Posted on 08/08/2011 8:39:30 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
Can one draw an unobstructed straight line from the Book Depository to Dealey Plaza? Yes. There's all the physics information one needs.
the Zapruder film
The Zapruder film contains no data at all that excludes Oswald.
The Zapruder film is also a Rorschach test - a very limited dataset that conspiratorial minds can map all kinds of theories to.
When Oswald lived in Minsk he belonged to a gun club there and members also reportedly said he was a poor shot.
Let me put it yet another way. Marine Corp Sniper Instructor Carlos Hathcock, who shouldn't need any introduction, examined the shots and tried to duplicate them at Quantico. When constraining the course of fire to be as exact as possible, not one of the marine corp snipers could make those shots.
I shoot prairie dogs at 400 yards regularly. The film shows a low velocity bullet
from behind
and
later a V-Max from the front.
I know what my father said. What about that statement don’t you understand? A little girl’s recollection of her father comments of LBJ so threatens you? I find your over-reaction puzzling.
Again, it was twice.
Testimony from Nelson Degado
Delgado. Delgado claimed many things, but his claims contradict the established record. In his recorded testimony, Delgado can't keep the ranking of ratings in the Marine Corps straight in his head. For example, you say that 210 is the cutoff point for marksman, while Delgado claims in testimony that 170 is the cutoff point for sharpshooter - one ranking above marksman.
All Delgado is certain of is that he himself was an excellent, excellent marksman.
When Oswald lived in Minsk he belonged to a gun club there and members also reportedly said he was a poor shot.
How many gun clubs were there in Soviet Minsk?
Carlos Hathcock, who shouldn't need any introduction, examined the shots and tried to duplicate them at Quantico
I have yet to see the document in which Hathcock himself directly makes this claim.
Many things are said about Carlos Hathcock, but few are documented outside of official Marine Corps records.
Over-reaction?
You made a claim that the documented evidence does not bear out, and I explained why.
He "said" it was a highly accurate weapon but his testing data results demonstrate otherwise. (5MOA is not an accurate rifle)
Yes all mass produced weapons have variable quality, however the base quality of a carcano was poor while the base quality of the garand was good. An average garand shot about 2.5 moa or twice as accurate as caraco.
You are making assumptions about the resolution and the speed of a spring-wound camera that are simply not supportable, even if the camera was not handheld, which it was, and the film interrupted, which it may well have been.
Again, the Zapruder film is as notable for the information which it failed to capture as the information which it did. And the information it did capture is open to multiple interpretations.
I stated what my father told me. And yes, you over-reacted - with several posts. And you were not stating some evidence, but personally attacking my deceased father and me. And I stand by what my father said. You were not there. I was.
No objective reader of my posts would draw that conclusion.
I will restate the facts:
(1) LBJ's swearing-in was not filmed and took place in an enclosed stateroom on Air Force One.
(2) Because it was not filmed, only ten men could have observed the look in his eyes at that swearing-in (probably fewer, since six of them were standing behind him during the swearing-in).
(3) Therefore, in order to have observed the look in his eyes at the swearing-in, your father would logically have to have been one of those ten men.
(4) Since I have no idea who you or your father are, I have no way of knowing whether your father was one of those ten men or not.
Regarding Delgado's testimoney concering Oswalds shooting, it matches that of Oswalds military record in that he simply wasn't a talented shot.
"Let me tell you what we did at Quantico. We reconstructed the whole thing: the angle, the range, the moving target, the time limit, the obstacles, everything. I don't know how many times we tried it, but we couldn't duplicate what the Warren Commission said Oswald did". (KILL ZONE, pp. 89-90)
“Let me tell you what we did at Quantico. We reconstructed the whole thing: the angle, the range, the moving target, the time limit, the obstacles, everything. I don’t know how many times we tried it, but we couldn’t duplicate what the Warren Commission said Oswald did”. Carlos Hathcock (KILL ZONE, pp. 89-90)
So, based on all of the evidence William Holden took out JFK to be with Jackie-O ?
Don't let anyone intrude on your fantasies.
Only two ratings from 1956 to 1959?
KILL ZONE, pp. 89-90
So are you asserting that Carlos Hathcock was the author of Kill Zone?
Robert Gaylon Ross Sr. interview with Madeleine Duncan Brown
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6962062879996612313#
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link posted yesterday from a similar thread that was pulled. Interview with long-time mistress of LBJ. Long, fact-filled, and the woman seems quite credible.
It would be a fantasy to pretend that the Zapruder film was made with modern high-definition resolution and was digitally timed.
Of course, anyone who watches the footage will immediately notice that it has the blurry resolution and shaky frame speed (approximately 18 frames per sec, not a precise 24) one would expect from a camera that was built in the early 1960s and timed by a wind-up mechanism.
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