On Friday, 25 March 2016 11:09:20 UTC+11, mainframetech wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 11:26:58 PM UTC-4, Edward Bauer wrote:
> > On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 11:29:55 PM UTC-4, David Von Pein wrote:
> > > ED BAUER SAID:
> > >
> > > LHO did not fire "three bullets at President Kennedy." He used the first
> > > shot for the indispensable requirement of zeroing his reassembled rifle.
> > >
> > >
> > > DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
> > >
> > > You know you can't possibly PROVE what you just said, Ed. Any more than I
> > > can "prove" beyond all doubt that you are wrong.
> > >
> > > You *could* be 100% right, yes. But you could also be 100% wrong.
> > >
> > > I'm wondering, though, Ed, if Oswald would have wanted to deliberately
> > > waste (in a sense) his very first shot for merely "zeroing-in"
> > > purposes?
> > >
> > > Why couldn't that first shot have served double duty -- i.e., a shot aimed
> > > AT the President AND also serving (if need be) a "zeroing-in" purpose as
> > > well? Why isn't that scenario possible?
> > >
> > > That way, LHO would have the best of both worlds. He could have done some
> > > zeroing-in while at the *same time* possibly hitting (and maybe killing)
> > > the President with his first shot when everyone in the Plaza was taken by
> > > *complete* surprise -- as opposed to waiting for the 2nd shot to aim at
> > > JFK, when potentially more people would be alerted to the fact that a
> > > gunman was on the sixth floor.
> > >
> > > Your theory *is* intriguing. No doubt about it. But I have a hard time
> > > accepting the notion that Mr. Oswald would have had a desire to draw
> > > attention to himself and his shooting perch by firing a shot that served
> > > *only* the function of zeroing-in his weapon.
> > >
>
>
> As it turns out, the MC rifle had a misaligned scope from a bad
> mounting, and could not be sighted in as per the army testers. It was
> sent to their gunsmith who shimmed up the scope, which allowed it to be
> sighted in after that. Any talk of "zeroing in" is wasted, since it
> couldn't be done before the shimming was done, the scope wouldn't allow
> that adjustment.
>
> As well, no bullet from the MC rifle hit or hurt anyone in the plaza
> that day, and no one can prove otherwise.
Is that why CE 399, the OTHER recovered bullet from Oswald's rifle, was
found on a stretcher at Parkland Hospital?
Injured people OFTEN end up in a hospital, Chris. Maybe it's time you put
two and two together, eh?
Case CLOSED!