Hypothetical

[John Iacoletti]

I'm throwing the Private Schrand Incident "out there" for guests and members who may not have heard of it to ponder.

But are you accusing Oswald of killing Schrand?

[Steve M. Galbraith]

"In the event of war, I would kill any American who put a uniform on in defense of the American government--any American."
               - Lee Harvey Oswald, letter to his brother

"Lee was sick...he didn't know who he was."
                 - Marina Oswald

Imagine looking out your window and seeing your next door neighbor doing this? Having his pregnant wife photograph him? This is an unstable person. Who does he think he is?

[John Iacoletti]

"In the event of war, I would kill any American who put a uniform on in defense of the American government--any American."
               - Lee Harvey Oswald, letter to his brother

Yes, and?

Are you suggesting that a military combatant who defends his country in the event of war is unstable?

Imagine looking out your window and seeing your next door neighbor doing this? Having his pregnant wife photograph him? This is an unstable person. Who does he think he is?

You haven’t spent much time in Texas, have you?

[Richard Smith]

Yes, I'm sure no one would be interested in the fact that a person known to the FBI who had defected to the USSR as a self-avowed Marxist worked in the building from which shots were fired at the President!  Nothing to see there.  LOL.  Even Oswald himself claimed he was a suspect because he had lived in the Soviet Union!  But along comes the contrarian who claims there is nothing in Oswald's wacky background that lends itself to suspicion of him as the assassin. Whew.  Oswald becomes an obvious suspect once the authorities become aware of his wacky political background and that he worked in the building from which the shots were fired.  Ironically, that very concept drives many CTer fantasy narratives.  That Oswald was set up to look like a political nut who might commit such a crime.  So it's all the more humorous that one such CTer is now arguing the exact opposite that his background is not indicative of his being the assassin.  But consistency was never a strong point for dishonest contrarians.

[John Iacoletti]

Yes, I'm sure no one would be interested in the fact that a person known to the FBI who had defected to the USSR as a self-avowed Marxist worked in the building from which shots were fired at the President!  Nothing to see there.  LOL.

LOL indeed. “Marxist” means “murderer” to you.  “Wacky political background” (whatever the hell that means) means “murderer” to you. Logic was never your strong suit.

[Walt Cakebread]

"In the event of war, I would kill any American who put a uniform on in defense of the American government--any American."
               - Lee Harvey Oswald, letter to his brother

"Lee was sick...he didn't know who he was."
                 - Marina Oswald

Imagine looking out your window and seeing your next door neighbor doing this? Having his pregnant wife photograph him? This is an unstable person. Who does he think he is?

"In the event of war, I would kill any American who put a uniform on in defense of the American government--any American."     - Lee Harvey Oswald, letter to his brother

Lee wrote this at a time when he was desperately trying to get the approval of the Russians. He knew that the Russians were reading his mail ....so that sentence was for their eyes.    And the Backyard photo was untended for the eyes of Casto's agents.....  Lee was portraying himself as a "armed and ready" communist revolutionary who was ready to fight in Castro's revolution.  In reality he was a US agent trying to gain entrance to Cuba . 

Anybody who can't see through the smoke ....should stop smoking that stuff and clear your head....

[Richard Smith]

Makes perfect sense to suspect a stinkin' commie rat except Roy S. Truly didn't know he was a stinkin' commie rat...

Not sure what that means.  The hypothetical posed involved who would be the suspect if Oswald's rifle was not found in the TSBD.  And the answer has nothing to do with Truly since he was not a law enforcement agent conducting the investigation.  The FBI would have quickly identified Oswald as a person of interest once they learned he worked in the building from which the shots were fired given his nutty background.  The fact that he fled the building and had no alibi for the moment of assassination would have been discovered in the investigation making him a suspect.  They would then have checked for his rifle and - gasp - found it missing from Paine's garage.  If Oswald had ditched it somewhere during his escape, it is likely found.  Same result.  Oswald = guilty.