The First Shot

[John Corbett]

   What you are describing above is not a "plan". Certainly not a "plan" by anyone with military training such as Oswald. This stuff about a shooter firing a rifle almost straight down through a 1/2 open window and then sitting down and firing 2 more shots with a bolt action rifle is not reasonable when applied to Oswald. Max Holland started this rubbish and for whatever reason some of you have bought into it. There is No Evidence that Oswald or anyone else did this cockamamie maneuver.

Oswald was trained how to shoot a rifle. He was not trained as a sniper or an assassin. He needed on the job training to figure that out. Not surprisingly, he failed in his first attempt. The second time around he missed his first shot as well but then settled down and scored hits with his next two shots. I guess experience is the best teacher.

   And if the shooter was serious about this "more shots on goal" hooey, he would Never have used a bolt action rifle to begin with. ALL of this is totally "out there"!

Oswald used a bolt action rifle because that's what he had and he chose that particular rifle because it was cheap and so was he. It should have been sufficient for his attempt to kill Walker but he choked and aimed high, maybe because he failed to take into account that either the scope or the fixed sights were set for much longer ranges than he tried to kill Walker from. His killing of JFK wasn't exactly world class shooting but it was good enough to get the job done. One complete miss and the two hits were spaced almost a foot apart. That kind of marksmanship would win you the booby prize at your local turkey shoot, but it was good enough for what he had in mind.

[Royell Storing]

Oswald was trained how to shoot a rifle. He was not trained as a sniper or an assassin. He needed on the job training to figure that out. Not surprisingly, he failed in his first attempt. The second time around he missed his first shot as well but then settled down and scored hits with his next two shots. I guess experience is the best teacher.
Oswald used a bolt action rifle because that's what he had and he chose that particular rifle because it was cheap and so was he. It should have been sufficient for his attempt to kill Walker but he choked and aimed high, maybe because he failed to take into account that either the scope or the fixed sights were set for much longer ranges than he tried to kill Walker from. His killing of JFK wasn't exactly world class shooting but it was good enough to get the job done. One complete miss and the two hits were spaced almost a foot apart. That kind of marksmanship would win you the booby prize at your local turkey shoot, but it was good enough for what he had in mind.

    You guys continue trying to make LN Oswald fit. He does Not. And this stuff you are now pushing was cooked up close to 50 yrs after the fact. When your original LN theory "just don't hunt". The elapsed firing time for the 3 shots has now been expanded from 6+ seconds to almost 11 seconds. Your "experience is the best teacher" applies to the LN Theory having fallen apart. And here you guys are going Humpty Dumpty and trying to put it back together again. With a new and improved elapsed firing time pushing 11 seconds. Which only makes the SS look like the "Sad Sack" you are trying to turn Oswald into. I do believe Oswald was involved. But as a shooter? Nope. Oswald was the classic "inside man".