I think most people get the JFK second shooter theory backwards

I was talking with my buddy Dave at the job site last week. He's big into conspiracy stuff. He kept going on about the grassy knoll and a second shooter from the front. I told him look at the Zapruder film frame by frame. The real question isn't if there was a second shooter but where the first shot actually came from. Most folks assume Oswald was in the book depository the whole time. But I pulled up the floor plans and his sight line to the motorcade was actually blocked by an oak tree for the first 3 seconds. He had to lean out a window to get a clear shot. That changes the timeline. How does everyone else factor in that tree obstruction?

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finleyw992mo ago

The tree thing is like how people always miss the obvious stuff. You ever notice how everyone argues about who did what but nobody checks if they even had a clear view in the first place? Same thing happens when people debate sports plays or car accidents, they skip over the basic stuff that changes everything.

dakota_nelson4322d ago

I mean sure, it's frustrating when people miss stuff like that but at the same time it's not like some huge tragedy. People get wound up over traffic debates like it's a murder trial or something, half the time it's just a fender bender and nobody got hurt. We all act like internet sleuths but really we're just guessing from a 10 second clip with no context. Maybe it's just me but I think we put way too much stock in being right about random stuff that doesn't matter in the long run.

bettys512mo ago

Right, like in those dash cam videos where everyone blames the other driver but nobody stops to check if the sun was in someone's eyes or a sign was blocked by a truck. I remember this one accident thread where people went back and forth for days until someone finally pulled a street view image that showed a huge bush covering the stop sign. That's the stuff that kills me, all that finger pointing over nothing when the real answer was right there in plain sight the whole time.