Oswald's Counter-surveillance Tradecraft

[William Kelly]

When the Secret Service conducted their filmed reenactment of the assassination, they give a good overview of the general situation and show the target car coming down Houston Street and making the turn onto Elm, and you can’t help but wonder WHY the shooter didn’t take this easy shot, and as the car completes its turn right under the window, you wonder WHY that easy shot wasn’t taken, and then there’s the tree blocking the view of the target before the point is reached where the fatal head shot was taken.....

JFKCountercoup2: Oswald's Counter-surveillance Tradecraft

[Thomas Graves]

When the Secret Service conducted their filmed reenactment of the assassination, they give a good overview of the general situation and show the target car coming down Houston Street and making the turn onto Elm, and you can’t help but wonder WHY the shooter didn’t take this easy shot, and as the car completes its turn right under the window, you wonder WHY that easy shot wasn’t taken, and then there’s the tree blocking the view of the target before the point is reached where the fatal head shot was taken.....

JFKCountercoup2: Oswald's Counter-surveillance Tradecraft

Gosh, I don't know, William. Because the limo's metal cross piece would have blocked or obscured the shot?

Just a wild guess.

--Tommy