[Patrick C]

I was somewhat bemused to read this today on Amazon JFK Part VI by Magus Maverik ....

One of my main areas of interest has been the actual shooting, as opposed for example, was it the Mob or the CIA.....or just Oswald acting alone...?

Here it is:-

Magus Maverik Wrote:Kennedy was killed in an ambush of triangulated gunfire involving at least three and probably five shooting positions. There were shooters from the front and rear and both sides in a matrix. There were shooters from the Daltex building both on the roof, and a lower sniper on a fire escape latter. So there WERE shooters from the rear. All such events are based on contingency, there are always glitches in the best laid plans. There were shooters from the grassy knoll area to the right of the limousine and shooters from the front nearer the triple overpass (Elm), one on the northwest side at the and one at the southwest side just above Commerce Street. it was the sniper at the last position that made the head shot. Both Kennedy an Connally were hit from behind and from the side as well. JFK in the back, likely from the shooter on the fire escape on the Daltex Bldg due to the angle of entry. The shooter on the fifth floor of the TSBD likely hit Connally in the back/armpit. A shooter from the grassy knoll likely hit Connally in his right wrist.

Finally the first hit to Kennedy was in the throat by a flechette fired from within an open umbrella from the curb just to the right of the FWY sign on Elm, when the limo was about 30 to 40 feet from that spot. This flechette was tipped with shellfish toxin, which paralyzes the victim.

At first I wondered is this a plot for a novel or is it simply the author having a laugh with us...?

Magus Maverik Wrote:Obviously the staging of the "snipers nest" was time sensitive and had to be staged just before the motorcade arrived. It was likely set up by one or two employees of the TSBD. The subsequent discovery may not have been successfully carried out by the party or parties meant to find the snipers nest. At this point after the shots were fired and the limo had left the scene, the ensuing confusion and panic would necessitate playing it by the ear as things developed. Fritz picking up the bullet hulls and pocketing them may have very well been simple stupidity. There may have been other motives; perhaps it was realized that more hits had been scored than planned and there was to be an attempt to add a shell to the "nest" scene. More than likely just allowing the scene to be overrun by the scores of people that ended up there was enough to satisfy the intent to provide a confusion of contradictory evidence that would benefit the planners.

Is Fritz in on the plot here...?

Magus Maverik Wrote:These are both plausible scenarios in answer to the questions posed. These answers attend to the facts of the case as I have come to understand them during more than 40 years of study and research.

IMO, the scenarios above are NOT plausible at all, if it has taken 40 years to reach those conclusions M M then I am sure nothing I will write will change your mind.

I suggest to you that your scenario is extreme.

I interviewed some people who worked in the Daltex building around 1983 - ie they worked there on Nov 22 1963. There was no scope for an assassin on the fire escape and neither in the rooms with windows open to Elm. That is just conspiracy theory nonsense. The rooms were packed with workers.

The notion that there were 5 or more shooters flies in the face of witness testimony.....3 shots or 2 or 3 said approx 98% of the witnesses. Around 10 people thought 4.

How were their shots disguised...?
How come there were so many misses..?
How come the bullets were not found by the hundreds of bystanders..?

Magus Maverik Wrote:There were shooters from the grassy knoll area to the right of the limousine and shooters from the front nearer the triple overpass (Elm), one on the northwest side at the and one at the southwest side just above Commerce Street. it was the sniper at the last position that made the head shot.

I take it then M M that you were wither part of the plot or have met a plotter who gave you these exact details....?

If you made you post as a "personal theory" rather than as a "known to you set of facts", I for one could take your suggestion with more than a grain of seriousness.

As it stands, your theory is merely wayward conjecture posted as fact. And we have a word for that.

I will be polite and refrain from using it.