Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/13

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Lee Harvey Oswald
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Fri Oct 13 14:07:42 2006
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You must realize more innocents are killed by draft dodgers and ex-navy 
rejects than by former Marines.  We just have a bad reputation because 
we know about yardage, windage, etc. Whitman, btw, had a medical problem 
so he has to be excused. Hells bells, the NYPD shoot more unarmed black 
youths in a year than all the ex military combined.

Jeffery Smith wrote:

>He also brought up Charles Whitman, the UT sniper who killed a bunch of 
>people in the 60's (also an ex-marine).
>--
>Jeffery
>
>---- Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin@optonline.net> wrote: 
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>>On Oct 13, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Walt wrote:
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>>>>Yes, I was in the Marines when that happened. If Jesus showed up  
>>>>at my
>>>>font door and said "Walt, trust me, Oswald did it alone" I'd have to
>>>>call him a liar.
>>>>        
>>>>
>>What was that line from "Full Metal Jacket"? I paraphrase here  
>>because my memory is a bit fuzzy but I recall the marine rifle  
>>instructor informing his trainees that:
>>
>>"Lee Harvey Oswald got off two shots in a second and a half and hit  
>>President Kennedy at a distance of two hundred yards. AND HE WAS A  
>>MARINE!"
>>
>>Larry Z
>>
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Replies: Reply from ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter) ([Leica] Re: Lee Harvey Oswald)
In reply to: Message from jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith) ([Leica] Re: Lee Harvey Oswald)