G'Day Mate

Good Grief! Do I sound Australian??! Virtually everytime I open my mouth in a shop or restaurant, I get asked where in Australia I come from. Whilst out shopping with Imogen, one guy even started playing 'Waltzing Matilda' over the shops PA system, then asked me if I was Austalian or from New Zealand! He was quite surprised when I told him I was from England. Another bloke even started calling me Croc Dundee, cos I looked like Paul Hogan. I suppose it must be the Northern accent, that must make me sound like an Aussie - ho hum.

Anyway, went to Dealey Plaza last Thursday to see the Sixth Floor Museum (for any Americans reading this, Dealey Plaza is where Kennedy was shot - I know as a country you only have a short history, and its such a shame that you don't seem to bother to even learn about it!) Anyway, it was a really good museum and it was quite eerie to think that you're stood almost in the exact same spot that history was made. When you go outside into the plaza itself, there are two X's marked on the road where he took the shot in the neck and then the fatal one to the head. Dodging the traffic, I stood on the X's and you can clearly see that Oswald had line of sight to the Presidents head, and I have no doubts that Oswald acted alone.

I timed cars going between the two X's on the road and it took them around about 2.5 seconds traverse the two. When you consider the motorcade was going a lot slower than the cars I timed, and Oswald could re-load the rifle in 1.6 seconds, its pretty obvious that he had time to re-load, take aim, and fire.

I can almost hear the conspiracy nuts saying "Well why do you think the motorcade slowed down, huh, buddy?" Well, thats obvious...the car had just turned from Huston Street into Elm street, which is a pretty sharp turn, so he *obviously* had to slow down. After seeing the place for myself, I just can't believe that there is a conspiracy surrounding the whole event now.

"Well what about the shots from the Grassy knoll - explain that one Mr Taylor?"

Have you ever seen the grassy knoll? To even suggest that anyone could have stood there with a rifle and shoot someone just beggars belief! They would be clearly visible to everyone - even if they had been hiding in the bush's they still wouldn't have had time to shoot, then run off or even speed away in a car - its all very open. The acoustics must have made it sound like a shot rang out from there. How many times have you heard a car back firing or a plane flying overhead and you look in the opposite direction?

"Yea, well, what about the puff of smoke seen on the knoll? nswer that one Mr Smarty pants"

Ok I will. How many rifles (like the one Oswald used) leave a puff of smoke after you fire them? Surely, for the rifle to leave a plume of smoke it would have had to have been firing flintlock or some sort of gun powder type substance?? So quite frankly, the idea of a government conspiracy or cover up is, in my mind, a whole load of tosh. Get over it America, some lone gunman shot your president. Now Princess Diana...thats a whole different story....!