Two Wallets? Nope.

[John Iacoletti]

Because, the guy's name was in fact "Lee Harvey Oswald". Duh!

Duh!  How would he be able to determine that from the wallet if it really contained both names?

Not surprised that this sailed right over your head though.

[John Iacoletti]

2. ...found in the house of Ruth Paine LOL! You can't make this up!

3. ...found in the house of Ruth Paine Double LOL!! You really can't make this up.!!

So I guess we get to LOL at everything else "found in the house of Ruth Paine" then.  Well done, "Mytton".

[John Iacoletti]

Oh, wow. these brain-twisters are so difficult that even the swami's head is aching, but he will give it another shot ...

1. Because Hill by this point knew the suspect's actual name was Oswald. Makes sense - no?

Uh...no.

"The only way we found out what his name was, was to remove his billfold and check it ourselves".

Your arrogant sarcasm doesn't in fact make any of this nonsense "logical".  It's a rather transparent defense mechanism.

[John Iacoletti]

Gee, I'll try. This requires pretty heavy reasoning, but I'll give it a shot (pun!) ...

1. You order a rifle in March because (1) you're interested in guns and, (2) perhaps something like the Walker attempt is already a gleam in your eye.

                    Pretty logical so far, no?

2. When you make an almost spur-of-the-moment decision to shoot JFK in November, you choose to use the rifle you already own.

                    Still doing pretty well here, it seems to me - yes?

3. You are going to shoot from the sixth floor of your place of work, make no attempt to disguise yourself, leave your rifle with its serial number intact on the sixth floor, and have minimal likelihood of surviving anyway. You know there is already a paper trail establishing your purchase of the rifle, photos of you holding the rifle, and a wife and others who know of your ownership of the rifle. Ergo, whether you have a Hidell ID in your wallet is rather inconsequential. Indeed, the ID may even come in handy if the police are looking for one Lee Harvey Oswald from TSBD and you can produce an ID of Alek Hidell. If you are actually arrested for the murder of JFK or Tippit, the contents of your wallet are going to be the least of your problems.

                    Voila, our pristine chain of logic is complete - no?

Well, two can play this special pleading game.

The logic behind the cops doing such a lousy job planting evidence and not keeping their stories straight is that they were incompetent.

[John Iacoletti]

Never have I seen anyone be so utterly exposed, make such a tap-dancing fool of himself, and yet make things even worse by persisting with the fraud.

Never have I seen anyone with such a textbook case of projection.

[John Iacoletti]

Who believes Earl Warren or Hoover or followup investigations could be controlled by Katzenbach? And the news media? Katzenbach controlled them too?

If only it were just Katzenbach.

"The thing I am concerned about, and so is Mr. Katzenbach, is having something issued so we can convince the public that Oswald is the real assassin." - J. Edgar Hoover, 11/24/1963

Consequently, the WC started with a predetermined conclusion.  The outline that Rankin presented in a January 11, 1964 memo had a section titled "Lee Harvey Oswald as the assassin of President Kennedy".  This was before they took a single bit of testimony.

[Richard Smith]

This is very simple.  Any wallet found discarded at the scene of a police shooting would be suspicious and likely linked to the murder.  Ironically, even CTers accept this by implication by suggesting it was planted exactly for that purpose.  The police would immediately have radioed in the identity of any persons associated with such a wallet as a potential suspect.  We know that didn't happen.  That tells us what they were not looking at.  Any wallet found at the scene.   What exactly it is then narrows down to Tippit's citation book or the wallet of some witness.  Of those two, it seems much more likely that they would look through it in that manner as Tippit's citation book.  A witness likely just shows them their ID instead of handing it to the police to flip through.   Does anyone know if and where Tippit's citation book for writing tickets was found or left?  I assume it would still be in his car after his murder.

[Michael Capasse]

...they would look through it in that manner as Tippit's citation book"

 ...as opposed to the way they would look thru a wallet?