"Jim.Garrison" - читать интересную книгу автора (Kennedy John F)

The young man so promptly nominated by the Dallas Police

Force was duly elected the lone assassin. He had excellent

qualifications, provided they were not examined too closely. He

wore the tag of a Communist defector who had spent 3 years in

Russia. He had been murdered, which assured that there would be

none of the time consuming problems of proof which a live

defendant would have presented. And his gun and three empty

cartridges had been placed at the 6th floor of the book

depository.



In spite of these conveniences there was a slight problem.

The overwhelming weight of legitimate evidence clearly indicated

that he could not possibly have fired a shot at the President.



There was, to begin with, the fact that the rifle

originally brought down from the book depository at 1:05 p.m.,

and briefly exhibited as the assassins rifle, had, unlike Lee

Oswald's rifle, no telescopic sight. There was the fact that

the Marine Corps shooting records showed that Oswald could not

hit the side of a barn. There was the tense fact that the

nitrate test indicated that Oswald bad not fired a rifle of any

kind. There was the fact that the ancient Italian rifle, which

Oswald was supposed to have used, could not conceivably have

accomplished the ballistic miracle with which it was credited -

particularly causing a single bullet to inflict seven different