Did Oswald act without prompting or pay? While I tend to think so, I am open to the possiblility that others wanted JFK taken out.
One thing that bothers me is that the motorcade slowed down a little after the first shot. This allowed Oswald to firm up a second and third shot. The angle was such that the target was easy.
Certainly a powerful day in history. I was 5 years old and could not help but notice how it had a profound effect on the world around me.
Three shells were found on the 6th floor TSBD.
Several folks claim 4 shots and more.
First goes through neck. Second glances off skull and blows brains in process. Third is lower and wild. All from Oswald.
The WC says the first was wild and caused the chips that hit James Tague under the underpass on Commerce. If it came from the TSBD, then it would have been high and to the right.
Tague himself said the shot came "from the left" meaning the grassy knoll in the general area where Mr. Zapruder was filming. But since Tague was injured on the right cheek that would have to include anything between the Elm/Houston intersection to the railway/viaduct. He also testified that the first retort was rather flat-sounding then the following two shots where sharp rifle cracks.
Deputy Buddy Walthers examined the curb mark and testified it could have come from either the TSBD or the Dal-Tex building.
IMO, The wounding of Tague tipped the whole mess over. There were three pieces of brass found up on the 6th floor, but four sets of injuries on the ground (Tague-Connally-Kennedy/throat-Kennedy/head) that the WC had to explain. Thus the Single-Bullet-Theory.
"Only three shots" because it's "only Oswald" because "Single-Bullet" because "Only three shots" because "only Oswald" because ...
Ya know, I can accept that a sniper can do a shoot-bolt-reaquire-shoot-bolt-reaquire-shoot in about 8 seconds. That's not beyond belief.
I maybe can go for the single-bullet thingy, maybe.
And it is barely possible that 7 medical professionals at Parkland Hospital couldn't tell the difference between T2/T3 and C4; or they confused the occipital vice parietal-temporal bone structure.
Where I have serious problems with is why the CIA would withhold, obstruct, and obscure it's data from the Warren Commission, the HSCA, and later the ARRB.
If LHO was a some-times employed loser misfit, he seems to me a very well-connected, well-traveled loser misfit.
The CIA (and the FBI) lied; and have yet to come clean to Congress or it's employer, i.e. me and you.