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When I talked about visiting Dealey Plaza and it reinforcing my belief that Oswald did it, I was talking about all the stuff about how hard a shot it was and how it would've taken an expert marksman to make this shot and how Oswald was a lousy shot and how he didn't have time enough to get off the shots.

The way I saw it, it wasn't a hard shot at all. With a rifle with a 4X scope, I think I'd have had a chance to make that shot at a target going that slowly, that was only 88 yards away at max distance. Oswald's Marine shooting records weren't all that awful, he wasn't Davy Crockett but he was a darn sight better than if you'd pulled someone off the street and stuck a gun in his hands, plus Oswald had been practicing. And as far as the time between shots, what a lot of people don't stop to think is that one shell was already chambered. So he only had to work the bolt twice, not three times.

Where had Oswald been practicing? He didn't drive or own a car. Has there been a witis come forward and state that he took Oswald out to the Trinity River to shoot moving snakes?

Also, why use a scope on a moving target. Every expert I've ever heard talk about this say a normal front to rear sight would have been best.

What is not commonly known is that when military sharpshooters test-fired "Oswald's" rifle, they were unable to bring the scope into alignment until they inserted a metal shim under the scope.