The south storm drain would have been an entirely logical choice for a shooting position. It provided concealment, an excellent view of the target, and a secure means of escape. It would have been the logical choice for a skilled assassin.

Yet, WC apologists howl and scoff whenever the south storm drain is mentioned as a possible shooting location. They prefer to believe, or say they believe, that the one and only shooting location was the sixth-floor window, never mind that the back wound and the rear head entry wound do not even come close to aligning back to that window, and never mind that the ammo that hit JFK's head could not have been the ammo that the supposed sixth-floor gunman allegedly used.

   
shot from south drain was impossible. Too much angle for throat shot, too close for head shot. Car was facing straight at drain not allowing the throat shot. Too closr for head shot at Ks leaning head.

The left has hijacked this issue by putting the focus on the criminal instead of the victim.  As a result, hangings and other forms of effective capital punishment are largely a political nonstarter.  It's a hopeless case to convince enough people to go back to the good old days.  Lethal injection is viewed as a more "humane" manner of death.  So some middle of the road types are still willing to entertain it.

You're probably right. Since it takes 25-30 years now to exhaust the appeals process, the method of execution is the least of the problems we face administering justice.

Then Trump tore up and started a war.
...and he can't get out of it.

Again, there is no war.  There is not even a conflict.  No one is fighting.  The "deal" would not have prevented Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.  It would only have delayed it for a few years until - wait for it - now.  After which they would be free to do anything they wanted.  Trump spared us that. 

This is why I said we should abandon lethal injections and go back to more traditional methods of execution: hanging, electric chair, gas chamber, and even firing squads. I don't recall problems with any of these.

About 30 years ago in Columbus, Ohio, a paroled murderer named Alva Campbell who was jailed for a subsequent crime, feigned paralysis and was being transported to a hospital by a single female deputy. He overpowered her and took her gun which he used to carjack an 18 year old kid named Charles Dials who had come to the county building to pay a traffic ticket. After having the kid drive him around for a while, he forced the kid to change clothes with him, then shot him dead. When he was arrested, he bragged about how he had taken the kid's whole life away from him. It took over 20 years before the court's allowed Campbell's execution to take place. By that time, he was terminally ill from cancer. They couldn't even find a usable vein to put the needle in his arm and the execution was called off. Any of the above named methods of execution could have been carried out effectively, but because we insist on "humanely" putting these scumbags to death, Campbell escaped even belated justice. He died a few months later.

Contrast that with the executions of Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, the two infamous In Cold Blood murderers who slaughtered four members of the Clutter family in November of 1959. They were also the prime suspects in the murder of another family of four in Florida while on the run from the Clutter murders. They were sentenced in Kansas to hang and their executions were carried out in April of 1965. Hickock was hanged first and it was 23 minutes between the time the trap door dropped and he was pronounced dead. Smith took 17 minutes to die. A hanging is supposed to dislocate the 3rd and 4th cervical vertebrae and sever the cerebral cortex making death instantaneous. That doesn't always happen and apparently didn't happen with either of these men. Were they conscious during the time they were hanging? Did they suffer? I don't know, but I sure hope so.

When people like this are executed, the number one priority should be that their death is certain. Whether they suffer or not during the process should be at most a minor concern. Does anyone think scum like this cared whether their victims suffered. Maybe Hickock and Perry should have been executed the same manner as their victims, with a shotgun blast to the head at close range.

The left has hijacked this issue by putting the focus on the criminal instead of the victim.  As a result, hangings and other forms of effective capital punishment are largely a political nonstarter.  It's a hopeless case to convince enough people to go back to the good old days.  Lethal injection is viewed as a more "humane" manner of death.  So some middle of the road types are still willing to entertain it.

@MTG: the older experimental shooting using the 30ft tower and  stationary targets seems to suggest it was no easy feat what the TSBD shooter achieved ( if he is the only shooter)with a hit at Z312.

However a few of the CBS time trial shooters managed to score  2 hits ( albeit not head) in less than 6 secs.  And ONE of them ( the old engineer) seems to have scored 3 hits in 5.1 secs according to the video narrator.

The CBS test shooting was boneheaded in that they only allowed the shooters 5.6 seconds to fire three shots, an unreasonable constraint. The WC did allow for that possibility but that was no its conclusion.

However…

IDK if they really did score hits on the target or not because there was no zoomed in camera on the target to show holes appearing  nearly simultaneous with the rifle firing.

Also because they used a RED silhouette on a square black ( or dark blue) target that was on a WHITE track, the result is not quite conclusive as those things may have aided the shooters to easier track.
 
Question: Was  the ONE CBS shooter apparently scoring 3 hits in 5.1 seconds (recorded by camera firing an MC rifle and using zeroed functional scope), ever brought before the HSCA and interviewed personally or asked to repeat his shooting feat with an HSCA group of observers in real time ?

Attempts to recreate a shooting using erroneous assumptions are quite silly. The silliest assumption is that Oswald fired 3 shots in 5.6 seconds.

If not then at best the CBS experiment imo only proves that a person  can fire an MC rifle 3 times in less than 6 seconds.

Yes, that's both possible and difficult with a bolt action rifle. Oswald wasn't hampered by that time constraint. He could fire his weapon using whatever timeframe he thought gave him the best chance to score a kill shot on JFK. He killed JFK with his third shot which by my analysis was fired 8.9 seconds (163 frames) after his first shot.

 
Is this enough to establish that the TSBD shooter could NOT possibly have fired the MC rifle in less than 7 secs and scored a body hit at Z233 and a head shot at Z312 and in the 1…..2..3 pattern that 75% witness recall?

I'd say it was difficult but not impossible. An additional 3 seconds of time to fire all three shots would make it much more doable. It gives adequate time for aiming the rifle.

Given Dan O’mearas theory that the 3 shot sequence from a TSBD 6th floor shooter begins with the 1st shot as a hit at Z233 and the 2nd shot then 4.8 secs later at Z312, and then the 3rd shot could have been fired as fast as 2 secs later, if not aimed, then it IS possible to replicate the 1….2..3 pattern in 6.5 seconds.

I have yet to see any theory from Dan O'Meara that makes any sense. 

If this assassination was a pre planned shooting to be performed by an expert solitary shooter , then choosing Dealey Plaza as arena , the TSBD 6th floor as the platform, and a moving target situation , is NOT what professional hit man ( or team) would likely do. It’s introducing too many variables.

It was selected because it was the opportunity that was presented to Oswald. It was a crime of opportunity. Had the motorcade not been routed past his workplace, I doubt Oswald would have even attempted the assassination. Since he didn't drive, moving around Dallas with a rifle would have been problematic although he did manage to get to Walker's house and back home with the rifle so I won't say he couldn't have tried. The routing of the motorcade made it much easier for him.

The simple more easy way with less variables would be to select an arena where JFK is standing on a podium giving a speech. And elevation of the shooter nearly at same elevation as the podium. A single FMJ  6.5 or 7.62 bullet laced with cyanide fired at only about 1200 ft /sec velocity ( subsonic ammo) with rifle with a suppressor , would not have been heard at all.

One shot one kill, no rifle left behind , shooter has easier escape.

Such an opportunity presented itself that morning in front of the Ft. Worth hotel. Had plotters selected the shooting location, that would have been a much better one. Oswald didn't select his shooting location. It was dealt to him.

A professional assassin wouldn't have needed a cyanide bullet for one shot, one kill. He would also likely leave behind an untraceable rifle rather than try to flee with it.

So if a conspiracy why did the shooter ( or2) choose  Dealey Plaza and the TSBD 6th floor ?

Good questions. I have yet to see good answers for them.