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It is most definitely an expert shot at a moving target.

The aimpoint alone tells me he didnt pull the trigger. He barely quals on timed stationary targets and someone [anyone] wants me to think he could lead a timed target [straight line or not], correct for trigger pull and the obvious lack of breathing discipline involved in using a bolt action rifle in an assasination attempt.

This guy is simply not a "shooter".

I dont quite understand how anyone competent with shooting a rifle could even debate the point. There are no pros in putting forward that Oswald was the operator. He simply cannot shoot. You cant take a guy off the street [basically what he was shooting wise] stick him in a tower and tell him to drop a moving target with three shots and no spotter...he will not be able to do it.

This guy has zero combat shooting experience on top of a Marksman badge but I am to believe that he can properly walk through BRASS F three times while using a bolt action rifle? His whole life is a monument to ADD & zero discipline.

Not passing the "smell elephant dung test".

Shooting paper targets is one thing, killing a human being, the President of the United States, blowing his brains all over his wife, not hitting either of the women or the driver for that matter, requires experience and skill that Oswald did not possess.

The way the road angles down to go under the railway overpass meant that the direction of travel was straight away from the shooters position, so there was no leading involved, nor elevation changes relative to the shooters position at the time of the head shot. And the distance was maybe 150 meters at that point with a scoped rifle. Not a tough shot, as far as I can see.

Tale a look at these graphics for details:
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/plazao.jpg
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/tague4.gif

BTW, I have no real interest in the conspiracy aspects of this subject. The marksmanship aspects don't seem to make it an impossible shot, not even too difficult really. Though, as you say, Oswald was a cretin, and people like that tend to flake at critical times.