05-05-2014, 06:37 PM
I should point something out about the firing tests Mr. Frazier and his colleagues performed with C2766, as it is inevitable that someone will eventually point this out after carefully reading Frazier's testimony to the WC.
Frazier explains, in his testimony, that the real purpose of these tests was not so much accuracy as speed; the point was to fire three shots as quickly as possible at the targets.
There would seem to be some amount of room for error here that would account for the targets produced at 15 and 100 yards, and it would seem, at first glance, to render my research void, until we consider one very important thing.
Prior to the commencement of the shooting test, the shooter would already have the first cartridge chambered in the rifle, ready to shoot, and would have acquired his target in the scope; the same scenario as Oswald with the first cartridge chambered and him studying through the scope the point where JFK would emerge from behind the live oak in front of the TSBD. In other words, the most accurate shot, in the FBI's test and Oswald's scenario, would always be the first shot and, for an inexperienced shooter, the first shot would usually be on a much different part of the target than the next two hurried shots.
Testifying about the 15 yard test shots, Frazier tells the WC that the three shots in each test all landed very close together. They were, in his description, "in the area about the size of a dime" and "within an eighth of an inch of each other". This tells us two things. One, these men were very good shots; able to reproduce accuracy under the duress of rapid firing. Two, any error to be allowed for, due to variances from rapid firing, obviously does not exist; for the simple fact that the "relaxed" shot hit the target at almost exactly the same point as the two rapid fire shots.
Frazier explains, in his testimony, that the real purpose of these tests was not so much accuracy as speed; the point was to fire three shots as quickly as possible at the targets.
There would seem to be some amount of room for error here that would account for the targets produced at 15 and 100 yards, and it would seem, at first glance, to render my research void, until we consider one very important thing.
Prior to the commencement of the shooting test, the shooter would already have the first cartridge chambered in the rifle, ready to shoot, and would have acquired his target in the scope; the same scenario as Oswald with the first cartridge chambered and him studying through the scope the point where JFK would emerge from behind the live oak in front of the TSBD. In other words, the most accurate shot, in the FBI's test and Oswald's scenario, would always be the first shot and, for an inexperienced shooter, the first shot would usually be on a much different part of the target than the next two hurried shots.
Testifying about the 15 yard test shots, Frazier tells the WC that the three shots in each test all landed very close together. They were, in his description, "in the area about the size of a dime" and "within an eighth of an inch of each other". This tells us two things. One, these men were very good shots; able to reproduce accuracy under the duress of rapid firing. Two, any error to be allowed for, due to variances from rapid firing, obviously does not exist; for the simple fact that the "relaxed" shot hit the target at almost exactly the same point as the two rapid fire shots.
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