Posted on 01/07/2013 3:18:34 AM PST by Tailgunner Joe
The Zapruder film makes the distance appear more than it really is, not that it was not a skilled shot.
He was standing right in the SE doorway/porch of the SBD best I can tell.
There’s no accounting for “Luck’’ — as in “Lucky Shot” either. Oswald might have just gotten off a one-in-a-thousand shot. It’s hard to accept, I know.
The same could be said of the bullet that nearly killed Ronald Reagan (although I wish I could think of a better term than "Lucky Shot.") John Hinckley did not hit Reagan directly. The bullet that struck the President ricocheted off the side of the presidential limousine, and went through the opening between the side of the car and the edge of the linousine's open door. If the bullet had been a fraction of an inch to either side, it would not have cleared the opening and struck Reagan.
The Walker shooting was at closer ranger, but he didn’t completely miss. His bullet hit the window frame, and got deflected, so Walker was only hit with fragments. That was only the first shot though, and we know the first shot at Dallas missed also. If Oswald had time for a second shot at Walker, Walker would probably be dead too.
“He was standing right in the SE doorway/porch of the SBD best I can tell.”
There was a guy photographed in that location that was a dead ringer for Oswald, however it wasn’t Oswald. That gentleman has been located, and his identity verified.
Don’t forget JFK and the issuance of silver certificates, redeemable in silver. Amazing bills. That would have been b’bye Federal Reserve.
There’s no way to say, really. There are a few witnesses who said they knew each other, but they were mostly strippers who worked for Ruby, and you can find one of those strippers who backs up nearly every conspiracy theory. So, they don’t appear to be very reliable witnesses.
There are some tantalizing connections back in New Orleans though. Ruby owned bars and strip clubs there too, and some of Oswald’s close relatives worked for the organized crime outfits that ran the vice in NO. However, as far as a photograph, phone record, or scrap of documentation that can prove they ever met each other, there is nothing.
I wouldn’t put much stock in Bringuier, because he himself was an intelligence asset. The whole encounter with Oswald on the street, followed by the media coverage of the altercation and arrest, and the radio debate between Oswald and Bringuier was a classic setup. Someone wanted to establish Communist bona fides for Oswald, and what better way to do that than to have him involved in a public altercation with anti-Communists, followed by a media spectacle documenting just how much of a Communist Oswald was?
It only adds up if it was a set-up. Oswald had already tried and failed to join many Communist organizations, including the FPCC. Yet, all of a sudden, he is trying to join anti-Communist organizations? Then, he is handing out FPCC literature, from an organization that wanted nothing to do with him, but the literature has the address of an FBI agent stamped on it? The anti-Castro Cubans, the press, and the police all just happen to show up on the one afternoon that Oswald decides to hand out pro-Castro pamphlets?
Remember, this was during the heart of the Cold War, when it was not fashionable to be a Communist. At that time, there were probably more federal, state, and local informants who were members of Communist groups than actual Communists. So, when you see someone proclaiming very publicly that they are Communist, and staging a publicity stunt along with that, but they do nothing in their day to day lives that corresponds with the activities of real Communists, then it smells like a set up.
Sorry I did not make that clear. That appears to be where Zapruder was standing.
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