Then surely you understand that a bullet from a rifled barrel spins on its longitudinal axis -- that's the whole idea behind rifling. "Flying drill" is an exaggerated and lurid turn of phrase, but it's not just made up.
The factual evidence I've seen to date does not support the Reports 'Oswald as lone gunman theory' beyond a reasonable doubt.
There will never be a resolution of the JFK assassination beyond a reasonable doubt. We've just got to get used to that. There will be no trial, no conviction, because the assassin was dead long before I was born.
You are simply parroting the Warren Report, which has many errors of fact, some even admitted to by those who wrote it.
I am not parroting the Warren Commission. I am reaching a conclusion based on the Warren Commission and subsequent investigations and reconstructions by, among others, Gerald Posner, Cyril Wecht, Henry Lee, 60 Minutes, the CIA, the FBI, and the House Select Committee on Assassinations.
The Warren Commission report is certainly flawed; the commission had a short time to do a big job, and was hamstrung by security and political considerations. And, conveniently, every member of the Warren Commission is now dead -- Gerald Ford was the last. So now the spinners of conspiracy tales can impute whatever motives they wish without fear of contradiction or a suit for libel.
I'm not fixated on the subject. I've written more words about the JFK assassination in the last week than in the preceding five years. But I have invested a fair bit of time in it, and my conclusion is not a bleating sheeple knee-jerk. The available evidence -- including the evidence that was missed by the Warren Commission, and that raised by technology that was not available to the WC -- points more strongly to a single shooter than in any other direction.
The various conspiracy theories -- and they're more numerous than dandelions in a meadow -- are all based on the claim that the one-man, one-rifle, three-shots theory is impossible. If it's possible, plausible, or even not all that hard, the basis for a conspiracy melts like an ice cream cone on a Phoenix sidewalk in August.
The scary, simple fact is that a former Marine could have pulled off three shots with a bolt-action rifle in 8.3 seconds, one complete miss, one hit but off the mark, and a final hit in the X-ring. A Marine DI would have probably flunked him for that performance, and he certainly would not have been recommended to sniper school. It's hardly a superhuman feat.
"Flying drill" is an exaggerated and lurid turn of phrase, but it's not just made up.
That was my point. Thanks.
The factual evidence I've seen to date does not support the Reports 'Oswald as lone gunman theory' beyond a reasonable doubt.
The Warren Commission report is certainly flawed. I'm not fixated on the subject.
Good to hear, but hard to believe.
The scary, simple fact is that a former Marine could have pulled off three shots with a bolt-action rifle in 8.3 seconds, one complete miss, one hit but off the mark, and a final hit in the X-ring. It's hardly a superhuman feat
The single bullet scenario as outlined by Specter, combined with the timeline provided by the Zapruder film, make the 'feat' far from simple. Many have tried to duplicate the event and failed, yet they insist that their inaccurately mocked up simulations prove it could be done.
-- Garbage in, - garbage out.
Show me an accurate mock up, with an average [under pressure] shooter like Oswald doing the deed. -- You can't.