Those who demand that everyone "just ACCEPT that Oswald did it"...

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48. It would be sufficient to create reasonable doubt if LHO were on trial: that is a simple matter

of protecting the rights of the accused

LHO, however, is not on trial, for self-evident reasons, and there a different standard must prevail -- namely the one of arriving through evidence at what seems the most plausible explanation

In this case, a rifle owned by LHO and traceable by serial number to his purchase, which rather clearly is the same model shown in a photograph of Oswald posing with a rifle, was found on the sixth floor of the book depository, with three spent cartridges matchable to the rifle, shortly after a shooting, in which the majority of witnesses heard two or three shots

Repeated tests in the intervening years have shown that a number of people could get off three shots in the requisite time, often with two or three hits at the target moving at about the right speed and from about the proper distance, with about the right angle

Repeated forensic tests have shown that the appropriate bullet packs considerable punch, being able to penetrate nearly three feet of wood block without immediately visible damage, and have indicated that the bullet when fired follows a very stable trajectory until passing through material like human flesh, at which point the bullet will eventually begin to yaw and tumble, explaining the damage to the back of the governor's shirt, which closely approximates the shape of such a bullet

The so-called "magic bullet" was not actually pristine but was slightly flattened from the side, with lead being slightly squeezed at the back from inside its metal jacket, consistent with sideways entry into the governor's back, and small lead fragments with correspondingly removed from the governor's wrist

There has actually been a detailed attempt at anatomical recreation, involving model torsos built around simulated organs with appropriate simulated bone and tissue surrogates, showing that the so-called "magic bullet" produces appropriate damage to both surrogate torsos and is very nearly spent on emergence from the governor's wrist, consistent with the superficiality of the thigh wound, from which the so-called "magic bullet" allegedly fell onto a hospital stretcher

Since 1963, numerous questions have been raised about the WCR's conclusions -- in fact, many more questions than any defense attorney could have raised, had LHO been tried for the murder -- but no one in fifty years has produced a credible alternative theory connecting the known facts, so there is no credible alternative meeting any standard for historical interpretation