That’s not the way to look at it.

The way to look at it is that a lot of guys have wanted to kill presidents, governors, presidential candidates, and even movie stars. Many try, but only in a few situations do all the circumstances come together that allow them to succeed.

The biggest chance event that helped Oswald was the lucky break (for him) that had the President riding past his workplace in an open limousine at a time in his life when Oswald was angry at everybody.

As far as Oswald “putting things together” goes, all he had to do was take his rifle into the Book Depository broken down inside a large paper wrapper. All he had to “put together” was his rifle.

The Warren Commission published his old Marine targets. They were upper body silhouette targets. The score range was centered on the upper chest area. The top of the head area was considered “off target”. This type of training allowed shooters to be off-target by many inches and still score a hit and a kill. I don’t think he was aiming for the head at all, just the upper body.

Why? What makes him different from Charles Guiteau?

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Yea, but the Illuminati killed Garfield too. Don't you know that?

I don’t think he was aiming for the head at all, just the upper body.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if he was leading the target under the assumption the driver might accerate with the gunshots.

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It must be fun to lead a life completely unburdened by reality. --- JayUtah

You can't reason an irrational person out of an irrational belief. --- Noclevername

Apollo: The History and the Hoax
Enter the World of Athran

That's quite possible.

Congratulations! You knew who Charles Guiteau was! You win!

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

LOL what do I win?

A gold star, of course, and a chance to continue on to the bonus round. For your next question, can you tell us who Leon Czolgosz was?

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"When your statics problem becomes a dynamics problem, you're in trouble." --me

Moor's Law: "As you go from freshman engineering to Ph.D., the amount of work required per credit hour doubles approximately every 18 months." --me, inspired by Prof. Scott Moor

Well, just one of my favorite anarchist/assassins ever, as a matter of fact!

Jim Files shot Kennedy. while Oswald was a mere CIA sucker and framie who believed that he was there to prevent the assassination. He was supposed to get shot while running. The murder operation was not less than a overthrow and marked the day that democracy died in the USA ccording to the writer here.

Unbelievable? But how do all those loose ends get ited all of a sudden.

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Jim Files shot Kennedy.

Previously discussed here. Previously Debunked here

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It must be fun to lead a life completely unburdened by reality. --- JayUtah

You can't reason an irrational person out of an irrational belief. --- Noclevername

Apollo: The History and the Hoax
Enter the World of Athran

What is your evidence for any of these claims?

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--Doug

"When your statics problem becomes a dynamics problem, you're in trouble." --me

Moor's Law: "As you go from freshman engineering to Ph.D., the amount of work required per credit hour doubles approximately every 18 months." --me, inspired by Prof. Scott Moor

Oh no...we're lost, it's the Chewbacca defence

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On Files' claimes regarding the weapon he said he used.

I've had some experience with the XP-100 in various calibers. The shooting position normally used with it in the matches I've done involves laying on your back, feet on the ground, knees raised and touching. The non firing hand is used to support the head, and the gun rests on the outside of the leg, on the calf muscle. The gun is fired with one hand. The .221 Fireball described on that site can be an accurate gun (but that plastic stock has to go). It's recoil is minimal, about the same a 9mm when fired in a single shot pistol. I know from personal experiece that a 7 year old with really scrawny arms can fire one well over 40 times in a day with no difficulties. It does NOT kick like a high powered rifle as one person suggested. If it were a .222, the recoil would have been more but still quite manageable for one hand. However...

Handguns can have scopes mounted to them, but these scopes have to have a very long eye relief. Nearly 2 feet in many cases. Because of this, nearly any movement of the relative eye/scope position will make the scope impossible to see through. Files implied he was standing when he fired. Nearly any recoil, even the small amount from this pistol will make the scope/eye angle shift enough to 'black out' the image. There is practically no way that he could have seen the bullet impact through the scope as he described it.

The claim that the spent 222 casing was part of the assassination and proves Files' story true doesn't hold up either. There is no reason to remove the case from the gun, which must be done manually unless the shooter needs to follow up. In this case, the shooter would need to fire the first shot, tip the over 90 to the left to operate the bolt (unless he's left handed). Raise the bolt handle and slide it back. Take the new round, presumably in the left hand and slide it into the chamber and close the bolt. The time to do this would be around 2 seconds for someone well practiced at it. But why do it at all? He said there would be no chance for a second shot. The XP is definately NOT a combat handgun. If he thought he might need to shoot his way out, dropping it in a breifacase and pulling out a more suitable gun would have made much more sense. There would have been no reason at all to eject the spent casing (leaving evidence of his position and involvement). Something someone of his claimed military background would have known.

BTW, I do see a reason for Oswald to have reloaded right after shooting Tippet. It was a combat handgun (sort of) and it was no longer fully loaded. With a revolver especially, you reload when you can, as often as you can.

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Oh no...we're lost, it's the Chewbacca defence

In other words, you don't have any real evidence, so you are reduced to insinuating that your interpretation is so blindingly obvious that anyone who doesn't agree is either a "sherson" or a paid disinformation agent.

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"When your statics problem becomes a dynamics problem, you're in trouble." --me

Moor's Law: "As you go from freshman engineering to Ph.D., the amount of work required per credit hour doubles approximately every 18 months." --me, inspired by Prof. Scott Moor

Are there trees in the forest? Does a light shop sell lamps? Is there water in the sea? Is there air in the atmosphere? Do you ever click links or just use the Chewbacca defense.

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Augustinus

I'm afraid I don't follow you, do you have any evidence for your claims or not?

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Sounds like Andre is using the Chewbacca defense...

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Hanlon's Razor - "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
Asimov's addition - "Or ignorance."

"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
-- Charles Babbage

In my book that is usually known as the "Non-Sequitur" or Ionescu Defense

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