Perhaps you can tell us what the "it" was they were trying to duplicate?
Oswald shot three times at Kennedy's head (the only part of his body visible in the limo). One shot missed completely. One shot hit him in the back. The third and fatal shot just grazed Kennedy's skull. None of Ozwald's shots were a direct hit on the intended target.
Are you telling me the Marine sharpshooter could not duplicate two misses and a near miss out of three shots? If this is true we are all in trouble.
According to my friend, Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock, the former senior instructor for the U.S. Marine Corps Sniper Instructor School at Quantico, Virginia, it could not be done as described by the FBI investigators. Gunny Hathcock, now retired, is the most famous American military sniper in history. In Vietnam he was credited with 93 confirmed kills--and a total of over 300 actual kills counting those unconfirmed. He now conducts police SWAT team sniper schools across the country. When I called him to ask if he had seen the Zapruder film, he chuckled and cut me off. "Let me tell you what we did at Quantico," he began. "We reconstructed the whole thing: the angle, the range, the moving target, the time limit, the obstacles, everything. I don't know how many times we tried it, but we couldn't duplicate what the Warren Commission said Oswald did. Now if I can't do it, how in the world could a guy who was a non-qual on the rifle range and later only qualified 'marksman' do it?"
Craig Roberts is coauthor with Charles Sasser of One Shot One Kill on military snipers beginning with Carlos Hathcock as Chapter One. Roberts is a member of the U.S. Marine Corps Scout/Sniper Association.
The Warren Commission has stipulated that only three shots were fired and all of them by Lee Harvey Oswald from the sixth floor eastern window of the Texas School Book Depository.
The Commission further stipulates that one bullet missed, struck the curb 20 feet from the overpass and injured Tague's cheek. The curb was patched before the FBI test, making the test worthless.
The Commission insists only a single bullet caused the wounds to Kennedy's head--yet the Parkland Memorial physicians noted a major defect of the occipital or back of the skull, and the recovered skull fragment, the Harper fragment was occipital.
The large occipital defect indicates a rear exit inconsistent with a rear entry, hence Oswald is excluded.
The Parkland personnel observing and describing this large rear defect include:
Dr. Charles Crenshaw
Dr. Ronald Jones
Dr. Charles Carrico
Dr. Richard Dulaney
Dr. Robert McClelland
Dr. Paul Peters
Dr. Kenneth Salyer
Nurse Audrey Bell
Theran Ward
Aubrey Rike
Jerrol Custer
Paul O'Connor
Floyd Riebe
Frank O'Neill (FBI agent)
Dealey Plaza eyewitnesses:
Beverly Oliver
Phillip Willis
Marilyn Willis
Ed Hoffman
The major defect in the rear of the skull disappeared in autopsy photos, no greater feat than Kennedy's brain performed, weighing 1500 grams per autopsy report, yet being absent in its entirety when its stainless cylinder was opened.
The Commission fantasized a Magic Bullet whose entry had to be much higher than Kennedy's actual back wound, 5-3/8" down from his coat collar, 5-3/4" down from his shirt collar according to FBI measurements.
Yet the autopsists stated this back wound did not penetrate beyond the first digit of a finger, thus used up one of the three precious shots without accomplishing its assigned task.
The Commission, relying upon Arlen Specter, insisted this Magic Bullet, entered Kennedy in his neck. Commissioner Gerald Ford maintained this to the end--yet that would be a fourth bullet, fatal to the Commission's assignment of all culpability to Oswald.
In addition, Kennedy's throat wound was described by the Parkland Memorial physicians as small, round, edges inward indicating a wound of entry from a shot fired from in front of Kennedy, not behind, not from the infamous "sniper's nest".
[This small round wound of entry was neatly slit for a trache tube, but the Parkland physicians were shocked to see it had been ripped open to a gaping gash by the time of autopsy photos--it had to be, for the Magic Bullet was a-comin' through.]
Yet the Magic Bullet must proceed out this entry to go on to cause five wounds in Connally--though Governor and Mrs. Connally maintained he was not hit with the same bullet that hit Kennedy.
Further, Connally retained fragments which could not have come from the Magic Bullet, Commission Exhibit 399. That bullet lacked only the two grains cut from its base for analysis.
The bullet itself retained its pristine shape--a phenomenon never duplicated with such a bullet causing seven wounds in two men including two through bone. Such bullets are severely malformed, not pristine.
The first shots were obscured by the live oak tree, making it necessary for a sixth-floor shooter to rely on divine providence rather than sighting.
Oswald's fellow Marine Nelson Delgado testified to Oswald's lack of shooting skill:
Q. Did you fire with Oswald?
Delgado: Right; I was in the same line. By that I mean we were on line together, the same time, but not firing at the same position, but at the same time, and I remember seeing his. It was a pretty big joke, because he got a lot of "Maggie's drawers", you know a lot of misses, but he didn't give a darn.
Q: Missed the target completely?
Delgado: He just qualified, that's it. He wasn't as enthusiastic as the rest of us. We all loved--liked, you know, going to the range.
[The target is on a large canvas sheet. Ignominy for a novice occurs when he misses the sheet completely. Then the person in the target pit scoring the result waves a red flag or "Maggie's drawers".]
Oswald couldn't hit a stationary target, but FBI agents still spent hours badgering Delgado to make him change his story. Then when they could not, the Commission simply ignored Delgado's testimony.
Hathcock's was the only recreation using the exact parameters according to the Commission, and he states his Marines could not duplicate the shooting ascribed to Oswald.
Oswald could not have done the shooting, for the package of curtain rods he carried that morning was described in testimony of Buell Wesley Frazier and Mrs. Linnie Mae Randle to FBI agents who measured and determined in each separate description to have been 27 inches long, too short to contain the longest piece of either of the two models of Mannlicher-Carcano at issue--but exactly the length of other curtain rods in the Paine garage: 27 inches.
Not to mention no one saw Oswald carry anything into the Depository that morning. Which is not surprising since no one saw Oswald pick up any package from the post office box of A. Hidell, nor would Oswald have been authorized.
Which is not surprising, since Oswald was on the clock working at the Depository when the postal money order to Klein's was purchased.
Yet a weapon is of no use without bullets and no one can show Oswald ever bought ammunition for the rifle he didn't buy, carry into the Depository nor shoot out the window--
For the only witness to that act did not identify Oswald at the police lineup, and described his vision as "bad", yet leapt at his fifteen minutes of fame by claiming to have seen a gunman standing at a window 120 feet away, and to be able to state the man's height--
Although the Commission established that no man could be standing at the window shooting--for he would be shooting through the glass.
The consistency is the complete disconnect between the Commission's stipulations and reality. In that, the documentation is perfection itself.