The 2nd Floor gunman...

[Jake Maxwell]

This is from the Tina Towner film...
Looks like a gunman from a second floor window...

[Jake Maxwell]

This is from the Tina Towner film...
Looks like a gunman from the second floor window...

If trajectory matches, maybe this fellow took the first shot...

[Dr Alan Howard Davis]

Uh -sorry Jake but if that was indeed the barrel of a gun -it would be 3 inch caliber or more, and the first shot would have blasted the car to smithereens! I would have thought that 1) people might just have noticed it in the window and 2) when fired, even if it missed would have rattled every window in the TSBD and put the fear of God in everyone in Dealey Plaza.

[Jake Maxwell]

Uh -sorry Jake but if that was indeed the barrel of a gun -it would be 3 inch caliber or more, and the first shot would have blasted the car to smithereens! I would have thought that 1) people might just have noticed it in the window and 2) when fired, even if it missed would have rattled every window in the TSBD and put the fear of God in everyone in Dealey Plaza.

Good observation. I suppose this could have been a spotter's scope...

However, perhaps it was a combination silencer/flash-suppressor, similar to the items below... Though I really don't know what might have been available in the 1960's...

[Tom Graves]

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Comrade Jake "Eagle Eye" Maxwell,

You really should consider discontinuing your posting of KGB-approved disinformation here and going to work for The National Enquirer, instead.

[Michael T. Griffith]

Good observation. I suppose this could have been a spotter's scope...

However, perhaps it was a combination silencer/flash-suppressor, similar to the items below... Though I really don't know what might have been available in the 1960's...

A lower-floor window of the TSBD is a possibility, but I think that a more likely lower firing position was a first-floor or second-floor window of the Dal-Tex Building. Some witnesses believed shots came from that building, and recall that a Mafia man was arrested as he was leaving the building because he appeared to be acting suspiciously. The Dallas police soon released him.

It makes complete sense to assume that one of the gunmen, perhaps two, used a silencer.

[Dr Alan Howard Davis]

Hi Jake.. biggest diameter rifle scopes you could get in the '60s were about an 1 inch and silencer/suppressors about 1 1/2 inch. I don't discount the silencer theory - but I don't think that is one in that window, sorry.