3 shooters instead of 1?

[Gerry Down]

In JFK literature we keep hearing about a triangulation of fire where three shooters would fire on a target such as JFK in this case. But why would someone set up an assassination plot involving three shooters which would triple the chances of one of the shooters getting caught? Wouldn't it make more sense for an assassination to be planned where you have just one single skilled sniper using an automatic rapid fire weapon?

And if you're talking about trying to frame that one sniper (as is often proposed in the case of Oswald), that can be done in a plot where you have just one sniper too. You do not need to have three snipers to do that.

[Jerry Freeman]

In JFK literature we keep hearing about a triangulation of fire where three shooters would fire on a target such as JFK in this case. But why would someone set up an assassination plot involving three shooters which would triple the chances of one of the shooters getting caught? 

Caught by who? Point is...if so they weren't.

[Gerry Down]

Caught by who? Point is...if so they weren't.

By police officers in Dealey Plaza.

[Jerry Freeman]

By police officers in Dealey Plaza.

Dallas police officers did bring in some other suspects but the higher ups had them all released.
 They had their man over in a movie theater.

[Gerry Down]

Dallas police officers did bring in some other suspects but the higher ups had them all released.
 They had their man over in a movie theater.

Because Oswald was the shooter and the three tramps were just tramps.

[Walt Cakebread]

Because Oswald was the shooter and the three tramps were just tramps.

Mr Down..... Yer FOS...    But in answer to your silly question---" why would someone set up an assassination plot involving three shooters which would triple the chances of one of the shooters getting caught? "

The reason for using multiple shooters is to insure that a single shooter wouldn't get "cold feet" ....and there was no chance that the shooters would be caught....J. Edgar Hoover had their backs.

[Gerry Down]

Three shooters sounds like an accident waiting to happen. I don't know why someone would set up an assassination like that. If one assassin gets cold feet as you say, he is then a liability for the other two in trying to escape.

[Richard Smith]

Three shooters sounds like an accident waiting to happen. I don't know why someone would set up an assassination like that. If one assassin gets cold feet as you say, he is then a liability for the other two in trying to escape.

Three shooters means three times as many assassins to be seen or get caught or keep quiet for eternity.  And, if there is anything the witnesses do agree on, it's that there were three or two shots fired all from one location.  They disagree on the location due to the sound distortions but almost no witness indicated they thought the shots originated from two different locations.  So one shooter firing three or two shots.