Jfk Conspiracy Theory

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I believe the most accurate conspiracy theory is the one in which Lee Harvey Oswald had an accomplice with him during the shooting of John F. Kennedy. The rifle found on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository was examined and tested by the US Army and the FBI, who found that it was in poor condition, and that it could not be aimed accurately. In a series of tests by a skilled marksman, the fastest time to operate the bolt, aim the rifle, and operate the trigger pull, was 2.3 seconds. Therefore, Oswald would have to have fired all three shots in a minimum of 2.3 seconds between each shot. As Kennedy’s car passed the Texas School Book Depository, it was hidden at first from the sixth-floor widow by a large oak tree. There was a period …show more content…
However, from early reports we know that Oswald’s rifle needed 2.3 seconds to reloded, aim, and operate the trigger pull. Therefore, Oswald needed an accomplice to shot the president at the correct time for the bullet to hit him directly in the head. Furthermore, three empty rifle bullet shells were found on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository, all of them close to the window in the southeastern corner. One unfired bullet was found in the rifle Oswald used. No other rifle bullets or bullet shells were discovered either in the building, or on Oswald. If Oswald’s rifle was the only weapon used than all the injuries had to have been caused by no more than three bullets. However, Kennedy had four wounds and Governor Connally had three. Therefore, there had to be more than just three shots. Two witnesses, Arnold Rowland and Amos Euins, said they saw a man on the sixth floor, holding a rifle, who did not resemble Oswald. Rowland saw the gunman a few minutes before the shooting, when Oswald’s alibi almost certainly places him on the first floor, a location, which is consistent with Oswald’s, encounter with the policeman and the building