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[Bill Chapman]

One of the lamer excuses I've heard postulated here is that he just wanted to look like a sniper.

How do you know what Oswald was thinking... oh, wait... that's what you're here to explain to us, including what each witness really meant in testimony. Got it.

[Martin Weidmann]

How do you know what Oswald was thinking... oh, wait... that's what you're here to explain to us, including what each witness really meant in testimony. Got it.

No, you haven't got it at all.

In fact, you are really struggling with this stuff, aren't you?

John did not claim to know what Oswald was thinking.

He merely gave his opinion about something that was claimed by somebody else. It is the guy who came up with that lame excuse you need to talk to.

[John Iacoletti]

How do you know what Oswald was thinking... oh, wait... that's what you're here to explain to us, including what each witness really meant in testimony. Got it.

Uhh, Chapman, the guy who came up with this lame excuse is the one claiming to know what Oswald was thinking, not me.

[Bill Chapman]

Uhh, Chapman, the guy who came up with this lame excuse is the one claiming to know what Oswald was thinking, not me.

Uhh, Iacoletti... The fact that you called it a 'lame excuse' suggests you must know Oswald would not want to 'look like a sniper'

However, brandishing a rifle, with pistol on his hip, decked out in all-black getup, clutching commie literature* and posing for the camera might suggest that which you dismiss so easily may be not so far off the mark after all.


*All of which Marina found quite amusing, purportedly

[Martin Weidmann]

Uhh, Iacoletti... The fact that you called it a 'lame excuse' suggests you must know Oswald would not want to 'look like a sniper'

However, brandishing a rifle, with pistol on his hip, decked out in all-black getup, clutching commie literature* and posing for the camera might suggest that which you dismiss so easily may be not so far off the mark after all.


*All of which Marina found quite amusing, purportedly

The fact that you called it a 'lame excuse' suggests you must know Oswald would not want to 'look like a sniper'

No.

Try to follow along, please, if you can...

The person making the claim could not possibly know what Oswald was thinking, so any claim based on that alone would automatically be a lame excuse.

Get it now?

[Andrew Mason]

Do you realize how difficult it is to remove all your prints from a MC after you have disassembled/reassembled and fired, then ditched it? Impossible!

No, I don't. Tell me how difficult it would be.

And Shirley, Oswald realized that a printless  rifle would still lead back to him, regardless of whether they snuck a post-mortem palm print on the stock.

Or to a PO Box registered under "AJ HIDELL". And my name is Andrew, BTW.

Which leads us to why would military marksman Oswald, who knew a thing or 2 about rifles, keep a useless scope on the MC when he knew he would have to use the iron sights?

According to Robert Frazier of the FBI, the scope was slightly out but if the target was moving in the direction away and to the right, the error was reduced. So by aiming at the president's head it would have hit 6 inches lower in the upper back. 3 H 409

 

[Bill Chapman]

The fact that you called it a 'lame excuse' suggests you must know Oswald would not want to 'look like a sniper'

No.

Try to follow along, please, if you can...

The person making the claim could not possibly know what Oswald was thinking, so any claim based on that alone would automatically be a lame excuse.

Get it now?

Of course you and your trollmates would think it a lame excuse. After all, both of you busybodies are here to protect the killer of JFK.

Tell us if the poster claimed, or merely suggested that Oswald did or might want 'look like a sniper'.

I personally think it was an interesting take on the possibilities given Oswald's aforementioned BY antics, History diary, wanting to be remembered for the next 10,000 years...

Any hints in there for you, Martini?

[John Iacoletti]

Uhh, Iacoletti... The fact that you called it a 'lame excuse' suggests you must know Oswald would not want to 'look like a sniper'

Sigh.  No, Bill.  It's a lame excuse because it's completely contrived with no evidence whatsoever that Oswald wanted to "look like a sniper" while shooting the president.  If that was the case, and he had actually done it, why would he deny doing it?

*All of which Marina found quite amusing, purportedly

You mean the same Marina who said there was no scope on this rifle at the time?