Why Would LHO Choose His Workplace As The Location For Shooting JFK?

[Rob Caprio]

[Excerpt]

Attempted Assassination Attempts in America
-Wikipedia

October 29, 1994: Francisco Martin Duran fired at least 29 shots with a semi-automatic rifle at the White House from a fence overlooking the north lawn, thinking that Clinton was among the men in dark suits standing there (Clinton was inside). Three tourists, Harry Rakosky, Ken Davis and Robert Haines, tackled Duran before he could injure anyone. Found to have a suicide note in his pocket, Duran was sentenced to 40 years in prison.[69]

Geez, so you think a 1994 example shows my comment about 1963 and sooner wrong? LOL. No wonder you LNers swallow the WC fantasy hook, line and sinker.

[Rob Caprio]

Are you and Rob Caprio twins?   He thinks ( is that the right word?) much like you or vice versa....

Says the guy who NEVER cites any evidence just like Chapman. This is Wally's real task here -- try to make CTers look bad by pretending to be one.

Wally has never seen Volume 16-26 of the twenty-six volumes.

[Rob Caprio]

Again, no conspirator had ever used a rifle before to kill the President.  So again your point has no validity.  Someone did shoot JFK with a rifle on 11.22. even if that had never been done before.  That in no way precludes Oswald from having done it.  The rest of your post is more nonsense.  Oswald was trained in the Marines to shoot with a rifle.  He was fully capable of making the shots.

Spin away, but it won't work. It is infinitely more difficult for a single person to kill with a rifle than up close with a pistol. That is why NO LNer ever attempted their task with a rifle.

The use of a rifle confirms that it was a carefully orchestrated conspiracy utilizing multiple shooters.

[Rob Caprio]

Oswald knew that the 6th floor of the TSBD was abandoned during the lunch hour. President Kennedy's motorcade was due to pass by the TSBD around 12:25 PM. There was a good chance that LHO would be alone there and that no witnesses would see him departing after the shots were fired.

Oswald knew the layout of the building and that his presence anywhere--leading up to the assassination and after--would not be suspicious.

An alternative building to shoot from would be difficult to locate and access would be impossible to secure with certainty.

The only alternative location that was accessible and nearby to Oswald's place of employment was......"the grassy knoll". Then conspiracy theorists would be saying: "No assassin would shoot from a position out in the open where he could easily be seen. The shots had to come from the Book Depository.

Since the motorcade was due at 12:25 and BRW stayed until 12:20 it seems as your whole theory goes down the drain. Why wouldn't he have picked the 7th since it had a closet with a door?

[Ross Lidell]

Since the motorcade was due at 12:25 and BRW stayed until 12:20 it seems as your whole theory goes do
wn the drain. Why wouldn't he have picked the 7th since it had a closet with a door?

The protruding window ledge could have made aiming at the Presidential limousine more difficult.

[Ross Lidell]

Since the motorcade was due at 12:25 and BRW stayed until 12:20 it seems as your whole theory goes down the drain. Why wouldn't he have picked the 7th since it had a closet with a door?

The time estimates by witnesses are not likely to be absolutely accurate. Did Bonnie Ray Williams look at his watch? Did BRW wear a watch?

Was Oswald hiding quietly in the Sniper's Nest hoping BRW would leave the 6th floor before the President drove by the TSBD?

[Richard Smith]

Spin away, but it won't work. It is infinitely more difficult for a single person to kill with a rifle than up close with a pistol. That is why NO LNer ever attempted their task with a rifle.

The use of a rifle confirms that it was a carefully orchestrated conspiracy utilizing multiple shooters.

Tell it to John Hinkley, Arthur Bremer and Squeaky Froamme.  All failed attempts with a pistol.  A rifle can be deadly effective.  Provide us your "supporting evidence" that validates your claim that "it is infinitely more difficult for a single person to kill with a rifle than up close with a pistol."  Start with the example of Charles Whitman who hit moving human targets at distances of three times the JFK assassination with similar USMC training to Oswald.  And don't forget James Earl Ray. 

[Colin Crow]

The time estimates by witnesses are not likely to be absolutely accurate. Did Bonnie Ray Williams look at his watch? Did BRW wear a watch?

Was Oswald hiding quietly in the Sniper's Nest hoping BRW would leave the 6th floor before the President drove by the TSBD?

There are timestamps that have been repeatedly posted that show that Williams likely did not vacate the Sixth floor until at least 12.25.

Mr. BALL. Did you stay there?
Mr. NORMAN. Well, we stayed there I believe until we got the news that the motorcade was coming down, let's see, is that Commerce, no Main, because Commerce- we went back in the building, James Jarman and I.

A timeline of the Presidential Motorcade taken from Dallas Police Radio logs shows that the Motorcade got to Main about 12.24pm. Aslo Jarman estimated the time they left the front of the TSBD to be 12.20-12.25.  They walked approximately 200 ft to the west elevator and about 160 ft to the SE corner of the 5th floor. This would take about a minute at 6ft per sec walking speed. The elevator took about 45 seconds to reach the 5th floor. They could have been in position on the fifth floor about 2 minutes after departing the front steps and may have been in position around 12.25 or slightly earlier depending on the accuracy of the broadcast. Williams claimed he joined them after they arrived.