You probably have not done much shooting if you can't recognize how much more difficult the early first shot was compared to the to later an longer shots. At 88 yards or less, distance is hardly a factor at all. He was firing almost dead down range with little relative movement of the target to the line of fire. That was not true of the first shot which also required shooting from an awkward stance with nothing to brace the rifle with the window sash likely partially obscuring his view.

I've always wished somebody would do a reenactment of that first shot just to see what challenges it would have presented. I'm not asking for a duplication which is impossible. Just a re-enactment to highlight the difficulties.

That argument works against your theory. Since Oswald had done much shooting he would have recognized that an early shot was not only difficult to make but would make quickly getting into position for any later shots much more difficult. So not only do you have zero evidence for an early missed shot, you have just explained why Oswald would not have made it.

This below is Z-248.



There is likely a consensus that JFK has been struck at this point. JFK appears to be reacting to something, that appears to be a painful blow.

Gov. JBC is a different story. By JBC's account, he is beginning to turn around to see what has happened to JFK. JBC has heard a gunshot, which he says he recognized as a rifle shot.

In Z-248, JBC is holding in his right hand his Stetson hat. JBC's wrist appears uninjured. This is an image of what happened to JBC's radius bone:



There is a large hole in JBC's radius, where a slug smashed through, passing from the dorsal to the ventral side, in the wrist-adjacent part of his arm.

This is what Gov. JBC told the HSCA:

Connally: I was knocked over, just doubled over by the force of the bullet. It went in my back and came out my chest about 2 inches below and the left of my right nipple. The force of the bullet drove my body over almost double and when I looked, immediately I could see I was just drenched with blood. (1 HSCA 42)

Obviously, in Z-248, JBC is not doubled over. JBC is holding his Stetson, in what appears to be an uninjured wrist.

I have reasonable doubts about the SBT-LNT. The SBT-LNT are theories, and Arlen Specter developed the SBT working on the premise that there was a lone gunsel, who fired three times, and one shot missed. If one adheres to those premises, the SBT is the result.

Caveat emptor, and draw your own conclusions.

What vast bodies of evidence? 

I'm not going down the path of a religion debate, nor am I really pooh-poohing your beliefs. If they work for you, that's fine. My wife is actually much more conventionally devout than I am, and we get along fine AS LONG AS SHE JUST LISTENS AND SHUTS THE HELL UP!!!  My conversion to Christianity some 56 years ago was via a startling and wholly unexpected experience that could easily be fodder for my "Weird Tales" thread. I have spent the subsequent 56 years far deeper into theological, scientific and psychical studies than JFKA studies, which are really little more than a blip on my radar screen. I know the evidence that is out there in a way that someone who hasn't done the homework couldn't possibly know, and there is no way I could summarize it on a forum like this. Suffice it to say, I believe - and you are free to disagree - that what I call "Christianity, Inc." is nothing more than a profit-driven industry and has little or nothing to do with what Jesus was actually talking about. One real eye-opener for anyone who has never done it is to intensively study the history of the first 200 years of Christianity - it's a weird and wild picture that bears scant resemblance to the Christianity, Inc. of today. I understand that not everyone has the time or inclination to examine and question orthodox dogma, and that's fine - but this wasn't a route I could accept, which is why I lasted precisely one year at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary before saying "Nope, not gonna pretend anymore."

Lance, please accept my sincere apology. I'm aware my vision deteriorated but I've thought that my mind and memory have not also noticeably degraded.
I try to allow for the expectation that the person exhibiting such symptoms is always the last to know. I don't know how my post ended up worded that way.
I was pleased to log in here yesterday and find that you had decided to participate here. I intended my post to read that I disagreed with most of what I quoted
from your post, certainly not with almost everything you post generally.

Anyway, I believe Jean Davis was quoting what I posted about the post JFKA relations between Dulles and since I remain confident I accurately recall her opinion
and took the counter argument of hers. Her opinion had taken me quite by surprise,

No problem, Tom. I strongly disagree with at least half of my own posts!  In fact, when someone here appeared to have created sock puppets to agree with his posts, I suggested it would be way more fun and interesting to create a sock puppet who violently disagreed with your posts.

What I notice recently is that I will type a word completely different from the word I intended to type. On one post today, I meant to type "joined" and typed "enjoyed." My brain and memory still seem to be hitting on all cylinders, but it is quite weird and unnerving.

That is surprising about Jean, but I don't know enough about the RFK-Dulles stuff to comment. (My paternal grandmother was a fabulously wealthy Kansas City socialite who knew the Dulles family. More accurately, to quote my father (her son), she was a "good-looking slut" who had him at 16 - in 1908 - and then married into fabulous Kansas City wealth in the form of an industrialist named Lester T. Sunderland.)

What vast bodies of evidence?