Editing Conspiracy BBS Archive/jfk-0002 (section)

== THE SNIPERS' NESTS ==

A major mistake with the reenactment was that shots were only fired
from two locations: the [[Texas School Book Depository]] and [[The Grassy Knoll|the grassy
knoll]].  Other locations were ignored although there has been much
evidence that three or more gunmen may have participated.  The first
and sixth impulses did not match gunfire from either of the two
tested locations and so were dismissed by the Committee.  They did
carefully word the report to state that they did not match the two
tested firing spots rather than stating that they were not gunshots.
They could have been gunshots fired from other positions.  The first
impulse is 1/2 second before the second.  The sixth is 7/10 of a
second after the fifth.  If the two are indeed shots, then there were
at least 3 and possibly 4 gunmen!  Interestingly, there is very
possibly a seventh shot on the tape.  At one point another mike was
keyed and caused a heterodyning on the tape.  This is at the point
that the [[Zapruder Film|Zapruder film]] shows [John F. Kennedy (President)|Kennedy]] react to a possible hit to his
back.

Of the four impulses that the Committee accepted as gunshots, the third matched gunfire from [[The Grassy Knoll|the grassy knoll]].  Because of the echo patterns, it had to come from [[The Grassy Knoll|the grassy knoll]] and not from elsewhere,
such as an engine backfiring.  [[The Grassy Knoll|the grassy knoll]] shot was also preceeded by an N-wave (supersonic shock wave) which proved it was a gunshot (bullets are supersonic).  Experts stated that there was better than a 95 percent chance that there was a shot from [[The Grassy Knoll|the grassy knoll]].

Although Chairman Stokes privately admitted that they knew the head shot came from the front, no one on the Committee was willing to admit publically that the fatal shot had been fired by someone other than [Lee Harvey Oswald|Oswald]].  They decided to claim that the third shot ([[The Grassy Knoll|the grassy knoll]] shot) was a miss and that [Lee Harvey Oswald|Oswald]] had fired the fatal head shot.  When  the recording was synchronized with the [[Zapruder Film|Zapruder film]], though, this  claim did not match perfectly with the other shots.  When [[The Grassy Knoll|the grassy knoll]] shot was synchronized with the head shot everything fell into  place.  Still, the Committee would not admit that the third shot was the head shot.

Even when the third shot is considered to be a miss and that the other three were hits, then another problem arises:  the first and second shots are only 1.66 seconds apart.  Therefore, [Lee Harvey Oswald|Oswald]] couldn't have fired the first two because of the speed required.  Of course, much evidence shows that [Lee Harvey Oswald|Oswald]] wasn't even on the sixth floor of the Depository and various guns seem to have been spotted by people that day.  Was another man firing a quicker rifle from the sixth floor?