Yep. I remember exactly where I was when we heard he had been assassinated. Read the book Mortal Error if you want a truer/believable version of what happened. His life was interesting, his death is legendary.
Ifyou dont mind me asking sniper , where were you when this happened , what did you think at the time ,, did u buy the ecuse they sold the people...
I was just a kid in public school. A friend of mine had a little blue transistor radio (they were just new back then, not many around just yet) and we heard it on the "latest breaking news". I think they likely cut into just about every station around to broadcast it. At any rate, the two of us bee lined it into the classroom and told the teacher that Kennedy had been shot. The teacher lit into us and gave us proper hell for even saying such a thing and threatened to take us to the principals office. We tried to tell her we had heard it on the radio, she still didn't believe us. She wanted to know how we could even be near a radio. (Back then, the schools generally had one big old box radio, and it was kept in the principals office. As a kid, you weren't allowed to touch it. It was pretty high tech stuff.) My friend Don whipped out the little blue radio and turned it on, the news was still broadcasting the shooting and the teacher heard it for herself. She took off at a high speed trot (at least for her) for the main office and just left us standing there. She said something to a couple of other teachers and the three of them took off down the stairs. (We had a two story school with two big staircases, one for the boys, one for the girls.) After that, the rest of the day was a bit of a blur.
By the time I was in high school I had made up my own mind there was more to the whole event than what they were saying. I didn't have any proof, just that there were so many versions of the same event, that there was no way it could all be true. This was real history that took place in my lifetime and it grabbed my attention. I read most accounts of the shooting, some was just plain BS., some had bits of information that could very well be true, but didn't tell the whole story. The movies were just that, movies, they were there to entertain and are pretty loose with the truth. I few years ago ran across the book Mortal Error by accident. I had never heard of it, it was in the discount bin at Chapters and caught my eye and I bought it. I started slogging my way through it, and it is a tough read, there is a lot of technical stuff but that is what makes it so believable. The guy that wrote it has a co writer working with him. Donahue is the expert that did all the testing and research that gets the answers and pin points the shooter. The co writer puts all down so you can read it and understand it all, and there is a lot. They name the shooter, and even confront him before they release the transcript to the publisher. The shooter that delivered the fatal shot wasn't Oswold. He tried alright but missed. Do you recall the report that a lot of people (witnesses) said there were two shots at one point that were almost on top of each other, almost sounding like one? One guy can't do that with a bolt action. Oswold was convinced he was being setup and kept saying so, he kept saying he was a patsy. Anyone that shoots, or especially target shoots with another person at the same target, can tell if they hit the target, or if it was the other guy. Oswold seen the same thing happen, yes he shot at Kennedy, he tried to kill him, but with that split second difference of the second shot, he also realized that he didn't hit Kennedy in the head, someone else did. Right then he thought he was being framed, he was a patsy. I won't give away the details of the book. If you think it's mostly BS and cover up that we've had fed to us all these years...read the book. It has the research and no nonsense detective work to back it up. It's nothing like you seen before.
I don't know who Oswold worked for, or who he tried to kill Kennedy for, but I think there were others steering him in the background.
I don't know if Jack Ruby killed Oswold to shut him up, or if Ruby took it upon himself to "even" the score for Oswold killing Kennedy, or so Ruby thought.
There are a lot of unanswered questions still, but the immediate events just before...during...and just after the shooting are revealed in a most believable manner.
Im a JFK fan watched a preview they have forensic facts that the bullet that blew the piece out of his scull was fired from the car behind him
Exactly what Howard Donahue determined with his research and experiments a number of years ago. If enough interest is generated as we approach the anniversary, the truth just might see the light of day yet. With the science and computer models that can be generated today as opposed to 50 years ago, it's got to be getting more difficult to continue the denials, the lies, the cover ups, and the out and out mistakes of the last 50 years. We'll see.
Who really cares What happened to some guy 50 years ago when the same thing is still happening today in your own backyard . Call it what you like, cover up or just shear incompetence. With out sacrificial goats to feed the machine the sheep might not do what there told.
The first one that comes to mind that the assassin might actually face prosecution but will walk anyway would be the cop that pumps 9 bullets into a guy with a pen knife in a empty and locked street car, similar case in Hamilton with a guy walking down the side of the highway supposed to of run into the woods . well ruining into the woods is reason to kill someone around here. There are more but lets move to incompetence Bosma comes to mind . Not saying the cops had anything to do with it but the hole thing stinks of a set up from the start and they follow a trail of breadcrumbs then pat them selfs on the back for being so smart. Its got to the point they don't even have to shoot you , T O cop decides to do a power u turn kills a old lady in the cross walk not going any ware no call gets docked a weeks pay. nice. No shortage of assassins around here pays well with a good Pension with no worries of following the same laws that apply to common folk
