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The documentary I remember seeing showed that it was very difficult to get that many shots off in the time allotted. Also JFK's head moves in the direction where Oswald was, you would think his head would move in the same direction as the bullets and not the opposite.
Discovery Channel did an incredibly detailed recreation of the shooting, using the exact same type of car Kennedy was in, with dummies made of ballistic gel with the replica human bones placed inside the ballistic-gel dummies, a trained marksman using the Carcano rifle at exactly the same height and distance, the car moving on a set of rails at the exact same speed as Kennedy's vehicle, a fan recreating the windy conditions and ...
The marksman got off the three shots, hit exactly where Oswald's shots hit, and the one that went through Kennedy's neck hit the passenger in front of him in the back, went through that ballistic dummy's chest, through the right wrist and lodged in its left thigh - EXACTLY the path taken by the bullet as it hit Connolly.
The confusion/disinformation on the bullet that went through Kennedy and hit Connolly - the moronic "magic bullet" claim - is predicated on the belief that the seat Connolly was in was at the same height as Kennedy's seat. In truth, Connolly's seat was a "jump seat," lower than Kennedy's seat. This photo shows Connolly - a big guy - seated lower than Kennedy.
The shooting was at 40 to 50 yards. Even rank amateur shoots - like my neighbor - use that distance to spot in a scope before moving the target to 100 yards, 200 yards. My neighbor can put twenty rounds in the target at 50 yards in a pattern about the size of a small dinner plate. Yes, hitting a moving target in pretty heavy wind is vastly more difficult, I get it.
The challenge in getting off those rounds that accurately is having to rack the slide twice. You take your attention completely off the target when doing so. Also, Oswald did not use a scope and instead used the metal sights, which are very accurate at 50 yards and less.