On Wednesday, September 27, 2023 at 1:44:10 AM UTC+10, Hank Sienzant wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 26, 2023 at 2:57:58 AM UTC-4, gggg gggg wrote:
> > On Monday, September 25, 2023 at 11:51:44 PM UTC-7, gggg gggg wrote:
> > > According to Chatbot BARD:
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> > > There is no definitive evidence that Lee Harvey Oswald had been to the Texas Theater before he was apprehended there on November 22, 1963. However, there is some circumstantial evidence that suggests this may have been the case.
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> > > For example, some witnesses claimed to have seen Oswald at the theater earlier in the day, on the morning of the assassination. However, these eyewitness accounts were not always consistent, and some of the witnesses were later found to be unreliable.
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> > > Oswald also had a ticket stub to the Texas Theater in his pocket when he was arrested. However, this ticket stub was not necessarily proof that he had been to the theater on the day of the assassination. It is possible that he had the ticket stub from a previous visit, or that he had gotten it from someone else.
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> > > Ultimately, there is no way to know for sure whether or not Oswald had been to the Texas Theater before he was apprehended there. However, the circumstantial evidence suggests that this may have been the case.
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> > > It is worth noting that the Texas Theater was a popular movie theater at the time, and it is possible that Oswald had been there before, even if he had not been there on the day of the assassination.
> > If he slipped into the theater without paying, how could he have a ticket stub in his pocket unless he had been to the theater before?
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> > Could the ticket stub have been something to show to the person he was supposed to meet there?
> Good question.
> Better question: Did he have a ticket stub?
> Let's see the evidence for that before we can talk about what it might have been used for?
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> And in any case, wouldn't everyone in the theatre have a ticket stub, assuming they didn't sneak in.
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> Julia Postal was the ticket seller in the small booth outside the Texas Theatre. Here's her testimony:
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https://www.jfk-assassination.net/russ/testimony/postal.htm
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> She says she didn't sell Oswald a ticket:
> -- quote --
> Mr. BALL. What did you see him do after became around the corner?
> Mrs. POSTAL. Well, I didn't actually----because I stepped out of the box office and went to the front and was facing west. I was right at the box office facing west, because I thought .the police were stopping up quite a ways. Well, just as I turned around then Johnny Brewer was standing there and he asked me if the fellow that ducked in bought a ticket, and I said, "No; by golly, he didn't," and turned around expecting to see him.
> Mr. BALL. And he had ducked in?
> -- unquote --
Postal's story makes zero sense.
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=10483#relPageId=360
She leaves the booth despite seeing a person walk in who she claimed was "running from the police" and when asked by Brewer if she had sold him a ticket, she didn't even know who Brewer was talking about.
There is a reason that Brewer and Postal never made statements until 12 days after the assassination. That time was needed to allow anything to crop up in the TT investigation that might need to be incorporated into the story, so that the story could be hammered into shape and kinda sorta make sense. They failed.
That said, she did see someone sneak in and that was who she phone the cops about. It was a teenager who went up to the balcony to join others. Asst DA Jim Bowie said they got more than just her call. (From the Oswald Affair: "On November 27, my conversation with Assistant District Attorney Jim Bowie took an unexpected turn when we arrived at this point: "What led the police to the Texas Theater, Mr. Bowie? A tele- phone call?" "Half a dozen calls!" It was one of the other calls that alerted cops to Oswald being in there. This is why you have two separate groups of cops going in. One or two officers going up to the balcony to catch the kid who had sneaked in. The larger group going in armed to the teeth through the back door to get Oswald.
It was Postal herself who gives it away that it was a kid who snuck in.
Mrs. POSTAL. We talked about that, and the concession stand is along here, and if he came in on the other end, which we summarized that is what Oswald did, because the steps, immediately as you open the door there. It has been done before with kids trying to sneak in, run right on up in the balcony.
I know exactly what she is talking about because I did it as a kid. Except unlike Postal who rang the cops, the ticket seller in my case just brought us up some tickets in case any one else came to check if we had any. And yes, we were in the balcony.
And that is what happened that day which is why one report has a cop on the balcony stairs talking to a teenager., and other reports have the two separate incidents conflated by reporting that Oswald was arrested in the balcony.
In fact, the true reason for Postal's call would be the main reason for the delay in Postal and Brewer making statements.