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In reply to the discussion: Mortal Error: The Shot That Killed JFK [View all]cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)Oswald was simply hoping to hit Kennedy somewhere between the shoulder blades? A wound like that would have certainly killed him. Given the eleventy thousand posts I've seen about the inaccuracy of the Carcano rifle Oswald used, is it hard to believe he was shooting for center-mass (at least what was visible from behind) and hit Kennedy in the right side of the head?
And have I simply missed it... or has anyone here at DU asked the question: Who wanted LBJ to be President? After all, it was less than 9 months later that he went on the radio and gave his "Gulf of Tonkin" speech that inflamed a nation and allowed him to ramp up a war that ended with over 58,000 dead American Men and Women, and fucked up the country for a generation. A YEAR after that, LBJ joked... "For all I know, our Navy was shooting at whales out there."