FBI Evidence Proves Oswald's Ammunition was not Capable of Sufficient Accuracy to Kill JFK

[Drew Phipps]

The WC testimony of Mr. Simmons is very interesting. He recounts the difficulty of working the bolt of c2766 (which could be compensated for with dry runs), as well as talking about an unusually quick trigger action (which generally could not). Depending on which of the many Oswalds you follow, he either got plenty of practice at the range, or almost none.

His Army shooters managed the feat in less time than Oswald but with less accuracy, and they were NRA "masters." One guy, some sort of gun prodigy, managed three shots in less than 5 seconds. Simmons's results are tallied in fractions of a degree, which then moved out to the appropriate yardage, showed accuracy figures better than the FBI; but it looks to me that the shots did NOT consistently go "high and to the right." Compounding the strangeness, he did not ask his shooters to fire at any particular part of the silhouette target.

I've only done a preliminary scan of his testimony and will work on it a bit more. The good news is that we have pictures (CE 582, 583, 584) of the actual silhouette targets used from the view of the shooter (and the plywood upon which the targets were mounted), unlike the previous FBI tests where the exhibits are not pictures of the silhouette targets Frazier claimed he used (instead appear to be hand drawn).

I will review your link as well.