[DJ Taylor]

"His Marine training, according to various articles, tend to indicate that he was a poor shot. Add to that a mail order Italian carbine ($15 in the catalog at that time) with manual bolt action from a difficult angle."

That's exactly the thing that has bothered me about this shooting for all these years. For a poor shot like Oswald to have made those three shots in the time and place he did would have required him to train long and hard with that rifle. I don't believe that Carcano rifle, scope, and mount would have held up long enough for him to fire the number of shots he would have had to fire to achieve the degree of marksmanship expertise he would have needed to fire those three final shots.

[Signalman]

Oswald was not a poor shot.

He reached the level of “sharpshooter” in the USMC. That’s not the highest level. But it’s not the lowest either.