Because he knew he may need to make more than one shot before the car had moved out of accurate shooting range and he shot as soon as he felt he had a clear view of the President. At that point there were only a few leaves which did not prevent an accurate shot. I am not saying he shot when he couldn’t see JFK. I am saying that is the worst case shooting before JFK was not completely clear. And I am saying he was clear of the oak tree by z193 when the first shot occurred.
The usual demented nonsense.
JFK is covered by leaves but clear of the tree??!!
The craziness you have to try to sell to prop up your demented theory is actually funny.
I wonder if you believe you are somehow getting away with it?
You do realise that everyone can see it, don't you?
The only reason you are finally conceding that JFK was indeed covered by foliage at the frame you propose for the first shot (z193) is that, earlier in this thread, Jerry completely and comprehensively demolished the underhand method you used to try to sell the lie that JFK was in the clear by z193. For anyone interested, this demolition starts with Andrew's REPLY#275 on pg 35 of this thread and continues for a few pages. Jerry reveals your deceptive use of the Itek analysis which you knew all along suffered from some fundamental flaws which you knowingly overlooked. He also reveals your underhand use of a blurred picture to sell the lie that JFK was clear of the oak tree by z193.
He does this by showing us how the picture would look without the blur and it reveals that JFK is well and truly covered by foliage at the time of your proposed first shot:
A closer look...
In this situation JFK would be situated somewhere in the red circle below:
The real way to determine JFK's position from the SN at a given Z-frame is by the FBI reconstruction of the motorcade which focused on the position of JFK and JBC with respect to the Z-film, taking pictures from the SN at various frames that clearly shows us that JFK wasn't clear of the tree until @ z207. Unfortunately, a pic wasn't taken @ z193, the closest was z186, so we can only estimate where JFK was according to the FBI reconstruction and, unsurprisingly, we find it not dissimilar to the picture Jerry corrected (the red circle represents the approximate position of JFK @z193):
By any metric, JFK was hidden by the oak tree from the SN @z193. Andrew's pantomime cries of "Oh no he wasn't" are irrelevant.
The idea that the assassin would shoot through the oak tree is absolutely preposterous and not worthy of consideration. Particularly when we take the WC testimony of Ronald Fischer into account, in which he describes the assassin visualising the kill zone - while everyone else was anticipating the motorcade entering Dealey Plaza, the assassin was staring "transfixed" towards the triple underpass:
"And I looked up and I watched the man for, oh, I'd say, 10 or 15 seconds. It was until the first car came around the corner of Houston and Main. And, then, when that car did come around the corner, I took my attention off of the man in the window and started watching the parade. The man held my attention for 10 or 15 seconds, because he appeared uncomfortable for one, and, secondly, he wasn't watching-uh---he didn't look like he was watching for the parade. He looked like he was looking down toward the Trinity River and the triple underpass down at the end-toward the end of Ell Street. And--uh--all the time I watched him, he never moved his head, he never-he never moved anything. Just was there transfixed."This is the view the assassin was staring at "transfixed":
Imagine you are the assassin visualising the kill zone. Where, in the above picture, is the perfect place to take the kill shot?
I think it is the area just beyond the white vehicle. There is a sweeping s-shape in the road and that middle part is where the limo is moving almost directly away from the SN. There would be hardly any lateral movement of the target, an unobstructed view of the target and plenty of time to get off multiple shots if required.
The assassin would have been fully aware of the oak tree and that there would be no need to take the shot until the limo was well clear of it.
The idea that the assassin weighed all this up and then decided to take the first shot while the target was anywhere near the oak tree is truly demented.
While we are asking such questions, why would the shooter wait over a full second and a half to shoot after JFK was in the clear? And why would the shooter fire a shot after the head shot? Why would the shooter do that after seeing an obvious fatal shot?
The shooter didn't wait over a full second and a half after JFK was in the clear.
JFK is in the clear at z207 and the shot is taken at z222, less than a second after the limo is in the clear. This makes perfect sense.
And why would the shooter fire a shot after the head shot? I'd like to turn that question around a bit.
You agree the last two shots are close together. Because you believe Oswald took the shots you are tied to the toytown bolt-action MC as the weapon. Because I don't believe Oswald took the shots I'm not tied to the MC so the second and third shot could have been a lot closer together than would have been possible with a bolt-action rifle. There are plenty of witnesses who describe the last two shots as being almost simultaneous - Hickey springs to mind when he described hardly any time element between the two shots.
Jack Nessan presents a compelling argument for only two shots having been fired, an argument that includes a really surprising amount of witnesses who first describe only two shots. I believe it is possible that the second and third shots were so close together many witnesses heard it as one shot and an echo.
So my question is this - in the scenario of two shots fired incredibly close together, which shot is the accurate shot?
Obviously it is the first of the two shots (the second of 3 shots). Also, the lack of time between the second and third shot indicates that the decision was to take two shots whatever the case. As I've mentioned elsewhere, this last shot may have been pulled high due to the sudden arrival of a Secret Service agent on the trunk of the limo or Jackie climbing onto the trunk.
There is no reason to think the second shot missed JFK and the shooter adjusted with incredible rapidity to hit the target with the most successful and accurate shot. This doesn't make sense to me.
