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To: hardspunned

That head shot, if he was allowed to bend over or slouch would JFK had been saved? I doubt it, as there was a professional sniper at work.

Oswald was not a professional sniper. Oswald’s military had KGB history reveals he was a poor marksman. Then he used a rifle known not to be very accurate. He used this rifle with open sights on a moving target at about 88 yards. And supposedly got in a neck and head shot. NO, I DON’T THINK SO.


19 posted on 03/22/2025 5:53:02 AM PDT by redfreedom (Happiness is shopping at Walmart and not hearing Spanish once!)
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To: redfreedom

Regardless of who actually made the kill shot, if Kennedy had slouched forward more in those few seconds between the neck wound and head shot, it would have made the shot harder to make. That would be especially true if Oswald didn’t make the shot from above, say if it came from the grassy knoll.


25 posted on 03/22/2025 6:13:17 AM PDT by hardspunned (Look for the“Putin Stooge” libel, news from Ukraine you’ve gradually grown to trust over 30 months s)
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To: redfreedom

“I doubt it, as there was a professional sniper at work.”

No, there were “several” professional assassins at work.


44 posted on 03/22/2025 7:39:00 AM PDT by Racketeer
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To: redfreedom
" He used this rifle with open sights on a moving target at about 88 yards. And supposedly got in a neck and head shot. NO, I DON’T THINK SO."

Nope, he used a Carcano 6.5mm rifle with a scope.

46 posted on 03/22/2025 7:44:06 AM PDT by bruoz
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To: redfreedom
Oswald's military had KGB history reveals he was a poor marksman. Then he used a rifle known not to be very accurate. He used this rifle with open sights …

Three sentences and three misstatements of fact.

1. Oswald was not a poor marksman. He would have never graduated from Marine boot camp if he had been. The records indicate he scored as a marksman.

2. The rifle in question was an Italian surplus military rifle which was not the best in the world, but far from being inaccurate.

3. He did not use “ open sights”. He had a 4 power scope mounted to that rifle although an average marksman could have easily made those shots of less that 100 yards with open sights.

I'd recommend you visit the 6th Floor Museum in Dallas some day, look out the windows that Oswald looked out of, and see for yourself. At that distance, a quarterback could have hit Kennedy with a rock, let along an ex-marine with a military grade rifle.

67 posted on 03/22/2025 10:04:35 AM PDT by Ditto
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To: redfreedom

Your history about Oswalds rifle is really wrong, all those idiotic conspiracy theorists were just trying to make a buck. Making the shots was with that very gun was not extremely difficult. In fact it was done successfully in a reenactment. Oswald was rated Marksman and while no sniper, was an average shot.

I can’t believe anyone expected these documents to reveal anything new. Read Case Closed by Gerald Posner
The idea that you can have some vast conspiracy without anyone revealing the truth is ridiculous. People just can’t accept that one deranged loser can change history, that’s scary.
The idea that Johnson was involved is absurd. Johnson turned out to be more effective at implementing Kennedy’s vision than Kennedy was.


87 posted on 03/22/2025 6:02:46 PM PDT by samkatz
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