Why do you suppose there was no extensive search of the street made? Wasn't there supposedly an investigation? Oh yeah, the investigation had a predetermined conclusion.
There was no plan for an investigation because it was assumed the President would not be killed. There was little or no planning for what to do next if the President was killed.
No extensive search of the street was made, so the only conclusion is that the investigation had a predetermined conclusion? You?re the one who makes the unwarranted assumption.
Question:
1. Is assuming ?The traffic was not shutdown because the investigation had a predetermined conclusion? an unwarranted assumption? The street was reopened to traffic within a fraction of an hour. It was, after all, about the busiest street in Dallas. Access to the freeway from Downtown Dallas would be greatly curtailed.
While shutting down busy streets, even freeways, is common nowadays, even for fatal traffic accidents, let alone murders, I believe this was unknown before 1964.
Questions:
2. Can anyone name a single case, in Texas, before 1964, where such a busy street was shut down so a murder investigation could be conducted?
3. Can anyone name a single case, anywhere in the U. S., before 1964, where such a busy street was shut down so a murder investigation could be conducted?
4. Murders had been committed by busy streets before, but the street was not immediately shutdown. It is reasonable to expect the Dallas police to suddenly do something they had never done before?
5. Is it even likely the police would be able to find a few scattered metal fragments somewhere within ten thousand square feet of pavement if they did conduct such a search?
But what is the good reason for believing there was a first missed shot at all if there is not evidence of such? Just because you're assuming that the SBT is true and that there were 3 shots fired? Because a couple of witnesses said something hit the pavement somewhere? A couple of witnesses reported smoke on the grassy knoll too. It's obvious that LNers will defend every element of the narrative no matter how much handwaving is required, but will then turn around and chide others for doing anything similar.
As you well know, a missed shot is not required for the SBT to work. All the wounds, all the damage to the limousine, the wound to Mr. Tague, can be explained, and is best explained, by two shots, one at z222 and the other at z312.
Still, the evidence for an early missed shot is pretty persuasive.
** Although all the damage is best explained by two bullets, three shells were found on the sixth floor, which means three shots were probably (although not absolutely) fired.
** Governor Connally, reported an early shot that didn?t hit him. Other witnesses report an early shot that, as far as they knew, did not hit anyone.
** A strong Zapruder camera jiggle, like the ones that correspond to z222 and z312, corresponds to z153.
** The angular speed of the target at z153 would be particularly high, 3.8 degrees per second, as opposed to 1.8 degrees per second at z222 and 0.55 degrees per second at z312, which could result in a shot that misses the entire limousine. At least this seems plausible to me.
** A shot at z153 makes some sense. It is about as late as Oswald could wait until the target goes behind a tree. When the target re-emerges around z206 or so, for all Oswald knows, the standing Secret Service agents in the follow-up car might block his view. He may have felt, despite the difficulty of tracking the target that this might be his last real chance.
