Posted on 04/15/2016 10:22:37 AM PDT by Kaslin
In other words, Oswald didn’t act alone. Though he probably thought he was.
My husband (Air Force) was all ready to ship out over the Bay of Pigs.
Operation 40/Mongoose
So why did he kill Officer Tippits, miles away and 45 minutes later?
Because he was guilty and didn’t wnat to be caught, I guess. A fugitive on the lam? Who knows?
Oswald fired two shots. The first one went wide and hit the pavement. The second was the “magic bullet” that hit Kennedy and Connely. The third, the head shot was from a frangible bullet. We know from the “magic bullet” that Oslwald was firing a full metal jacketed military round.
The best theory on the third shot is it was fired by a Secret Service agent, from an M-16, from the car following Kennedy.
I’m not disagreeing with you. Oswald’s second shot probably would have been fatal, but we’ll never know, especially since the Secret Service wouldn’t allow the Dallas hospital to autopsy JFK per Texas law. They took the body at gun point.
Whether or not the Secret Service agent that fired the head shot did so accidentally or intentionally will likely never be known, also.
There is a good documentary on the shooting from the ballistics evidence and Secret Service testimonies and affidavits.
“Oswald fired two shots. “
There were three spent cartridge cases found on the floor of Oswald’s sniper’s nest in the Book Depository.
The explanation is: The first one was a fired round, from zeroing or practice, left in the rifle for transport, rather than carrying empty or with a live round.
It was found much further away from the window.
Still, if you weren’t going to support the operation when the going got tough, why bother?
“Still, if you weren’t going to support the operation when the going got tough, why bother?”
Probably because Kennedy wasn’t nearly as courageous as he pretended to be.
As designed by Eisenhower the Bay of Pigs invasion had both air and sea support. Kennedy and McNamara pulled the air off on their own for purely political reasons- they didn’t want it to look like it was an American operation, as if that would fool anyone. The sea support that was there took off when they came under fire from Castro’s air force.
One of Kennedy’s earliest moves as President was to disband the two national security advisory boards that Ike had set up. By disbanding them JFK cut the service chiefs of staff out of his decision making process, so they weren’t able to warn him that removing the air support would doom the operation. Of course JFK and McNamara then blamed the JCS for their own stupidity and further cut the military out of the loop which had disastrous consequences in Vietnam.
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