I see, so now you have seen the light and changed your ways. There is no one more correct than a convert, right?
Uh, no. I'm just explaining why I "have all my story down" as you said. The insinuation you made is that I have it all rehearsed instead of it coming from personal knowledge of working through the evidence.
While I do not live in the Dallas area, I too have visited Dealey Plaza and spent several hours there and have done all that you have described. Your having visited often does not mean that you have some special insight to the things that happened that fateful day.
Extreme familiarity with the area and frequent visits over the course of more than 25 years provides more insight than "several hours" of visiting.
All you have done is superimposed what you have seen there into your head...
I don't know what you mean by "superimposed."
...and have come up with your particular conclusions with what you know from all the sources available.
That's what an investigator does. And my particular conclusions reached (with bias against my eventual conclusions) happen to line up nicely with the official investigation conducted by agencies with many more resources than I have.
You are not some sort of professional investigator, or super sleuth, but an amateur just like me who is simply interested in the subject.
I am actually a researcher of many things (I am a professional writer), so I know more than a few things about research and investigator. I am not a professional criminal investigator, but I have conducted professional criminal investigations in my previous career. I also know quite a bit about epistemology, so I am quite adept at evaluating truth claims based on evidence.
You can call the testimony from the various marksmen falsehoods, but I think that their opinions are something that should be taken into account as they attempted to recreate what Oswald was supposed to have done.
I have not dismissed them, but I evaluate their testimony on the basis of the testimony of others who claim to have made the shots. Moreover, Oswald was quite familiar/obsessive with his rifle and practiced with it all the time. I don't know if any of the marksmen you cite had obsessively practiced with the rifle for months, working the bolt action, before attempting the shots. That would have the effect of loosening up the action and well as developing the muscle memory and technique so it could be done without conscious thought, leaving Oswald's mind clear to focus on target acquisition and proper aim for each round.
Like I said in an earlier post, the minute I looked out the 6th floor window it hit me that the shot to take was when the limo was coming towards you, not when it was going away.
(1) "Proper," if you were not human and had no psychological qualms about shooting someone in the face.
(2) "Proper," if you wanted to take the chance that the forward-scanning Secret Service would see you extend your rifle out of the window.
(3) "Proper," if you cared nothing about escape and were willing to have your sniper's nest peppered with return fire almost immediately after the first shot.
By waiting for the limo to make the sharp turn at the base of the building and pivot away, Oswald also had a clear firing line to the limo when all of the Secret Service attention was directed toward the crowds on the grass, the grassy knoll and structures along the right side, and the triple overpass. They were also probably thinking about how they were about to enter Stemmons Freeway and their configuration for the higher speeds on their way to the Trademart.
It was actually a more tactical time to take the shots.
That sort of analysis comes from being at the site multiple times, looking out the windows, watching the Zapruder film on the very spot where I was shot, considering various scenarios, and determining how I would have done it if I wanted to survive the encounter and continue my life as a revolutionary.
