Who shot JFK?

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For the purposes of this post, I don't really care who shot JFK; it's just a convenient mystery with which I can ask a question about truth.

Alice believes that Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK. She believes that Lee Harvey Oswald was in the Texas Book Depository, aimed a loaded rifle and shot JFK, at which point his head visibly exploded as seen in the Zapruder video.

Bert disagrees; he doesn't know for sure who shot JFK, but the one thing he's sure of is that Lee Harvey Oswald was not pointing a loaded rifle out of the window of the Texas Book Depository at the President at the fateful moment.

What do I believe? As I say, I neither know nor care, but there's one thing I know for sure: one of Alice or Bert is wrong. In sufficiently weird conditions both of them might be wrong, but one of them is wrong for sure. We may never know which of them is wrong, but at least one of them is definitely wrong.

Does anyone disagree with this?

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[drdoug.livejournal.com]

At least one of them is definitely wrong in at least one aspect of their accounts. Whether Alice or Bert think that aspect is important or salient isn't stated and can't be derived from the information given.

So, for instance, Chris believes that Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK, but that Lee Harvey Oswald was not in the Texas Book Depository but was standing on the grassy knoll, and fired a shotgun at the President, not a rifle. If Chris is right, Alice is wrong about Oswald's location, but not about who shot JFK, and Bert is right about Oswald's location but not to be uncertain about the shooter's identity.

(And I don't think you need particularly weird conditions for both Alice and Bert to be both wrong in at least some aspects - Oswald in the Depository but someone else firing the killing shot(s) is the basis of many (?most) conspiracy theories on the subject and isn't prima facie a weird condition.)