ViperPilot
Paranormal Novice
Quoted from an earlier letter I wrote to a friend:
I remember the day President Kennedy was murdered and how I heard about it. I had just turned 16 years old the month before, and was walking across the parking lot of Abilene High School in Abilene, Texas on my way to lunch. A friend of mine approached me and said that the President had been shot. Several days later, I remember seeing a photograph in the local newspaper. It was taken in Dallas, Texas, and featured a police detective holding a WWII Italian 6.5mm Carcano carbine over his head. The rifle had a sling attached, and a small, low powered scope mounted to its receiver. The caption on the photograph read something to the effect: “The Rifle That Killed Kennedy”. Being a young Texan of the time, I was very much into hunting, and prided myself on my knowledge of a wide range of firearms, military and civilian. I knew that the Carcano carbine was a very low quality, mass produced bolt actioned infantry weapon, with a very low standard of form, fit and function. I remember thinking to myself: “There’s no way anyone could make three aimed, accurate shots with that rifle, hit a moving, mellon sized target at that distance, in six seconds or so. It just can’t be done. Someone is lying to us about this.” I thought that then, and I think that now, fifty years later.
I’ve followed this crime closely for all these years. In my opinion, it is the defining post WWII event of our nation. This act set our nation in motion along the path to empire, and the demise of our Constitutional Democracy. Our only hope for recovery is through the efforts of historians and researchers to regain our national identity by understanding this seminal event. And, to prevent such a thing from happening again.
I remember the day President Kennedy was murdered and how I heard about it. I had just turned 16 years old the month before, and was walking across the parking lot of Abilene High School in Abilene, Texas on my way to lunch. A friend of mine approached me and said that the President had been shot. Several days later, I remember seeing a photograph in the local newspaper. It was taken in Dallas, Texas, and featured a police detective holding a WWII Italian 6.5mm Carcano carbine over his head. The rifle had a sling attached, and a small, low powered scope mounted to its receiver. The caption on the photograph read something to the effect: “The Rifle That Killed Kennedy”. Being a young Texan of the time, I was very much into hunting, and prided myself on my knowledge of a wide range of firearms, military and civilian. I knew that the Carcano carbine was a very low quality, mass produced bolt actioned infantry weapon, with a very low standard of form, fit and function. I remember thinking to myself: “There’s no way anyone could make three aimed, accurate shots with that rifle, hit a moving, mellon sized target at that distance, in six seconds or so. It just can’t be done. Someone is lying to us about this.” I thought that then, and I think that now, fifty years later.
I’ve followed this crime closely for all these years. In my opinion, it is the defining post WWII event of our nation. This act set our nation in motion along the path to empire, and the demise of our Constitutional Democracy. Our only hope for recovery is through the efforts of historians and researchers to regain our national identity by understanding this seminal event. And, to prevent such a thing from happening again.