theotherwaldo
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My father and I used to discuss how JFK could have been killed by someone other than Lee Harvey Oswaid.
We both believed Oswald killed Kennedy, but there were so many others that wanted to see Kennedy dead, ranging from the Mafia through the Cuban refugees who lost family members in the Bay of Pigs fiasco to, well, Vice President Johnson and his friends.
Dad was a former Marine, like Oswald. He was also a bit of a loose cannon and social outcast.
Unlike Oswald, he was a trained marksman and former sniper that was active in Korea during the Inchon landing after he could no longer function as a Forward Observer because of deteriorating weather conditions and increasing distances to the ships off of the coast.
After his Bad Conduct Discharge he constantly stayed in trouble, one way or another.
We moved a lot and had little income.
This led him to buy cheap and disposable firearms to (illegally) put meat on the table.
One that he particularly liked was an M-38 Carcano in 6.5mm, similar to Oswald's except without a scope.
He found it to be handy and accurate.
I ate many of the squirrels and other small game that he took with this rifle.
Dad felt that he could have easily made that shot on JFK, even with that clunky and awkwardly-placed scope, but the arguments about how else Kennedy could have been killed intrigued him.
We had many discussions around the camp fire or pot-bellied stove about the possible techniques that would have served.
The one that we settled on was to take Oswald's rifle from its hiding place in a garage, fire it straight down into a pool or body of water, recover the bullets, paper-patch them to preserve the rifling impressions and to bump up their diameters and reload them into something like a .270 Remington cartridge.
After that, it would be simple to put together an umbrella or cane gun or even just use an actual rifle to make that back-up shot that would make sure that JFK was dead, dead, dead.
Like I said, both of us believed that Oswald did the job, but it was an interesting mental exercise... .
We both believed Oswald killed Kennedy, but there were so many others that wanted to see Kennedy dead, ranging from the Mafia through the Cuban refugees who lost family members in the Bay of Pigs fiasco to, well, Vice President Johnson and his friends.
Dad was a former Marine, like Oswald. He was also a bit of a loose cannon and social outcast.
Unlike Oswald, he was a trained marksman and former sniper that was active in Korea during the Inchon landing after he could no longer function as a Forward Observer because of deteriorating weather conditions and increasing distances to the ships off of the coast.
After his Bad Conduct Discharge he constantly stayed in trouble, one way or another.
We moved a lot and had little income.
This led him to buy cheap and disposable firearms to (illegally) put meat on the table.
One that he particularly liked was an M-38 Carcano in 6.5mm, similar to Oswald's except without a scope.
He found it to be handy and accurate.
I ate many of the squirrels and other small game that he took with this rifle.
Dad felt that he could have easily made that shot on JFK, even with that clunky and awkwardly-placed scope, but the arguments about how else Kennedy could have been killed intrigued him.
We had many discussions around the camp fire or pot-bellied stove about the possible techniques that would have served.
The one that we settled on was to take Oswald's rifle from its hiding place in a garage, fire it straight down into a pool or body of water, recover the bullets, paper-patch them to preserve the rifling impressions and to bump up their diameters and reload them into something like a .270 Remington cartridge.
After that, it would be simple to put together an umbrella or cane gun or even just use an actual rifle to make that back-up shot that would make sure that JFK was dead, dead, dead.
Like I said, both of us believed that Oswald did the job, but it was an interesting mental exercise... .
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