You do have to tip your hat off to them: they are good at finding "fishy"
things, real and imaginary (especially the latter). But if you have an
event that is as studied as much as the assassination - is there another
that's been studied more than this? or even closely as much? - you're
going to come across strange things. And *real* strange things. It's
unavoidable.
The author John Updike made this observation in 1967 (even at that early
date he recognized the problem). In studying the assassination, Updike
wrote:
"We wonder whether a genuine mystery is being concealed here or whether
any similar scrutiny of a minute section of time and space would yield
similar strangenesses—gaps, inconsistencies, warps, and bubbles in
the surface of circumstance."
He's talking here just about the shooting itself, that some thirty odd
second segment of time and not all of this related "strange" material that
has emerged since 1967. Add all of that and things get really warped.
If you insist on placing these "strangenesses" into the assassination,
stating they are significant or relevant to it, you're going to get a,
well, "strange" result. The strange factors don't seem to fit; at least
fit the Oswald as lone assassin claim.
So the explanation for what happened must be adjusted to fit the strange
factors. Once done, the "strangenesses" or fishy things disappear; but so
does the simple crime explanation. As in: "umbrella man" is no longer
oddly waving the umbrella; he's sending signals - and not to Oswald
either. It's not a fishy act; it's part of the conspiracy. There, it works
out.
But as you point out, they - these "strangenesses" - really don't fit.
They're just the normal oddities in life. In order to get them to fit you
have to so alter the event that it becomes illogical and the cohesiveness
of the narrative simply implodes. Contradictions abound - this strangeness
is acceptable but that over there isn't and this fishy thing is good but
it is at odds with this other fishy things and why exactly is this strange
anyway? And the explanation becomes a mishmash of strange matters that are
contradictory and illogical and incoherent. There's no explanation as to
what happened; it's just a series of odd events.
As in: LBJ wanted to be president so he killed JFK; the racist DPD wanted
to end JFK's civil rights crusade so they joined in: but oops, LBJ passed
civil rights. The fishy stuff is explained but the narrative falls apart
on its internal contradictions.
So all we have is this repetitive "What about this?" and "What about
that?" And endless series of these "strangenesses". More will be coming
with the next batch of files. And more after that. Eventually, it all ends
because there are no more strange things to find.