02-09-2014, 05:11 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-09-2014, 07:43 PM by Bob Prudhomme.)
Hi Drew
As I stated in the PM I just sent you, I have always felt the lower floors of the Dal-Tex Building to be a far more sensible place to put a shooter than the SE corner of the 6th floor of the TSBD. Another great place would have been the roof of the laundry van parked at the corner of Elm and Houston, with a great pile of laundry bags piled on its roof rack. What a great place to hide a shooter lying prone with just the tip of a suppressed rifle barrel poking out of the laundry bags.
To people with no experience hunting in hilly or mountainous country, a shot at a moving target from six storeys up probably looks fairly easy. Believe me, it is not. The bullet will strike just slightly higher of where you aim, and tracking a moving target while looking down at it is far more difficult than tracking a target almost on the same level as you and moving directly away from you. Add to that the fact that a shooter on the 6th floor was blocked by a Texas live elm until the last second, and the so called Sniper's Nest is not a very good place to be shooting from.
As I stated in the PM I just sent you, I have always felt the lower floors of the Dal-Tex Building to be a far more sensible place to put a shooter than the SE corner of the 6th floor of the TSBD. Another great place would have been the roof of the laundry van parked at the corner of Elm and Houston, with a great pile of laundry bags piled on its roof rack. What a great place to hide a shooter lying prone with just the tip of a suppressed rifle barrel poking out of the laundry bags.
To people with no experience hunting in hilly or mountainous country, a shot at a moving target from six storeys up probably looks fairly easy. Believe me, it is not. The bullet will strike just slightly higher of where you aim, and tracking a moving target while looking down at it is far more difficult than tracking a target almost on the same level as you and moving directly away from you. Add to that the fact that a shooter on the 6th floor was blocked by a Texas live elm until the last second, and the so called Sniper's Nest is not a very good place to be shooting from.
Mr. HILL. The right rear portion of his head was missing. It was lying in the rear seat of the car. His brain was exposed. There was blood and bits of brain all over the entire rear portion of the car. Mrs. Kennedy was completely covered with blood. There was so much blood you could not tell if there had been any other wound or not, except for the one large gaping wound in the right rear portion of the head.
Warren Commission testimony of Secret Service Agent Clinton J. Hill, 1964
Warren Commission testimony of Secret Service Agent Clinton J. Hill, 1964