One of the facts that is not widely appreciated -- unless you have visited the site of the assassination -- is just how short a distance we're talking about. I

One of the facts that is not widely appreciated -- unless you have visited the site of the assassination -- is just how short a distance we're talking about. I remember thinking that it couldn't have been more than about a hundred yards. According to Wikipedia, the distance from the sixth story window to where Kennedy was when he was shot in the head is 265 feet. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_assassination_rifle#Ballistics_Research_Laboratory_tests http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_assassination_r...)