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To: FreedomCalls
Euro-American Scum:
Oswald got off three shots in five and a half seconds

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As if that is difficult! LOL! You've never shot a rifle have you?
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You can't show us where anyone who ever tried was able to duplicate the shots..
Laugh all you want, but serious riflemen have known for years that the single gunman theory is BS.
58 posted on 02/02/2004 9:29:25 PM PST by tpaine (I'm trying to be 'Mr Nice Guy', but the U.S. Constitution defines a conservative. (writer 33 )
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To: tpaine
You can't show us where anyone who ever tried was able to duplicate the shots..

I can duplicate the shots! On the ABC special they had a 75-year (or so) old man duplicate the shots and he didn't even try hard. It's easy.

63 posted on 02/02/2004 9:33:18 PM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: tpaine
You can't show us where anyone who ever tried was able to duplicate the shots..

Sure we can.

In fact, despite the claims of countless conspiracy theorists that "no one" has been able to duplicate the shooting that would have been required, in fact numerous recreations have had no problem whatsoever doing so. For example, CBS reconstructed the shooting for a 1975 documentary. Eleven volunteers took three shots each at a moving target using a Carcano rifle, without even doing any prior practice on that model of rifle. Their times ranges from 4.1 seconds (total) to slightly more than 6 seconds, with the average being 5.6 seconds and 2 hits out of 3. Furthermore, the House Select Committee in 1977 did a reconstruction and found that their test shooter could hit all targets with 1.66 seconds between shots.

Now tell us another funny one.

Laugh all you want, but serious riflemen have known for years that the single gunman theory is BS.

Horse manure. *I* could have made those shots, and I'm not even a "serious rifleman". And Oswald was better than I am:

He [Oswald] was also trained in the use of the M1 rifle (2). On December 21, 1956, after three weeks of training, he shot 212, two points over the score required for a "sharpshooter" qualification, the second highest in the Marine Corps (3). Such a score indicated that from a standing position, he could hit a ten-inch bulls-eye, from a minimum of 200 yards, eight times out of ten (4).

[...] Those in charge of the marksmanship branch who were familiar with Oswald's record praised his ability and said he was easily capable of carrying out the JFK assassination. It "was an easy shot for a man with the equipment he had and his ability," said Sgt. [James] Zahm [the NCO in charge of the marksmanship training unit]. Major Eugene Anderson, of the marskmanship branch, said the assassination shots "were not particularly difficult" and that, based on his Marine record, "Oswald had full capabilities to make this shot."

-- "Case Closed", Gerald Posner, p. 20.

(2) Testimony of Maj. Eugene Anderson, WC Vol. XI, p. 302.
(3) Testimony of Lt. Col. Allison Folsom, WC Vol. VIII, p. 304.
(4) Testimony of Lt. Col. Donovan, WC Vol. VIII, p. 296.

But then I guess Sgt. Jahn doesn't count as one of your "serious riflemen", since after all he's only in charge of marksmanship training.
127 posted on 02/03/2004 2:21:31 AM PST by Ichneumon
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