After we finished hanging Hoess,” Mengel said to me, “I packed up my clothes to go home. The catch on my suitcase was broken, so I buckled it shut with a big leather strap. Twice within an hour I did the very same job — once to Hoess and once to my suitcase. Both jobs felt about the same.
— But the FBI test-fired the rifle to see if it could be done.
— Three experts and not one of them could do it. They say that Oswald got off three shots with world-class precision from a manual bolt-action rifle in less than six seconds. According to his Marine buddies, he got Maggie's drawers. That means he wasn't any good. Average man would be lucky to shoot twice. And the first would be the best. Here the third shot's perfect.
— Killing a man can turn him into a martyr. Letting him live... tells the world he's a coward or a turncoat.
— So what are you?
— Aggrieved.
Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Once you've killed four, it's easy to make it five.
It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away all he's got... and all he's ever gonna have.
The blade is in your aorta. You pull it out, you will bleed, and you will die. Consider this a professional courtesy.