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the bullet proof bubbletop roof would have been on JFK's limousine,making an assassination at this point all but impossible. LHO must have known this in advance.
There was no "bullet proof bubbletop". The plastic bubbletop for the Lincoln was purely there to keep rain off the occupants, not to ward off an assassination attempt that no one was really anticipating. (Think about it - if the bubbletop were bulletproof and designed to protect the president from assassination, why would they only use it when it was rainiing? Was the Secret Service OK with losing the president as long as it was a dry day? If it were a security measure, it would have been made permanent, not removable.) It is possible that the need to punch through the plastic might have deflected one or more of his shots, altering the outcome (one of his bullets - the miss - was probably deflected by a tree branch) but the bubbletop could not have stopped a bullet.
And even if it had been bullet proof, why assume that Oswald of all people would have known anything about it? Do you think he spent years studying Kennedy's security arrangements? Wrong. He had no idea that he was going to shoot the president. (He had a desire to shoot someone famous, hece his earlier attempt on the life of Gen. Walker. He only picked Kennedy as a target a few days before the killing when he saw the map of the motorcade route and realized that Kennedy was going to drive right by the building where he worked.)
Most of the people who have killed American public figures have considered a range of targets before accident or design settled them on one person. Arthur Bremer wrote in his diary that he planned to kill either Richard Nixon or George Wallace at a campaign event. His main target was Nixon, but he proved too hard to get at, so he switched to Wallace, whom he eventually shot and paralyzed. John Hinckley, Jr. considered committing suicide in front of Jodie Foster or hijacking an airliner in order to impress her, before he decided that he would assassinate the president. His first target was Jimmy Carter. By the time he had a chance to carry out his plan, Carter had been replaced by Reagan. Made no difference to Hinckley.
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apparently LHO had enough time to hide the rifle in an area far from the so called sniper's nest but he DIDN'T have the few seconds needed to scoop up the 3 spent cartridge shells lying by his feet? It's almost as if he was deliberately leaving a trail of breadcrumbs for investigators
Actually, it is almost as though a mentally unstable non-entity who had just shot the President of the United States screwed up. In his rush to escape the building, pumped up on adreniline, he missed the brass but ditched the rifle. Is that so hard to believe? Occam's razor, my friend, Occam's razor.
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If this turned out to be the case, was Oswald prepared to gun down ALL these witnesses in order to make good his escape?
Why not? He was willing to gun down a police officer in order to make good his escape.
I'd have to check a reference, which at the moment I really don't feel like doing, but I'm pretty sure Oswald had good reason to know that nobody else would be on the 6th floor because of the work assignments handed out that day. Most of the employees who watched the motorcade did so from the floors where they were working or (in the case of the office workers) where their friends were working. If there were no orders to be filled with books stored on the 6th floor, there would have been no reason for anyone else to be there.
Regards,
Joe
