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the weapon to bring his eye directly behind the gun sight. His index knuckle tensed on the trigger. He wasaware even of the knurl ridges, like a course fingerprint in the metal. With a steady eye and finely tunedhand coordination, Jeff tracked a bead on President Kennedy’s forehead.Oswald opened fire from the Depository but with less than half of the finesse of an amusement park duck-shoot hawker. Over the gun sight, Jeff could see a flurry of reactions in the car but he couldn’tdetermine if Lee’s barrage were hits
. It appears he’s not struck his target: as I could’ve expected.
Jeff required only his one meticulous kill shot. He squeezed the trigger with strait-blade razor professionalismthat was stropped on other lives.So finely attuned to that instant, he nearly saw the blunt tail of the bullet streaking away. JohnFitzgerald Kennedy’s head recoiled sharply from the impact of a bullet on a skull. In the president’s lastgleaming his crown was as a crimson corona of blood mist. Jeff felt washed pristine clean by a wave of freedom—he had never felt so completely satisfied.
The sound of my one report was likely buried in an echo of all of Oswald’s
. The assassin didn’tchamber another round. The job was finished and that action would only eject the spent cartridge he wouldthen have to retrieve. Instead, he slipped the carbine back under his coat and felt the euphoria of closure.As the man strode purposefully away, his gait betrayed no more guilt than to an expired parking meter. Heretraced almost the exact steps he had taken on the way to his firing position. The gunman’s execution andattention to detail had once again been calligraphy perfect.As he slipped behind the wheel of his car, Jeff placed the carbine into his lap with the muzzle pointingtowards the rubber mat of the passenger’s seat floor. He ejected the spent brass, then inserted the singleround he carried loose in his pocket.
Never be caught with an empty weapon.
That maxim was one hecould never forget. The assassin set the gun down on the seat next to him and concealed it with his jacket.“Now that’s a souvenir!” He stuffed the spent brass cartridge into his shirt pocket. Normally he wouldfind a place to tuck it where it would never be found.
This time I’ll keep it.
The shining brass was a coin to pay all debts to both his old country and his new one.Jeff slipped the shifter into gear and drove away using the route he had planned well in advance.Stopping only once, he deposited the incriminating weapon in the pre-arranged dumpster. Another member of the non-requested support team would be responsible for the final disposal. It was yet another complication in the plan that was neither necessary nor of his choice. The assassin was fully capable of ditching his own evidence.
Simplicity in a strategy is a thing of ultimate desirability
. His plot had been exquisitely straightforward.One shooter and one shot. That’s the way it should have been. The inclusion of Oswald and these other impediments to his effortless stratagem had been requirements directly from the
clients
. Jeff never likedany of them.Oswald loved the Depository sniper’s nest and wanted to use it even though his shot from there would be at a difficult angle. He bragged about his targeting skills even though the positioning for a right-handedmarksman was the worst possible. The staccato of ineffectual shots Lee had fired only showed the folly of his position. The fact that Oswald had even been able to strike in the vicinity of the president was proof of his skill. No matter, Lee Harvey Oswald was the redundant understudy. Jeff Thomas was the headliner. He haddelivered his performance as a virtuoso. His lanyard tug made the curtain fall on the American President.What critic could ever mock the show?As Jeff drove on, he pondered again whether the next stage of the plan was essential or wise. Theobjective was terminated and it was sure to be a momentous event in the country. Should they not justquietly disappear? What was the point of meeting up with Oswald? Why not at some later date and as far as possible from the turmoil of this historic event? Linking up on this day, in this city was more the client’s
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