The Position of the Bolt on the MC

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Offline John Iacoletti

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Re: The Position of the Bolt on the MC
« Reply #259 on: August 17, 2022, 02:01:57 PM »
You're lying. Otherwise you'd be all-to-eager to help yourself disprove Iacoletti's 'Walt's Fabrications' list

It's not that hard to find -- even for somebody as ignorant as Chapman.

WCR p. 152:

A test was also conducted to determine the time required to walk from the southeast corner of the sixth floor to the second-floor lunchroom by stairway. Special Agent John Howlett of the Secret Service carried a rifle from the southeast corner of the sixth floor along the east aisle to the northeast corner. He placed the rifle on the floor near the site where Oswald’s rifle was actually found after the shooting. Then Howlett walked down the stairway to the second-floor landing and entered the lunchroom. The first test, run at normal walking pace, required 1 minute, 18 seconds; the second test, at a “fast walk” took 1 minute, 14 seconds. The second test followed immediately after the first. The only interval was the time necessary to ride in the elevator from the second to the sixth floor and walk back to the southeast corner. Howlett was not short winded at the end of either test run.

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Re: The Position of the Bolt on the MC
« Reply #260 on: August 17, 2022, 02:03:59 PM »
There were 2 re-enactments -- 47 sec -- & 48 sec -- with no great rush.

By whom, and where?

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Offline Bill Chapman

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Re: The Position of the Bolt on the MC
« Reply #262 on: August 17, 2022, 02:31:07 PM »
It's not that hard to find -- even for somebody as ignorant as Chapman.

WCR p. 152:

A test was also conducted to determine the time required to walk from the southeast corner of the sixth floor to the second-floor lunchroom by stairway. Special Agent John Howlett of the Secret Service carried a rifle from the southeast corner of the sixth floor along the east aisle to the northeast corner. He placed the rifle on the floor near the site where Oswald’s rifle was actually found after the shooting. Then Howlett walked down the stairway to the second-floor landing and entered the lunchroom. The first test, run at normal walking pace, required 1 minute, 18 seconds; the second test, at a “fast walk” took 1 minute, 14 seconds. The second test followed immediately after the first. The only interval was the time necessary to ride in the elevator from the second to the sixth floor and walk back to the southeast corner. Howlett was not short winded at the end of either test run.

In the FBI film, Howlett looked as if he was in no particular hurry. In fact, he might just as well have been walking on his knees.
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Online Marjan Rynkiewicz

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Re: The Position of the Bolt on the MC
« Reply #263 on: August 17, 2022, 03:36:31 PM »
By whom, and where?
The museum have a video where they did it in 48 sec in an almost identical warehouse.
And recently i found that someone else had done some kind of test & took 47 sec.

Offline Walt Cakebread

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Re: The Position of the Bolt on the MC
« Reply #264 on: August 18, 2022, 12:03:29 AM »
The museum have a video where they did it in 48 sec in an almost identical warehouse.
And recently i found that someone else had done some kind of test & took 47 sec.

Bull !.....

Offline Jerry Freeman

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Re: The Position of the Bolt on the MC
« Reply #265 on: August 18, 2022, 04:58:24 AM »
A mediocre re-enactment---
Where were the stacks of boxes?... obstacle free it appeared.
Did the guy thoroughly wipe that rifle down? Was that really how the rifle was "hidden"?
Howard Brennan picked Lee Harvey Oswald out of a police lineup as a man “closely resembling” the one he saw, but he declined in his first interviews with police and Federal Bureau of Investigation agents to make a positive identification.
 
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Mr. BELIN. Could you describe the man you saw in the window on the sixth floor?
Mr. BRENNAN. To my best description, a man in his early thirties, fair complexion, slender but neat, neat slender, possibly 5-foot 10.
Mr. BELIN. About what weight?
Mr. BRENNAN. Oh, at--I calculated, I think, from 160 to 170 pounds.
Mr. BELIN. A white man?
Mr. BRENNAN. Yes.
Mr. BELIN. Do you remember what kind of clothes he was wearing?
Mr. BRENNAN. Light colored clothes, more of a khaki color.

Even in testimony...Brennan failed to describe Oswald as he really looked that day.
I'm sure I read about witnesses who looked up at the shooter and said he apparently was in no hurry to disappear.
The re-enactment shows that practically anybody could boogie down 4 flights of stairs but does it really prove anything?