3 shooters instead of 1?

[Richard Smith]

Three shooters sounds like an accident waiting to happen. I don't know why someone would set up an assassination like that. If one assassin gets cold feet as you say, he is then a liability for the other two in trying to escape.

Three shooters means three times as many assassins to be seen or get caught or keep quiet for eternity.  And, if there is anything the witnesses do agree on, it's that there were three or two shots fired all from one location.  They disagree on the location due to the sound distortions but almost no witness indicated they thought the shots originated from two different locations.  So one shooter firing three or two shots.

[Walt Cakebread]

Three shooters means three times as many assassins to be seen or get caught or keep quiet for eternity.  And, if there is anything the witnesses do agree on, it's that there were three or two shots fired all from one location.  They disagree on the location due to the sound distortions but almost no witness indicated they thought the shots originated from two different locations.  So one shooter firing three or two shots.

At least one of the shooters was using a .45 caliber weapon ( subsonic ) that was equipped with a silencer.

[Gerry Down]

One of the assassins also had a bazooka but it failed to go off and he disappeared into the bushes.

[Jon Banks]

The Pros of multiple shooters:

- increased odds of success. If one sniper misses, there are two others.
- the directions of the shots confuses the bystanders and law enforcement.
- There were a bunch of locations in Dealey Plaza for snipers to hide. TSBD sniper’s nest wouldn’t have been discovered if not for someone leaving evidence behind.

The Cons of multiple shooters:

- increased odds of someone getting caught before the mission is accomplished.

[Walt Cakebread]

The Pros of multiple shooters:

- increased odds of success. If one sniper misses, there are two others.
- the directions of the shots confuses the bystanders and law enforcement.
- There were a bunch of locations in Dealey Plaza for snipers to hide. TSBD sniper’s nest wouldn’t have been discovered if not for someone leaving evidence behind.

The Cons of multiple shooters:

- increased odds of someone getting caught before the mission is accomplished.

Concise and succinct Mr Banks.....   

The TSBD sniper’s nest wouldn’t have been discovered if not for someone leaving evidence behind.

That was a deliberate act Mr Banks....  They left the throw down evidence to lead to Lee Oswald....
 

[Richard Smith]

The Pros of multiple shooters:

- increased odds of success. If one sniper misses, there are two others.
- the directions of the shots confuses the bystanders and law enforcement.
- There were a bunch of locations in Dealey Plaza for snipers to hide. TSBD sniper’s nest wouldn’t have been discovered if not for someone leaving evidence behind.

The Cons of multiple shooters:

- increased odds of someone getting caught before the mission is accomplished.

What about the use of multiple different guns firing from different directions that would necessitate obtaining the bullets and fragments from the crime and access to the president's body to hide the evidence of other shooters.  A fairly big con!  If anyone is planning to frame Oswald as the assassin from the 6th floor window with a particular rifle, then the shooter uses that rifle and fires from that shooting location to avoid the risk and complexity of having to access the bullets and body after the fact. 

[Jon Banks]

What about the use of multiple different guns firing from different directions that would necessitate obtaining the bullets and fragments from the crime and access to the president's body to hide the evidence of other shooters.  A fairly big con!  If anyone is planning to frame Oswald as the assassin from the 6th floor window with a particular rifle, then the shooter uses that rifle and fires from that shooting location to avoid the risk and complexity of having to access the bullets and body after the fact.

If they intended to frame Oswald, they only needed to plant one rifle and three spent shells.

Obviously other snipers wouldn’t/didn’t leave rifles behind.