DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
It's quite possible (or even likely, IMO) that Oswald purchased the
money order before he went to work on 3/12/63. The main post office
building at 400 N. Ervay Street could possibly have opened at 7:00 or
7:30 AM in 1963.
GIL JESUS SAID:
Quite possible? Likely? Could possibly have opened? .... I'm not
looking for opinions.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
But instead of always jumping on the conspiracy bandwagon and
believing that every document associated with Oswald is fake, you
should be looking for some possible "ordinary" way for Oswald to have
done the things that the evidence says he did -- such as: buying a
money order at the Main Post Office on 3/12/63 and mailing it to
Chicago on that same day.
And there ARE ways for those two things to have occurred without the
words "fake documents" coming into the discussion. And one of those
ways is the one I mentioned earlier -- if the Ervay St. Post Office
opened early and thus allowed Oswald to go there prior to going to
work at Jaggars. If that is true, then this whole "Oswald Couldn't
Have Possibly Bought The Money Order On March 12" theory that CTers
have fallen in love with goes sliding right down the drain.
Gil, don't you think it might be a good idea to eliminate the "Post
Office Opened Early" theory before you embrace the most extraordinary
theory of all, which is the one that has some plotter (or a group of
plotters) faking a bunch of documents connected to the rifle purchase?
Other ordinary, non-sinister possibilities have been mentioned by Gary
Mack:
"Oswald could have left JCS at any time between 8am and 10:30 IF
there was no work for him to do. Oswald was given simple tasks as
they came in, so if no orders were waiting, all he could do was sit
and wait.....and get paid for doing so. I assume he'd have to check
with his supervisor about taking a few minutes to go to the post
office, but his time card certainly does not confirm that he was on
the job every single minute. It merely shows that he was at the
office and "on the clock" all day. And maybe, just maybe, he went over
there on JCS business? Or perhaps a co-worker - his supervisor? -
also needed something from the PO so Oswald went and took advantage of
the opportunity? In short, there are many reasons Oswald's PO visit
was entirely legitimate." -- Gary Mack; March 12, 2011
"The Ervay PO is the one that was just a few blocks from J-C-S
which was located at 522 Browder. According to Google maps, the two
are only 8 blocks, or ½ mile, apart. Oswald could have walked or run,
or probably ridden the bus, since Ervay was a main north-south
street. For that matter, he could have bummed a ride from a co-
worker. In short, I don’t see anything that prevents Oswald from
getting to the post office, then buying and sending his money order to
Klein’s. As to why the envelope is postmarked in a different zone, I
have no clue, but there’s no evidence such a practice was out of the
ordinary." -- Gary Mack; March 17, 2011
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