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LEAVE_OSWALD_ALONE

                                             January 3, 2014

It's interesting the way things like the history of Oswald
acts like chaff in the JFK assassination story... you can
get lost chasing after his weird behavior, trying to make
sense of it-- but what difference does any of it make,
really?

Could he have been a US double-agent pretending to be a
Soviet defector, later betrayed by his US employers?

Could he have been a sincere, pro-Soviet fanatic who
willingly helped assassinate JFK?

    In either case, he could have been
    set-up as a patsy, or he could've
    been the only conspirator who was
    actually arrested.

    Knowing about details like this
    would be interesting, but it doesn't
    strike me as crucial...


    Elevating the importance of Oswald
    seems like coming at it from the wrong end:

    It wasn't *just* Oswald.
    Maybe it wasn't Oswald at all.

                                                              (Feb 26, 2018)

                                                Reviewing the case a little
                                                further, there's one good--
                                                but not great-- piece of
                                                evidence that Oswald was one
                                                of the shooters: supposedly
                                                he ran for it from the book
                                                repository (leaving his rifle
                                                behind...), he was pulled
                                                over by a cop, and he shot
                                                it out with the cop in front
                                                of a witness: a woman standing
                                                on the sidewalk, some hundreds
                                                of feet away.

                                                (And the story goes that he
                                                went to ground in a movie
                                                theater-- a popular suspicion
                                                is that was a meeting place
                                                with his handler-- where he
                                                was arrested... it still
                                                seems pretty remarkably to
                                                me that they caught up to
                                                him so quickly...)

                                                There's some work out there by a
                                                Robert Harris that claims that a
                                                book repository shot doesn't
                                                actually work to explain a
                                                bullet that hit JFK and then
                                                Connolly.  He argues somewhat
                                                persuasively that a shooter on
                                                the third floor of the next
                                                building over (the Dal-Tek
                                                building) fits the evidence.





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