Another video of Norman completing his boom click click description in only 4 secs.
It might be plausible to suggest Norman heard it in 6 secs but it’s stretch to suggest it was an 8 or 10.2 duration.
The WC presumption was that the TSBD 6th floor shooter MUST have used the MC rifle because one was found on the 6th floor even though no statements of finding gunpowder residue in the breech, chamber, or the barrel grooves or of the smell of gunpowder residue.
There was some controversy about finding a layer of oxidation in the barrel which should NOT have been there if 3 shots had been fired 50 minutes before the rifle was found. Generally this is the “rusty barrel” CT factoid.
LNs explain it was a mistaken factoid about a
“Corroded barrel” which was referring to finding that the barrel had some pitting which was preexisting and which would not been removed by firing rounds.
The shells found in the SN are questionable from the CT perspective because Will Fritz picked up 3 shells that Luke Mooney saw ( 1st one there) on the SN floor BEFORE they were photographed laying there. Fritz left for a while with the shells in his pocket and then returned later to place 3 MC shells on the floor to be photographed. ( or even “threw” them down according to Tom Aleya)
Norman described how he heard the FIRST shot fired and only AFTER he saw JFK slump did Norman hear the last 2 shots fired which he said only took about 2 secs. That doesn’t support a Z224 shot being the 2nd shot. It’s actually supporting Z224 was the 1st shot.
There are some WC statements from Norman which he seems to deny he heard the sound of a bolt operating. He tries to explain that what he had originally said in the first interview with SS agent, that he had only said he head the “ejection” of shells and the sound of them hitting the floor.
The boom “click click” and Norman saying he heard the bolt operation comes later, after there’s was more emphasis placed on convincing Norman he heard the operation of the MC bolt action, via an experiment.
So if Norman’s 4 sec boom click click sequence ( or not longer than 6 secs) his accurate recollection, and he was not originally saying specifically hearing “bolt action” but rather just “ejection of shells” then it’s plausible to consider the TSBD shooter used a semi auto rifle instead of the MC rifle.
The fact of absence of reactions by any SS agents looking BACK at TSBD from Z133-Z207 and the fact of 3/4ths witness hearing last 2 shots “back to bsck” or in some cases only about 1 sec apart ( such as Lee Bowers) suggests Dans Z224 /Z313/ Z335ish 3 shots theory is plausible as firing the last 2 shots rapidly with a semi auto could have caused the last shot 1 sec after Z313 to go slightly high due to the Muzzle rise effect. That round hits the curb near Tague.
It semi auto would explain 4 witness who observed a “pointed” bullet” which was found on the stretcher and which 4 witness were unwilling to confirm 399 was the bullet they had originally seen.
