27-09-2013, 08:48 PM
I've since seen the Hathcock interview on youtube, had previously read One Shot, One Kill, always found this of note:
Hathcock on pages 89-90 of Kill Zone: A Sniper Looks at Dealey Plaza, by Craig Roberts:
According to my friend, Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock, the former senior instructor for the U.S. Marine Corps Sniper Instructor School at Quantico, Virginia, it could not be done as described by the FBI investigators. Gunny Hatchcock, now retired, is the most famous American military sniper in history. In Vietnam he was credited with 93 confirmed killsand a total of over 300 actual kills counting those unconfirmed. He now conducts police SWAT team sniper schools across the country. When I called him to ask if he had seen the Zapruder film, he chuckled and cut me off. "Let me tell you what we did at Quantico," he began. "We reconstructed the whole thing: the angle, the range, the moving target, the time limit, the obstacles, everything. I don't know how many times we tried it, but we couldn't duplicate what the Warren Commission said Oswald did. Now if I can't do it, how in the world could a guy who was a non-qual on the rifle range and later only qualified marksman' do it?"
Hathcock was alive when Kill Zone was published, and as Roberts is still alive, apparently the former didn't have a problem with the latter.
We saw The Grateful Dead in the stadium in Boulder in 1972 with 35,000 of our friends. We had a squirt gun of gin and tonic and they played from noon to six
punctuated by periodical rain at such times stepping back under plastic over scaffold
Was wearing the shirt Alice made me of the surviving blue field of the flag in the burned out Chimayo adobe of some Big Apple refugees
English class with Mr. Johnson was interrupted by Principal Ralph Clevenger to announce the president has been shot, has died, the buses will take you home
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Hathcock on pages 89-90 of Kill Zone: A Sniper Looks at Dealey Plaza, by Craig Roberts:
According to my friend, Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock, the former senior instructor for the U.S. Marine Corps Sniper Instructor School at Quantico, Virginia, it could not be done as described by the FBI investigators. Gunny Hatchcock, now retired, is the most famous American military sniper in history. In Vietnam he was credited with 93 confirmed killsand a total of over 300 actual kills counting those unconfirmed. He now conducts police SWAT team sniper schools across the country. When I called him to ask if he had seen the Zapruder film, he chuckled and cut me off. "Let me tell you what we did at Quantico," he began. "We reconstructed the whole thing: the angle, the range, the moving target, the time limit, the obstacles, everything. I don't know how many times we tried it, but we couldn't duplicate what the Warren Commission said Oswald did. Now if I can't do it, how in the world could a guy who was a non-qual on the rifle range and later only qualified marksman' do it?"
Hathcock was alive when Kill Zone was published, and as Roberts is still alive, apparently the former didn't have a problem with the latter.
We saw The Grateful Dead in the stadium in Boulder in 1972 with 35,000 of our friends. We had a squirt gun of gin and tonic and they played from noon to six
punctuated by periodical rain at such times stepping back under plastic over scaffold
Was wearing the shirt Alice made me of the surviving blue field of the flag in the burned out Chimayo adobe of some Big Apple refugees
English class with Mr. Johnson was interrupted by Principal Ralph Clevenger to announce the president has been shot, has died, the buses will take you home
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