This is a rather obscure 1973 movie despite some big name actors (for example Burt Lancaster)
It is about the conspiracy theory surrounding the JFK assassination, building a fictional story (supported by extensive research according to the movie director) about a secretive plot by powerful economic and political interests to get rid of Kennedy and, later on, getting rid of the "loose ends" and witnesses.
Basically it tells the story from the conspirators point of view, logistical preparation, etc...
The movie support the "triangulation of fire" theory, that is 3 shooters were used in the assasination, one from the Dallas County Municipal Records Building, the other from the "official" shoting spot, the Texas School Book Depository, and the last one from the infamous grassy knoll.
In the movie you can see two teams of 3 shooters each training for weeks in the desert shooting at a moving target and from height sometimes using a firetruck/utility repairman crane.
The difficulty of the shot is ackowledged as the need for very accurate rifles and the shooters finally tell to the head of the operation (Burt Lancaster) that it is imperative of the target vehicle to slow down to no more than 15 mph.
The men train with, as far as I can see, regular hunting bolt action rifles Remington, Winchester, etc.. chambered in what appear to be regular service/hunting rounds (30-06 and similar I suppose).
At some point in the movie, just few days before the action, the conspirators steal Oswald's rifle from the garage of his house, it will be used in the action with the other 2 shooters.
You can see the scene of the movie where one of the shooter disparage the Carcano lamenting the sticky bolt, trajectory drop, the offset scope.....in few words a piece of junk, "the rifle that would not hurt anyone".
The shooter says that he "will need much more practice with it", which is briefly seen in one sequence.
Now the questions are:
1) In such difficult shot, can the operator adapt so quickly to a total different rifle and round in few days?? Especially a rfle that is not exactly a tack driver, an old worn war horse.
2) Aren't repairmen and firetruck cranes too instable as shooting platform in order to train for such a shot??
3) Can you really proficiently practice from significant different positions compared to the actual shot?? The movie does not show an effort from the shooting team to reproduce the actual positions and distances during training.
4) In the sequence of the assasination, you can see the Carcano shooter from the book depository building but the other two (records building and grassy knoll) use different rifles....how the conspirator hope to match the bullets with a single rifle??
You can see the movie for free on here: (registration required)
http://veehd.com/video/4507892_Executive-Action
It is about the conspiracy theory surrounding the JFK assassination, building a fictional story (supported by extensive research according to the movie director) about a secretive plot by powerful economic and political interests to get rid of Kennedy and, later on, getting rid of the "loose ends" and witnesses.
Basically it tells the story from the conspirators point of view, logistical preparation, etc...
The movie support the "triangulation of fire" theory, that is 3 shooters were used in the assasination, one from the Dallas County Municipal Records Building, the other from the "official" shoting spot, the Texas School Book Depository, and the last one from the infamous grassy knoll.
In the movie you can see two teams of 3 shooters each training for weeks in the desert shooting at a moving target and from height sometimes using a firetruck/utility repairman crane.
The difficulty of the shot is ackowledged as the need for very accurate rifles and the shooters finally tell to the head of the operation (Burt Lancaster) that it is imperative of the target vehicle to slow down to no more than 15 mph.
The men train with, as far as I can see, regular hunting bolt action rifles Remington, Winchester, etc.. chambered in what appear to be regular service/hunting rounds (30-06 and similar I suppose).
At some point in the movie, just few days before the action, the conspirators steal Oswald's rifle from the garage of his house, it will be used in the action with the other 2 shooters.
You can see the scene of the movie where one of the shooter disparage the Carcano lamenting the sticky bolt, trajectory drop, the offset scope.....in few words a piece of junk, "the rifle that would not hurt anyone".
The shooter says that he "will need much more practice with it", which is briefly seen in one sequence.
Now the questions are:
1) In such difficult shot, can the operator adapt so quickly to a total different rifle and round in few days?? Especially a rfle that is not exactly a tack driver, an old worn war horse.
2) Aren't repairmen and firetruck cranes too instable as shooting platform in order to train for such a shot??
3) Can you really proficiently practice from significant different positions compared to the actual shot?? The movie does not show an effort from the shooting team to reproduce the actual positions and distances during training.
4) In the sequence of the assasination, you can see the Carcano shooter from the book depository building but the other two (records building and grassy knoll) use different rifles....how the conspirator hope to match the bullets with a single rifle??
You can see the movie for free on here: (registration required)
http://veehd.com/video/4507892_Executive-Action
