09-07-2013, 07:39 AM
Peter
Your station wagon has the roll down window many of us grew up with.
The DC Beltway snipers used a Chevy trunk with a hole in the lock plate/license plate bracket area.
You are right about distractions--the silenced South Knoll weapon drew no notice, but the smoke, sound, smell of gunpowder and furtive activity drew the pack to the North or Grassy Knoll.
111 yards from the terminus of the balustrade at the south as depicted in the Moore-Cranor photo.
A five-plus foot elevation superiority with the target car coming virtually straight on at a three degree down angle.
McHugh removed from the front seat that day, and the privacy window removed August 1961 by Hess & Eisenhardt at Secret Service request.
I posit the extreme position that after the Bay of Pigs moved the president to fire Dulles, Cabell, Bissell, that the preparations were made--for over two years the president was on probation.
The missile crisis was strike two (in a Douglass-type scenario, an homage to Seven Days in May), the American University speech strike three.
The South Knoll is the RFK second shooter.
Your station wagon has the roll down window many of us grew up with.
The DC Beltway snipers used a Chevy trunk with a hole in the lock plate/license plate bracket area.
You are right about distractions--the silenced South Knoll weapon drew no notice, but the smoke, sound, smell of gunpowder and furtive activity drew the pack to the North or Grassy Knoll.
111 yards from the terminus of the balustrade at the south as depicted in the Moore-Cranor photo.
A five-plus foot elevation superiority with the target car coming virtually straight on at a three degree down angle.
McHugh removed from the front seat that day, and the privacy window removed August 1961 by Hess & Eisenhardt at Secret Service request.
I posit the extreme position that after the Bay of Pigs moved the president to fire Dulles, Cabell, Bissell, that the preparations were made--for over two years the president was on probation.
The missile crisis was strike two (in a Douglass-type scenario, an homage to Seven Days in May), the American University speech strike three.
The South Knoll is the RFK second shooter.