A Few Random "Oswald Was Guilty As Hell" Observations....
David Von Pein
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Regarding Lee Harvey Oswald's quick descent from the 6th Floor to the 2nd
Floor of the Book Depository just after the gunshots were fired; and
Oswald's "breathing" status at approx.12:32 PM; and the reasons why two
Depository employees didn't bump into or hear Oswald on the stairs:
No one was on the stairs at the exact same time as LHO. Via the overall
weight of the witness testimony given to the Warren Commission in 1964,
it's very probable that the two employees in question (Victoria Adams and
Sandra Styles) didn't even start down the stairs until a few minutes AFTER
the shooting. Those two ladies did not encounter anyone (or hear anyone)
on the stairs, including Marrion Baker and Roy Truly, who were positively
running up those same stairs within approx. 60 to 70 seconds of the last
shot being fired.
Given these facts -- Oswald, Baker, and Truly must certainly have been on
those stairs PRIOR to the time that Adams and Styles descended that same
staircase. But the conspiracy advocates, incorrectly, insist that Oswald
and the two women HAD to be on the stairs at the exact same time (and such
an unsupportable scenario was also re-created by Oliver Stone in his 1991
motion picture, "JFK"). But that "Everybody's Using The Stairs At Once"
version of the event simply cannot be accurate, and is not at all
necessary to accommodate the available evidence re. this issue.
As for being out of breath -- Short of being 5-foot-1 and 299 pounds, I'm
guessing that just about anybody could quickly travel down four flights of
stairs and NOT be "out of breath". It must be remembered that Oswald was
going DOWN the stairs, not UP. Gliding down stairs certainly wouldn't
necessarily make somebody winded at all. I've never felt the need to go on
oxygen after going DOWN just a few steps. Plus: Oswald was NOT physically
unfit either (5-foot-9; slender build; 150-160 pounds).
Also: The Warren Commission re-enacted Oswald's trip to the second floor
-- and it was easily accomplished multiple times in less than 80 seconds
(Oswald was seen by policeman Baker approx. 90 seconds after the
shooting). The re-enactments also included taking the time to hide the
rifle near the stairwell.
A Secret Service agent, John J. Howlett, performed two separate
"re-creations" of Oswald's probable post-shooting movements, taking 78
seconds on his first try and 74 seconds on the second. And he was not out
of breath upon reaching the second-floor lunch room on either occasion.
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"Howlett was not short-winded at the end of either test run." -- Quote
from Warren Report (Page 152)
Conspiracists who continue to believe that Oswald's 90-second, 4-flight
trip to the 2nd Floor was a virtual impossibility are simply 100% wrong.
It was easily a doable trek for Oswald, or anybody else with two legs who
wasn't in a wheelchair.
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Regarding the subject of why Oswald was left "hung out to dry" (via the
less-popular conspiracy-flavored scenario which has Oswald actively
involved in the assassination plot in some fashion, but NOT being set up
as a "Patsy" by a group of unknown conspirators):
In such a case, why in the world would Oswald's other "teammates" who are
"in" on the plan just leave Oswald hanging out to dry after the shots were
fired?
In such a large plot involving Oswald (or in just a smaller two- or
three-man plot), it would seem logical that one of the other plotters
would have provided their co-conspirator (Oswald) with some transportation
away from the murder scene.
But, instead, Oswald is left to hoof it on his own -- then take a city
bus, then a taxi to his roominghouse -- running the risk of being spotted
by other bus passengers (which, in fact, he was; a former landlady of
Oswald's, Mary Bledsoe, incredibly, was on the very same Marsalis Street
bus that Oswald boarded minutes after the assassination; she later
positively identified Oswald as having been on the bus).
Then Oswald is left completely alone to fend for himself yet again --
travelling on foot from his Beckley Avenue residence to the scene of the
J.D. Tippit killing (and if the Tippit murder isn't an indication that
Oswald was involved in the JFK shooting, then nothing is, IMO). Then he
walks to a movie theater, a perfect place to "lay low" without running a
huge risk of being spotted in the nearly-empty and dark theater.
ALL of the above signifies one thing for sure --- Oswald had NO
ACCOMPLICES on November 22, 1963. For if he had, all of these walking and
public-transportation methods of locomotion would certainly have been
avoided.
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But, in a total "Lone Nut" scenario, every single thing Lee H. Oswald did
after the President was shot makes perfect sense. Such as the following
laundry list of things telling us the President's murder was the act of
one lone killer, firing from his 6th-Floor perch:
1.) Lee Oswald couldn't drive (not very well at any rate; he had a few
lessons from Ruth Paine, and was not impressive behind the wheel according
to Mrs. Paine). Therefore, he's left to his own resources after shooting
the President, and forced to rely on other modes of transportation for his
getaway.
2.) Even if he COULD drive, Oswald had no vehicle to take him from Point A
(Dealey Plaza) to Point B (anyplace else) after the shooting. And in an
"LN" scenario, it's highly doubtful that he's going to go up to Wesley
Frazier (who gave him a lift that morning) and ask: "Hey Wes, can you give
me a ride home Friday? I'm gonna plug the Chief Executive around lunchtime
and need a getaway driver. OK with you?"
3.) LHO is not the least bit surprised when having Marrion Baker's gun
pointed at him just minutes after the assassination. Lee is quite calm and
cool. This calm reaction is an odd one if he were completely innocent of
the shooting and had no idea of what just happened out on Elm Street.
IMO, Lee Oswald wasn't surprised by Baker's confronting him for one simple
reason -- he expected the police to be entering the building quickly; and
he had no reason to say to the officer, "What the heck is going on here?!
Why am I being stopped?!" -- because he KNEW what was going on, because
HE, himself caused it. Any innocent bystander in that same situation is
going to get scared, and at the very least ask "What's going on? What did
I do?"; but not Oswald; he never uttered a word.
4.) He departs work quickly (within 3 minutes of the shooting), not caring
in the least about all the turmoil and police activity going on outside
the building.
5.) Oswald takes the only transportation available to him, in his flight
from the scene -- a public bus. When the bus gets clogged in traffic, he
changes to a taxi cab (highly unusual for the penny-pinching Mr. Oswald;
in fact, a researcher might be searching forever if he were to try and
verify a single other occasion when Lee Oswald spent money on a cab ride).
6.) Lee has the taxi driver take him NOT to the front door of 1026 N.
Beckley (his residence) -- but instead to a point three blocks BEYOND his
home. He actually passes his house first in the cab, which, IMO, is an
obvious attempt to see if any cops are waiting for him there yet, and so
that the cab driver (William Whaley) won't know exactly where his
passenger lives.
7.) Oswald then grabs a handgun at his home, puts on a jacket (to conceal
the weapon more easily), and hustles out of the roominghouse, not saying a
word to housekeeper Earlene Roberts (who noted his hurried behavior).
8.) Upon encountering Officer J.D. Tippit on 10th Street within 15 minutes
of leaving his roominghouse, Oswald shoots and kills the officer almost
immediately (after very little conversation), plugging him one extra time
(in the head at point-blank range).
9.) Oswald knows he's got really big troubles now (as if killing JFK
weren't enough already). He knows multiple witnesses saw him kill Tippit,
but he's only got so much ammunition with him (he cannot eliminate ALL
these witnesses). So he'll save his last bullets for when it really counts
-- on more cops. Which is EXACTLY what he attempted to do once he was
cornered in the Texas Theater at approx. 1:50 PM on 11/22.
10.) In the theater, Oswald tries to kill police officer Nick McDonald
with the same gun he used on Tippit a half-hour earlier. But, luckily,
McDonald and other officers are able to wrest the gun away from their
suspect before it can be successfully fired, saving Oswald from yet
another possible murder charge that day.
11.) Oswald's first words when cornered are also indicative of guilt --
"It's all over now!" and/or "This is it!" are the quotes that have been
attributed to LHO within the movie theater.
12.) When questioned by the police, Lee Harvey tells one lie after another
regarding crucial information -- such as lying after being asked each of
the following questions: "Do you own a rifle?", "Who is A.J. Hidell?", and
"Did you bring a package to work this morning?".
If Oswald had really been the "Patsy" (as he shouted out to the press in
the DPD hallways), then WHY didn't he reveal some names for the police to
check out? Don't tell me Oswald was involved in this massive plan to
assassinate the President and yet he had not one shred of an idea as to
what any of his co-conspirators looked like or what any of their names
(even fake names) might have been?!
In a word -- Hogwash!
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What do all of the above points add up to (in their totality)? -- In a
certain sector of the "It Was A Conspiracy" world, these points (somehow)
add up to a "Patsy" who not only didn't murder the President, but is also
innocent of the even-more-provably-committed-by-Oswald murder of Officer
Tippit.
In that same portion of the "CT" world, the above items also add up to a
man (Oswald) who is apparently totally oblivious to the fact that he is
being "used" by hired, professional assassins, and who hadn't the
slightest idea that he would be used in this manner right up to the time
of the actual shooting itself. Otherwise, Mr. Oswald would never have even
shown up for work at the Depository on Friday morning (if he had possessed
even the slightest notion, that is, of the covert "plot" that would be
implicating HIM, and him alone, after 12:30 PM on November 22nd, 1963).
And only AFTER the assassination itself does Oswald "get smart"
(evidently) and put the pieces together, and realize he's just been "used"
as the "Patsy" in this thing.
His "Patsy" remark has launched a mile-high pile of additional conspiracy
theories -- and I do think it was smart of Oswald to announce to the TV
cameras "I'm just a patsy!" for the world to hear. A very smart move
indeed. Because it accomplished exactly what he had probably intended for
it to accomplish -- i.e., it diverted some attention away from Oswald
himself.
That ONE single word out of Oswald's mouth ("Patsy!") has sent CTers
scrambling in all directions looking for "connections" to a plot -- any
plot. None of which has been verified to this day to have the slightest
bit of truth in them (among the theories placed on the table to date).
Zero pieces of credible, verifiable, provable information have been
unearthed to date that tie Lee Harvey Oswald to any of the various
proposed conspiracy theories.
The above "points", every single one, IMO, add up to the actions of one
lone killer of President Kennedy and Officer Tippit. A man, on foot, who
tries desperately to flee the scenes of his two crimes and avoid capture,
even attempting to kill yet another person along the way (but failing in
that attempt before being handcuffed).
In a nutshell.........
No conspiracy theorist can possibly deny the fact that each of the points
I've stressed above could certainly (at the very least) be easily
reconciled within an "Oswald Did It And Did It By Himself" point-of-view.
If conspiracy promoters do choose to deny the fact that Lee Harvey
Oswald's post-12:30 actions on November the 22nd could possibly be looked
upon as the actions of ONE LONE KILLER, then I feel they are not being
logical about what Oswald's actions truly reveal.
David Von Pein
March 2006
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