recently declassified photo from the grassy knoll.
Posted on 05/25/2007 8:19:11 AM PDT by Redcitizen
No one says he organized it! He as the cut-out, the fall guy, or in his own comments "I'm a patsy". The organizers are variously reputed to be: the CIA, the mob, the Cubans, and others.
Now honestly, don’t you think that would make a good movie? Get a brash Mel Gibson to play the gunman on the grassy knoll...
My apologies, I stand corrected, it was the M-1 not the M-14, trying to do 2 different things this morning.
Once scored 48 out of 49, and most of the time went unqualified. The 2 times he did qual was 210 in Boot Camp, 191 before he left the corps.
Anyone who is that inconsistant with a rifle is not a good rifleman. Hunter or not.
“Summertime of Oswald”
A drive in the country turns risky with an all star cast.
(FReepers supply the casting)(no casting couch please. We are getting “enough” from the government, thank you)
“Or how the killing of a marginally competent sex addict who became President had a lasting effect on his nation into the 21st century by keeping a fat, drunken, murdering slug of a dullard relative in political office.”
It amazes me how baby boomers still obsess about this event after all these years. Kennedy wasn't even that popular at the time, which is why he was in Texas campaigning (where he was mostly hated). To be sure, a sad chapter in American history, but it is time to move one.
The kook sites claim it was Bush the Elder....(eyes rolling)
If you’re younger than 44 years of age it’s likely that you wouldn’t now be around to make such an egregious statement. It was JFK who kept the world from being consumed by a massive nuclear exchange as a consequence of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
I had always thought that it was the little furry green aliens from Zeta Reticuli...
That’s funny!
Interesting stuff. Was he ever interviewed at any point?
Damn shame they didn't wait until 1993...
The 2 times he did qual was 210 in Boot Camp, 191 before he left the corps. Anyone who is that inconsistant with a rifle is not a good rifleman.
Inconsistency may say more about his motivations than abilities. 210 (it was 212 actually) is a respectable score and the 191 came when Oswald was already trying to leave the Corp. According to Posner 212 "indicated that he could hit a ten-inch bull's-eye, from a minimum of 200 yards, eight times out of ten" citing John E. Donovan, a lieutenant in Oswald's unit. Inconsistency can also be attributed to many other factors like fatigue, weather, rifle qualities, ammunition qualities, etc. The remark on hunting is meant to suggest that he had other opportunities to hone his shooting skills and even if he was a lousy shot in the Marines (which he wasn't) it doesn't necessarilly indicate his abilities in November of 1963. And it might suggest that he kept up what skills he did have in the Marine Corps.
Spot-on... and after missing with the first shot, he had almost 8 seconds to fire off the other two.
But his main point was that Democrats are abusive and corrupt..and this was certainly true of the Kennedy family. And when a political party has competing factions and a corrupt streak, murder will eventually be a consequence.
My guess is the poster believes LBJ was behind this and there are those who believe that to this day.
recently declassified photo from the grassy knoll.
This is the money quote. I used to believe in a conspiracy, but once I saw Dealy Plaza I knew it was garbage. No way some guy is in the Grassy Knoll. He would have been nailed in about 3 seconds. I realize it was a train yard in 1963, but there would have been hundreds of people there instantly. Three, maybe 4 shots from Oswald, with echoing and you get the illusion of a spray of bullets. Plus as Posner pointed out in Case Closed, that when Connally turned his body to the right, the bullet path becomes perfectly straight, not "magically" changing position. It's fun to think about a conspiracy, but a waste of time.
I have been there as well, multiple times in fact, and the one thing I still question is why would someone working alone, as Oswald is supposed to have been doing, pass up all the shots available to him while his target is moving directly toward him on Houston street and practically stopped directly below him while making the more than 90 degree turn from Houston onto Elm street in favor of those shots available while the target is moving away from him at a declining angle unless he was FORCED to do so in order for the target to be within a pre determined kill zone?
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