Consider the Zapruder film. Read what is known of the life of

Comment on John F. Kennedy Assassination Conspiracy Theories by Ego Nemo.

Consider the Zapruder film. Read what is known of the life of Lee Harvey Oswald. Consider the ballistics of the Carcano rifle.

Consider the weakness of the audio evidence. Consider that Oswald got his job in the Texas Schoolbook Depositor based on the intercession of a female neighbor of his wife’s — a person that no rational person believes is part of any conspiracy.

Also consider that the full context of the line is: “”They’re taking me in because of the fact I lived in the Soviet Union. I’m just a patsy!” Taken together, what Oswald is clearly trying to say is that the police have made Oswald a patsy because they used his Soviet residency as a pretense for bringing him in for questioning. Oswald is not charging a grand conspiracy, but making a rather banal — and at the time, easily disproven — claim of police brutality.

The conclusion is inescapable — Lee Harvey Oswald, who was disciplined in the Marines for shooting his rifle blindly into the jungle while on guard duty, and who incontrovertibly took at least one pot-shot at General Walker, decided to take ‘pot shots’ at President Kennedy as he drove past the Texas Schoolbook Depository.

It is merely a matter of statistical fate that two of those shots hit, and proved fatal.