Assuming Oswald is acting alone, when should Oswald take his first shot? When Kennedy first appears, after he’s had time to sync up with the car, some other time?
Would adrenaline kick in, so that he shoots earlier than intended?
Would the game plan be one shot, make it a good one? Or get off as many shots as possible?
He doesn’t have a spotter. Would he know he needs more shots? Would adrenaline make him take more shots?
He supposedly got his shots off in a short period of time. Even if this was possible, would that be good form, or should he take more time to make better shots? Would adrenaline affect this?
“He supposedly got his shots off in a short period of time.”
Oswald was a minimally qualified shooter in the Marine Corp operating a bolt action rifle during the assassination.
If he used a semi auto rifle the target could pretty much stay acquired through out several shots.
With minimally qualified and inexperienced shooter, with a bolt action a moving target would have to be re-acquired with each shot.
I personally do not like scopes because it takes longer to acquire a target due to the scopes narrow field of view. And there is the parallax effect with such optics. Add these two factors into the mix and it becomes real doubtful he got off a good neck and head shot on a moving target.
The FBI tested the rifle to see how fast it could be operated, a Bing search revealed the following: “The FBI determined that the Carcano rifle could not be accurately fired twice in under 2.3 seconds, or 42 frames of the Zapruder film.”
Fast forward today, and the red dot solves the scope issues for a certain range. I really like them, for target acquisition is immediate without the parallax effect. If Oswald had such a sight back then, he could have gotten off as many accurate shots as he wanted, as fast as he could operate the bolt. But even with a red dot, he would have to be an expert rifleman using a premium weapon to get off two accurate shots in 2.3 seconds.
There had to be a second shooter, which makes it a conspiracy, not a lone lunatic.