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[John Corbett]

The TSBD shooter was not likely a professional shooter. It would have been much easier to shoot at a stationary JFK giving a speech. And one shot thru the chest from 200 yds away is not that difficult for the professional.

So the choice of the TSBD points to Oswald because it’s convenient being his place of work. It could also be some other TSBD worker without an alibi such as Jack Dougherty.

I made this same point when I did the podcast with Fred Litwin. Dealey Plaza would be an unlikely choice for a professional hitman. Not only would you have moving target but witnesses everywhere. A much better choice would have been when JFK was speaking to the crowd in front of the hotel in Ft. Worth that morning. A stationary target surrounded by tall buildings. One shot, one kill.

Oswald didn't choose the TSBD. It was the opportunity handed to him. It was a take it or leave it choice.

I also think it is absurd to think there would have been a hit team. Why would you shoot at JFK with multiple rifles if your intent was to frame one man. An professional hit man worth his salt wouldn't have needed more than one shot to take out JFK if he chose his location wisely, like the Ft. Worth hotel.

The TSBD shooter wasn’t apparently wearing a mask and he exposed himself to being  photographed as he stuck his rifle OUT the window and KEPT it stuck out for several seconds AFTER the last shot fired. That’s not what a professional would likely do.

The CT alternatives  for why a professional shooter would do such stupid actions would be that his employer required him to set up Oswald, or the shooter himself had a personal vendetta against Oswald.

I’m sure some CT has suggested that LBJ had his hit man Malcolm Wallace do the job but why the need to set up Oswald?

The idea that these imaginary plotters would need a fall guy is absurd too. Why would they need a patsy? That just complicates things. A competent hitman who fires one shot from a hidden location and then slips away makes much more sense. Oswald got spotted because he took three shots. That gave a few witnesses a chance to locate him. A sniper firing from a concealed location could easily disappear before anyone figured out where the shot came from. He would be gone almost as soon as the muzzle blast was heard by the people on the ground. Leave an untraceable rifle at the scene and just calmly leave the premises. Why care if the investigators had someone to pin it on? As long as the hitman couldn't be identified, that is all that would be needed. The people who hired him might make sure he slept with the fishes, just to be safe. Bugliosi made the point that if either the CIA or Mafia had hired the assassin, there would have been a car waiting for him outside to drive him to his death.

The killing of JFK wasn't a professional hit. It was carried out by a guy who was taught to shoot in the Marinee Corps and had some level of proficiency though not an expert. The location wasn't ideal but it was the only choice available to him so he took it.