Vern Humphrey
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Let me ask a simple question: How many people who have actually shot a Carcano say it can't be done?
I won't go so far as to say that Oswald surely did it but I will go so far as to say this:I have NO reason to believe, at this point, with all that has been questioned and presented, that there was more than one shooter, or that that one shooter was NOT able to do the deed.
(1) attempt to assassinate the President of the United States (there would be very, very few individuals who would be able to control their heart rate, breathing, hold and cheek weld considering the massive amount of adrenalin that the brain would cause the adrenal gland to excrete into the circulatory system). It's doubtful that even James Bond could keep his cool during such an event;
(2) shoot at a moving target, at a significant down-angle (so a rifle sighted in at level/nearly-level will "shoot high"):
(3) accurately fire a rifle that was later tested by the FBI and found to shoot wildly off-target (i.e., at 15 yards the rifle tested 2½ inches high, and 1-inch to the right, while at 100 yards the test shots landed 2½ to 5 inches high, within a 3 to 5-inch circle);
(4) though a rather poor quality rifle scope (Ordinance Optics 4x18) with a VERY narrow field of view and a very small exit pupil diameter;
(5) rapid-firing three (3) rounds in 5.6 seconds;
(6) firing a cartridge with a "rainbow" ballistic trajectory (i.e., 162 gr military bullet shoots approx. 10" high at 100 yds on a rifle sighted in at a 300 yd military zero);
So, while Oswald could and most probably was involved, it's very difficult to accept that a troubled, ineffectual, wayward miscreant like Lee Harvey Oswald could have acted alone to assassinate JFK. Applying Occam's razor, it's easier to reason that Lee Harvey Oswald was simply a willing dupe, and that some other person(s) with either/both rouge CIA and/or Mob ties, was/were the shooter(s) that killed JFK.
There is no substantive proof to the contrary that has stood up to any kind of examination.
Which leads us to the ultimate stupidity.The best that people come up with is 'ear' witnesses who say they heard more than 3 shots and/or shots from different directions than the TBDB. But for anyone that has ever deer hunted before we all know how hard it is to tell which of our neighbors just shot at a deer.
Plus the echos in a downtown setting would be very confusing to anyone who was there.
This has all been duplicated more than once. It's absolutely possible, and if you have the right channels on your cable or satellite, you'll probably eventually see a documentary that shows someone duplicating the shots. I've seen it done on video a couple of times, and there are others who have set up the scenario and documented persons managing to duplicate the shooting.(2) shoot at a moving target, at a significant down-angle (so a rifle sighted in at level/nearly-level will "shoot high"):
(3) accurately fire a rifle that was later tested by the FBI and found to shoot wildly off-target (i.e., at 15 yards the rifle tested 2½ inches high, and 1-inch to the right, while at 100 yards the test shots landed 2½ to 5 inches high, within a 3 to 5-inch circle);
(4) though a rather poor quality rifle scope (Ordinance Optics 4x18) with a VERY narrow field of view and a very small exit pupil diameter;
(5) rapid-firing three (3) rounds in 5.6 seconds;
(6) firing a cartridge with a "rainbow" ballistic trajectory (i.e., 162 gr military bullet shoots approx. 10" high at 100 yds on a rifle sighted in at a 300 yd military zero);
so even with a relatively light-recoiling round such as the 6.5x52mm round, it is very difficult to believe that a single shooter could fire three (3) well-aimed shots, two (2) of which struck Kennedy one (1) of which passed through Kennedy and struck Connelly.
He knew the rifle, what it was capable of and what it wasn't.