Posted on 01/05/2006 10:03:10 AM PST by Kenny Bunk
Back in those days you could buy a 1903 Springfield from Sears for $50; war surplus from other countries was even cheaper.
Cuba recruiting a willing Oswald, sounds believable.
Yes, I have seen the recent specials on TV and seen these shots easily duplicated. But this and other myths, bolstered by Oliver Stone's movie, have contributed to the myht.
Simply not true. 3 shots through a scoped rifle in about 5 seconds (with the first shot at the first instant of that time) at a slow-moving target about 100 yards away is no big deal for a Marine-trained marksman.
No evidence of him receving $6500 has been shown. What did he do with the money?? Make a down payment on a 1959 Studebaker Lark??
This sounds dubious to me. If it were true, it would have more concrete evidence. I don't think LBJ was frightened of Fidel Castro, with all due respect.
and laying the pristine bullet on the gurney? LMAO
I qualified Expert while in the Marine Corps with a M-14 and I'm not sure I could have put three shots in the back of JFK's head & back while the open air limo was moving up the street using that POS bolt action rifle and scope that Oswald used...
nope, there were two and probably three snipers that day and you can bet your house they weren't using no 12 dollar rifles. LOL
About $38,000 in today's dollars.
I worked for a neurosurgeon who was a classmate of the doctor's who did JFK's surgery. He happens to be a history buff also and told me that when Jackie climbed on the back of the convertible she was retriving the back of the president's skull; that he could have been saved in surgery.
Remember the joke going around after a few years of the "Jimmy & Billy Show":
Q. What woman in the US has the biggest boobs?
A. Lillian Carter. She has Jimmy and Billy.
"at a slow-moving target about 100 yards away is no big deal for a Marine-trained marksman."
Have you ever qualified?
Well I have. Expert!
and I have actually been in combat and taken shots and I'm telling you that that POS rifle Oswald used was not the rifle that killed JFK! PERIOD!
All military surplus rifles were cheap in those days.
They still had the inherent accuracy that all military arms are made with though.
And we don't know how well Oswald could shoot.
Here is a great documentary on everything you wanted to know about Oswald . ..
I think he was a misfit, and didn't need any encouragement or help from Russia or Cuba. A lot of the KGB thought that Oswald was either a flake or double agent.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/oswald/
What did he do with all the money? Both him and his wife lived like paupers . .
The Mannlicher Carcano is a real sleazy cheap-o, OK. But, is is also a very fast bolt action, more than reasonably accurate, and fired a very useful 6.5MM round at a fairly high velocity. Further more the recoil is rather light, which is a big help in fast shooting.
The bullet, a long FMJ, has excellent penetration because of its sectional density. Many countries used similar rounds with similar ballistics as their military cartridge for years. Various 6.5s are excellent hunting cartridges, too.
Oswald's alleged shots would have been duck soup for any qualified Marine. They were all in enfilade, that is going practically straight ahead, and the range wasn't great. As far as the speed of fire, three in six seconds? Piece of cake, especially if the first one is in the chamber and you're cocked.
This shooting has been duplicated over and over. There simply is very little doubt about it, LHO had equipment that was up the task. Wasn't great equipment, but adequate.
As far as the main premise of this film, namely that Castro took advantage of a walk-in? Well OK? But doesn't anyone find it a teensy bit coincidental that this walk-in lived in the the Soviet Union for so long?
I think this may be disinformation to cover the KGB, whom I believe to have been in it up to their eyeballs, possibly supplying LHO to Fidel.
I personally have always been on the "Fidel Dunnit" conspiracy team. Hopefully this "documentary" will shed more light in a dark corner. And co-incidentally make the Fidelistas among us, who are also JFK idolaters, look pretty damn stupid.
I believe it. She is not acting like someone who is seeking cover from a hail of bullets. For that, she would have been ducking down into the foot-well of the back seat. The way "Jackie" was crawling, seemingly with purpose over the back of the convertible, lends credibility to your post.
Amen to that!!
Yassure, that's what they said. But none of them address the facts that Oswald lived like a king in the Soviet Union, that they had him create a fictitious bio, that he was married to Marina, who's family were big in security, etc.etc.
In fact, the KGB tried to float the story line that they had NO INTEREST in LHO. This, in an era in which every foreigner in the USSR had a KGB Surveillance Squad and was required to live in bugged quarters.
cf Lee Epstein's "Legend."
The bullets' condition after the shots, (even the one that hit the rib bone), was virtually in the exact same condition as the so called "pristine" bullet recovered from Parkland Hospital.
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