Lincoln Assassination Status: a Still Open or Reopenable FBI Investigation?

[Bill Chapman]

So how do you distinguish between an "unhurried" guy who just shot the president and an unhurried guy who didn't?
>>> Exactly

Like you even know what Oswald did in front of a certain shoe-store salesman.
>>> Brewer knows.

[John Iacoletti]

So how do you distinguish between an "unhurried" guy who just shot the president and an unhurried guy who didn't?
>>> Exactly

So no matter how he acted that's "evidence of guilt".

Like you even know what Oswald did in front of a certain shoe-store salesman.
>>> Brewer knows.

He "looked funny" whatever the hell that means.

[Denis Pointing]

He "looked funny" whatever the hell that means.

Hi John, well, let's get the answer for that from the 'horse's mouth' : "Mr BREWER - He just looked funny to me. Well, in the first place, I had seen him some place before. I think he had been in my store before. And when you wait on somebody, you recognize them, and he just seemed funny. His hair was sort of messed up and looked like he had been running, and he looked seared, and he looked funny." Now, in-its-self the above means absolutely zero..untill it's put into context with the immediate surroundings. An officer had just been murdered a short distance away, police cars were racing up an down the street sirens blaring, as the police cars approached a man turns into the shop vestibule, once the cars pass the man leaves. Of course, none of this proves Oswald did anything wrong, that's not the point I'm trying to make. What I'm saying is that under those circumstances and that Oswald appeared as if "His hair was sort of messed up and looked like he had been running, and he looked seared", any reasonable person's suspicions would be aroused just as Brewer's was. To be fair this post isn't particularly aimed at yourself, it's directed at the many who've claimed Brewer never had any reason to be suspicious of Oswald 'just for looking into his shop window'.

[Joe Elliott]

"Booth's pistol?  LOL."  No one saw Booth pull the trigger or carry the pistol into Ford's theatre per the CTer standard.  He had worked there.  Just going about his business.  Afterward he heard a commotion and decided to go for a horseback ride since he figured the play was over.  Never convicted.  Presumed innocent.  Obviously he was killed to silence him.   

 

[Tom Scully]

"Booth's pistol?  LOL."  No one saw Booth pull the trigger or carry the pistol into Ford's theatre per the CTer standard.  He had worked there.  Just going about his business.  Afterward he heard a commotion and decided to go for a horseback ride since he figured the play was over.  Never convicted.  Presumed innocent.  Obviously he was killed to silence him.   

I deliberately did not display any mention of a "pistol" although the word is included in the article I linked to and can only assume Richard was influenced by.
My omission was intentional because it was predictable that word would be seized upon in the deflection driven, "drive by" posts deposited since in this thread by (disruptive) "contributors" not actually intent on contributing anything enlightening. Detraction results from deliberate distraction. The result is that this forum is what it is; (a daycare center of personal issues plagued personalities?) certainly not what it could be, a reference trove supported by numerous linked cites!

This year, the Rolling Stone article published in 1976, featuring then 17 years old Nate Orlowek, is 43 years old news....

Four months ago, this was reported.:

https://www.inquirer.com/news/john-wilkes-booth-lincoln-conspiracy-photo-recognition-20190415.html
......

Thank you for degrading this thread, Richard, et al. I expect some readers regard the "pistol" posts as meaningful contribution to discussion. The actual point of
the thread is the well supported observation that the debated issues about the JFK Assassination, 56 years on, will never be settled and may, as further time passes,
become even more unsettled if this continuing Booth controversy is any guide.

Joe, thanks for weighing in!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derringer
Derringer

...The original Philadelphia Deringer was a single-shot muzzleloading percussion cap pistol introduced in 1852, by Henry Deringer. In total, approximately 15,000 Deringer pistols were manufactured.[1] All were single barrel pistols with back action percussion locks, typically .41 caliber with rifled bores, and walnut stocks. Barrel length varied from 1.5" to 6", and the hardware was commonly a copper-nickel alloy known as "German silver"....

[Bill Chapman]

So no matter how he acted that's "evidence of guilt"
>>> Nah... it's only evidence that he looked unhurried.

Your species seems overjoyed with Whaley's observation and
have practically declared the little snot innocent.

 

[John Iacoletti]

Your species seems overjoyed with Whaley's observation and have practically declared the little snot innocent.

Evidence of this "overjoyment"?  Or this "practical declaration"?