At the age of twelve, the experience gives dimension: the kick, the sound, the yards conquered to kill the paper.
I note in an early illustration above the reference to Garand's use of the Mannlicher tipping bolt.
On this 40th anniversary of the Great Charade, it is useful to note for the record a statement by the nations's top military sniper.
This man is the subject of Chapter One of this book:
Coauthor Craig Roberts also wrote this book:
I read One Shot One Kill and gave it to the Marine vet who is the mechanic for our trucks. He has a nice sense of understatement and a full gun cabinet. His remark was, "As soon as I seen it was downhill, I knew it was a conspiracy. It's very hard to shoot downhill."
I would add particularly through a live oak in full foliage then make the bullet split in two, turn 180, hit the right temple and the throat below the Adam's apple.
I have a copy of Kill Zone.
And I quote.
Craig Roberts, Kill Zone: A Sniper Looks at Dealey Plaza, CPI, 1994 [my copy is a 1997 printing], pages 89-90:
According to my friend, Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock, the former senior instructor for the U.S. Marine Corps Sniper School at Quantico, Virginia, it could not be done as described by the FBI investigators. Gunny Hathcock, now retired [deceased 2003], is the most famous American military sniper in histor. In Vietnam he was credited with 93 confirmed kills--and a total of over 300 actual kills counting those unconfirmed. He now conducts police SWAT team sniper schools across the country. When I called him to ask if he had seen the Zapruder film, he chuckled and cut me off. "Let me tell you what we did at Quantico," he began. "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. Now if I can't do it, how in the world could a guy who was a non-qual on the rifle range and later only qualified 'marksman' do it?"
Craig Roberts' site is RifleWarrior.com.
Attempt to duplicate Oswald's "hold the rifle up to the light" shooting stance. Note absence of clip.
An eyewitness describes the entry wound in the forehead which "cached" the "face".
Two witnesses deposed by the FBI indicated the package Oswald took to the Depository was 27 inches long, shorter than the Mannlicher-Carcano when broken down, but oddly enough the length of curtain rods found in Ruth Paine's garage.
Thus marking LHO as the unimpeachable world champion big game hunter in the elite curtain rod category.
Archive photo of Specter's Scottish Bullettm which passed from a glass of scotch, through the ambitious attorney's mouth, and into history without losing a single grain (the only loss is two grains carved from the base for SAT tests race and gender-compensated).
The FBI located the back shot entry at 5-3/8 inches down from the coat collar, 5-3/4 down from the shirt collar. The autopsists said that wound did not penetrate beyond the first joint of the finger.
Thus making it a very difficult shot to make: the bullet had to penetrate, back out, go around, enter the throat, exit the left nostril, hit Connally's rib, exit Connally's chest, hit Connally's wrist, exit Connally's wrist, enter Connally's thigh.
Hoover was not forced to retire January 1, 1965--LBJ granted him a waiver.
LBJ was not prosecuted for the Billy Sol Estes and Bobby Baker corruption, nor was he dropped from the ticket by JFK. (Hoover controlled the Estes and Baker investigations, and LBJ dropped JFK from the 1964 ticket).
JFK's NSAM 263 was reversed by LBJ's NSAM 273 November 26, 1963, the Tuesday after JFK's funeral on Monday. A draft copy was found dated before the assassination. Hence the U.S. advisors would not be removed--the president would be removed.
When the stainless cylinder was opened, JFK's brain was missing.
An incident of mind control.
Sidney Gottlieb, head of MK-ULTRA
"Washing your brain and leaving
your teeth noticeably brighter."