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Oswald 'had no time to fire all Kennedy bullets'
The Sunday Telegraph (UK) ^ | 6/30/2007 | Tim Shipman

Posted on 06/30/2007 4:36:50 PM PDT by 1066AD

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To: ReignOfError
We know that Oswald was present in the Book Depository, that he owned the rifle that killed the president, and that he killed a cop in making his getaway.

Yup he was sitting in the employees lounge just moments after the shooting not breathing hard from having sprinted down all those flights of stairs and then decided he just HAD to have a refreshing pause so he stopped to buy a coke, right?

As to the killing of the cop, Oswald was found in a movie theater well over two miles from the place the cop was shot. Did he run? There also was no definitive evidence that he shot the cop. A witness described someone other than Oswald. If there was incontrovertible evidence as to the guilt or innocence of Lee Harvey Oswald, then a lot of smarter men and women than I wouldn't be having this discussion.

The folks arguing for Oswald's innocence -- or for a wider conspiracy -- must prove that he could not have done it, and this they have failed to do.

Not at all. Reasonable doubt is the standard in every criminal case. I think there is reasonable doubt that Oswald was the shooter at all and reasonable doubt as to the existence of a wider conspiracy.

281 posted on 07/01/2007 12:26:03 PM PDT by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
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To: scott says; y'all
The History Channel is airing 'The Kennedy Assassination: Beyond Conspiracy' at 5 pm Pacific Time...just a few minutes from now.
If you have never seen this, I highly recommend it.

Notice that the 'computer graphics' never match up the sight angle Oswald had when he supposedly hit both men with a single bullet.
- It can't be shown, because Oswald's position simply doesn't fit. - Oswald was too high, and to far to the limos right to shoot both men at once.

282 posted on 07/01/2007 12:28:09 PM PDT by tpaine (" My most important function on the Supreme Court is to tell the majority to take a walk." -Scalia)
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To: spanalot

Six seconds to pull a trigger??????
It sounds like you need to take that 03-A3 to a real gunsmith and get rid of that fifty pound pull. I would have to say you aren’t much of an expert if everyone on the planet seems to be able to do it. Notice how slow the guy is shooting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACT0aKWEAow


283 posted on 07/01/2007 12:28:42 PM PDT by Shooter 2.5 (NRA - Hunter '08)
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To: 1066AD

Seems a lot of old is dredged up now and then as if new. Perhaps it is new to some born in the past 1/4 century. Perhaps it is new to some old people too who have forgotten all this 1/4 century ago.


284 posted on 07/01/2007 12:31:42 PM PDT by RightWhale (It's Brecht's donkey, not mine)
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To: Shooter 2.5

More.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPrI7JnsKeo&mode=related&search=


285 posted on 07/01/2007 12:35:04 PM PDT by Shooter 2.5 (NRA - Hunter '08)
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To: 1066AD

“The official Warren Commission inquiry into the shooting concluded the following year that Oswald was a lone gunman who fired three shots with a Carcano M91/38 bolt-action rifle in 8.3 seconds.

But when the Italian team test-fired the identical model of gun, they were unable to load and fire three shots in less than 19 seconds”

Did any of these cretins consider the possibility that Oswald HAD ALREADY LOADED THE FIRST ROUND LONG BEFORE HE BEGAN SHOOTING and he only had to load and fire TWO rounds in 8.3 seconds, which can easily be performed by a trained rifleman?

Oh wait, they were Italian experts!

My mistake.


286 posted on 07/01/2007 12:37:17 PM PDT by Panzerlied ("We shall never surrender!")
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To: HEY4QDEMS

” many times my first shot does not hit where I aimed and then I compensate the drift or rise with my next shot.”

In less than 8 seconds? BWAHAHAHAHA

Let me tell you something. Me an my friend sighted in custom rifles at 100 yds in prep for deer season with 3 shot groups at 100 yds covered by a quarter.

The next day, we jumped a deer at 10 yds and we each fired 4 shots as it ran straight away in an open field.

NOT ONE BULLET HIT!

Hitting a moving object at 80 yards is VERY difficult. Doing it twice is virtually impossible.


287 posted on 07/01/2007 12:45:36 PM PDT by spanalot
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To: Shooter 2.5
"You can lay the animation on top of the Zapruder film and it’s an exact match. Try it and you’ll see."

I see what they show to be an "overlaying" but then when they show the "animation" by itself it does not match what my eyes tell me directly from Zapruder. He (Kennedy) simply is not that much higher nor is he leaning or hunching forward as required to match up the trajectory. Unless Zapruder is inaccurate or my eyes are lying.

"What the animation doesn’t show is any of the hits below the line of sight which the Zapruder film couldn’t show."

... has nothing to do with my point.

"Your theory is a 161 grain bullet traveling 2000 feet a second hitting five inches of flesh and disapearing. That’s a magic bullet."

??? I have no such theory... all I am saying is that if you look at the Zapruder film and consider where the entry and exit wounds were, then the trajectory does not line up. It's not even close.

It's the same thing I see every time someone tries to match the trajectory... Kennedy's body has to be raised and leaned forward well beyond what Zapruder shows.

JW

288 posted on 07/01/2007 12:49:36 PM PDT by JWinNC (www.anailinhisplace.net)
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To: MississippiMan
The most convincing argument I've yet seen that Oswald did not act alone is the view from the shooter's nest in the book repository.
During a recent worktrip to Dallas, I had a little time on my hands and walked to the scene of the crime. Went to the sixth floor and crouched at the window next to the Oswald window, which is now glassed in.
I'm not sniper material by a long shot, but I'm a pretty dang good shot through open sights. Crouching right there, the thought of making those shots with a pristine rifle, much less that clunker, looked WAY unlikely. WAY.

I had much the same reaction when I was there at the window.
The real clincher though, was when I realized that Oswald's line of sight for the 'single bullet' shot simply did not line up with the limo's occupants, JFK and Connelly. - Oswald was too far up and too far right of the limo's path at the point where JFK's hands went up to his throat.
JFK and Connnely did not 'line up' from Oswalds point of view.
And no credible photographic evidence of that line up exists.

289 posted on 07/01/2007 12:54:54 PM PDT by tpaine (" My most important function on the Supreme Court is to tell the majority to take a walk." -Scalia)
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To: News Junkie
Furhman nails it: 3 shots, 3 hits. Shot one, Kennedy?s neck. Shot 2, Connally?s wounds. Shot 3, Kennedy head shot. All Oswald.

Leaving one shot unaccounted for. A bullet hit the curb down at the underpass.

290 posted on 07/01/2007 1:16:41 PM PDT by tpaine (" My most important function on the Supreme Court is to tell the majority to take a walk." -Scalia)
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To: REDWOOD99
Above and behind w/ a target moving in a straight line slowly away from you. As a shooter, is there an easier shot?

The limo was directly below Oswald crossing in front of the building when the first shot was fired. It then disappeared in the foliage to reappear still crossing to Oswald's right while curving left down the street. - Finally, by the 3rd shot, it was going "in a straight line slowly away from" him.

Not an easy series of shots, nor would it have been easy to reacquire a good sight picture through the scope. Maybe he used the open sights.

291 posted on 07/01/2007 1:34:57 PM PDT by tpaine (" My most important function on the Supreme Court is to tell the majority to take a walk." -Scalia)
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To: tpaine

I think they are trying to say, that the (curb) bullet may have been a “hit” bullet; but I think, it was written in this thread also that there was a “no-hit” bullet too.

I brought this up; post 247 I believe,

and in fact, a defender (apparently, don’t want to wrongly place labels on people) of the one gunman theory writes in post 250:

“The first bullet missed and hit a curb. The bullet fragments or concrete hit a man named James Tague who was standing near the underpass. That bullet or fragments were never found.”

So even with the one gunman theorists; with different authors, different theories.


292 posted on 07/01/2007 1:37:35 PM PDT by RGPII
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To: tpaine

I mean Post 251; first one on this page.


293 posted on 07/01/2007 1:42:13 PM PDT by RGPII
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To: tpaine

“ALL of the re-creations of the event have been flawed in crucial details.
- Garbage ‘re-creation’ in, garbage info out.”

Thats the spirit.

By the way, did we land on the moon?


294 posted on 07/01/2007 1:51:00 PM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
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To: Shooter 2.5

Good video.

This argument really is ridiculous, but some people will stop at nothing to “prove” their pet conspiracies.


295 posted on 07/01/2007 2:17:04 PM PDT by Shion (Hunter 2008! www.gohunter08.com)
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To: DCBurgess58
You have NO IDEA what you are talking about!!!! Oswald’s Shooting range records are available.

Absolutely correct, he was a Marine after all and from his records i believe he shot expert at least once.

296 posted on 07/01/2007 2:17:31 PM PDT by Lx (Do you like it, do you like it. Scott? I call it Mr. and Mrs. Tennerman chili.)
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To: Shion

I have yet to read any factual accounts from the conspiracy theorists. The most offered is “I believe what I believe”.

The fun is when they say that no one could make shots like that and then you can offer as many YouTube videos as you have time for. There’s one video that shows some young guy trying to shoot and his results aren’t shown. What is shown is the guy working the action and it’s as slick as can be.

The other fun thing is when they say they can’t shoot all the way out to a mere 88 yards. I have a friend who uses a Freedom Arms .454 Casull out to 70 yards away at claybirds laying on a dirt bank, standing up, two hand hold. After he’s done hitting the birds, he starts on the pieces. I’m good but not quite that good. Apparently, according to some of these posters, He and I must be some super human, deadeye shooting machines.


297 posted on 07/01/2007 2:56:58 PM PDT by Shooter 2.5 (NRA - Hunter '08)
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To: Names Ash Housewares
The 9-11 Truthers demonstrate on the eleventh of every month at Dealy Plaza. They hand out DVD’s along side the “Oswald Was Setup” crowd.

I’m waiting for the Flat Earth Society to show up.

298 posted on 07/01/2007 3:01:41 PM PDT by Shooter 2.5 (NRA - Hunter '08)
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To: California Patriot
You have to understand: the Left will construct any theory and seize on any alleged fact, however absurd, to prove that at left winger such as Oswald did not kill Kennedy.
For the Left, the Kennedy assassination must be the result of a right wing conspiracy of some sort.
299 posted on 07/01/2007 3:06:47 PM PDT by quadrant
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To: quadrant

You’ve got to understand, the Left is the one so heck-bent on defending the Warren Commission, Believe what the government spoon feeds you. Kind of like saying Froggy was not one of the Little Rascals.


300 posted on 07/01/2007 3:30:24 PM PDT by RGPII
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