We have a master criminal psychologist here it seems.
It’s very amusing that people baselessly pronounce stuff like this as gospel and nothing can persuade them otherwise.
Getting your eye in is helpful when firing at a moving target. A military man like yourself should know that
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It happens for sure but we train hard not to miss bud… but we’d also take on the easier shot . Any marks man worth his salt would take the cleaner shot every time.
As I’ve said previous. I believe Ossers hit Kenners but tbe window is firmly ajar on the second shooter
Gavin Esler’s 2003 BBC documentary is well worth a watch if you can find it. I saw it years ago, it blows all the conspiracy crap out of the water.
JFK: The simple truth
By the BBC’s Gavin Esler
The assassination of John F Kennedy was a catastrophe in itself, but the consequences could have proved far bloodier than any event since World War II.
There is no evidence of anyone beside Oswald being involved
The assassination of the 35th President of the United States 40 years ago in Dallas, Texas, came at a particularly tense point in the Cold War.
Kennedy’s successor Lyndon Johnson immediately realised that if - as many suspected - the Cubans or the Russians had conspired to kill Kennedy then the result would be a nuclear war.
It could have cost 40 million American lives, plus untold numbers of Soviet, Cuban and European casualties.
Conspiracy here, conspiracy there
There is no doubt that the Kennedy assassination and the conspiracy theories surrounding it continue to fascinate ordinary Americans and people all over the world.
Like most journalists who have travelled extensively in the United States, I have been assured by various Americans at various times that JFK was indeed murdered by the Russians, or by the Cubans, or by the CIA and the FBI, or by all of the above acting together.
Then of course, there is the spectacularly nutty theory of the film-maker Oliver Stone that Kennedy was really murdered by a secretive right-wing cabal in order to put Lyndon Johnson into power.
The truth about what happened that bleak November day in Dallas is simpler, yet no less fascinating 
I would love, of course, to be able to prove that some or indeed all of the conspiracy stories are true.
But, as we report in The Kennedy Assassination: Beyond Conspiracy there is no factual basis to believe any of the conspiracy theories at all.
The truth about what happened that bleak November day in Dallas is simpler, yet no less fascinating.
For the first time, drawing on extraordinary computerised reconstructions based on a home movie shot at the assassination scene by a Dallas dressmaker, Abraham Zapruder, the conspiracies can, in my view, finally be laid to rest - completely and forever.
Banal conclusion
Here is what we know for sure: John F Kennedy was murdered as his motorcade drew through Dallas in November 1963.
He was in an open-topped limousine. He was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald who worked in the Texas Book Depository overlooking the assassination scene.
Oswald’s fingerprints are all over the area from where the shots were fired. His rifle did the shooting. He was the only employee of the Book Depository to go missing.
He then murdered a Dallas cop who tried to talk to him, and finally he himself was arrested in a movie theatre.
All this would seem to point to an open and shut case.
But here is the problem. Oswald was an ex-Marine sharpshooter who had learned Russian and tried to defect to Russia.
The Texas Book Depository overlooked the scene
He had a Russian wife and called himself a Communist.
He agitated on behalf of Castro’s Cuba.
And Vice-President Lyndon Johnson had been told that if the Soviet Union ever planned to attack America, it would probably begin by trying to murder the president.
Then Oswald himself was murdered - on national television - by a Dallas strip-club owner, Jack Ruby, who allegedly had ties to the mafia.
Plus Kennedy’s brother Robert was in charge of a top secret programme to assassinate Fidel Castro, as well as cracking down on the mafia.
Start putting it together and you can easily see where the conspiracies theories began.
The Mob, the Cubans, and the Russians all had reason to want Kennedy dead.
The idea that Lee Harvey Oswald, an under-achieving awkward misfit, acting alone could murder the most powerful man in the world is simply an example of how banal murders can be.
The absence of any real evidence of involvement by anyone other than Oswald, plus the computerised reconstructions of the assassination, which demonstrate how a single bullet passed through Kennedy before injuring Texas Governor John Connally in the front seat of the limousine, convinced me that there was no conspiracy.
None.
Oswald fired the fatal shot.
There was no second gunman.
There was no conspiracy.
Attention seeker
The account of Oswald’s tortured personality by his brother and those who knew him points to a loner desperate to secure some kind of fame in a world which rejected him.
Nowadays he would probably try to get on Big Brother.
In November 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald sought his 15 minutes of fame by shooting dead the president of the United States.
We are still coming to terms with the consequences, and - despite the compelling evidence in our film - I suspect it will be a long time before the conspiracy theorists are finally silenced.
Some people will tell you the earth is flat and some people will tell you the earth is round. You’ll get people with “different views”. They are not of equal worth because we know for an absolute cast iron fact the earth is round. The views of the people who’ll tell you the earth is flat are worthless.
Similarly worthless in their views are the people who will tell you Oswald couldn’t have made the shots. He was more than capable, his excellent record as a marksman proves he was.
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That’s a good one alright.
Oswald was there, armed.
He bought the rifle. He brought it with him that day (in a bag he said had curtain rods in it).
He was well able to shoot a gun.
He fled the scene.
No one who knew him who spoke to him afterwards was in any doubt he did it.
He killed another man that day.
Why would a second shooter be needed? The timing would have had to be insanely on point to likely achieve the same thing.
Ah, but why did Jack Ruby shoot him dead?
A variety of reasons. Opportunism. Hot-headedness. A sense of Jewish pride. Love of the Kennedys.
If you were planning a grand conspiracy, Ruby isn’t the type of fella you’d hire
A sighter
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He had cancer and wanted to spare Jackie from testifying is what was said.
Ruby was a patient of Joylen West, who was a psychiatrist working for the CIA and MK Ultra. Charles Manson was also a patient of his.
Now thats the rabbit hole for all the conspiracy theories.
The term conspiracy theory was coined because of the Kennedy assassination. The real OG conspiracy theory
Maybe I’ll shoot you
Trumps plan has worked. He’s distracted people from his real plans.
Genius.
I’m safe enough so
To quote the title of Jimmy McGovern’s episodes of Cracker which featured Albie Kinsella as the main character, “To Be A Somebody”.
It has to be a major motivation in pretty much all assassinations where the killer acts alone and knows they are likely to be caught. “To Be A Somebody”.
Oswald wanted To Be A Somebody. He became a Somebody.
Luigi Mangione is a Somebody. Sirhan Sirhan is a Somebody. James Earl Ray is a Somebody, the cunt. Mark Chapman is a Somebody, the cunt. Even John Hinckley is a Somebody.
Gavrilo Princip is a Somebody.
I’d argue the nihilistic desire to be a Somebody that Oswald and those other assassins had isn’t very much different to what drives Trump himself, Musk and all the other Nazi cunts that infest our world. Oswald’s nihilistic desire was less damaging overall though because he at least only killed one man.
Pow pow
I’ll have you know I won the clay pigeon shooting competition at a work Christmas party a few years ago (after 6 pints) and I hit every target with the m16 at a shooting range in Vietnam. You’re dealing with a serious operator here.
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The cunt never hit me at all.
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Where we at with the files?
Will they have any truth in them at all? We all know the mob were involved