Hi DAn,

On Fri 2037-May-29 17:20, Dan Ceppa (1:138/666) wrote to Richard Webb:

 RW> Agreed, and some of them fairly major.  NO matter how they
 RW> try to argue it you can't fire a Carcano as they allege.
 RW> Tain't physically possible.  IT's a bolt action iirc.  No
 RW> physical way that many shots could be fired in that period
 RW> of time by one lone shooter.

DC> That one is easily explained.  Don't forget, there is already a 
DC> round in the chamber as the first shot is fired.  The time frame  is
DC> really for 2 shots.  That can be done.  

I just asked my lady, who, with her ex husband did some
tests with the same make and model of weapon.  SHe contends
they began their timing exercise with one in the chamber as
OSwald is alleged to have done.  SHe says you still can't
get there from here.  THey tried it with her operating the
weapon and he the stopwatch, then the other way around.
tHIs is especially true if you factor in reaiming the
weapon.

DC> My question is the direction that the last shot came from.  I have 
DC> a hard time believing that it did not come from the front.  Autopsy 
DC> reports, photos and x-rays may clear that up.  But, I think the 
I'm hoping so because there are still just too darned many
questions in my mind.  I"m still not real sure I can buy
single shooter theories as well as single bullet theories.
IT was too convenient the way LHO was silenced.

DC> forensics were far too rushed in what is easily considered The
DC> Murder  of the Century.  As I understand it, the top of Kennedy's
DC> skull  turned up missing.  

way too much of a rush, and way too pat for my liking.

IT's been over a quarter century previous that I read a
bunch on the subject, but iirc two different authors on the
subject discuss the cops who thought they had other folks
running under an overpass, apparently leaving the scene.
AGain I"m ingesting first coffee, but I"m remembering
something about near the so-called grassy knoll area cops
spotting two people running under the overpass.

DC> If it was a conspiracy, its size was small for it to have remained 
DC> silent for all these years.  Or, inticate enough that those directly
DC> involved were killed in a deeper web!  After all, Oswald was offed 
DC> on national TV.  He might have been the one to have at least the 
DC> threads to pull on to unravel a conspiracy.  

I've always thought the same.  I never totally discounted
his involvement, but I"ll never believe that he acted alone.

DC> But, as has been pointed out, a lone, insignificant killer against 
DC> a beloved President doesn't balance out.  Having a major conspiracy 
DC> were there isn't one makes the act more easily to handle.  

IT does, but the truth, as in many things, lies somewhere
betwixt the two imho.


Regards,
           Richard
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