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Posted by LOTGK on November 22, 2007
The sixth floor right side window: The beginning of the President John Kennedy conspiracy theory that still thrives 44 years later.
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LURKING ON THE GRASSY KNOLL
Grassy Knoll RSS
vandamonium said
Have you ever been there.
LOTGK said
Yes, I have, 12 or so years ago. I thought there would be some sort of tour, but there was not. We just asked a taxi driver to drop us off there.
We navigated ourselves around for awhile.
It has completely changed since 63, hard to recognize the area. It took some time to pinpoint the grassy knoll and surrounding area.
The depository is now a museum and I was hoping to see signs stating Grassy Knoll, or a sign where the Lincoln was when Kennedy was shot.
There was none of that, but was still a great moment to experience first hand the piece of history that changed the world.
Tom in Alaska said
I recently saw a program on The History Channel dealing with the assassination of JFK. I have seen many of these presentations and have always felt that some details are not being clearly given as regards the shots fired. I have some experience as a rifle shooter and would like to raise some questions for consideration by the internet communtiy. Since the program I watched stated that the distance of the shot from the sixth floor window of the Texas Book Depository to JFK’s car was 88 yards, I am wondering if that was the range at the first shot, the second shot, or the third shot. The reason for this question is that the car was moving away from the building, creating an increasing range of fire. I don’t know the speed of the car in the cavalcade, but this is an area that I have wondered about. Another issue that has been overlooked (in the public recounting, at least) is that when a shot is taken from an elevated position, the shooter must aim low in relation to the “sighted in” or “zero’ed” range. Yes, that’s right – the shooter must aim low. Let us say, for discussion sake, that the shooter had sighted in his rifle to hit the center of a bullseye at one hundred yards. An experienced shooter would compensate for the shorter range of a target by aiming lower – in this example, he would be aiming approximately 0.25″ low if the target was a little less than 100 yards. This calculation and aiming point would be necessary for every shot at the target; if the target was moving away from the shooter, the aiming point would have to be adjusted in accordance with the increasing range. Not a simple feat for a novice, but we’ve been told that this partcular shooter was an expert marksman. In addition (and the main point that I want to bring up), there is another important factor to consider when shooting from an elevation that is greatly different from the target. A bullet begins to drop, due to gravity, from the moment it leaves the gun barrel. The “bullet drop” can be calculated for any bullet fired at any velocity over a given range. This is well-known and every seasoned shooter is aware of this fact. But when a bullet is shot from, say, 80 to 100 feet in the air (I don’t know the exact height of the window at the Texas Book Depository), the range from this point to the target is not the range that will affect the bullet drop due to gravity. The range from the window to the target (sometimes erroneously referred to as “slant range”) is the hypotenuse of a right triangle, with the opposite side being the height of the building and the adjacent side being the range to the car. If the measured distance from the window to the car is 88 yards, the distance from the base of the the building directly below the shooter to the car will be less than the hypotenuse, and this smaller distance is the distance at which gravity will act on the bullet. In other words, the bullet will drop less than it would at the measured distance from the window to the car. Therefore, the shooter would need to aim even lower still to hit the exact point he wanted to hit. In total, then, the shooter would have to aim a total of perhaps one to one-and-a-half inches low when the car was at a distance of 88 yards from the window to the car. And then this calculation would have to be quickly made for the new distance from the window versus the horizontal distance for all following shots. Pretty dang impressive for even an expert marksman. I know Oswald was rated as an excellent shot when he was in the U.S. Marine Corp, but the shooting that he was doing on the shooting range in the U.S.M.C. was at a stationary target with little or no differnce in elevation from the shooting position. I am not a conspiracy adherent, but this has always knda given me pause for thought and the program I saw recently reminded me that I’ve never heard anyone address this issue. Can you shed some light on my musings?
Gumby said
Big Boy did it.
Big Boy did it.
Big Boy did it.
Big Boy did it.
Big Boy did it..
johnc said
I was just there on vacation. I have experience with guns and scope/rifles. I wouldn’t have needed a scope to make the shot. I could have hit the target with my Pellet gun at that distance.
With an 8mm or 30-06 and a peep site it would have been a cake walk. A properly sighted in scope at that distance and angle, the correction would be minimal at best. Anything leading by and below crosshair or as my dad would say a cunt hair ahead and below the cross hair is a kill shot.
Any other discussion about shot difficulty is wasted time
Gumby said
You claim to be able to hit the moving target without a scope. Doubt it.