Posted on 06/04/2017 8:12:33 PM PDT by WilliamIII
Why would it be difficult. Have you ever been to Dealey Plaza?
The FBI expert testified that the Master Marksmen from the NRA each missed one of three shots at a still target. I don’t know that he or any of them was in Dealey Plaza. I do know what yards are, too and what is involved in shooting a gun.
After a period of non-use rifles must be sighted in to be usable, Oswald’s was not. Heck, he allegedly buried it after the “miss” of Walker. I don’t think that is recommended by any firearms experts that I am aware of.
Recreating Oswald’s shots. Some hit the target once, some twice, some three times. Hardly impossible.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WovyEqfR8Hg
As you show even the best of shots were not 100% successful and almost none used a rifle which was poor to begin with, which was slepped all over the South not even protected by a gun case, “buried” after an easy missed shot, never practiced with and we know where and when they got their ammo. And their weapons were sighted. Everything identical?
Don’t forget that the best shot would have come before the limousine reached the killing zone and that the shots had to go through a tree in full flower.
In fact, the very fact that Oswald ordered a gun and left a long paper trail (not always consistent) rather than just go anywhere in Dallas WITHOUT even having to give a name. Cheaper, Easier and more Anonymity The Official Story stinks to high heaven in almost every area, particularly the rifle allegedly used. Who told him to order a gun that way?
Oswald, was an intelligence operative, and was creating a legend in hopes of getting into Cuba, a part of the CIA/Mafia plot to kill Fidel. Someone used that legend. We call this the Mafia.
There were two prior attempts thwarted in Chicago and Tampa within a month of the shooting. These stories were classified for decades, being fatal to the Lone Assassin theory.
The best marshaling of the true, false and unknown evidence is “Ultimate Sacrifice.” And I have been researching and watching this story for fifty years and read most, if not all, the major books on it. Watching Oswald get shot live was a formative aspect of my life because it meant someone wanted Oswald silenced. Who? Why? Now we have an irrational Lone Wolf killing the first Lone Wolf. Sounds like high comedy, doesn’t it? Would you believe such a story today?
How often have we been lied too by the media and government but we know it and don’t trust either. Back then the CIA had immense power over the media and almost NO ONE knew it.
Government was given the benefit of a doubt yet most people did not accept the tale even with that media control.
After a long discussion with one of our colleagues I have ordered one claiming the KGB did it.
That shots hit the target with less than 100% accuracy matches Oswald’s performance since one of his three shots missed.
By all over the South, do you mean within Dallas, since the rifle was shipped there just eight months before the assassination?
How do you know he never practiced, at least dry firing? His wife made contradictory statements on the question.
Maybe you prefer the testimony of FBI firearms expert Robert A. Frazier who said that the rifle “It is a very accurate weapon.” He also stated there was a “severe scrape” on the tube and the sight may have been damaged after shooting JFK. Marksmen from the Infantry Weapons Evaluation Branch of the U.S. Army’s Ballistics Research Laboratory fired Oswald’s weapon. Five of the six shots hit the third target at 265 feet (81 m), the distance of President Kennedy from the sixth floor window when he was struck in the head. None had any practice with the assassination weapon beforehand except to work the bolt.
The tree did not block all shots after the limo turned the corner. The view here clearly shows that the fatal headshot flew over the tree, down toward the car.
Questioning details of the proven trail of Oswald’s weapons purchase is typical of conspiracy nuts. Never mind the facts, if just doesn’t fit a preconception, it can’t be true. Did you ever think that maybe he decided to kill the president AFTER he ordered the gun?
Oswald was not an intelligence operative. He was the classic lone not loser. Not even the Russians wanted him.
That other attempts to kill JFK may have existed hardly means they are “fatal” to determining that Oswald acted alone.
I’ve been researching and watching this story for about forty years. I was convinced there was a conspiracy when I read Best Evidence by David Lifton. Then I read Rush to Judgment, Six Seconds in Dallas, Legend, and on and on. Then I realized that conspiracy nuts all follow these principles:
1. Oswald could not have been the shooter, or if he was, he was part of a conspiracy or a pasty set up by the true conspirators
2. Any fact unknown, or any detail that MIGHT be construed as conflicting with the preponderance of evidence, dismisses that preponderance and absolves Oswald, proving conspiracy.
3. Any witness testimony, fact or scientific test that implicates Oswald was manipulated or tampered with by the cabal behind the conspiracy.
In this way ONLY conspiracy can be accepted as reality. Even if a signed confession existed, along with film of Oswald doing the deed, these things would be dismissed as fabrications.
It’s very comforting to many to believe that shocking events are the result of a secret hidden hand manipulating world events, instead of the tragic confluence of insanity and opportunity. Sometimes conspiracies do exist. Julius Caesar, Abraham Lincoln, and Archduke Ferdinand all were victims of a conspiracy. JFK not do much.
Make that “JFK not so much!”
Frazier’s testimony did not lead to the conclusion that the gun was capable of the task. It basically said the gun was not up to the task.
Oswald was framed and defamed after serving the CIA/DIA well in the false defector program. Chief Curry after interrogating him stated that he had had training in resisting interrogation as would an intelligence agent. All evidence is that he was well-spoken and thoughtful.
Oswald spoke Russia better than many natives. Where was this learned? There is too much evidence to dismiss the claim that he was an agent. Too many odd actions (when viewed as individual choices). Ordering the rifle was one of them.
In “Me and Lee” his lover in NO (a brilliant science prodigy) paints an entirely different picture of Oswald. She said he was very intelligent, articulate and a total patriot.
He was also doing odd jobs for his Mafia-connected uncle a bagman/bookie in Marcello’s group when in New Orleans.
But that is not the way the Power Elite chose to portray him.
I don’t consider a good chain of possession would be a gun mailed to a false name at a post office taken out in a different name and picked up anonymously with no record of who picked it up. At a time when he was at work.
The rifle was taken to New Orleans then back to Dallas with no protection of its sights or bolt. Then allegedly buried.
Experts who have “duplicated” the shots did anything but. Most were accurate with a gun that was properly maintained and sighted not Oswald’s gun.
Presidential assassins have never hidden their crimes or claimed to be a “patsy” as did Oswald. He had to be silenced when captured alive. Jack Ruby, manifestly a mobster; silenced him. Only a fool believes he acted out of compassion for Jackie. It is laughable and is strong evidence of conspiracy.
Coincidence plays a large role in history but not this many for a non-existent reason. And, as with any crime, you have to ask “Who benefits”. That clearly is NOT Oswald. In fact, he had the least to gain by killing JFK.
“no evidence of another shooter” - except the zapruder film, the reaction of many on the scene who heard shots and smelled gunpowder behind the fence, the statements of parkland doctors that the throat hole was an entrance wound and there was a large exit wound in the right rear of the skull, the house committees finding about acoustical evidence, and the silencing of Oswald by a gunman with mob ties. You’re right, nothing to see, move along
I already answered you on these in post 105. Now you’re boring me.
I’m boring you? Then you’d really be bored by the Parkland doctors and nurses who saw a gaping exit wound in the back of Kennedys head. Boredom is one way some folks exhibit denial, I guess.
The lone shooter theorists don’t like to talk about what the Parkland doctors reported. Or the police car that honked twice while Oswald was back in his boarding house room changing, after the shooting
Now you’re making me chuckle! Here’s what the Parkland doctors REALLY said after viewing the autopsy photos:
Richard Dulaney
“I don’t see evidence of any alteration of his wound in these pictures from what I saw in the emergency room.”
Marion Jenkins
“Nothing that I’ve seen would make me think it had been changed from what happened that day.”
Robert McClelland
“I find no discrepancy between the wounds as they’re shown very vividly in these photographs and what I remember very vividly . . . “
Paul Peters
“Looking at these photos, they’re pretty much as I remember President Kennedy at the time.” Peters then mentions one minor discrepancy — a small incision that he believes the autopsy doctors made while removing the brain.
“Conspiracy books insist that the back of Kennedy’s head was blown out, indicating a shot from the Grassy Knoll. They quote several of the doctors who treated Kennedy at Parkland Hospital to this effect. But the official photos and x-rays from the Bethesda autopsy don’t show the back of the head blown out. They show the top of the head, on the right side and toward the back, blown out.
So do the conspiracy books see this as evidence of the unreliability of eyewitness testimony? Of course not! They see it as evidence that the photos and x-rays now in evidence were forged and faked.”
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/novadocs.htm
Interesting that you ignore what Drs McClelland and Crenshaw explicitly say, that they saw a massive rear exit wound. You’re not being honest in wishing away their comments - including Crenshaws book. Your half truths are boring me
I don’t ignore it, I discount it.
Dr. Michael Baden, chief forensic pathologist for the HSCA, said “They were wrong. That’s why we have autopsies, photographs and x-rays to determine things like this.”
Dr. Malcolm Perry, 62, the physician depicted in Crenshaw`s book as the one who worked hardest to resuscitate the mortally wounded president, said “Dr. Crenshaw was not involved in the efforts to save the president, and there was only one bullet.”
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