... none of. Oswald's records in the Marine Corp reveal that he had an awful shot. In a firing test, "He scored only one point over the lowest possible level of qualification." (Hurt, 99) The Warren Commission heard testimony from one former Marine, Nelson Delgado, who stated that Oswald's marksmanship was "a joke", and that he could barely qualify on the range. (Summers, 99) Also, ... less important, but relevant to the shooting was the gun which was used for the shooting. The ancient, bolt-action Mannlicher-Carcano, ... represents the opposite of what any sniper would carry. One handbook...

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... none of. Oswald's records in the Marine Corp reveal that he had an awful shot. In a firing test, "He scored only one point over the lowest possible level of qualification." (Hurt, 99) The Warren Commission heard testimony from one former Marine, Nelson Delgado, who stated that Oswald's marksmanship was "a joke", and that he could barely qualify on the range. (Summers, 99) Also, ... less important, but relevant to the shooting was the gun which was used for the shooting. The ancient, bolt-action Mannlicher-Carcano, ... represents the opposite of what any sniper would carry. One handbook...

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... and fatally killing him with an impact bullet on the head. His Marine Corps colleague Nelson Delgado supported the fact that Oswald was a poor marksman. Delgado said that when it came to shooting a rifle on the range he was terrible and Oswald had difficulties meeting minimal standards for qualifying. He testified, "It was a pretty big joke, because he had lots of misses, but he ... did not give a damn." There have been several attempts to duplicate Oswald's marksmanship. In the book Reasonable Doubt, by Henry Hurt, he based the shooting on the Zapruder film, and it is ... largely agre...

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