Youtube Interview I Did, Tippit Case

[Charles Collins]

Anyone wondering about the reasons for LHO”s actions after the assassination should keep in mind that LHO knew the FBI was on his trail and wanted to talk with him. Asking the cab driver to go to 500 N. Beckley instead of his rooming house address could have been an attempt to make it more difficult to track him to his rooming house. After all, he must have realized that he would soon become a person of interest to the authorities investigating the assassination. And the changing of clothes, etc. would be in line with the strategies of the TV espionage personalities that he reportedly watched regularly when he was younger. Also with the behavior of another of his reportedly favorite TV personalities: “The Fugitive” (as he searched for the one-armed man). Change appearances (and modes of transportation) in an attempt to make it more difficult to track you. In my opinion, this line of thinking explains some of his actions.

[Eric Schneider]

How do those who believe the Texas Theater was a just a random, dark hiding place sought only after the Tippit shooting reconcile with the numerous witness reports of odd activities leading up to Oswald's arrest?  It must mean that there was nothing to the multiple Oswald sightings (one out the front and one out the back alley) or the reports of Oswald moving seats apparently looking for someone.  The theater as a meeting place has also been used to explain the purpose of the torn dollar bills supposedly found in Oswald's possession.
It also makes it harder to imagine the ease to which they found Oswald at the theater. If the theater was a predetermined meeting place, his quick arrest can explained as yet another double cross.  Otherwise, that shoe salesman really deserves a heck of a lot more accolades.

[Bill Brown]

How do those who believe the Texas Theater was a just a random, dark hiding place sought only after the Tippit shooting reconcile with the numerous witness reports of odd activities leading up to Oswald's arrest?  It must mean that there was nothing to the multiple Oswald sightings (one out the front and one out the back alley) or the reports of Oswald moving seats apparently looking for someone.  The theater as a meeting place has also been used to explain the purpose of the torn dollar bills supposedly found in Oswald's possession.
It also makes it harder to imagine the ease to which they found Oswald at the theater. If the theater was a predetermined meeting place, his quick arrest can explained as yet another double cross.  Otherwise, that shoe salesman really deserves a heck of a lot more accolades.

First... It is a myth that Oswald was arrested with torn dollar bills in his possession.  There is no evidence of it.  Even the clown who started this, John Armstrong, no longer believes it.

[Gerry Down]

First... It is a myth that Oswald was arrested with torn dollar bills in his possession.  There is no evidence of it.  Even the clown who started this, John Armstrong, no longer believes it.

What about this though complete with serial numbers?:

[Bill Brown]

What about this though complete with serial numbers?:

Oswald had eight $1 bills in his wallet when he was arrested. None of the eight were torn in half. These eight bills were inventoried (according to serial number, see CE-1149). Armstrong himself has even backed off from that and now believes that the two halves were found at the rooming house on Saturday the 23rd.

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J. Edgar Hoover, "Masters of Deceit",1958: To join the Communist Party does not automatically mean life tenure. Memberships must be renewed every year or, in communist language, members are "reregistered. This represents another means of control. If a member is delinquent in dues or donations, he'll have to pay a penalty, perhaps contribute ten dollars, or be disciplined. These annual registration drives are important events in Party life. Each member is personally contacted. Clubs and sections compete for speed and percentage of successful registration. The drives usually start in October and often extend well past the December 31 deadline.

A member moves. His district organization will send details concerning him to his new area: name, Party history, whether dues are paid, along with any other remarks. A member may be given half of a dollar bill and the other half forwarded to the new district. When the member arrives, the halves are matched. Identity is thus established.

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There's a document in the Dallas Police records which mentions two torn halves of dollar bills. This document lists the serial numbers of both bills. However, it says nothing about Oswald and there's really no proof whatsoever that it is assassination related. But, that didn't stop Armstrong from taking it and running with it.

[Martin Weidmann]

Three questions about the first three minutes of the interview.

1. You claim Oswald left the TSBD through the front door within 2 to 2,5 minutes after the shots. Where did you get this information from?

2. You claim "McWatters testified that Oswald got on the bus". Where exactly can this testimony be found?

3. You claim Earlene Roberts said that Oswald was "back there long enough to grab a jacket". Where did she make this statement?

Amazingly, some four months ago, Bill Brown decided to jump into a discussion about the Tippit timeline, in his typically patronizing way, to point out that, according to him, I had placed Callaway fifty feet away from where he actually was when he encountered Tippit's killer, running down Patton towards Jefferson.

You're also wrong when you claim that Callaway was already up to and near the alley (located at the halfway point in the block) when he encountered the killer.  Callaway went from the porch out to Patton and was a good fifty feet south of the alley when the killer passed. 

For the purpose of the timeline it was a meaningless comment as the difference in time would only be a second or so. But, as per usual, Bill Brown was making his point because he always claims that to him accuracy matters.

That would be fair enough, if it wasn't so hypocritical. In the first three minutes of the interview he gave, he made three claims for one of which there is no evidence (Oswald leaving the building through the frontdoor at between 2 and 2,5 minutes after the shots) and two of which are blatant misrepresentations of the known facts.

McWatters never testified that "Oswald got on the bus" and Earlene Roberts never said that Oswald was "back there long enough to grab a jacket".

It seems the same accuracy Bill Brown expects of others does not apply to himself. No wonder he did not reply to my questions.

 

[Gerry Down]

There's a document in the Dallas Police records which mentions two torn halves of dollar bills. This document lists the serial numbers of both bills. However, it says nothing about Oswald and there's really no proof whatsoever that it is assassination related. But, that didn't stop Armstrong from taking it and running with it.

Ok. That pretty much makes the half dollar bill document worthless. It could be from any other number of cases.