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In reply to the discussion: Bugliosi: 53 Reasons It Was Lee Harvey Oswald [View all]Bolo Boffin
(23,872 posts)125. Google "oswald innocent" if you really are this naive.
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(1) Oswald always visited Marina in Irving on a Friday. Nov 21 was the first Thursday visit ever.
Bolo Boffin
Mar 2013
#2
(2) Oswald's claim to be getting curtain rods in Irving was an implausible lie.
Bolo Boffin
Mar 2013
#4
(3) Oswald told Frazier he would NOT be coming back to Irving on Friday night.
Bolo Boffin
Mar 2013
#6
(4) That night Oswald avoided Kennedy talk with Marina, a subject it was their custom to discuss.
Bolo Boffin
Mar 2013
#7
(5) Friday morning, Oswald left almost all his cash and his wedding ring in Irving.
Bolo Boffin
Mar 2013
#9
(6) On Friday morning, Oswald placed a long paper-wrapped package in the back seat of Frazier's car.
Bolo Boffin
Mar 2013
#11
(7) Frazier noticed that for the first time on a return trip from Irving, Oswald brought no lunch.
Bolo Boffin
Mar 2013
#12
(8) On arrival at the TSBD, Oswald walked faster and ahead of Frazier for the first time ever.
Bolo Boffin
Mar 2013
#13
(9) For the first time ever, Oswald didn't read the paper in the TSBD domino room.
Bolo Boffin
Mar 2013
#14
(11) Howard Brennan saw Lee Harvey Oswald fire the third shot that killed the President.
Bolo Boffin
Mar 2013
#16
What you've said here doesn't negate the fact that Brennan saw Oswald take the third shot. n/t
Bolo Boffin
Mar 2013
#63
Right, bbut you and I would both probably discount any such testimony in a live criminal case
alcibiades_mystery
Mar 2013
#77
(13) During interrogation, Oswald put himself on the sixth floor at the time of the assassination.
Bolo Boffin
Mar 2013
#18
(14) Oswald's story of getting a Coke after hearing commotion of assassination is not sensible.
Bolo Boffin
Mar 2013
#19
(15) It makes no sense that Oswald the "political animal" had no interest in the President's death.
Bolo Boffin
Mar 2013
#20
I figured you needed more than one person pumping his own thread, so I'll add this...
MrMickeysMom
Mar 2013
#21
Many of these are largely debunked by Enemy of the Truth, Myths, Forensics, and the Kennedy Assassin
OrwellwasRight
Apr 2013
#149
I am not here to be told that people do not know what they smell and where.
OrwellwasRight
Apr 2013
#151
The fact that you can't agree to disagree means you are in fact trying to make me feel inferior.
OrwellwasRight
Apr 2013
#157
I'm not here to engage in Monty Python Argument Clinic Style "discussions"
OrwellwasRight
Apr 2013
#158
" I'm not here to engage in Monty Python Argument Clinic Style "discussions""
zappaman
Apr 2013
#159
"your implicaiton that I am feebleminded" - something you're importing to the conversation.
Bolo Boffin
Apr 2013
#160
Do you understand that 'credible evidence' and 'non-credible evidence' are legal terms?
Bolo Boffin
Apr 2013
#165
Oh, Sherry Fiester was present at the autopsy and was able to examine the body? n/t
Bolo Boffin
Apr 2013
#167
Also, there's a slight problem with the location Feister IDs as the site of the kill shot.
Bolo Boffin
Apr 2013
#170
Fact: You claimed a statement was made about the south overpass position. It was about the north.
Bolo Boffin
Apr 2013
#190
"What is also a fact is that I have told you I don't want to continue this conversation. "
zappaman
Apr 2013
#194
My mind is quite open to the facts and reasonable interpretations of them.
Bolo Boffin
Apr 2013
#202
Why? Because if I do, that conflicts with the little box you want to file me away in?
Bolo Boffin
Apr 2013
#237
Vague foreknowledge? The roll calls were taken after the assassination. n/t
Bolo Boffin
Mar 2013
#73
(17) Oswald walked past his normal bus stop and walked seven blocks to board a different line.
Bolo Boffin
Mar 2013
#28
Your attempt at parody/mind reading doesn't negate that this actually happened.
Bolo Boffin
Mar 2013
#62
(19) Oswald's not speaking to the cab driver about the assassination is striking.
Bolo Boffin
Mar 2013
#30
(20) Oswald had the cab drive past his residence, dropping him off down the road.
Bolo Boffin
Mar 2013
#31
(21) Oswald's behavior at his boarding house indicates a flight in progress.
Bolo Boffin
Mar 2013
#32
Oswald's clipboard was found later. He'd filled no orders. He'd done no TSBD work that day.
Bolo Boffin
Mar 2013
#74
(25) A store manager saw Oswald evading police sirens in front of his store.
Bolo Boffin
Mar 2013
#49
(27) When approached by police in the Texas Theater, Oswald said "Well, it is all over now."
Bolo Boffin
Mar 2013
#51
(29) After arrest, Oswald refused to even give his name to arresting officers.
Bolo Boffin
Mar 2013
#53
This thread is not about disproving a second shooter. It's about Oswald's involvement.
Bolo Boffin
Mar 2013
#122
(32) After visiting him on Saturday, Marina came away convinced of Oswald's guilt.
Bolo Boffin
Mar 2013
#56
Agreed. There also may be multiple explanations for his behavior, as well as for the other evidence.
eomer
Mar 2013
#91
(33) Oswald's Mannlicher-Carcano rifle was found on the sixth floor of the TSBD.
Bolo Boffin
Mar 2013
#83
(34) The mostly intact bullet (CE 399) and two of the fragments were fired from this rifle.
Bolo Boffin
Mar 2013
#84
(35) The three expended shells on the sixth floor were "fired in and ejected from" Oswald's rifle.
Bolo Boffin
Mar 2013
#85
(36) A handmade paper bag large enough to carry Oswald's rifle was found in the sniper's nest.
Bolo Boffin
Mar 2013
#86
(38) Oswald was the sole owner of the revolver found in his possession on arrest.
Bolo Boffin
Mar 2013
#88
(39) The bullets recovered from Tippit's body were consistent with being fired from Oswald's .38.
Bolo Boffin
Mar 2013
#89
(40) The four cartridge shells found at the Tippit murder scene were fired from Oswald's revolver.
Bolo Boffin
Mar 2013
#90
I've only been to Dallas a couple of times but do bullets just fly around all the time?
ryan_cats
Apr 2013
#161
(41) A paraffin test on Oswald's hands showed he'd fired a revolver just before his arrest.
Bolo Boffin
Mar 2013
#103
Does the paraffin test showing Oswald never field a rifle that day speak for itself as well?
bogmanla
Feb 2014
#250
(45) Oswald lied about owning a rifle, and about owning the Mannlicher-Carcano specifically.
Bolo Boffin
Mar 2013
#107
(46) Oswald lied about being in the backyard photo where he was holding his rifle.
Bolo Boffin
Mar 2013
#108
If someone said something about a "mysterious line across Oswald's chin," it was somebody
AnotherMcIntosh
Apr 2013
#206
Maybe you should believe the experts using technology not available 50 years ago.
zappaman
Apr 2013
#208
Who says that I don't believe the "experts." Are you trying to engage in a poor ad hominem attack?
AnotherMcIntosh
Apr 2013
#209
So I do what? Believe "experts" instead of my lying eyes? Is that what you do?
AnotherMcIntosh
Apr 2013
#211
I'm not trying to convince you of anything or even to think for yourself.
AnotherMcIntosh
Apr 2013
#215
Others can see the link. Sorry to hear about your comprehension problem.
AnotherMcIntosh
Apr 2013
#228
You "would expect a real photo-analyst to know" that whether or not the chin looks cleft depends on
AnotherMcIntosh
Apr 2013
#238
(48) Oswald lied about living at the place where the picture with the rifle was taken.
Bolo Boffin
Mar 2013
#110
(50) Oswald lied about putting a long package into Frazier's car that morning.
Bolo Boffin
Mar 2013
#112
(51) Oswald told police the only thing he'd brought to work that morning was his lunch.
Bolo Boffin
Mar 2013
#113
(52) Oswald lied about having lunch on the first floor with two other employees.
Bolo Boffin
Mar 2013
#114
Allow me to disabuse you of the notion that Kennedy was shot from the front: he wasn't.
Bolo Boffin
Mar 2013
#129
I don't think you understand my use of the term "legitimate researcher"
OrwellwasRight
Mar 2013
#133
Yes, your list in #128 is made up of non-credible evidence and false and misleading assumptions.
Bolo Boffin
Apr 2013
#144
Interns and doctors trying desperately to save JFK's life vs. a lengthy, laborious autopsy
Bolo Boffin
Mar 2013
#136