Time for Truth

[Alan Ford]

Clearly, Oswald was not wearing a jacket when he was arrested but it is accepted that Roberts is reliable when describing Oswald leaving the rooming house wearing a jacket.

Is it? Why?

[Dan O'meara]

Is it? Why?

Is Oswald wearing a jacket in the picture of him being arrested?
Where is his jacket?
Where is the jacket Earlene Roberts describes Oswald zipping up?
Where has that jacket gone?

[Alan Ford]

Is Oswald wearing a jacket in the picture of him being arrested?

Nope!

Where is his jacket?
Where is the jacket Earlene Roberts describes Oswald zipping up?
Where has that jacket gone?

Slow down, you move too fast.

"The jacket Earlene Roberts describes Oswald zipping up" was a dark jacket. Do you believe that Mr. Oswald was zipping up a dark jacket as he left the rooming house?

[Dan O'meara]

Nope!

Slow down, you move too fast.

"The jacket Earlene Roberts describes Oswald zipping up" was a dark jacket. Do you believe that Mr. Oswald was zipping up a dark jacket as he left the rooming house?

if he was zipping it up, he was wearing a jacket.
Where has that jacket gone?
It doesn't matter if it was light, dark or pastel green with maroon stripes.
Where has the jacket gone that he left the rooming house wearing?

[Alan Ford]

if he was zipping it up, he was wearing a jacket.

If Mrs. Roberts was paying enough attention to notice that he was zipping it up, then we have no reason on the face of it to assume she wasn't paying enough attention to notice whether it was light or dark.

Agreed?

[Alan Ford]

From 4/1/64 FBI report:
 
“Marina was questioned further concerning clothing jackets which had been owned by Lee Harvey Oswald. She said to the best of her recollection Lee Harvey Oswald had only two jackets, one a heavy jacket, blue in color, and another light jacket, gray in color. She said she believes Oswald possessed both of these jackets in Russia and had purchased them in the United States prior to his departure for Russia. She said she cannot recall that Oswald ever sent either of these jackets to any laundry or cleaners anywhere. She said she can recall washing them herself. She advised to her knowledge Oswald possessed both of these jackets at Dallas on November 22, 1963.”

Here's Mr. Oswald in Minsk:



I ask a question which the excellent Mr. Greg Doudna has been asking:

Is the jacket Mr. Oswald is wearing here the gray jacket Mrs. Marina Oswald mentions above?

[Alan Ford]

Here's Mr. Oswald in Minsk:



I ask a question which the excellent Mr. Greg Doudna has been asking:

Is the jacket Mr. Oswald is wearing here the gray jacket Mrs. Marina Oswald mentions above?

It seems logical to think so, yes? Mrs. Marina Oswald only recalls Mr. Oswald wearing two jackets, both of which he purchased in America, took to the Soviet Union, and brought back to America. Both of which he still had in Dallas in Nov. 1963.

Which means Mrs. Earlene Roberts' recollection of a dark + gray zip-up jacket just got a whole lot more difficult to dismiss out of hand.

If the jacket we see Mr. Oswald wearing in Minsk is indeed the gray jacket Mrs. Marina Oswald refers to, then is it not reasonable to propose that it is the jacket Mrs. Roberts saw him zipping up as he left the rooming house?

If if is that jacket, then things get rather interesting.

If it's not that jacket, then we have to ask a simple question: Why was that jacket not found amongst his personal effects in Beckley after the assassination?