Ever since going to Dallas and standing in the Book Repository window I have wondered about JFK. As a person with a passing interest in precision shooting why the hell do you not take the head on shot and let them turn left unless it was an ambush site?
JFK was killed by accident by a burst from a Model 601 AR-15. A passing train near the grassy knoll set off three railroad torpedoes at the worst possible moment. Agent George Hickey perceived hostile gun shots and prepared to fire. JFK's limo driver braked, causing the followup car to brake, causing Hickey to fall back and reflexively grip his weapon and squeeze the trigger, firing a burst of 5-6 rounds on full auto. When the motorcade arrived at Parkland Hospital, he called Bobby Kennedy and told him there has been an accident. (Reference: Page 175 from The Day Kennedy Was Shot by Jim Bishop). JFK's death was reported as an "assassination." The assassination story needed an assassin (patsy) to blame. Officer Tippit was killed to create a false narrative and explain how Oswald was caught. The detective who escorted Oswald when he was shot wore a high contrast colored suit so Jack Ruby wouldn't shoot him by mistake. On page 645 from The Death of A President by William Manchester, the last paragraph reveals JFK died from a freak accident (see attachment).
A picture of the windows of the passing train can be seen near the grassy knoll in the upper left of the attached picture.
“In 1961, Michael W. Tortina, Chief Inspector of the Secret Service, told this writer that whenever a Presidential motorcade must slow down for a turn, the entire intersection is checked in advance.” [footnote on page 32].
(Referring to Halfback, the Secret Service followup convertible). “Agent George Hickey sat in the left rear, Agent Glen Bennett in the right rear, and on the seat between them lay an AR-15.223 automatic rifle, with a muzzle velocity so powerful that should a bullet strike a man's chest it would blow his head off.” [page134]
In the White House, Ralph Dungan [Special Assistant to the President] removed his pipe. He leaned forward against his desk and buried his head in his arms. “And the hell of it is,they'll blame it all on that twenty-four-year-old boy,” he told Pat Moynihan. (Oswald was 24 when he was killed). [page 288]
(Just after Oswald was shot): In the West Wing lobby, a Secret Service agent watched [Jack] Ruby disappear and muttered tightly, “That was the messenger.” [page 528]
(Referring to the fictitious inspection of a person imagined by the author viewing the storage carton of the blood-stained clothing Jackie Kennedy wore on November 22, 1963).“This clothing, he would perceive, had not been kept out of sentiment. He would realize that it had been worn by a slender young woman who had met with some dreadful accident. He might ponder whether she had survived. He might even wonder who had been to blame.” [page 647]
(Scans of some images were not attached because they were too large for the server to upload).
Recommended reading:
Aftermath of An Execution by Mrs. Marguerite Oswald
The Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour Hersh
The Day Kennedy Was Shot by Jim Bishop
The Death of A President by William Manchester
The Echo from Dealey Plaza by Abraham Bolden
Jean Hill: The Last Dissenting Witness by Bill Sloan
JFK: The Smoking Gun by Colin McLaren
Last Train from Dealey Plaza by Fred T. Newcomb (available online as a pdf - Google it)
Mortal Error,"a book by Bonar Menniger
Quotes from the Vanity Fair article, "Could the Secret Service Have Saved JFK?"
The Warren Report
Ever since going to Dallas and standing in the Book Repository window I have wondered about JFK. As a person with a passing interest in precision shooting why the hell do you not take the head on shot and let them turn left unless it was an ambush site?
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