“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.
Thanks for the info. May I ask a few more questions?
Could the Carcano have been fired in 2.3 seconds?
If the FBI said it could not have been fired accurately in that time, doesn’t that imply that it could have been fired, just not accurately? If it couldn’t be fired that quickly, why not just say that?
If it could have been fired that quickly, how could the FBI determine that it couldn’t have been fired accurately? Would it have been impossible to hit the target or just some degree of unlikely?
Would Oswald have tried to fire in 2.3 seconds? Grant there was urgency before they got JFK to safety. Grant his adrenaline would have been flowing. Would it have made sense for him to take more time to try for a more accurate shot? Or does this fall into the realm of who the heck knows what he was thinking?