[PhilDragoo]

In his testimony before the Warren Commission, Mr. Frazier said the brown paper package Oswald carried that morning was too short to contain a rifle. Oswald cupped the package in his hand, he said, and it fit under his armpit.

In Washington, Mr. Frazier said, he was "pressured" to change his recollection. In the days afterward, he was badgered by the media, harassed by people who didn't understand his relationship to Oswald and even became fearful for his life.

His testimony was important because investigators had proved that Oswald bought the rifle used in the JFK slaying and had found a matching palm print on the stock, but they had no proof that he had it with him that day.

Ms. Randle, who was also a leading witness, said recently that when she and Mr. Frazier testified before the Warren Commission, "they tried to get us to say that package was much longer than we recalled, but that wasn't true."

The commission kept pushing, Mr. Frazier said. Could it be that he was traumatized by the horror of what happened or embarrassed that he hadn't been more observant?

"I know what I saw," he said, "and I've never changed one bit."

One fascinating paragraph in Kill Zone: A Sniper Looks at Dealey Plaza by Craig Roberts http://www.riflewarrior.com/ occurs on page 89:

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, [since died] 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?”

[logician2u]

Should have read further — you beat me to it with the Roberts reference.

[The KG9 Kid]

Just so you know, the same Craig Roberts who places himself at the scene of an unrecorded conversation with his alleged buddy US Marine legend Carlos Hathcock about the impossibility of Quantico snipers being able to achieve Oswald's dead-simple shot is also the same Craig Roberts who insists that Timothy McVeigh had nothing to do with the bombing in Oklahoma City in 1995. McVeigh was 'just another patsy, like Oswald', he says. He links this to a shadowy government group called 'MEDUSA' that performs official coverups of every alleged conspiracy since WWII.

By the way, at his website, you can also buy his gold bullion.

You might want to stop using him and his bullshit story about being best pals with legendary snipers, because he's a kook who sells spooky conspiracy books and gold to paranoiacs.

Just so you know.

[MeekOneGOP]

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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?”

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BIG Bump, Phil!!! Thanks.

[Spktyr]

The feat has since actually been duplicated - Discovery Channel ran a show on it, and their marksman was easily able to duplicate the shots with an identical carbine and ammo from the same lot.