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I have not read Posner's book, but I only testified to his character.

As for my theory, I believe that it was the mafia who killed JFK. They had the motive since they helped him through back channels to rig elections in WV and IL (at the behest of the old man) to get him in the White House only to find JFK and Bobby persecuting them later.

A couple of years ago it came out the Kennedys were still running a Castro assasination effort out of the AG's office where officially they were supposed to have disbanded efforts because of promises made to the Soviets. These assassination teams came from seedy parts of the world, thugs, militants, etc.. They just used the setup to kill JFK instead. So what the mafia did was get Oswald to shoot from one angle while discreetly getting another shooter in position. Afterwards, it would be hard to implicate these assassination teams since they came from their own illegal program. One conspiracy buff, and I cant recall his name, believes he tracked the assassins back to southern Europe. David Horowitz also shares my opinion.

I also believe that Oswald could have made the shots from his position. Its not imposssible as some claim and has been proven in tests.

I posted this on another thread and thought that it might be of interest to you.

Craig Roberts, a Vietnem and police sniper, wrote a book called "Kill Zone" in which he said that it could not be done. Roberts was in Dallas for a conference, had some time to kill, and wondered over to Dealey Plaza. He had always just assumed that the Warren Commission version was true. At that time, you could go right up to the "sniper's nest" window. Now it's encased in plexiglass, and you can't get near it.

Anyway, Roberts walked up to the window, took one look, and his world came crashing down. He knew that no one, not him, not any professional sniper that he had ever known could make the 3 shots that Oswald had to have made. And, yes, he tried to duplicate the shots but couldn't even come close. As far I know, no one ever has.

Roberts then walked the grounds and mapped how he would have done this job. He would use the classic triangulation of three shooters. Two shooters would be on the rooftops of two buidings -- the Dal-Tex building and I think some County records building. The last, "kill" shot would be from the stockade fence on the "grassy knoll." He said that he wouldn't put anyone in the Depository unless just to fire diversionary shots or lookout.

Roberts went into a lot of detail about the physics of why the shots Oswald was supposed to have made were impossible -- high-to-low angle formulas, and how gravity has such an effect on that steep downward shot that you have to redo your sites with every shot which is impossible to do for a target moving away in what? less than 6 seconds? With a bad rifle, through leaves on the trees, etc., etc.