How Could LHO Walk One Mile After Leaving His Room & Shoot A Cop In 13 Minutes?

[John Iacoletti]

I don't know what you mean. If you're saying he could have left the immediate area by foot toward the next bus stop that's entirely plausible. That would have been smarter than standing around outside his rooming house for a couple of minutes pooping his pants.

And you know he was "pooping his pants"...how, exactly?

What I'm saying is that it's inconsistent to posit that a guy who wants to hightail it away from his boarding house and the scene of a crime would hang around a bus stop for a northbound bus even momentarily.  The guy Roberts described didn't act like a guy who was hightailing anywhere.

[John Iacoletti]

Perhaps you can provide us with official work and/or school records of Blesoe et al that would indicate that any of them were officially found mentally-deficient in some way.

In the meantime, one has testimony from Burroughs himself that he had failed the mental requirements needed to be accepted in the military. In fact he was given a card that classified him as 'different'... which, in today's terms, sounds awfully close to 'mentally-challenged, Autistic... or at least Asberger's Syndrome.

You got all that from "different"?  Please tell me more, Dr. Chapman.  That makes him an "idiot"?

[Martin Weidmann]

I suggested 30 secs wait. So you prefer Martin's suggestion?

Let's say, for argument's sake, two minutes.

Let's be clear about this; it was merely a suggestion for the sake of the argument.

Basically, the WC, based on their own speculative time line, had only about 11 minutes to get Oswald from the roominghouse to 10th and Patton to kill Tippit, which by itself was a tight squeeze. Mack's video proves that to some extend. So, any time spend waiting at a bus stop cuts into those critical 11 minutes which is why it needs to be reduced to a bare minimum and why it needs to be discussed.

[Martin Weidmann]

Perhaps you can provide us with official work and/or school records of Blesoe et al that would indicate that any of them were officially found mentally-deficient in some way.

In the meantime, one has testimony from Burroughs himself that he had failed the mental requirements needed to be accepted in the military. In fact he was given a card that classified him as 'different'... which, in today's terms, sounds awfully close to 'mentally-challenged, Autistic... or at least Asberger's Syndrome.

And that somehow makes him blind or unable to recognize somebody?

Btw I wonder just how many people would have loved such a "get out of the military" card back then!

[Steve Howsley]

The guy Roberts described didn't act like a guy who was hightailing anywhere.

Mr. BALL. Why did you say to this man as he came in, "You are in a hurry,"why did you say that?
Mrs. ROBERTS. Well, he just never has come in and he was walking unusually fast and he just hadn't been that way and I just looked up and I said, "Oh, you are in a hurry."
Mr. BALL. You mean he was walking faster than he usually was?
Mrs. ROBERTS. Yes.
Mr. BALL. When he came in the door, what did he do?
Mrs. ROBERTS. He just walked in---he didn't look around at me---he didn't say nothing and went on to his room.
Mr. BALL. Did he run?
Mrs. ROBERTS. He wasn't running, but he was walking pretty fast---he was all but running.

[Steve Howsley]

Let's be clear about this; it was merely a suggestion for the sake of the argument.

It was your attempt to show that Oswald would have struggled to get to the Tippet shooting in time.

You said:

Let's say, for argument's sake, two minutes. That would have him leaving the bus stop at 1.05 (in the timeline of the OP) and gives him exactly 11 minutes to get to 10th Patton to shoot Tippit at 1.16 pm after having talked to him!

But wait, didn't Dale Myers argue that Tippit was really shot at 1.14.30 ? 


I suggested 30 secs at the bus stop which JI seems to think is way too long.

[John Iacoletti]

Mr. BALL. Why did you say to this man as he came in, "You are in a hurry,"why did you say that?
Mrs. ROBERTS. Well, he just never has come in and he was walking unusually fast and he just hadn't been that way and I just looked up and I said, "Oh, you are in a hurry."
Mr. BALL. You mean he was walking faster than he usually was?
Mrs. ROBERTS. Yes.
Mr. BALL. When he came in the door, what did he do?
Mrs. ROBERTS. He just walked in---he didn't look around at me---he didn't say nothing and went on to his room.
Mr. BALL. Did he run?
Mrs. ROBERTS. He wasn't running, but he was walking pretty fast---he was all but running.

So he "hightailed" it in there.  Out of there...not so much.