Poll...Have you ever been to Dealey Plaza?

[Jerry Freeman]

Dishonest posting, quote mining. Yawn. Not going to bother to explain to you what Zapruder said, I think you already know.
  As was Emmett Hudson who can be seen moving towards the fence after the headshot.  He was mere feet awat from the fence.

Try and explain what you just wrote there rather than translate your interpretation of Zapruder's testimony which really explains itself
Hudson------
 

The shots that I heard definitely came from behind and above me. When I laid down on the ground I laid on my right side and my view was still toward the street where the President's car had passed. I did look around but I did not see any firearms at all. This shot sounded to me like a high powered rifle.

https://www.jfk-assassination.net/russ/testimony/hudson1.htm
"Behind and above" was not explored very well by the lawyers [for some reason]
This is a poll please just address the poll.

[Bill Brown]

Anyone who honestly thinks someone fired a high powered rifle from behind the fence on the knoll with people so close (who didnt hear it) is delusional.

Indeed.

[Bill Brown]

Perfect location to get seen and caught
These characters are simply incapable of rational thinking

There is utterly no proof of a second gunman

Indeed.

[Steve M. Galbraith]

Indeed.

Right, but it was a secret CIA silencer weapon that was used. Besides the CIA did bad things and the government lied and Guatemala and Operation Northwoods and this or that Cold War intrigue.

All of that is true (except for the weapon part) but none of it, in my view, has anything to do with the assassination. But the conspiracy believers insists it does. They read these goofy conspiracy books with their tendentious history of the Cold War and then believe it has to be part of what happened that day in Dallas. Because JFK was going to end the power of the "deep state" that was running things by making peace with Moscow and Castro and Mao (he said so in his American University speech).

More than half a century of this. The most investigated crime in US history. Tens of millions of pages of documents released, multiple generations of people in power since then, numerous investigations conducted by the government and news media and others. Nothing has come out supporting these claims. But for the conspiracist any investigation that indicate no conspiracy only prove the need for another investigation. Ad infinitum.

[Bill Chapman]

Our "history buff" seems to have missed the Katzenbach meno,

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=62268#relPageId=29

especially,

Glad I could help.

"The public must be satisfied that Oswald was the assassin; that he did not have confederates who are still at large; and that the evidence was such that he would have been convicted at trial."
_ And they did indeed discover, for the ages
   Oswald was the lone assassin
   Still no conspiracy in sight after decades of CT moaning
   Evidence supplied via Tippit and Gang of 12

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BONUS
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Katzenbach meno memo
There. Glad I could help

[Jerry Freeman]

Dishonest posting  As was Emmett Hudson... he didnt notice someone firing a high powered rifle over his head?!

Talk about dishonest! Gaslighter Shields!
Is a sniper going to stick his rifle out and wave it around for everyone to see after he has fired it?

The shots that I heard definitely came from behind and above me.

https://www.jfk-assassination.net/russ/testimony/hudson1.htm

"The public must be satisfied that Oswald was the assassin; that he did not have confederates who are still at large; and that the evidence was such that he would have been convicted at trial." There. Glad I could help

Some help
Chapman might be satisfied... but the increasingly dis-satisfied public still isn't.

[Jerry Freeman]

An early 60's aerial view .....

 https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1030229/m1/1/zoom/?resolution=6&lat=2426.215592015087&lon=3333.5509347606585