JFK’s assassination was a defining moment in my childhood and I have been hopeful ever since that the truth would eventually filter out. Although I think Oswald was involved, I no longer think he was alone. The other day I heard for the first time a recording purporting to be the gunshots which I believe was captured by a motorcycle cop’s open microphone. Hearing that was a sudden revelation to me. Three evenly timed shots rang out within about 2 seconds, allegedly from an Italian Carcano bolt-action rifle. That seems highly implausible to me — I own a Carcano and have shot a variety of bolt-action rifles for 35 years. It takes precious time to move your hand from the trigger to the bolt handle, cycle the bolt up, back, forward, and down again, reposition your finger on the trigger, realign the sights after recoil, and squeeze the trigger, while tracking a moving target. Oswald barely qualified on a semi-automatic Garrand M1 in the military — a bolt-action rifle is slower to shoot. I don’t know how many empty brass Carcano shells were recovered in the book repository, but any discrepancies could have been “fixed”.
“Three evenly timed shots rang out within about 2 seconds, allegedly from an Italian Carcano bolt-action rifle. That seems highly implausible to me”
I don’t know what tape you listened to, but the general consensus is that Oswald had over five seconds to execute three shots. And he had all the time in the world to line up the first shot, so it’s really more than five seconds for two shots. Oswald’s feat has been repeated several times.
8.3 seconds according to the Zapruder film. The first shot starts the clock. There’s guys on YouTube who easily do it.
There is no real recording where you could hear that. There is an open mic recording, but there are no audible shots on it at all. If you "heard" shots, then you were either listening to some other recording unrelated to JFK, or they were shots someone dubbed in.