take a much more difficult head shot.
I have wondered that also. Seems like an easier shot.
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