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When Could Oswald Have "Zeroed" (Sighted-In) the Alleged Murder Weapon?
Steve M. Galbraith:
--- Quote from: Joe Elliott on October 31, 2025, 06:33:36 PM ---Adjustments can be made to the scope.
Question: How does one make adjustments to the iron sights? How does Oswald "zero in" the iron sights?
Ordinary soldiers use rifles which they get ahold of and use them to shoot soldiers without ever "zeroing the iron sights" and still hit targets, particularly at under 100 yards.
Yes, if we were talking about shots from 800 yards, one would have to have the rifle zeroed sighted somehow. But at under 100 years?
But these bullets come in boxes of 20. Either Oswald threw away 15 bullets or he used them to practice, at some point in time. Likely 7 months earlier but he likely did practice with it.
This is hard to explain because everyone knows that gun shops owners all have photographic memories and it is impossible for one of them to forget that several months earlier, someone person they did not know, like Oswald, came into their shop and purchased some bullets. If they do not remember Oswald, then they never met him.
Give me a break.
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Michael Griffith says there was a shooter on top of the linen truck. And other shooters elsewhere in the plaza (triangulated fire). He even says we can't reject the "possibility" that Babushka Lady shot JFK with a gun camera (or camera gun).
Yet he has no questions about how all of these shooters zeroed in on JFK. Or how they got into the plaza unnoticed. Or who ordered them. Or a dozen and one other questions. He has all sorts of demands about how Oswald shot JFK, how he got his rifle, the ammunition, et cetera but has no questions about how these teams of snipers pulled off their feat.
Zeon Mason:
Why would a conspirator shooter use the MC rifle with a defective non zeroed scope and leave that rifle behind at the boxes near the rear staircase on the 6th floor TSBD?
From a CT point of view, one answer could be that the conspirator shooter waited until the last hour to steal the MC rifle and thus had to use it “as is” whatever its condition was.
For this scenario, however, a 2nd shooter would be required to make sure the job gets done as there is not much time to practice with the MC rifle and the TSBD shooter might have a misfire or a jammed cartridge or not able to aim as accurately as he would like to do.
So the purpose of the TSBD 6th floor shooter sticking out the MC rifle out the window and firing 3 loud shots was meant primarily as a demonstration to be seen and heard from TSBD, Oswald’s place of work.
The 2nd shooter used a suppressed rifle with similar 6.5mm bullet from probably the Daltex bldg which afforded him an easier shot more in line directly behind the JFK limos path of travel down Elm st.( an at a lower elevation= less vertical angle changing and less lateral adjustment required as well).
Ok so far, this is not so implausible imo.
However , the main problem with this theory is why Oswald was allowed to be wandering around the TSBD possibly establishing an alibi for himself at the time of the shooting?
The 2nd problem is escape of the TSBD conspirator shooter from the 6th floor not using staircase.
Possible solutions for 2nd problem:
The TSBD shooter used the west elevator (presumed to have been used by Jack Dougherty) or used the passenger elevator by accessing it thru a vent shaft on the 6th floor ( Armstrong theory)
Benjamin Cole:
Did the Trump and Kirk assassins "zero in" their weapons?
The Trump (would-be) assassin struck Trump's ear, and maybe missed only as Trump turned at last moment.
The Kirk assassin hit on his first shot.
Both shooters were rank amateurs, and shooting from much longer distances than LHO.
LHO was a good shot, certainly by civilian standards, and the M-C rifle was built to military specs to be accurate to 200 yards. That is, on a tripod, in fixed position, it would hit the same small target at 200 yards over and over again.
LHP ay have practiced at the Sportsdrome and down in MC. But how much practice did the Kirk assassin have?
The rapidity of shots fired on 11/22 raises some issues.
In modern terms, LHO was a "gun enthusiast." He was in the Marines, learned to shoot, owned private guns while in service, owned a gun in Russia, owned guns back when he came to the US.
Tom Graves:
--- Quote from: Benjamin Cole on November 01, 2025, 01:44:25 AM ---LHP ay have practiced at the Sportsdrome and down in MC.
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Huh?
--- Quote ---The rapidity of shots fired on 11/22 raises some issues.
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You should have said the alleged rapidity of the shots because in reality they were about five seconds apart over the 10.2 seconds that Oswald took to fire all three of them -- which total elapsed time has been determined by analyzing the conscious reactions of seven prime witnesses (including JFK, himself) to the sounds of Oswald's first, missing everything shot half-a-second before Zapruder resumed filming (after a 17-second film-saving pause) at Z-133.
Probably much more accurate than the "six seconds" (or whatever) conspiracy theorists like to claim, which is, unfortunately, based on the statements of traumatized witnesses to said shots in the echo chamber known as Dealey Plaza.
Benjamin Cole:
--- Quote from: Tom Graves on November 01, 2025, 02:02:39 AM ---Huh?
You should have said the alleged rapidity of the shots because in reality they were about five seconds apart over the 10.2 seconds that Oswald took to fire all three of them -- which total elapsed time has been determined by analyzing the conscious reactions of seven prime witnesses (including JFK, himself) to the sounds of Oswald's first, missing everything shot half-a-second before Zapruder resumed filming (after a 17-second film-saving pause) at Z-133.
Probably much more accurate than the "six seconds" (or whatever) conspiracy theorists like to claim, which is, unfortunately, based on the statements of traumatized witnesses to said shots in the echo chamber known as Dealey Plaza.
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TG- I have posted here before that, based on what I see in the Z-film, JBC is shot ~Z-295 and JFK at Z-313.
I forget how to use the image function in this forum. Anyone know?
I meant to type, "LHO may have practiced at the Sportsdrome or down in MC." Or anywhere else for that matter. His whereabouts were not tracked 24/7.
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