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Oswald 'had no time to fire all Kennedy bullets'
The Sunday Telegraph (UK) ^ | 6/30/2007 | Tim Shipman

Posted on 06/30/2007 4:36:50 PM PDT by 1066AD

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To: JoeA

I’m a reasonable person. From the Zapruder film shows them getting hit at nearly the same time (since they are emerging from behind the road sign, exact point of impact isn’t possible to determine) by the same bullet.

Therefore your hypothesis holds no water.


81 posted on 06/30/2007 5:27:04 PM PDT by REDWOOD99
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To: 1066AD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACT0aKWEAow

FACT: It’s easy and can be done with almost no prior experience.

FACT: Oswald qualified as a sharpshooter in the Marines.

My opinion: A Boy Scout can fire that many shots in that amount of time with the same size target and range. Only the Boy Scout wouldn’t miss on the first shot. Where the issue starts is it’s impossible to recreate an exact shot and have a bullet richochet or break apart EXACTLY like another bullet.


82 posted on 06/30/2007 5:32:32 PM PDT by Shooter 2.5 (NRA - Hunter '08)
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To: PetroniusMaximus

I think the argument is the time and accuracy. Oswald was not a “crack shot” sniper. The first shot misses, the second two hit their mark, farther down range and with better accuracy? This, I believe is where the line of questions should go. IMO of course.


83 posted on 06/30/2007 5:33:37 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (I buy gas for my SUV with the Carbon Offsets I sell on Ebay!)
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To: Mr. K
"one look at the Zapruder film and it is obvious the head shot cam from right front, and no one will convince me otherwise."

Yeah, plus Jackie scrambling out on the trunk to grab his skull? On every forensic show I have seen the bullet makes a smaller entry wound and then blows out the other side. Conolly should have had skull on him not the trunk?

84 posted on 06/30/2007 5:33:39 PM PDT by blasater1960 (Rehavam Zeevi- HaShem Yikom Damo)
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To: 1066AD
Nearly seven out of 10 Americans believe that Kennedy was murdered as a result of a plot. Depending on which theory they back, the participants supposedly included any or all of the CIA, the Mafia, the Cubans, the FBI chief J Edgar Hoover, the military-industrial complex and Vice-President Lyndon B Johnson.

There they go again! Leaving out Ron Paul!

:o)

85 posted on 06/30/2007 5:35:24 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (I buy gas for my SUV with the Carbon Offsets I sell on Ebay!)
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To: 1066AD
I could easily aim, fire, reload, aim, fire, reload, aim, fire, in the time required.

Oswald had the same training that I have had.

I suspect that most folks who are into this conspiracy stuff just don't want to admit that their demi-god Kennedy was killed by a loser with a cheap rifle.

Staggering, but true. A loser with a cheap rifle changed history.

86 posted on 06/30/2007 5:38:03 PM PDT by LibKill (Bush betrayed conservatives on Immigration. NO support for Bush.)
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To: 1066AD

Oswald’s Rifle:
6.5 x 52 mm Italian Mannlicher-Carcano M91/38 bolt-action rifle with a six-round magazine
Serial number C2766
Western Cartridge Co. ammunition with a 160 grain (10.37 g) round nose bullet
Side-mounted Ordnance Optics 4 x 18 telescopic sight


87 posted on 06/30/2007 5:39:02 PM PDT by Garvin (Semper Fi!)
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To: 1066AD

That particular rifle - the 6.5mm Mannlicher-Carcano - has a fairly stiff bolt and a badly placed bolt handle which limits its ability to be used in rapid fire


88 posted on 06/30/2007 5:42:14 PM PDT by USMCVet
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To: leadpenny

You have not a single fact for your childish accusation. LBJ was riding in the motorcade. I don’t think his arms were long enough to reach up to the sixth floor.

Now if you’re even remotely serious, explain just how the assassination happened. Where were the shooters, how many shots, what were the trajectories and which wounds were caused by which bullet.

FACT: You can’t do it. All you have is worthless accusations.


89 posted on 06/30/2007 5:43:00 PM PDT by Shooter 2.5 (NRA - Hunter '08)
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To: 1066AD

Italians take four hour lunches. Is anyone suprised they can’t do anything fast?


90 posted on 06/30/2007 5:45:50 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Duncan Hunter 2008)
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To: REDWOOD99
"Union testers."

Yeah, so Government workers are less efficient, and Union workers are even more than less efficient.

Why don't we let you prove that the Warren Commission was right about Oswald's capacity to fire three shots in 19 seconds.

Then we'll all know the truth.

91 posted on 06/30/2007 5:46:34 PM PDT by Radix (The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race)
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To: Shooter 2.5

I don’t think there was a shooter #2 or a shooter #3.

But a shooter 2.5? Hmm, interesting....


92 posted on 06/30/2007 5:48:57 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Duncan Hunter 2008)
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To: 1066AD
But when the Italian team test-fired the identical model of gun, they were unable to load and fire three shots in less than 19 seconds -

Reminds me of the old joke:

Q. Who put the 3 bullets in Mussolini?

A. 15 Italian marksmen.

93 posted on 06/30/2007 5:49:16 PM PDT by Zman516 (socialists & muslims -- satan's useful idiots.)
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To: REDWOOD99

It is difficult to fire a rifle three times when you are trained to put up both hands after the first shot.


94 posted on 06/30/2007 5:51:36 PM PDT by U S Army EOD
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To: PetroniusMaximus

“I saw a 70 year old man fire the same number of shots in that timeframe using the same rifle”.


Accurately?


95 posted on 06/30/2007 5:52:45 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT IS A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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To: REDWOOD99

I don’t think so (not that you’re reasonable—that I don’t know). But as they emerge from the sign Connally is still holding his hat, turning to look at JFK, who has clearly been hit. Connally partially turns one way, then the other, before he reacts to the impact of the bullet. Not a simultaneous or near-simultaneous hit, as would be the case with a bullet moving at several hundred feet per second.


96 posted on 06/30/2007 5:54:51 PM PDT by JoeA (JoeA / The defintion of insantity is repeating an action and expecting a different result.)
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To: ReignOfError
The Warren Commission Report on the assassination of JFK was an abomination.

As far as I am concerned, anyone who is willing to buy that garbage, is seriously suspect when it comes to free thinking.

If Oswald even had a real part in the slaying at all, he certainly did not act alone. I believe that he was indeed a “Patsy.”

Do you prefer Gore or Hillary in 2008?

97 posted on 06/30/2007 5:55:04 PM PDT by Radix (The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race)
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To: jdub

Get you a high powered rifle and shoot a watermellon, it goes in every direction.


98 posted on 06/30/2007 5:58:38 PM PDT by U S Army EOD
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To: n230099
I heard Vincent Bugliosi last month, promoting his book.

He said that the car was going down hill at that stretch, so, Oswald just had to chamber rounds and make very minor elevation adjustments.

99 posted on 06/30/2007 5:59:44 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Calvin Locke
Adjustments? At that range (less than 300 feet!) you point and shoot.
100 posted on 06/30/2007 6:04:08 PM PDT by endthematrix (a globalized and integrated world - which is coming, one way or the other. - Hillary)
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