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

Here is a keen mind at work, that of Professor James Norwood, the new Chairman of the Oswald Innocence Campaign.

One point that is often missed in the seemingly endless discussions of the ballistics, number of shots fired, and trajectory of the shots is the reality that the marksmen in Dealey Plaza really didn't do a very competent job with their shooting on November 22, 1963.  Clearly, the shooters were taking aim at JFK's head.  But, let's look at the results:

--one bullet hits JFK in the back

--one bullet hits JFK in the throat

--at least one bullet misses JFK and hits Connally

--one bullet misses the limousine and eventually wounds James Tague

--one bullet apparently misses the limousine is embedded in the Dealey Plaza lawn, as we have a photo of an officer digging out the deeply furrowed bullet

--one bullet allegedly strikes the back of the Stemmons freeway sign, according to early witnesses

Here is the main point:  It was not easy to hit a moving target in the large plaza area, despite the skill of the marksmen.  While focusing on JFK's head, the shooters turned the event into a wild shooting spree.  It was a miracle that Jackie Kennedy was not killed exactly like Sophie, the wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, while riding in a limousine through the streets of Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. 

It was only due to the driver William Greer, who slowed and brought the limousine to a halt, that JFK was turned from a moving target into a sitting duck.  It was at that moment that the head shot(s) was/were finally on target.  In the terminology of ice hockey, the chauffeur Greer should be credited with an "assist" for the Crime of the Century.

James