I keep coming back to the rifle. Why would Oswald choose a bolt action rifle in 6.5mm when he was more familiar with the M-1 Garand? At the time, both would have been available, although the M-1 would have been more expensive, but more accurate. All it would have taken was one bolt hangup and the assassination fails.
All the test firings to see if Oswald could have fired three shots in the time allowed left out one critical factor - stress. Assassination of a President can’t be easy; there has got to be some stress there.
According to a computer reenactment, the motorcade was traveling slowly away from Oswald’s vantage point. He had only to compensate for elevation each time he fired.
Sort of like hunting pheasant. The bird flushes and the shooter sees only a diminishing target which appears almost stationary. Explains why roast pheasant is usually full of birdshot.
Oswald was a lone nutjob. The Soviets lost what they regarded as a malleable U.S. president. Conspiracy speculation is fun, but whose interests were served?
Professional assassins (hired by the mob)are calm, cool and collect when performing their “art”.
Lee Oswald was no pro but knew how to use weapons.
Lee Oswald may have brought the rifle to the Texas School Book Depository but did not shoot that day as per his instructions by his operators. The weapon was of a poor quality, perhaps just good enough to hit a moving target but not in the alloted time - hence, conspiracy.
You got it. Noone planning an assassination would choose the Carcano instead of the M-1.
Bur when JFK became a target of opportunity, Oswald used the cheap rifle he already owned.
A planned conspiracy would have provided an M-1