compared to what Oswald was used to shooting in the Marines. Oswald was highly skilled with the M-1 Grand rifle. The standard issued rifle at the time. Oswald could engage targets effectively without a scope at 200 meters. Oswald wife Marina claimed that Oswald would train with the Mannlicher rifle. Marina told the authorities that Oswald was proficient enough to pull of the three shots in 8.4 seconds with that rifle.
After police officer Tippit was murdered by Oswald the police found three shel casing that matched Oswald’s handgun. The pistol was the same weapon that he was arrested with in the theater. An analysis was done on the handgun and it was confirmed to have been the one used to kill he police officer, so after that the authorities …show more content…
James Humes supported the facts with X-rays and photographs of the president proved that Oswald had to be the lone gunman. It proved that JFK was shot from the behind and above while passing the School Book Depository building. A number of studies were done after and contradicted the results of Dr. Humes. The police department also had some major evidence. Dallas police maintained two different radio channels at the time of the assassination. The 1st channel was used for regular communication, the 2nd channel purpose was to focus on the motorcade. Both channels had a separate dispatcher that communicated the time at one minute intervals. Experts determined that the assassination happened between 12:30pm to 12:31pm. One of the police motorcycle officers radio microphone was transmitting during the assassination. Around 12:30pm, on channel 1, a noise occurred on the radio transmission that experts say sounded like gunfire. The House Select Committee later determined that the sound pattern caught on channel 1 might have come from the grassy knoll and concluded that it could have contributed to a conspiracy. The was a separate study done on the radio recordings and the laboratory finds were the …show more content…
While the evidence might link Oswald to the assassination, and following the murder there was countless well-known motives about the assassination of JFK, such as the Communist, right-wingers, or government operatives. The only individual arrested that day and accused of killing JFK was Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald was taken into custody and then murdered a couple of days later by Jack Ruby. Oswald claimed he was a “pawn” during his interviews with police. So today, this conspiracy still has a lot of skepticism among the American people. According to the writer, “Americans obsession runs deep as baseball” (Reitzes, 2013). Lee Harvey Oswald couldn’t have acted alone in one of the biggest conspiracies in the 20th century.
The use of Jack Ruby (a low-level mafia thug) to kill Lee Harvey Oswald (a left-wing liberal) to kill Oswald inside of 24 hours of the assassination, convinced a large number of the public that Oswald was killed to keep him silent and protect others that might have been involed in the president’s assassination. When Jack Ruby testified to the Warren Commission, he was very desperate to be placed into protective custody up in Washington D.C. This gave off
After police officer Tippit was murdered by Oswald the police found three shel casing that matched Oswald’s handgun. The pistol was the same weapon that he was arrested with in the theater. An analysis was done on the handgun and it was confirmed to have been the one used to kill he police officer, so after that the authorities …show more content…
James Humes supported the facts with X-rays and photographs of the president proved that Oswald had to be the lone gunman. It proved that JFK was shot from the behind and above while passing the School Book Depository building. A number of studies were done after and contradicted the results of Dr. Humes. The police department also had some major evidence. Dallas police maintained two different radio channels at the time of the assassination. The 1st channel was used for regular communication, the 2nd channel purpose was to focus on the motorcade. Both channels had a separate dispatcher that communicated the time at one minute intervals. Experts determined that the assassination happened between 12:30pm to 12:31pm. One of the police motorcycle officers radio microphone was transmitting during the assassination. Around 12:30pm, on channel 1, a noise occurred on the radio transmission that experts say sounded like gunfire. The House Select Committee later determined that the sound pattern caught on channel 1 might have come from the grassy knoll and concluded that it could have contributed to a conspiracy. The was a separate study done on the radio recordings and the laboratory finds were the …show more content…
While the evidence might link Oswald to the assassination, and following the murder there was countless well-known motives about the assassination of JFK, such as the Communist, right-wingers, or government operatives. The only individual arrested that day and accused of killing JFK was Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald was taken into custody and then murdered a couple of days later by Jack Ruby. Oswald claimed he was a “pawn” during his interviews with police. So today, this conspiracy still has a lot of skepticism among the American people. According to the writer, “Americans obsession runs deep as baseball” (Reitzes, 2013). Lee Harvey Oswald couldn’t have acted alone in one of the biggest conspiracies in the 20th century.
The use of Jack Ruby (a low-level mafia thug) to kill Lee Harvey Oswald (a left-wing liberal) to kill Oswald inside of 24 hours of the assassination, convinced a large number of the public that Oswald was killed to keep him silent and protect others that might have been involed in the president’s assassination. When Jack Ruby testified to the Warren Commission, he was very desperate to be placed into protective custody up in Washington D.C. This gave off