Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "C-SPAN" channel.

@bryanekers3472 I would want to know exactly where it was found in Dealey Plaza and who destroyed it from evidence. 7.65 Mausers were also surplus rifles. Neither the 6.5x52 Carcano nor the 7.65x53 Mauser were very popular in the US. The 7.65x53 Mauser would be minimum in terms of performance to produce the type of head injury we see, but still might not be fast enough unless they used a lightweight varmint projectile going 3000fps. That would generate the massive cavitation and explosive avulsion we see at the entrance, as well as the giant exit wound in the rear of his skull. Other rifles that I would look more to would be the .220 Swift, 250-3000 Savage, or .270 Winchester. A .30-06 Springfield would also do it, especially if loaded with a lighter projectle. Either way, it takes a frontal shot to blow the back of the head out.
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@bryanekers3472 Hathcock and Craig couldn't duplicate the WC claims. Everyone talks about how they could easily make a shot on JFK in Dealey Plaza. CBS tried and edited out all the failures they experienced trying to duplicate 3 shots on a large orange silhouette on a high contrast background. Hathcock said it couldn't be done.
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@bryanekers3472 It wasn't just Hathcock, but the USMC Scout Sniper Instructor course cadre, and SWAT sniper course attendees Carlos trained. They did it as an exercise in at least one course. It's not a single shot, but multiple shots in an allotted time with repeatable shot placement. Another interesting thing about that was that students could duplicate it with a tuned precision sniper system, but not the 6.5 Carcano. Bolt manipulation was too stiff, not smooth enough. Trigger weight too heavy, rifles were inaccurate. One of the guys who was at a local rifle range in Texas said Oswald accidentally/inadvertently shot his targets at the range, so he went to go talk to him about it. Either the scope wasn't zeroed, or he got misoriented on the range. FBI Report in WC says the 6.5 Carcano rifle wasn't zeroed. They had to install shims in the scope mount to get it zeroed. I remember reading that over 30 years ago and realizing the physical evidence did not support the WC conclusions, but they must have counted on people just not reading it. The more you study it, the more things like this emerge, starting in the WC summary itself.
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@bryanekers3472 Definitely lucky 4 shots for Lyndon Johnson, the Mafia, and CIA. They really hit the jackpot with a guy like Oswald to come do them a solid like that. Same for Jack Ruby snuffing him out so he couldn't talk much, beyond saying he was a patsy and couldn't get access to an attorney. What are the odds?
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