Yes. He was a shill. Ballistically and trajectorily it has been proven that, being where he was in the TSBD building , it would have been impossible for him to have fired the shots that hit and ultimately killed Kennedy. There exist photographs of two other marksmen on the grassy knoll with rifles and scopes who did in fact fire the fatal shots. They were professional French snipers and were exactly where they needed to be to fire two shots almost simultaneously which matched exactly the trajectories which would have been necessary to create the entrance wounds found on the President. The Warren Commission report accepts the trajectories then makes a mockery of scientific analysis by attributing the shots to Oswald, drawing ridiculous graphs showing bullets making left and right turns on their own. Oswald, an ex-Marine shill, a second-rate marksman holding an antiquated weapon in a location from which not even today’s smart ballistics could have made the entrance wounds found on the President, could not have fired the two shots because the time elapsed between the shots did not provide anyone, much less Oswald, the chance to reload and re-fire the kind of rifle found in the TSBD and attributed to Oswald as the weapon used in the assassination.
Long disproven. Conspiracies are fun and the truth is final and boring, but give it up.. Oswald killed the man on 22 Nov 1963.
Read Vince Bugliosi's "Reclaiming History." Oswald, on one occasion in the Marines, tested exceptionally high on the range.
Ballistics and trajectory all fall within the performance characteristics of the Carcano. The low recoil and inherent accuracy of the cartride lend itself to an easy ability to hit a target repeatedly without changing positions.
Kennedy was shot at 270 FEET, not yards, not from the sewer, not from the Grassy Knoll and not from the Dal-Tex building.
He was shot at three times, and hit twice. All by Oswald alone.
Walk Dealey Plaza sometime. The distance is small and the zone is barely 100 yards in length.
With all the conspiracy books written and all the people that would have to be involved, SOMEONE, ANYONE, having anything to do with it would have come forward by now. Deathbed confessions, memoirs, letters, notes, SOMETHING.
But all the conspiracy theorists disagree or leave a critical factor out or miss something entirely, or create something to explain the obvious in other terms. The biggest mistake is the position of Connaly to Kennedy. Connaly sits INBOARD on the jumpseat in front of Kennedy, not directly in front as the conspirists say. That one fact alone dispells all the second gunman theories.
Besides the assassination is not about Kennedy, it's about OSWALD. Follow that trail and there is no other conclusion based on the evidence. Oswald from the TSBD with 2 of 3 shots.
With all due respect, put down the bong. Oswald's Carcano M91/38 is bolt-action rifle with a six-round magazine. It wasn't a single-shot rifle. The Carcano wasn't as imprecise a weapon as the conspiracy theorists would have you believe. The FBI's testing of Oswald's rifle consistently put three shots in a three- to five-inch circle from 100 yards, and Oswald was shooting at about sixty yards, if I remember correctly.
Also, current analysis of the Zapruder film place the three shots as occurring over the span of 8.3 seconds. In other words, aim . . . BANG . . . and then four seconds to work the bolt, ejecting the spent cartridge, which automatically loaded another, aiming, and firing again, and four seconds to repeat the action.
Four seconds is a long time for an ex-Marine who twice earned a rating of sharpshooter (48 and 49 bulls-eyes out of fifty in rapid-fire shooting at 200 yards with an M-1 Garand). In a 1967 test of 11 shooters, the average time to aim and fire three shots with a Carcano rifle like Oswald's, WITH NO PRIOR EXPERIENCE except to work the bolt, was about 5.6 seconds. The attorneys for the House Committee on Assassinations were able to work the bolt and fire two shots with Oswald's Carcano in under 1.5 seconds.
The arguments about Oswald not being a good marksman are nonsense. The argument that his rifle was not accurate are nonsense. The argument that there was insufficient time to fire three shots are nonsense.
You left out the reverse vampires.