Do you think that old cab driver would step out and give some young guy an allocation of whipass over a nickel?
But never mind that. The fare said specifically 'the 500 block...N Beckley'. Why? That is at the intersection of Davis and Beckley and an easy 10 minutes walk to 10th and Patton. This--- 'Oswald was/must have been scoping out the rooming house' is purely illogical speculation.
Jerry .... Whaley at some point said... The guy who was wearing a blue jacket looked like he had just arrived on a bus , and was tired and not talkative.... He obviously knew his way around Oak cliff because he thought that he had enough money to get to the 500 block of N. Beckley. When he saw the meter flip to 95 cents he knew that he had consumed the dollar he he had in his pocket....so he asked Whaley to pull over to the curb and let him out of the cab.....
The fare said specifically 'the 500 block...N Beckley'. Why? That is at the intersection of Davis and Beckley and an easy 10 minutes walk to 10th and Patton.I suspect that Whaley's passenger lived near the intersection of Davis and Beckley..... And thought the dollar would take him home..... He may have used a taxi to travel from the bus depot to home on previous occasions but Whaley took a slighly longer route and the Dollar was not going to cover the cost of the trip.
Of course this is simply speculation but it is a fact that Whaley's passenger WAS NOT Lee Oswald.