Kennedy Assassination series on KET/PBS
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Regular and it was a great show, especially since I only knew the broad outline of the conflict
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I will have to disagree with you on this. I have been to the window in the Now Museum where Oswald supposedly shot Kennedy. The Parade route was changed at the last minute. Kennedy was coming straight at Oswald and Kennedy had nowhere to escape. So are you telling me if you really want to shoot someone that you wait until he makes a turn and is running away from you making it an extremely hard shot. No, you would shoot at him when he is right in front of you.
On a side note, I used to work with an OB/GYN who actually delivered Oswald's newborn baby. He was a Resident at Parkland at the time. He observed the commotion of trying to save Kennedy that day! Delivered our daughter as well.
Wasn't Oswald also just an average shooter? 3 shots that quick with a bolt action rifle? Plus, going away from you? Had to be more than just him
Was trained by Marines, earned sharpshooter designation, car was going slow, and in a small area, from six stories up, which is not really that high, even as little as I know about the assassination, I have read from numerous sources that in their opinion, it was not that difficult a shot for someone with his background.
But why take the kill shot as the target was going further away. You shoot when he is coming right in front of you not as he is leaving. Ruby shot Oswald when he was in front of him. He didn’t wait until he had gone past him.
Why does what Ruby did have any weight on what Oswald chose to do?
Who knows why he waited. Maybe he felt if they were facing him and going toward him he thought they’d spot him? Maybe the Sun glare caused a problem, and maybe he second guessed himself and started to chicken out until the chance was slipping away?
Who knows why he waited. Maybe he felt if they were facing him and going toward him he thought they’d spot him? Maybe the Sun glare caused a problem, and maybe he second guessed himself and started to chicken out until the chance was slipping away?
The witness reports on people who saw who killed JD Tippit don't say it was oswald.
THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION - WHY OSWALD IS NOT GUILTY
THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION - WHY OSWALD IS NOT GUILTY of being the Sixth Floor Sniper and Assassin of President Kennedy By William Kel...
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I'm not sure how much credence I would give to the sharpshooter designation. Expert is a higher ranking than sharpshooter. I was a military policeman, so we were required to qualify a lot. I qualified expert twice, but just because I had so many chances. I was more average than expert. Not saying he did not make the shot, just that the designation may not be what it appears.
Well considering g the police that went in the theatre from the rear entrance came on Oswald’s row Oswald immediately stood up and all three police say they heard the pistol snap as they subdued.
No different than how he snapped and killed Tippit.
If that isn’t telling enough I don’t know what is.
Oswald was a shooter. Period. Now if you believe it wasn’t his idea and therefore maybe backup plans were in place, fine. If you believe Oswald doesn’t know why the people behind him really wanted JFK killed, fine.
He was a shooter of the president though.
He is talking to you @Glenn's take .
But seriously, I read Case Closed when it came out. Occam's Razor should be taught in schools. Stop making the simple complicated. Oswald alone killed Kennedy. If there is a connection anywhere it is Cuba, not the USSR. I doubt that Cuba was involved, but it is possible. No mob, no LBJ, no USSR.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/03/jfk-assassination-lee-harvey-oswald-mexico-116195/
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Spent weeks practicing up until the event. No matter what earlier rating was he got really good.
Our government is grossly incompetent in just about every GD thing it does, so...
Yes, Oswald was the lone gunman. They have eyewitnesses who can account for Oswald's movements from the SBD to the Texas Theatre. An eyewitness testified that Oswald shot Tippit. It may have been a conspiracy, but Oswald fired the only shots that day.
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Chapter 4: The Assassin Introduction Ownership and Possession of Assassination Weapon Purchase of Rifle by Oswald Oswald's Palmprint on Rifle Barrel Fibers on Rifle Photograph of Oswald With Rifle Rifle Among Oswald's Possessions Conclusion The Rifle in the Building The Curtain Rod Story The...
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Perhaps it wasn’t possible to set up a sniper’s perch from the windows that faced the direction JFK was coming. The SS with JFK would be in a position to see from where the shots were coming. And due to the fact as the car approached the steepness of the shot would increase requiring the shooter to expose themselves more each shot.
This is the important point. Seriously-whether people do or do not possess definitive proof of a second shooter is irrelevant. Why were there open windows along the motorcade route? Why were there not more military soldiers dressed in street clothes, dispersed throughout the crowd? And why were there so many witnesses who died under suspicious circustances, in the 3 years, following the assassination? Many people’s eyewitness testimony was left out of the Warren Report. I wonder why.
i have been to that window as well. He was rated at a Sharpshooter based on his Marine tests in 1956. He could've made those shots. Zero doubt in my mind after see it in person.
I'm not saying Lee Harvey didn't act alone, but does anyone know where Yoko Ono was that day? Are we sure she wasn't on the grassy knoll? Just saying.
Well she killed The Beatles a few years later, so we know she was capable of terrible acts . . .
If I knew how to link it, there is a video floating around where a company has spent the last 5 years using laser technology (after taking measurements of the entire Dealey plaza) and, they have determined the magic bullet is not a thing. In fact, they claim they have proven there were different shots that hit Conley and Kennedy. If true, the implications r obvious. I’ll try and find it/link it.
We’ll that’s clear as day when you watch the video and see both JFK and Connelly are hit before JFK’s head explodes.
JFK leans over toward Jackie in pain and Connelly motions forward toward the dash.
JFK leans over toward Jackie in pain and Connelly motions forward toward the dash.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/jfk-was-a-martyr-of-the-cold-war
"John F. Kennedy was murdered by a Communist in an age of superpower tensions—but 60 years later, a counterfactual mythology continues to mislead Americans."
"John F. Kennedy was murdered by a Communist in an age of superpower tensions—but 60 years later, a counterfactual mythology continues to mislead Americans."
Yes, Oliver Stone started that stupid theory about shooting him as he approached on Houston Street. Several reasons he didn't shoot him as he approached, steepness of shot changing (as you pointed out, that makes it a moving target), would have had to shoot over Connolly to hit Kennedy, secret service would have been looking forward at the SBD, and Oswald wanted to get away. Shooting him as he did going downhill and away, it was a nice steady shot with no obstructions, and no secret service looking his way,
I thought I had just read that and looked to post but couldn’t remember where I saw it.
Lee Harvey Oswald, a onetime defector to the Soviet Union, self-described Marxist, and admirer of Fidel Castro, but also a “nut” and a “loser,”. I think that summed it up..
Why not just walk up to the motorcade and shoot? Anyone can say anything about why something would've been easier.
I guess, really, shooting going away was better bc 60 years later ppl are still believing there were other shooters when the head on would've left no doubt...
Watching the zapruder at normal speed I don’t even believe the bullet came from anywhere but the rear.
It actually makes sense with Kennedy already leaning left and slumped. Plus the bullet clip that side of his head and you can see blood spew forward after the bullet hits. It’s actually damn gruesome!
I do think the CIA and its ties to those around him convinced him somehow to do this as if it was for the country and then abandoned him. So based on that maybe he was a nut and a loser, but by no means would have determined that due to his training and spy capibility which I think he was trained to be in Russia and Cuba.
It actually makes sense with Kennedy already leaning left and slumped. Plus the bullet clip that side of his head and you can see blood spew forward after the bullet hits. It’s actually damn gruesome!
I do think the CIA and its ties to those around him convinced him somehow to do this as if it was for the country and then abandoned him. So based on that maybe he was a nut and a loser, but by no means would have determined that due to his training and spy capibility which I think he was trained to be in Russia and Cuba.
One Day in America was great. Oh, btw, Oswald acted alone. Hope this helps.
Your intent was to kill Kennedy. Just like when you go deer hunting your intent is to shoot a Big Buck. If you have a Big Buck slowly coming right at you are you going to wait to shoot him after he has turned and gone pass You?? You would have a chance to get several shots in case you missed if you fired when he was in front of you.
The truth will never come out even with those documents. Too many men in power would come down. Trust in our organizations would fall even further and would never recover. One thing you can be sure of. Oswald wasn't alone and didn't shoot JFK.
The Devil's Chessboard by David Talbot. Great book about how powerful the CIA, and especially Allen Dulles, had become throughout 1950s and early 1960s America.
It may not convince you that the CIA did it, but once you read that book it'll remove all doubt about whether or not the CIA had the means, motivation and balls to make such a move.
It may not convince you that the CIA did it, but once you read that book it'll remove all doubt about whether or not the CIA had the means, motivation and balls to make such a move.
The Babooshka lady said a witch doctor on the grassy knoll did it.
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