A Few Random "Oswald Was Guilty As Hell" Notations....
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. ....
"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 honest about what Oswald's actions truly reveal.
David Von Pein
March 2006
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