Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

     After wandering around the 6th floor for a few minutes, I turned my attention to the window in the southeast corner, the infamous Sniper's Nest. The actual window where Oswald had supposedly fired the shots had been enclosed within a small glass partition which made it inaccessible to direct scrutiny. But the window to its right was outside the glass wall. I walked up to it and looked down.

      I immediately felt like I had been hit with a sledge hammer. The word that came to mind at what I saw as I looked down through the window to Elm Street and the kill zone was:Impossible!

      I knew instantly that Oswald could not have done it. At least not alone. Oswald could not have possibly fired three shots in rapid succession--5.6 seconds according to the museum displays--with a worn-out military surplus Mannlicher-Carcano mounted with a cheap telescopic sight from that particular location to the kill zone. The reason I knew that Oswald could not have done it, was because I knew I could not have done it. 

Craig Roberts, OIC senior member and author of KILL ZONE: A SNIPER LOOKS AT DEALEY PLAZA

I'll add that Oswald had NO experience whatsoever shooting with a scoped rifle. In the Marines he used a .30 caliber rifle with no scope as shown below:

So, Oswald had no experience with a scoped rifle. There is no evidence he ever fired that Mannlicher/Carcano before or that he ever fired any scoped rifle before. Doesn't it take some getting used to?

Robert Harris from McAdams' forum, who maintains that Oswald was in the Sniper's Nest and did fire but deliberately missed, admits that the image in the Sat Even Post of what Oswald saw through his scope was bogus, but, he thinks it was just an innocent mistake. 

Hmm. How are we going to test that? Let's start by putting an image of what Oswald really saw alongside the one that they claimed. 

   

Which shot looks easier to you? And Robert, if you're reading this, if you'd like to post your own image of what Oswald saw through his scope, feel free. The one I used is from examiner.com. 

http://www.examiner.com/slideshow/jfk-assassination-50-years#slide=6

Oswald's scope provided only 4x magnification, but your average hunting rifle scope provides 14X magnification, and they go much higher than that. 

The straight ahead shot from the low elevation of the Dal-Tex building was much easier, requiring little adjustment. But, shooting downward from the steep angle of the 6th floor meant that your target was constantly moving out of view, requiring constant adjustment. 

Why would anyone assign innocence to this when the spurious published view sold an idea that they desperately wanted to sell: that this was an EASY SHOT?