Justice for JFK

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374. One of the tragic facts of the JFK shooting is that for all intents and purposes

Oswald was shooting at a stationary target.

The two shots that hit JFK were fired after the limo had turned onto Elm, which positioned JFK's back towards Oswald. JFK remained in that position throughout the period it took for the final two shots to be fired. The limo was traveling at a mere 11mph as it made it's way up Elm. Worse of all, there was IIRC a 3% upgrade on Elm Street itself as it moved towards the Stemmons freeway. This upgrade coupled with the slow speed of the limo combined to give Oswald a target that stayed on the same level for both shots. In other words, JFK appeared thru Oswald's site as an almost stationary target.

As far as Ruby destroying an opportunity to get more info out of Oswald at a later date - that didn't work for Ruby either, who lived 3.5 years past the date that he killed Oswald. Though Ruby intimated others were involved in his killing Oswald, the AP reported that on his death bed, Ruby said he did the killing entirely on his own. Ruby had plenty of time to name names, but he never did.

At this point, you'd do well to give up disparaging Oswald's skills as a Sharpshooter. All you're doing is offering contrived speculation that you hope will somehow cast suspicion on Oswald's skills as a shooter. You have to deal with the fact that the USMC gave Oswald the rating of Sharpshooter YEARS before Oswald killed JFK. It's not like somebody went back and falsified records, though that appears to be what you're trying to do. I'm sorry that the fact that Oswald was rated as a Sharpshooter by the USMC at a time when Oswald was just another new recruit of no notoriety out of thousands of other recruits of no notoriety doesn't fit with your idea that he was a bad shot, but the fact is that he was an exceptional shot. Nobody in the USMC rated Oswald based on what would be his future infamy, so why are you trying to poo-poo the rating that was given him based on your disbelief that he did the shooting? You are, in effect, disparaging every other Marine who was rated as a Sharpshooter during the period that Oswald earned that rating.

Oswald's skill as a shooter is just one of the pieces of evidence that supports the fact that he killed JFK, just as evidence that he was a poor shot would mitigate against it, were there any evidence to that effect. There isn't. Too bad for the CTists that the evidence leans heavily toward damning Oswald, not exonerating him.

As far as Oswald's accidental self-inflicted wound, just because you don't know any skilled shooter who has ever accidentally shot themselves means nothing. Not because people accidentally shoot themselves all the time (they do), but because humans beings are prone to making mistakes all the time in every endeavor in which we engage. Yet you're trying to single out the handling of a gun as some magical endeavor where self-inflicted accidental wounds are rare. Really? Ever heard of Plaxico Burress?