>>Lee Harvey Oswald did not have the ability to make the kinds of
>>shots attributed to a lone gunman, and an expert rifleman would
>>never have used such a piece of crap for an assasination.

Yeah, yeah, yeah - and OJ was much too smart to have dropped one of his gloves at the scene of the crime, too.

Criminals aren't always the savviest bunch. Nutbar criminals, like the ones that shoot Presidents in order to get their names in the newspaper, are even less so. Trying to decide whether a nutcase is guilty based on what an intelligent, rational person would do is a fool's errand.

It's a fact that JFK's itinerary for the motorcade was published well in advance so the crowds could line the street; it's a fact that the limousine had to make a 90 degree right turn, followed almost immediately by a greater-than-90 degree left turn, immediately prior to reaching the location where JFK was shot; one didn't need to be any kind of an expert to realise that the limousine would have been almost stopped when it made the second turn and would have presented a perfect target.

On what grounds do you conclude that Oswald "didn't have the ability"? It wasn't (or, if you prefer, wouldn't have been) a particularly long or difficult shot, especially at an almost stationary target. The limousine was travelling very slowly; it was moving away from him (thus, there would have been very little lateral movement, meaning there was no need to "lead" the target). I'm pretty sure I made more difficult shots than that the first time they handed me a rifle on the shooting range in basic training.