I think the official explanation is probably correct. I haven't heard an alternative explanation yet that doesn't dissolve when scrutinised.Zambo wrote:I think Oswald could have got the three shots off based on....m4 colin wrote:Oswaldwas a US Marine and although the legend is "Every man a rifleman "Hillman avenger wrote:Wasn't Oswald trained in rifle-shooting in the army?
It must get very tiring putting together these alternative versions, and you have to wonder why people bother.
Did anyone see the ITV doc re 9/11 in the week? Very interesting...it disposed of the "truther" stuff about it really being a bomb and blah blah, but it spent most of the time on the Saudi connections of most of the bombers and the US reluctance to square up to the Saudis..now that is a CREDIBLE theory.
Oswald was not a trained sniper. For my money Oswalds shot (If it was Oswald)was the one that hit the road by the car . as for it being do'able several FBI and military marksmen have tried to duplicate that shot and failed . As far as I know Michael Yardley is the only one to succeed
and he is a world champion several times over
He would only have needed to reload the rifle twice in the eight seconds to get off all three shots, since the time was measured only from the moment he fired the first shot. The FBI concluded that a marksman could have fired a shot at least every 2.3 seconds.
In his book, Mr Bugliosi details how after just two or three minutes' practice with the gun in 1979, three police marksmen aiming at three targets representing Kennedy at the same distance from Oswald, got away three shots in less than eight seconds.
Maybe he just got lucky.
Then again maybe he only fired the shot that hit the road, No one will ever be sure. Just like no one will ever be sure who was involved in the plot.
We'll never know for absolutely certain obviously.
Edit - Actually, the "official explanation" is that it's likely there was a conspiracy.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_ ... ssinations
I think the most plausible explanation is that Oswald wasn't part of any conspiracy & acted alone.