Then went outside to watch P. parade ( Parts 1 & 2 )

[Jerry Freeman]

The idea of the Boston bomber getting into a boat in someone's backyard is a silly idea. Obviously, Oswald did not decide to run down to the lunchroom and buy a soda after shooting JFK.  He was heading down the stairs to escape, heard someone heading up the stairs, and he headed toward the lunchroom to avoid detection.  The soda is a prop just like the clipboard that he carrying around on the 6th floor to give him the appearance of having a reason to be there unless you think Old Lee was real thirsty and guzzled it because he is out the door of the building and on a bus down the street just minutes later with no soda.

  Ah the time traveling Richard Smith...shoulda been a writer for the Warren Report.

The soda was just a prop

 The Boston bomber was --hiding. Not a silly idea...a desperate one. Or was the boat just a prop?
 

[Walt Cakebread]

It would not matter if LHO was standing up, sitting down or standing on his head...the idea that he just decided to run down to the lunchroom and calmly get a nice refreshing soda after supposedly shooting at the president and hiding a rifle is just plain silly.
Now I understand that Gerald Ford performed the feat of starting at the 6th floor stairs and clomped down to the 2nd floor lunchroom in 40 seconds. ....so what?

the idea that he just decided to run down to the lunchroom and calmly get a nice refreshing soda after supposedly shooting at the president and hiding a rifle is just plain silly.

This is one for " Ripley's Believe it or Not"

Believe it or not Jerry....When Curry first learned of Baker's encounter with Lee Oswald in the lunchroom.....he told reporters that Oswald was such a fiend that when Baker confronted him he was calmly drinking a Coca Cola just seconds after he had murdered the president.   That's the spin that Curry put on the lunchroom encounter.....and that caused a huge problem because Curry had acknowledged that Lee was DRINKING A COKE at the time that Baker burst into the lunchroom. When the WC "investigators" re-enacted  Lee Harrrrrrvey Osssssswald's flight from the "Sniper's Nest" to the second floor lunchroom they discoveed that there simply wasn't enough time for Lee to have got the coke from the vending machine prior to Baker's arrival.
So Curry's  statement had to be expunged.....     

As you've pointed out the idea that Lee was calmly drinking a coke to celebrate his deed is completely insane ...but the fact that it happened, highlights the lengths they would go to to frame Lee Oswald.

[Richard Smith]

  Ah the time traveling Richard Smith...shoulda been a writer for the Warren Report.
 The Boston bomber was --hiding. Not a silly idea...a desperate one. Or was the boat just a prop?

This is not rocket science.  Oswald was attempting to avoid detection by exiting the stairs, entering the lunchroom, and appearing to be drinking a soda.  His pause for a soda was not part of a "plan" any more than the Boston bomber planned to hide in a boat.  Get it?  And what happened to Oswald's soda since he is making tracks for the bus within moments of his encounter with Baker.  Do you think he bought it in anticipation of leaving immediately to get a bus and tossed it?  It's never seen again by the witnesses who encounter him like Mrs. Reid. 

[Richard Smith]

the idea that he just decided to run down to the lunchroom and calmly get a nice refreshing soda after supposedly shooting at the president and hiding a rifle is just plain silly.

This is one for " Ripley's Believe it or Not"

Believe it or not Jerry....When Curry first learned of Baker's encounter with Lee Oswald in the lunchroom.....he told reporters that Oswald was such a fiend that when Baker confronted him he was calmly drinking a Coca Cola just seconds after he had murdered the president.   That's the spin that Curry put on the lunchroom encounter.....and that caused a huge problem because Curry had acknowledged that Lee was DRINKING A COKE at the time that Baker burst into the lunchroom. When the WC "investigators" re-enacted  Lee Harrrrrrvey Osssssswald's flight from the "Sniper's Nest" to the second floor lunchroom they discoveed that there simply wasn't enough time for Lee to have got the coke from the vending machine prior to Baker's arrival.
So Curry's  statement had to be expunged.....     

As you've pointed out the idea that Lee was calmly drinking a coke to celebrate his deed is completely insane ...but the fact that it happened, highlights the lengths they would go to to frame Lee Oswald.

How is it a problem for Oswald to be drinking a soda?  He didn't shoot JFK and intend to head to the lunch room for a refreshing beverage break.  He ducked in there to avoid the folks coming up the stairs.  He is trying to hide and using the soda as a prop.  And it worked.  He got out of the building. 

[Alan Ford]

The fourth floor??

Third!

[Alan Ford]

Imagine the NYTs getting a detail wrong! LOL.

NYHT. Imagine Mr Smith getting a detail wrong! LOL.

The NYHT quote is of course perfectly accurate, as proved by the fact that the SS reenactment tallies so perfectly on this 'detail' with what Mr Truly is quoted here as saying 

And they had a "snack bar" at the TSBD?  Was that next to the sauna?

Wow, talk about desperate 

The second-floor lunchroom is referred to as a "snack bar" in Mr Truly's 11/22 FBI interview report. Don't cry, Mr Smith!

[Alan Ford]

It would not matter if LHO was standing up, sitting down or standing on his head...

It very much does matter if Officer Baker's 11/22 affidavit gives us an 'employee' who was "walking away from the stairway"