BazBear
Possible Suspect
Robert, I'll tell you why I think Oswald acted alone.
-It was his rifle found in the sniper's nest; we have the record of him purchasing it, we also have the backyard photos that his wife Marina testified to taking of him showing off that weapon.
-We have the testimony of Marina that Lee told her about his attempt to assassinate General Edwin Walker - with that same weapon - on April 10, 1963. While not directly related to the assassination of JFK, it indicates Oswald was mentally capable of attempting to kill a high profile person.
-We have Wes Frazier's testimony about the large package Oswald brought to work with him the morning of the assassination. It should be also noted that Oswald normally stayed at his boarding house during the work week, and only returned home on the weekends. This was the first time Frazier had brought him home on a weeknight and brought him to work on the following work day - the day of the assassination.
-Oswald left the TSBD as soon as he could after the assassination, before LEO's could lock the place down; all of his co-workers remained in the building.
-Co-workers testified that Oswald had been working on the 6th floor most or all of that morning.
-We have Oswald shooting DPD Officer J.D. Tippet approximately 45 minutes after the assassination. Not long after that Oswald snuck into the Texas Theatre without paying. When DPD officers confronted him he attempted to pull the weapon he had shot Tippet with on those officers.
-Oswald was an experienced marksman, both from the hunting he did with his brother in his youth and the formal training he received in the USMC.
-We also have Oswald's unusual history before the assassination, including a troubled childhood and adolescence, his remarks to fellow Marines that he was a Marxist, his defection to the Soviet Union - and when that didn't work out the way he thought it would, his return to the USA with his Russian bride.
-We have the forensic evidence that CE 399 and the bullets that killed Tippet matched Oswald's weapons to the exclusion of any other weapons. The fragments of the head shot as well as the shot he took at Walker were too damaged to definitively match to that weapon, but were consistent with a 6.5mm Carcano and the ammo available at the time.
-We have no credible evidence of another shooter. None.
In my mind, the only slightly conceivable case that could be made, with the objective and empirical evidence we have, is that someone put Oswald up to it. But we have no credible evidence of that either. And, as I pointed out to you earlier, proving a negative (in this case, proving that no one suggested or recommended Oswald attempt the killing) is an impossible task.
I'm not sure why I've bothered to write this post, as you'll most likely discount my conclusions out of hand, but at at least you'll no longer be able to say I haven't laid out my case for Oswald acting alone.
-It was his rifle found in the sniper's nest; we have the record of him purchasing it, we also have the backyard photos that his wife Marina testified to taking of him showing off that weapon.
-We have the testimony of Marina that Lee told her about his attempt to assassinate General Edwin Walker - with that same weapon - on April 10, 1963. While not directly related to the assassination of JFK, it indicates Oswald was mentally capable of attempting to kill a high profile person.
-We have Wes Frazier's testimony about the large package Oswald brought to work with him the morning of the assassination. It should be also noted that Oswald normally stayed at his boarding house during the work week, and only returned home on the weekends. This was the first time Frazier had brought him home on a weeknight and brought him to work on the following work day - the day of the assassination.
-Oswald left the TSBD as soon as he could after the assassination, before LEO's could lock the place down; all of his co-workers remained in the building.
-Co-workers testified that Oswald had been working on the 6th floor most or all of that morning.
-We have Oswald shooting DPD Officer J.D. Tippet approximately 45 minutes after the assassination. Not long after that Oswald snuck into the Texas Theatre without paying. When DPD officers confronted him he attempted to pull the weapon he had shot Tippet with on those officers.
-Oswald was an experienced marksman, both from the hunting he did with his brother in his youth and the formal training he received in the USMC.
-We also have Oswald's unusual history before the assassination, including a troubled childhood and adolescence, his remarks to fellow Marines that he was a Marxist, his defection to the Soviet Union - and when that didn't work out the way he thought it would, his return to the USA with his Russian bride.
-We have the forensic evidence that CE 399 and the bullets that killed Tippet matched Oswald's weapons to the exclusion of any other weapons. The fragments of the head shot as well as the shot he took at Walker were too damaged to definitively match to that weapon, but were consistent with a 6.5mm Carcano and the ammo available at the time.
-We have no credible evidence of another shooter. None.
In my mind, the only slightly conceivable case that could be made, with the objective and empirical evidence we have, is that someone put Oswald up to it. But we have no credible evidence of that either. And, as I pointed out to you earlier, proving a negative (in this case, proving that no one suggested or recommended Oswald attempt the killing) is an impossible task.
I'm not sure why I've bothered to write this post, as you'll most likely discount my conclusions out of hand, but at at least you'll no longer be able to say I haven't laid out my case for Oswald acting alone.
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