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I want it to be clear that I am not one of the folks who thinks that to Dallas PD was involved- because if they had been, Oswald would have been shot multiple times in the theater, and no questions would have been asked. I think the Jack Ruby thing was actually a coincidence- it was much too uncertain to succeed in silencing Oswald, and a real professional would have come up with a better plan to get rid of old Lee Harvey than having some nutjob shoot him ONCE with a .38. (For the record, I have seen a man take three AK-47 rounds through the chest at nipple level, and survive to return to active duty).

I do think the police were overwhelmed, and allowed too much press access and so on- and the description of the line-ups in which Oswald appeared were pretty lame.

What I REALLY want to know from some of the nutjob conspiracy freaks is -

- IF THIS indeed was suposed to be a professional hit, WHY wasn't an automatic weapon or at least a semi-automatic weapon used instead of a cheap bolt-action rifle?

AS it was, one of three shots missed - and that number very well could have been 3 of 3 if the car had started to swerve/weave side-to-side as an avoidance manuever that day. A semi-auto could have allowed several more shots to have been squeezed off in short order - leading me to believe this was a half-*ssed 'hit job' if it was really intended to end Kennedy's life ...

Unacceptable answers as to why a semi-auto wasn't used are in the vein of "he wanted to minimize collateral damage to other persons in the car by uisng a more accurate rifle" since Connally was almost killed too in this effort that killed Kennedy ...