Tower 7

[2HOW]

Didn't mean to hit and run, just was a very compelling story which keeps getting weirder. I wouldn't put it past any Gov. to pull this off , wouldn't be hard considering the contents of # 7.  Lets face it our government has betrayed us in just about every other way, whats 1 building.  I doubt it happened ,but it is a story that makes you go HMMMM.

[Ron J]

Didn't mean to hit and run, just was a very compelling story which keeps getting weirder. I wouldn't put it past any Gov. to pull this off , wouldn't be hard considering the contents of # 7.  Lets face it our government has betrayed us in just about every other way, whats 1 building.  I doubt it happened ,but it is a story that makes you go HMMMM.

Hmmm?  Not so much.  But then again, I am anally retentive  … not paranoid.

[brosometal]

Didn't mean to hit and run, just was a very compelling story which keeps getting weirder. I wouldn't put it past any Gov. to pull this off , wouldn't be hard considering the contents of # 7.  Lets face it our government has betrayed us in just about every other way, whats 1 building.  I doubt it happened ,but it is a story that makes you go HMMMM.

I just saw the link and then nothing.  Most people here will post a link and then comment.  It just seemed to be a bit of a conversation grenade: kinda toss and go.  I was just curious. 

Conspiracy's are tantilizing.  To change course a bit, I was a big believer in the "Grassy Knoll" version of the Kennedy assasination.  Especially how he got elected in the first place (dead folks in Chicago) and some sort of Mob involvment.  Then I happened on to a show on Discovery about the magic bullet etc.  I had just seen the History Channel's answer to all the 9/11 conspiracies so I stopped and was suprised to find what I did.  They were able to recreate the evidence, magic bullet and all.  I was a bit suprised actually expecting the oppisite.  I believe it all goes back to Occam's/Halon's Razor view of conspiracies.

I blame the X-files.

[Rastus]

A friend of mine went to the school book repository and looked down from where the assassin was supposed to have been.  Despite all the news hype about an "impossible" shot he said it was very doable for the average guy.  I have faith in this guy, I've trained with him and work with him...he said it was not an overly difficult shot so that's where I'm at.

I'll have to check on how many floors up that was and get in a building here in town and look out at distance and see for myself from a like position....but I think I'm in the it-can-be-done camp.

[tombogan03884]

A friend of mine went to the school book repository and looked down from where the assassin was supposed to have been.  Despite all the news hype about an "impossible" shot he said it was very doable for the average guy.  I have faith in this guy, I've trained with him and work with him...he said it was not an overly difficult shot so that's where I'm at.

I'll have to check on how many floors up that was and get in a building here in town and look out at distance and see for myself from a like position....but I think I'm in the it-can-be-done camp.

Third floor, and if I remember correctly less than 150 yards.

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[Hazcat]

That's what I was thinking, Tom.  Third floor sorta sicks in my head and I was thinking closer to 100 yards.

[tombogan03884]

That's what I was thinking, Tom.  Third floor sorta sicks in my head and I was thinking closer to 100 yards.

I think I read somewhere that it was 110 yards but I'm not sure enough to quote that distance.
I was on a game site (www.urbanterror.com) where some one had mapped out Dealey Plaza in detail. It did not seem like a difficult shot.

[2HOW]

I remember an expert saying that those  shots could not of been fired with that rifle in that amount of time. And your right Bro, it was a conversation bomb 

[tombogan03884]

I remember an expert saying that those  shots could not of been fired with that rifle in that amount of time. And your right Bro, it was a conversation bomb 

Blew out 4 pages so far   The thing that had folks saying it could not be done was the fact of the rifle being bolt action. During the original investigation that was tested, the guy they had try to do it had a couple seconds left over if I remember correctly.I could not do it but some one who had a lot of practice with bolt actions would probably not have to much trouble.

[brosometal]

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