Here are two books providing a different slant....

https://www.amazon.com/Kennedy-Ripples-True-Love-Story/dp/0963929801/

The object of the author of the above book's attention, Dallas Catholic priest, Walter Machann, who re-emerged in NOLA, post assassination.

The co-author of the following title was a long time, NY Times journalist,

The “sensuous psychiatrist”: the case of Julie Roy vs. Renatus Hartogs, MD, PhD: landmark case of sexual abuse by a therapist

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/mono/10.4324/9780429298431-11/

VS Dr. Hartogs' testimony against his former adolescent examination subject, LHO, a student in NYC public school, LHO,
https://www.jfk-assassination.net/russ/testimony/hartogs.htm

I thought his cheapie scope was nonadjustable - no?

There are three adjustments available on the scope found on the rifle on the sixth floor of the TSBD on 11/22/63.
1).  Elevation - adjusts the horizontal crosshair up and down.
2).  Windage - adjusts the vertical crosshair left and right.
3).  Ocular or Diopter - adjusts the focus to bring the the crosshairs (reticle) into sharp focus.

What it doesn’t have is any adjustment for different magnifications (it is fixed at 4X). And it doesn’t have any adjustment for parallax (to bring the target into sharp focus and minimize any parallax effects).

I wonder if Oswald ever bothered to adjust his scope. At the ranges he fired at both in the Walker attempt and the JFKA, he didn't need competition level precision. A really good marksman probably wouldn't  even need the scope for such short ranges but for an average USMC marksman like Oswald, I can see how it would be helpful, even if not perfectly zeroed of the distance he was firing at. The fact the FBI determined the scope was aiming high indicates it had been zeroed for longer ranges. The scope was also aiming very slightly to the right. The WC theorized the high right aim of the scope might have aided Oswald because the movement of the limo would require Oswald to  lead his target and put his aim point high and to the right. We will never know if Oswald took all of this into account he aimed the rifle. Whether by skill or luck, Oswald did manage to put three of his shots on his intended target because his rifle was the one that fired the shots that struck JFK to the exclusion of all other firearms in the world.

One thing we will never know is what Oswald's aim point was. Was he aiming at the center of mass which would mean the headshot was high or was he aiming at the head which would make the backshot low. That's one of several questions Oswald never answered for us.

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My guess would be that Oswald was simply looking for jobs in downtown Dallas and wanted a room convenient to the main bus line. I think that's a more logical interpretation than that he knew he'd be working at the TSBD because it had all been scripted in advaance.

I'm really not familiar with Adele at all. For those who likewise aren't, here is a 2004 thread started by John Simkin at the Ed Forum where his original post summarizes her story in considerable detail: https://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/609-adele-edisen/.

Below is a photo of the pleasant-looking Adele. This is from the unlikely site Cassiopaea, the Fellowship of the Cosmic Mind. In a thread titled "High Strangeness, Adele Edison and the otherwordly murder of JFK," someone named Michael B-C seems to know a hell of a lot about Adele:
https://cassiopaea.org/forum/threads/high-strangeness-adele-edisen-and-the-otherworldly-murder-of-jfk.48858/

Seriously, that thread is worth reading.

This sounds like it's right down my weirdness alley, and I'll have to dive into it!

It gets much, much weirder, Lance.

Adele claimed she was moved by the assassination to ignore her psychiatrist husband's strong advice against it,
and proceed on the morning after, November, 23, to report her story about Rivera to the Secret Service office in NOLA, where she resided at the time.

The federal building seemed closed but she gained access and met up with SS Saic John Rice and an FBI agent named Odum. Rice had been talking to.
She said that they advised that they were leaving that afternoon by plane for a meeting in Dallas.

Adele in her own words at age 73, in 2001,


Agent Rice was deceased by 2010 when I spoke with Adele. His wife's birthday happened to be on 11/22.
According to the wedding announcement, was living near the Polk base and it was located on the route to Shreveport.
I felt strongly Rice dropped his wife off to visit their daughter and celebrate her mother's birthday.
The daughter may have been able to corroborate details of Adele's visit with her father and that he
flew to Dallas for a meeting. Agent Rice's trip to Shreveport on the morning of 11/22 was known because the
record indicates he was ordered to question a Jack Martin of northern Louisiana hours after the JFKA and he
filed a report about that diversion of his return trip from Shreveport.

I located Rice's daughter and gave Adele location and contact info.

Adele seemed grateful to receive that contact information but she then sat on it. She told me she did not want to disturb
Rice's daughter. I also found a contemoorary photo of Rice's daughter.

Just putting myself in Oswald's head, as I am wont to do, I believe the thought process more likely would have been "I may only get one shot at this, so I'm going to make it the best one I can." I don't picture a former Marine sharpshooter taking a "what the hell, maybe I'll get lucky" first shot and alerting the entire world to his location.

This seems like typical ad hoc reasoning: I think he missed an early first shot, ergo this is what he was thinking and what happened. Common sense - oops, that's the other thread - says my scenario is more likely.

I thought his cheapie scope was nonadjustable - no?

I thought his cheapie scope was nonadjustable - no?

There are three adjustments available on the scope found on the rifle on the sixth floor of the TSBD on 11/22/63.
1).  Elevation - adjusts the horizontal crosshair up and down.
2).  Windage - adjusts the vertical crosshair left and right.
3).  Ocular or Diopter - adjusts the focus to bring the the crosshairs (reticle) into sharp focus.

What it doesn’t have is any adjustment for different magnifications (it is fixed at 4X). And it doesn’t have any adjustment for parallax (to bring the target into sharp focus and minimize any parallax effects).

It was not until the HSCA used audio analysis to suggest an early missed first shot that anyone seriously considered that the first shot missed.  If you can find any serious publication prior to the HSCA report in which it was seriously proposed that the first shot missed I will stand corrected.


This snip from the WCR seems to me to be the WC seriously considering whether or not the first shot missed:

The First Shot

If the first shot missed, the assassin perhaps missed in an effort to fire a hurried shot before the President passed under the oak tree, or possibly he fired as the President passed under the tree and the tree obstructed his view. The bullet might have struck a portion of the tree and been completely deflected. On the other hand, the greatest cause for doubt that the first shot missed is the improbability that the same marksman who twice hit a moving target would be so inaccurate on the first and closest of his shots as to miss completely, not only the target, but the large automobile.

Some support for the contention that the first shot missed is found in the statement of Secret Service Agent Glen A. Bennett, stationed in the right rear seat of the President's follow-up car, who heard a sound like a firecracker as the motorcade proceeded down Elm Street. At that moment, Agent Bennett stated:

... I looked at the back of the President. I heard another firecracker noise and saw that shot hit the President about four inches down from the right shoulder. A second shot followed immediately and hit the right rear high of the President's head.337
Substantial weight may be given Bennett's observations. Although his formal statement was dated November 23, 1963, his notes indicate that he recorded what he saw and heard at 5:30 p.m., November 1963, on the airplane en route back to Washington, prior to the autopsy, when it was not yet known that the President had been hit in the back.338 It is possible, of course, that Bennett did not observe the hole in the President's back, which might have been there immediately after the first noise.

Page 112

Governor Connally's testimony supports the view that the first shot missed, because he stated that he heard a shot, turned slightly to his right, and, as he started to turn back toward his left, was struck by the second bullet.339 He never saw the President during the shooting sequence, and it is entirely possible that he heard the missed shot and that both men were struck by the second bullet.

This illustrates what I said earlier. The WC gave pro and con arguments for each of the three shots being the one that missed. They gave no indication they favored any one scenario over the others. They simply laid out the case for and against each scenario and left it to the reader to decide which they thought was more likely to be the correct one. Reading all the arguments the WC laid out and combining it with what we have learned jin the last several decades leaves me with no doubt that the first shot missed and the second was the single bullet.