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Boone, who has lived in Abilene on and off for years, said most of the interviews and conferences are about the historical aspects of Nov. He noted that there are fewer and fewer people left who remember the political landscape 50 years ago. They happen in other places. These materials include departmental documents, manuscripts, maps, photographs, and much more; they document historical events like the Kennedy assassination and Clyde Barrow gang's activities.

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He holds a rifle in one hand, and a communist newspaper in the other. Composite photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald holding a rifle and a communist newspaper, Marina Oswald and her child and an older woman, and a man and a woman sitting at a table.

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For the first four attempts, the firers missed the second shot at feet 73 m by several inches. Five of the six shots hit the third target at feet 81 m , the distance of President Kennedy from the sixth floor window when he was struck in the head. CBS conducted a firing test in at the H. White Ballistics Laboratory located in Street, Maryland. For the test 11 marksmen from diverse backgrounds were invited to participate: 3 Maryland State Troopers, 1 weapons engineer, 1 sporting goods dealer, 1 sportsman, 1 ballistics technician, 1 ex-paratrooper, and 3 H.

White employees. CBS provided several Carcano rifles for the test. Oswald's rifle was not used in this test. The results of the CBS test were as follows: 7 of 11 shooters were able to fire three rounds under 5. One volunteer was unable to operate his rifle effectively so the following statistics are based on the 10 remaining shooters. The average time of all 10 was 5.

The mode was 5. The average for the top five shooters was 5. There was a high occurrence of jamming during the test. On average the rifles jammed after 6 rounds. The most rounds fired without jamming were 14, 11, 10 in a row.

The least was 0 back to back. The record of his effort: 5. Sherman was able to fire 8 rounds before his rifle jammed. Of all shooters, the fastest times were: 4. The best accuracy was 3 orange in 5. The rifles were oiled and allowed to cool down between shooters. CBS reporter Dan Rather attended this experiment. The attorneys wanted to see how fast the bolt action could be operated. Blakey was able to fire two rounds in 1. This was an experiment to test a possible theory that Oswald in his excitement may have pointed and fired, as opposed to aimed and fired.

Some critics of the Warren Commission had claimed it was impossible to fire a Carcano rifle in less than 2. Vincent Bugliosi puts forward the hypothesis that Oswald fired the Carcano over open sights, which reduced the time necessary to take the three shots postulated by the Warren Commission. He notes that with the downward slope on Dealey Plaza , President Kennedy's head would have appeared to Oswald to be a stationary target as the vehicle moved down and away at a slow speed.

This suggestion also therefore makes any claim that the scope was defective to be meaningless with respect to Oswald's shooting ability. This would have been further exacerbated by the steep downward angle from the sixth floor of the TSBD to the limo which would have made the shot go even higher than what Oswald would have been aiming at. In , The Discovery Channel produced a documentary that played out several different versions of the Kennedy Assassination on a dummy that had been specifically designed for ballistics tests, recreating the elevation, wind speed and distance at a California shooting range.

Their forensic analysis, backed by computer models, showed that it was most likely that the shot that killed President Kennedy came from the Texas School Book Depository.

They also concluded that a shot from the grassy knoll would have completely obliterated Kennedy's skull, contrary to what is seen in the Zapruder Film. However, in this conclusion they assumed that an assassin on the grassy knoll would have used hollow point ammunition, which expands on impact to maximize damage. Thereafter, they attempted a second shot from the grassy knoll position, using a solid round. Analysis revealed that this bullet would have passed through Kennedy's skull from right-to-left, causing an exit wound on the left-hand side of the skull that did not match any postmortem reports.

They also suggested that the bullet trajectory from this shot would have struck and likely killed Mrs. The rifle remained in the possession of the FBI from November to November , except for brief periods in when it was loaned to the Warren Commission and tested by the U. Army's Weapons Evaluation Branch.

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