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JFK and the Conspiracy Theory


In addition to this test, no one saw Oswald on the sixth floor after 11:55am on November 22nd. It has been established that at 12:15, Arnold Rowland (as well as Carolyn Walther and Ruby Henderson) saw two men with a rifle in the sixth floor window, and Rowland's wife, who saw them too, backs this up. They thought they were Secret Service Agents (Fensterwald 228-9). Ninety seconds after the shooting, police approached Oswald on the second floor of the building. This gave Oswald ninety seconds to fire the rifle, hide it in the corner of the room, run down four flights of stairs and past a woman, Victoria Adams, who never saw him. When the police noticed Oswald on the second floor of the Texas Schoolbook Depository, he appeared calm and collected. "Reenactments of this feat found that it was very difficult, if not impossible, to get down all that distance in two minutes, and Oswald was not breathing hard" (Livingstone 151). .
             Three shots were fired in JFK's direction in a span of 5.6 seconds, with the first two shots fired in only 1.6 seconds. The first shot was a "magic bullet," which left a total of seven wounds on JFK and Texas Governor Connally. The second shot fired completely missed Kennedy and hit a bystander in the cheek. The third and fatal shot struck Kennedy in the back of the head. However, Kennedy's head was pushed back and to the left when this bullet hit. Therefore, it can be concluded that this shot was not fired from the Texas Schoolbook Depository, but from the grassy knoll on the other side of the road. Many witnesses were noted saying that they heard shots coming from the grassy knoll, but the Warren Commission still came to the conclusion that Oswald was the lone assassin. The rifle that supposedly fired three shots in 5.6 seconds was deemed to have poor shooting abilities by a group of experts who studied it. "The marksmen tried to duplicate his feat and were unable to do so" (Livingstone 151).


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