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In reply to the discussion: Justice for JFK [View all]stopbush
(24,392 posts)All one need do is look at the pictures of Dealey Plaza taken at the time. The trees provided no obstruction to the shots taken. In fact, if you read the article at the link I've provided below, you'll find two pictures taken in 2010 from the Xs on Elm Street that mark where the bullets hit JFK. Even today - after 49 years of growing taller - the trees don't obstruct the line of fire from the 6th floor window from whence Oswald took his shots.
Yours is one of the stupider and more-easily dismissed lies in this thread.
"The most striking thing about being in Dealey Plaza for me was how small it is. Perhaps because the assassination itself was bigger than life we expect the geography to match the eventuality, but that is certainly not the case here. Two X's on the street mark where JFK was hit: first in the throat causing his arms to move up and splay out, and second where the bullet found its cranial mark and literally blew his brains out (and, according to one conspiricist there, sent the skull cap flying across the street and onto the adjacent lawn). What is astounding is how close both X's are to the sniper's next in the Book Depository building. Both from the street level looking up and from the window looking down (there is a museum on the sixth floor from which you can gain the perspective of the assassin), it seems clear that Oswald could hardly have missed. Given the fact that he was designated a sharpshooter by the Marines during his time in the service, and the fact that Kennedy's car was traveling less than 10 miles per hour after making the sharp left turn onto Elm street, one is left whispering under one's breath, "Kennedy was a sitting duck." - MIchael Shermer, writting in HuffPo, My Day in Dealey Plaza: Why JFK Was Killed by a Lone Assassin, 12/4/10 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-shermer/my-day-in-dealey-plaza-wh_b_796812.html