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<p>[QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2368660, member: 71723"]Epilogue - Dealy Plaza</p><p><br /></p><p>After the show closed at 4PM, I made off on foot toward Dealy Plaza, dragging camera case (screaming yellow Pelican 1450) and wheeled suitcase along with me. As I approached the Old Red Museum, I was stuck by the awesomeness of the sadness I was about to encounter, and frankly, a tear came to my eyes, that far out. I had had plans to be partially funny here. I suddenly had doubts I had the stones to pull that off.</p><p><br /></p><p>As I turned to take my first look at Dealy Plaza, I was first struck by how concise and compact an area it is. From the street that runs to the east of Dealy Plaza, to the railroad overpass that the motorcade dashed under after the shooting, was about 1/3 the distance I had ever considered. It is a SMALL place, dudes and dudettes. ANY part of Dealy Plaza, ANY of it, is an easy shot for any trained marksman from the 6th floor. Heck, with the scoped rifle from there, you don't even need to be a trained marksman; any reasonably competent hungover Pennsylvania deer hunter could have EASILY made any shot Lee Harvey Oswald was said to have made there, and HAS made, if they have eaten venison. No problem AT ALL! So much for Conspiracy Theorist argument number one.</p><p><br /></p><p>I first walked down the hill in the direction the motorcade took but on the opposite side of the street from Zapruder's position - I would have been in Zapruder's film from there. I stopped at the first X in the street, the site of the non-fatal bullet that hit the President and the Governor, the ill-called "Magic Bullet" hit. Looking up at the sixth floor window, I knew I could make that shot, TODAY, and I have the tremors of a stroke survivor. And I could make it with open sights, no scope.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then I walked down about 15-20 car lengths to where the fatal shot hit the President's head. It was also marked in the street by an X. Like some others with more curiosity than sense, I waited for a traffic lull, and walked into the street, stood on the X, and looked up at Oswald's position. A clear open shot, but longer than the first. At this position, the trees are being cleared by shooting OVER them (they are carefully trimmed to be historically accurate). The non-fatal hit was accomplished by shooting UNDER the tree canopy. Between the two positions, there is light branching that must be shot THROUGH. A second shot might well have ricocheted off a branch. </p><p><br /></p><p>Rather than pulling a 180 from the fatal shot site, I continued on across the street toward the Abraham Zapruder position, in time to avoid a nasty horn-blowing driver of a white minivan. I looked around at the scene. The so-called "grassy knoll" restored to its original appearance, is really, really TINY, and only about 25 feet from where Zapruder's Bell&Howell was whirring away. Had a rifle shot come from the grassy knoll, Zapruder may have lost hearing in his right ear, he was THAT close. Down goes Conspiracy Theory 2.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the first time I had been to Dealy. I am now more convinced than ever that The Warren Commission and their counsel, Arlen Specter, got the details of that terrible day exactly right. About what led up to those events, and its planning, I cannot speak. Dealy offers nothing about those facts.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2368660, member: 71723"]Epilogue - Dealy Plaza After the show closed at 4PM, I made off on foot toward Dealy Plaza, dragging camera case (screaming yellow Pelican 1450) and wheeled suitcase along with me. As I approached the Old Red Museum, I was stuck by the awesomeness of the sadness I was about to encounter, and frankly, a tear came to my eyes, that far out. I had had plans to be partially funny here. I suddenly had doubts I had the stones to pull that off. As I turned to take my first look at Dealy Plaza, I was first struck by how concise and compact an area it is. From the street that runs to the east of Dealy Plaza, to the railroad overpass that the motorcade dashed under after the shooting, was about 1/3 the distance I had ever considered. It is a SMALL place, dudes and dudettes. ANY part of Dealy Plaza, ANY of it, is an easy shot for any trained marksman from the 6th floor. Heck, with the scoped rifle from there, you don't even need to be a trained marksman; any reasonably competent hungover Pennsylvania deer hunter could have EASILY made any shot Lee Harvey Oswald was said to have made there, and HAS made, if they have eaten venison. No problem AT ALL! So much for Conspiracy Theorist argument number one. I first walked down the hill in the direction the motorcade took but on the opposite side of the street from Zapruder's position - I would have been in Zapruder's film from there. I stopped at the first X in the street, the site of the non-fatal bullet that hit the President and the Governor, the ill-called "Magic Bullet" hit. Looking up at the sixth floor window, I knew I could make that shot, TODAY, and I have the tremors of a stroke survivor. And I could make it with open sights, no scope. Then I walked down about 15-20 car lengths to where the fatal shot hit the President's head. It was also marked in the street by an X. Like some others with more curiosity than sense, I waited for a traffic lull, and walked into the street, stood on the X, and looked up at Oswald's position. A clear open shot, but longer than the first. At this position, the trees are being cleared by shooting OVER them (they are carefully trimmed to be historically accurate). The non-fatal hit was accomplished by shooting UNDER the tree canopy. Between the two positions, there is light branching that must be shot THROUGH. A second shot might well have ricocheted off a branch. Rather than pulling a 180 from the fatal shot site, I continued on across the street toward the Abraham Zapruder position, in time to avoid a nasty horn-blowing driver of a white minivan. I looked around at the scene. The so-called "grassy knoll" restored to its original appearance, is really, really TINY, and only about 25 feet from where Zapruder's Bell&Howell was whirring away. Had a rifle shot come from the grassy knoll, Zapruder may have lost hearing in his right ear, he was THAT close. Down goes Conspiracy Theory 2. This is the first time I had been to Dealy. I am now more convinced than ever that The Warren Commission and their counsel, Arlen Specter, got the details of that terrible day exactly right. About what led up to those events, and its planning, I cannot speak. Dealy offers nothing about those facts.[/QUOTE]
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