Did Oswald Go To Mexico City?

[John Iacoletti]

Marina was generally truthful,

Marina Oswald Porter's Statements of a Contradictory Nature

[Jerry Freeman]

Anybody want to venture a guess about what J. Edna was referring to when he said "the gun thing is a definite trend"

OK then I'll bite.
The trend being...It is pretty much what a suspect would be expected to say [denying ownership of a weapon]
Ponder this...If the Oswald went to Mexico story did not materialize as needed...then it would have been presumed that Oswald kept this alleged rifle and hauled it around where ever he went. It was dubious was it not that he somehow managed to pack 10 lbs of crap into a 5 lb bag when he went to New Orleans and the rifle was rolled up somehow and placed on the bus? Then it is alleged that Oswald could entrust Ruth to convey the alleged rifle back to Texas without her knowledge. Think about it. It's silly...All laughable conjecture when one scatters out and looks at all the pieces for what they are.

[Walt Cakebread]

OK then I'll bite.
The trend being...It is pretty much what a suspect would be expected to say [denying ownership of a weapon]
Ponder this...If the Oswald went to Mexico story did not materialize as needed...then it would have been presumed that Oswald kept this alleged rifle and hauled it around where ever he went. It was dubious was it not that he somehow managed to pack 10 lbs of crap into a 5 lb bag when he went to New Orleans and the rifle was rolled up somehow and placed on the bus? Then it is alleged that Oswald could entrust Ruth to convey the alleged rifle back to Texas without her knowledge. Think about it. It's silly...All laughable conjecture when one scatters out and looks at all the pieces for what they are.

Thanks Jerry,.... So you think that Jane Edna Hoover was alluding to Lee carrying the carcano around when he said " The gun thing , of course, is a definite trend"

I appreciate your contribution but I don't think that's what JEH was referring to.....IMO At the time JEH said this to LBJ,  Hoovers cronies were working at connecting the carcano that was sent to Texas from Kleins to AJ Hidell at Lee Oswald's PO box.

[Jerry Freeman]

Thanks Jerry,.... So you think that Jane Edna Hoover was alluding to Lee carrying the carcano around when he said " The gun thing , of course, is a definite trend"

No...as i mentioned---

The trend being...It is pretty much what a suspect would be expected to say [denying ownership of a weapon]

[Walt Cakebread]

No...as i mentioned---

It is pretty much what a suspect would be expected to say [denying ownership of a weapon]

Yer right.... And that's why it is SOP for the police to confront the suspect with the murder weapon.....They know that no matter whether guilty or innocent the man will deny ownership of the weapon....but the beads of sweat and other indications will reveal the truth.   A guilty man generally gives himself away by his reaction .

This is one of the major reasons that I believe Lee Oswald was innocent....   They confronted him with that carcano, and rather than say that he had never seen it before , he told them that he had seen it the day before yesterday outside Mr Truly's office.  That must have been a shock to  the interrogators.....

[John Iacoletti]

“Oswald stated that he did not own any rifle. He advised that he saw a rifle day before yesterday at the Texas School Book Depository which Mr. Truly and two other gentlemen had in their possession and were looking at.“

[Walt Cakebread]

“Oswald stated that he did not own any rifle. He advised that he saw a rifle day before yesterday at the Texas School Book Depository which Mr. Truly and two other gentlemen had in their possession and were looking at.“

He advised that he saw a rifle day before yesterday at the Texas School Book Depository which Mr. Truly and two other gentlemen had in their possession and were looking at.“  

N, that's not correct .......  We know for a FACT that Warren Caster testified that he had more than one rifle outside Mr Truly's office on the 1st floor of the TSBD.

And the very first entry in FBI agent James Hosty's scribbled notes which he took during the interrogation of Lee Oswald says :....
Day before yesterday Mr Truly had ( this) rifle and two other ( rifles)  outside of his office on he first floor of the building.