Posted on 01/03/2006 6:06:27 PM PST by saquin
Again, shouldn't we be comparing Oswald with the general populace here instead of with other Marines? He may have been at the bottom of the barrel in the Marines, but was he not arguably a better shot than the average Joe Schmoe walking the streets in Dallas, Texas, that day? And does the fact that he didn't measure up as a shot compared to other Marines make it metaphysically impossible for him to, starting out with one cartridge already chambered ... that is another fact that a lot of people overlook; people think he had to work the bolt three times during those few seconds, but it was really only two ... hit a completely open, slow-moving target three times (although he missed the first shot; that's another fact people don't consider when pooh-poohing the single bullet theory) at a range of between 170 and 265 feet with a rifle equipped with a 4X scope?
I agree with your husband. Actually I wouldn't quite go that far, but definitely unlikely.
Kennedy's demise benefited so many people...Castro, the mob, LBJ, the military-industrial complex, Ari Onassis....we should have them all summarily executed and then take them out for drinks.
First shot missed. It hit the curb and some fragments peppered the face of a guy named Tague who was standing there. Connolly always said he heard a shot and turned to look behind him. He went to his grave saying there were three separate shots. When he turned, he was ... the show ABC put on using modern scientific methods and graphics presented very compelling evidence, even though it was from the MSM, to this effect ... absolutely in perfect alignment for the second bullet to hit both JFK and him and inflict the wounds that were credited to "the magic bullet." Third shot took out JFK's brain.
The same reason The 'Toon covered up the TWA 800 shoot down.
Yeah, well.........watch the Zapruder film and any intelligent analysis of it, then tell me how that s**tbag pulled it off with a single-shot rifle.
Bulls**t.
I would say typical accuracy at that range would be in the neighborhood of 3 inches. That of course would be bench rested. Most people would have trouble hitting a head-sized target at 85 yards mcuh less one moving.
You telling me he couldn't aim three times, work the bolt twice ... again, that's the thing that people don't stop to realize, he didn't have to work the bolt three times, just twice ... and pull the trigger three times in six seconds at a slow moving, completely exposed target less than 100 yards away?
I've always thought the mafia was involved because of Ruby knocking off Oswald. The rest of it is speculation, and so many dogs have run over that trail, nobody will ever know what really happened.
There was a pretty good sniper's perch set up in that window. There was a box for a rest that had a crease in it from the rifle. Plus Oswald ... and again, I call him the shooter, if anyone disagrees, c'est la vie, we can just agree to disagree ... apparently learned something about the concept of ambush in the Marines. He could've emptied the clip into Kennedy's face as he came up Houston Street, but he'd have been absolutely exposed to the Secret Service. Once the car turned onto Elm, it was caught in an ambush situation that it couldn't get out of, because every foot the car traveled made it a more wide-open target.
My pet theory was that Ted Kennedy killed JFK so he could be the number one Kennedy.
WHAT!?! Something wrong with my tin-foil hat???
One more thing ... is it beyond the realm of possibility that on 11/22/63, the stars and planets just happened to be aligned enough to where this piece of debris, who may have been a poor shot for a Marine but, as I've contended, was a better shot than probably most people walking the streets of Dallas that day ... I don't know if "got lucky" is the right way to put it, but maybe he just happened to have "a good day at the range," so to speak.
Getting off three shots in that time is not hard, but making good shots is, especially if you are not a real skilled shooter, by that, I mean skilled at working the bolt without moving it from the cheek as well as hitting.
Nearly every person will shoot, take the gun from the shouler, work the action, then re aquire a spot weld aim and shoot. This can be done in that time but not with accuracy.
A skilled rifleman will work the action with the rifle still at the cheek. I would bet Oswald was not that skilled.
If there was a second shooter, I would think he was right there or at least next door to Oswald.
I've been to Dealey Plaza and have been up in the book depository building. I've looked out the window where supposedly Oswald shot the President.
How anybody could have leaned out that window and shot at a moving car is beyond me. It's not like the car went under that window. Maybe Oswald was a contortionist.
LOL.........you try it, then tell me, friend.
[...can you say "not a chance in holy hell?? I knew you could.........]
I'd love a chance to try, although it's not likely to ever happen. Are there any Carcanos even floating around today? Can you still get ammo for them?
He didn't lean out the window. He was braced up against some boxes inside the window. And while he couldn't have gotten a shot off at JFK as the car turned right under the window, again, as the car traveled on down Elm, past the Stemmons Freeway sign and that one tree, it became a completely exposed target.
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