The 1963 American Coup / Assassination of JFK

[Caduceus]

Interesting test of the shot difficulty if Oswald was the real shooter, firing from the Texas Book Depository. They matched the shooting range, angle, and target speed, and had a group of experienced shooters try it. A few made the shots, but it was definitely hard.

Yeah, but the CBS test reenactment is a joke.
There were six different people in the presidential limousine, not just one....and none of them had a huge red silhouette painted on the back of their head and shoulders. Also the alleged shooter from the book depository window had to fire through various trees and leaves, some of which were later cut down to hide this extra difficulty.

 

[Thomas More]

Yeah, but the CBS test reenactment is a joke.
There were six different people in the presidential limousine, not just one....and none of them had a huge red silhouette painted on the back of their head and shoulders. Also the alleged shooter had to fire through various trees and leaves, some of which were later cut down.

Good points. So the actual shot would have been even more difficult than this test, and the shots were not realistically doable. Even if the shot could have been possible in spite of extreme odds, he couldn't have made multiple hits in such a short time.

 

[Caduceus]

Good points. So the actual shot would have been even more difficult than this test, and the shots were not realistically doable. Even if the shot could have been possible in spite of extreme odds, he couldn't have made multiple hits in such a short time.

Added to all this, the Italian made weapon Oswald allegedly used was one of the absolute worst rifles for accuracy and reload time.
Honestly, if you wanted to kill a moving target from a far distance, it would be the last weapon to pick.
See here @minute 13:44:




Interestingly, a Dallas deputy sheriff named Roger D. Craig reported that a professional German made Mauser rifle was found at the book depository. This info was repeated various times by US TV news channels in the first hours after the assassination. The Mauser was a better and much more accurate weapon to get the job done. That rifle later disappeared and Craig later died under mysterious circumstances (suicided) in 1975.