Old, old CT claim. Even after it became more widely understood that the top was not bulletproof.
I seem to remember, but can’t find a cite, that the Secret Service was close-mouthed about the canopy, and if people wanted to believe it was bulletproof, that was just fine with them. So the earliest confusion is understandable. Anything much after 1965 is not. But, of course, CTers tend to read nothing but each other’s writings, so…
Unless the bullet struck the bubbletop exactly perpendicularly, it would definitely have deflected. See pages 244- 256 of The Ultimate Sniper for a lot of interesting detail. The whole book is available here to read, though it is a huge pdf file. Plaster is the real deal and knows his stuff when it comes to sniping. The only question is whether the deflection would have been enough for Kennedy to have survived. Those of you who are acquainted enough with the tiny details should be able, using Plaster’s information, to roughly extrapolate new points of impact for Oswald’s bullets.
A target moving slowly AWAY from you is much easier than a target traveling across your line of fire.
" Oswald got off three rounds with an old Italian bolt action rifle in only six seconds and scored two hits, including a head shot.’’
It is actually TWO shots in 6 seconds; the first shot is at time zero. The clock starts running AFTER the first shot. Not hard at all.
Or a target moving toward you. Even if your target is unaware of you, your fight/flight response is pumping you full of adrenaline when the target is moving toward you. It’s easier to stay calm and focused on a target moving away from you.
Yeah. That six seconds includes only one bolt action, and two trigger pulls, because it starts with the second trigger pull, and ends with the third one.
I think DA Jim Garrison is the person who really hammered home the idea of three bolt actions, and three trigger pulls in six seconds. Of course, Garrison may have been using the best information at the time that the second bullet was the one that missed, but still, including chambering the first bullet in the timing is stupid.
According to the best reference at hand, the total span for the shots was 8.4 seconds. Using the first shot as zero, the second was at 3.5 seconds and the third at 8.4 seconds. Thus the two killing shots were five seconds apart.
Dealey Plaza was and is, more or less the only way out of downtown Dallas toward the Dallas Trade Mart, which is on the Stemmons Freeway a short distance south of Parkland Hospital.
My guess is that LHO’s plan was inspired by his job, and not the other way around.
Here’s the Google Street view from right on top of the “X”. You can see how small the area actually is. That orange building to the upper left of the BMW is the School Book Depository. Note how close it is. Pan around to the left (counter-clockwise) about 90 degrees. You’re looking at the Grassy Knoll. No way a rifle could have been fired from there and not noticed by EVERYONE in the vicinity.
Anecdotes are not evidence, but I went trap/skeet shooting for the first time in my life (as in, at age 47, this was the first time I ever shot a rifle before, ever) and with but one good eye and no more training than hints and tips given to me by the other guys, hit over 50% of the targets. (Non-scoped rifle, of course.)
You went trap/skeet shooting with a RIFLE? Sorry, but this is most likely (for a large value of most) not true. Trap and skeet are done with shotguns and most (probably all) ranges used for them are not safe for elevated rifle file.
Shows my ignorance - it was a shotgun. :o
Like I said… never did this before, didn’t even know what the hell I was shooting! 
If Oswald had used a shotgun, we wouldn’t be having this debate over whether he meant to hit Kennedy or Connally.
He would also have hit Zapruder and the guys on the grassy knoll. 
That’s a certainty, because he started working there before Kennedy even made plans to visit Dallas.
Nope, this is a red herring to cover the real conspiracy. See, JFK was abducted by aliens that had escaped from Area 51. They quickly realized that somebody might notice a missing president so they swapped in a anatomically correct dummy (the fruition of all those previous alien abductions). They then used mind-control powers to make LHO shoot the gun. This is all true; I heard it directly from a guy on a train who read it on the internet.
Ahhh, you failed to take into account psychic powers or maybe he had KGB operatives with connections within the Secret Service that routed the motorcade straight into his sights. How do you respond to that?
Wake up, people. Kennedy and Oswald were the same person. Think, did you ever see them in the same room together? What happened on November 22, 1963 was an elaborately staged suicide.
Hell, at that distance, he still might have hit JFK, had he used buckshot and a full-choke shotgun.
I thought JFK assassinated JFK. It’s on YouTube so it must be true.
This. I always had an element of doubt about the grassy knoll stuff until I visited the 6th Floor Museum. My grandmother could have made that shot.