Creative Speculation
In reply to the discussion: 32 Reasons and Arguments There Was No Conspiracy Behind Oswald Killing Kennedy [View all]Bolo Boffin
(23,872 posts)Oswald was taking driving lessons from Ruth Paine and had applied for a learner's permit November 16. Is this the act of a man who knows he'll be leaving almost all his cash and his wedding ring for his wife on the morning of the assassination? This "speaks loudly for the proposition that Oswald's intent to murder the president was formed somewhat on the spur of the moment not long before the day of..."
Oswald rented a post office box at the Terminal Annex near the TSBD for two months on November 1. Oswald was notorious for being tightfisted with money and could not afford to rent an apartment for he and his family to live together. It strains credibility for Oswald to have spent cash on a second month he would not have used, had he known he was part of an assassination conspiracy.
Other things Bugliosi lists: joining a local chapter of the ACLU and asking the director of information for the American Communist Party how he could help "heighten (the ACLU's) progressive tendencies." He also wrote a letter on November 9th to the Soviet embassy, asking about Marina's and his entrance visas, and mailed it on the 12th.