[PhilDragoo]

Craig Roberts, Kill Zone: A Sniper Looks at Dealey Plaza, Consolidated Press International, 1997 ed., pp. 89-90:

According to my friend, Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock, the former senior instructor for the U.S.Marine Corps Sniper Instructor School at Quantico, Virginia, it could not be done as described by the FBI investigators. Gunny Hathcock, now retired [deceased 2003], is the most famous American military sniper in history. In Vietnam he was credited with 93 confirmed kills--and a total of over 300 actual kills counting those unconfirmed. He now conducts police SWAT team sniper schools across the country. When I called him to ask if he had seen the Zapruder film, he chuckled and cut me off. "Let me tell you what we did at Quantico," he began. "We reconstructed the whole thing: the angle, the range, the moving target, the time limit, the obstacles, everything. I don't know how many times we tried it, but we couldn't duplicate what the Warren Commission said Oswald did. Now if I can't do it, how in the world could a guy who was a non-qual on the rifle range and later only qualified 'marksman' do it?"

Craig Roberts, USMC S/S RVN and author of "One Shot One Kill" and other books, is a member of the U.S. Marine Corps Scout Sniper Association

Craig Roberts' website is RifleWarrior.com

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Harold Weisberg, Case Open, Carroll & Graf, 1994, refutes Gerald Posner, Case Closed.

Weisberg published Whitewash in 1965 and a series of books subsequent to that until his death this year.

Through his dozen FOIA lawsuits he obtained hundreds of thousands of pages of documents from the FBI, Justice Department and other agencies, filling sixty filing cabinets.

Weisberg states that Zapruder said he thought the shots came from his right, the direction of the "infamous grassy knoll" using the phrase from Case Open.

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Assassination Science, James A. Fetzer Ph.D. ed., Catfoot/Carus, 1998 contains an article by David W. Mantik M.D., Ph.D., "Optical Density Measurements of the JFK Autopsy X-Rays". Dr. Mantik finds compelling evidence the anterior-posterior (front-to-back) skull x-ray is a composite (combination of two images) with a 6.5 mm diameter disc applied--not representing metal or bone, but a forgery.

In an examination of the back wound, Dr. Mantik notes the HSCA placed it precisely 1.1 cm inferior to the first thoracic vertabra, T1. After noting Humes' ignorance of the cross-sectional anatomy of the transverse processes, Mantik finds "the proposed trajectory therefore seems purely imaginary", hence the back wound resulted from a nonpenetrating wound.

[#3Fan]

Yeah, how could a bullet come down from 60 feet, enter the back, go up to the throat, go back down into Connally, go through bone in the wrist, and come out in almost pristine condition? lol

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Thank you for that.

Just what I have been saying from my experience. I don't even follow all the ins and outs of this case, or know all of theories. I ahve never heard this comment beofre.

But I felt it was a strange angle... I don't know what that means.. but walking up to the sniper's window and looking out to the road bellow tells you it is an odd angle. That is my experience. I am no marksman, but it is common sense if you see it for yourself.

I have a personal hunch that it had to do with LBJ.. but I don't know if Oswald was a part of that or not.