Smeggin’ 'ell! :smack:
It was just a man with something to prove - slightly bored and severly confused. He steadied his rifle with the target in the center and became famous on that day in November.
As to the question of how difficult the shot was - I don’t know too much about guns, but a couple of buddies of mine were talking about going to the shooting range and calibrating their sights on their hunting rifles. They told me that they calibrate their rifles at a distance of 300 yards, which is a median distance for hunting. At this range, a closer target will be missed a little too high, and farther ones the bullet will drop a little lower.
Wasn’t Kennedy’s fatal head shot, the farthest one, less than 90 yards?
Don’t wake me I plan on sleeping in…
Perhaps all you guys who are so sure about the ‘alone’ part can explain the findings of Select Committee on Assassinations of the U.S. House of Representatives
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Anyway, this Committee did its work around 1976, so some new evidence may have come up to refute its conclusions, and also, they may have been just wrong to begin with.
But, if these people found that JFK “was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy”, how can people today be so sure that Oswald did it all by himself?
I think I read that the head shot was at 88 yards.
Check this out. Frame 313 is messy. Fair warning.
now we can swim any day in november?
That’s part of it. He was supposedly a huge fan of JFK. He was also, from what I gather, batshit insane.
Question-I thought they did a simulation, or a reenactment, and found that if someone WAS hiding on the grassy knoll, they wouldn’t have been able to see the motorcade at all?
(Someone had a link once to a great site all about Garrison, the man Cosner played in Stone’s movie. In real life, he was also nuts and saw conspiracies everywhere).
So who did the HSCA think did it? Where’s their physical evidence?
They had nothing. The only piece of evidence they had is that dictabelt, and the dictabelt is worthless. Everything else was conjecture.
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Ruby was jailed in 1963. He died in 1967. Is it so surprising that a guy in his 50s developed cancer in prison? Is there any evidence that he had cancer and knew that four years before he died?
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His “monetary problems disappeared over night”? Cite? Melvin Belli didn’t know that Ruby had this supposed windfall because he represented Ruby for free.
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Ruby had been chummy with Dallas cops for years, bringing them food and hanging out with them, that sort of thing. There is a photo of Ruby at a press conference announcing Oswald’s arrest. There’s a bulge in Ruby’s pocket in that picture - a lot of people think it’s a gun. So a guy who hangs with cops all the time snuck into a police station, a police station he had snuck into with a gun just two days before…this is a conspiracy?
I’ve read variously that a shot from the grassy knoll would’ve had to go right through Jackie, and that a shot consistent with the one that killed JFK would have had to have been fired from a position floating in mid-air above the grass knoll, not on it.
The HSCA conclusion that a second shooter was involved was based entirely on the dictaphone recording and the analysis that claimed it recorded four shots. The dictabelt was new information at the time of the HSCA, but it has since been thoroughly debunked as multiple posters in this thread have already shown.
As to the question of why Ruby shot Oswald . . . well, it’s kind of a bitch to jump inside somebody’s head like that. Ruby himself claimed he did it so that Jackie Kennedy would not have to return to Texas for trial. It seems he thought he’d be a hero for killing the assassin. Ruby was clearly impulsive, loved to be in the center of attention, and was described by those who saw him that weekend as highly distraught over the president’s murder. There is also some speculation that he did it in part to show that a Jew hated the president’s assassin as much as anybody else did, since there were some loonies who started blaming the Jews for the assassination right away. In any event, Ruby was a somewhat unbalanced individual, and he clearly went batshit insane while he was in prison. There is no credible evidence that he did it at the direction of the CIA/the mafia/Castro/space aliens.
I will never believe Oswald acted alone. He rated sharpshooter…that’s the lowest level.
He may have been the shooter but I don’t believe he planned it all by himself. Did Oswald ever do anything on his own accord?
Oswald was a follower not a decision maker.
Believe what you want, Reeder.
Oswald, acting according to his own convictions, moved to Russia and lived there for several years, at a time when doing so involved breaking with the United States entirely.
Disillusioned with the Soviet Union, he later moved back, an act not guaranteed to win him friends on either side of the Cold War.
Seems like something of a self starter to me.
Like so many things believed by conspiracy believers, this assertion is flatly wrong. Sharpshooter is the middle level on the marksman-sharpshooter-expert qualification scale emplyed by the Marines at the time (and still employed by them, for all I know). It means that he was an average or better shot for a Marine, which made him a hell of a lot better than the average civilian.
Oswald was a loner, not a follower.
I agree.
My bad.
The same scale is still in use.
I actually knew this was the scale for the Army from playing America’s Army, but I was a little embarassed to use that as a cite. 
In addition to the double defection, Oswald was also the founder and sole member of the New Orleans branch of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. He also planned the attempted assassination of General Walker alone.
In fact, most of the stuff Oswald did, he did alone. He seems to have had a hard time forming relationships with other people and also to have had a problem with authority.