Reply #59: That's a good question [View All]

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On whether others were involved. I'm convinced Oswald was the shooter. I find it likely he acted alone, given his history and lifestyle, but I'm not sure of it.

As for the witnesses who saw puffs of smoke from the Grassy Knoll, they weren't ignored. The WC fully examined their claims. They found, first, that most guns don't smoke when fired (Oliver Stone found this, too, and had to use smoke machines to make his movie). Second, 76% of the people, and sound recording of the shootings, said there were only three shots, (and of the other 24%, more said they heard only one or two than said they heard more. Some couldn't be sure.) Third, there were three fired cartridges found with Oswald's rifle. Fourth, the witnesses who saw smoke or heard shots from the Knoll (about a third of the witnesses) were not close to the knoll, and some were on the other side of the Knoll, so that a shot coming from the Knoll or from the SBD would have come from the same direction. Fifth, people standing right along the fence where the Knoll shooters would have had to fire (Zapruder was one) didn't hear shots coming from the Knoll, and they were as close as ten feet from where the shots would have been fired.

As for the smoke, there were steam vents just behind the fence, for equipment below the ground there, so there was some steam.

The WC didn't consider the GK as a source of gunfire because there was no credible reason to.

As for the WC itself--I agree that it stopped once it had proven Oswald was the shooter. They did not pursue any conspiracy involving Oswald, and because of that, it was fatally flawed. But the evidence of Oswald as the shooter is solid.