Well, I don’t necessarily agree with your other statements but that exact thought about why Oswald didn’t shoot the Prez. head-on I thought of immediately as well. Newsweek dropped the ball on that for sure.
“Well, I don’t necessarily agree with your other statements......”
And you don’t have to, but if you watch the film and read the testimony, it’s all there.........
An approaching target with increasing down angle aggravates the problem
A target moving away (and in the case of JFK, moving uphill) with reducuing angle minimises it.