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Originally Posted by Tog_
Does this seem overly complex to anyone else? Did I miss some stuff?
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I'm not an expert on weapons or ballistics, but I know more than the average person on the street, and it seems like you've covered everything fairly well. There are, of course, alternatives, but your scenario seems the most likely.
One point that conspiracists have consistently failed to answer is, if there
were multiple shooters, and the evidence for this was later covered up,
what was the contingency plan in case someone other than Kennedy was hit? All the conspirators were facing a one-way trip to the electric chair if they were caught; were they really willing to trust their lives to luck that no bullets would be recovered that would give away the conspiracy, or no one would be wounded in a manner that would prove there were multiple gunmen? For example, suppose a shot from the side had passed through one of Jackie's cheeks and out through the other when she was facing straight ahead? How could that
possibly have been covered up or explained away? Suppose one of the "shallow penetration" rounds fired from the front had struck Kellerman in the right shoulder and lodged underneath his right scapula (shoulder blade)? Were the Men in Black going to threaten the surgeons who removed the bullet with death if they didn't substitute a bogus one fired from Oswald's rifle and lie about it? Or would someone have quietly stuck a hypodermic full of potassium solution in Kellerman's arm so that "they" could later claim he'd died of a heart attack to avoid having the bullet surgically removed?
On a related issue, the claims of film alteration,
how could the conspirators have been sure that they would be able to round up every camera with incriminating evidence? The answer is, they couldn't be, so again they would simply have to trust their lives to luck that no camera with film giving away a second shooter had made it out of Dealy Plaza, been surreptitiously developed in another city, and sold to a major media outlet before the Men in Black could suppress it. Again, conspiracists have no answer for this--they simply assume that everyone involved willingly accepted the risk, because that is the only way there could have been a conspiracy.
[edit: incorrect word]