When you strip away all the nonsense—like bullets making alleged left turns in mid air—it all comes down to this for me: A communist sympathizing loner, Oswald, just happens to be in the Texas School Depository Building on a floor with a commanding view of the kill zone, in Dallas, with a rifle, on the exact same day the Kennedy motorcade went by.
Oh, and another thing, Presidential motorcade routes are never announced in advance. Moreover, the motorcade route was changed by someone who has never been named, on that very same day. The original route would have allowed the motorcade to keep a minimum 50 mph speed all the way to the venue where Kennedy was headed. The new route required the motorcade to negotiate a right hand turn around the Depository building. The vehicles had to slow down to 20-30 mph. Voila—kill shot.
I’m not prepared to say there was more than one shooter. But too many things had to come together very precisely for Oswald to be where he was on that day, at the right time, with a rifle.
Oswald did not happen to be in the TSBD. He was unemployed and looking for work. A friend of his wife got him the job.
Of course motorcades are announced in advance. Not months or weeks but certainly days. How else do people know where to go to see them. Bush Sr. visited a school across the street from my parents house. The day before a fleet of helicopters swooped in and landed as a test run the day before. People knew he was coming a day or two before that.
The original route was altered because the there was no way for the motorcade to reach their destination unless they had the right hand turn.
Over the years I’ve gone back and forth on the conspiracy angle but I’ve finally come to the conclusion Oswald acted alone. Over the past forty plus years dozens of conspiracy theories have surfaced, all of them either impractical or absurd, none of which have any real evidence or stood up to scrutiny.
You are citing the conspiracy mythology about this case. Not what anyone alleges actually happened.
The fact that Oswald happened to work there before the trip was planned is really an argument against a conspiracy, not for one.
The motorcade route was published in the paper prior to the day, and Oswald read the paper. That's when he realized he had the opportunity. That's what it was, a crime of opportunity.
The route was not changed. Again, that's just part of the mythology.
“When you strip away all the nonsense—like bullets making alleged left turns in mid air—it all comes down to this for me: A communist sympathizing loner, Oswald, just happens to be in the Texas School Depository Building on a floor with a commanding view of the kill zone, in Dallas, with a rifle, on the exact same day the Kennedy motorcade went by.”
But Oswald didn’t shoot head on as the limousine is coming towards his window. Very strange he’d take a tougher shot once the limousine turned.
Pure garbage. The route was published - they wanted (and got) a big crowd to cheer the politicians.