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What Was Oswald Thinking After Firing The Shots?
Lance Payette:
--- Quote from: Sean Kneringer on August 16, 2025, 05:37:22 PM ---Never thought he'd leave the building alive and made it up as he went along.
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That's always been my belief. Realistically, what WOULD have been the likelihood of Oswald walking out of the TSBD and hopping a bus? Yes, it happened -but how incredibly unlikely was it? Add in the sixth floor being conveniently empty and the lunchroom encounter going as it did, and you're definitely in the realm of truth being stranger than fiction. I believe the JFKA was the act of a guy who thought his life was over and had zero plan for anything after pulling the trigger. If he'd had a plan, there were other locations for the shooting that would have given him a far better chance of escape.
Tom Graves:
--- Quote from: Lance Payette on August 18, 2025, 10:08:10 PM ---That's always been my belief. Realistically, what WOULD have been the likelihood of Oswald walking out of the TSBD and hopping a bus? Yes, it happened -but how incredibly unlikely was it? Add in the sixth floor being conveniently empty and the lunchroom encounter going as it did, and you're definitely in the realm of truth being stranger than fiction. I believe the JFKA was the act of a guy who thought his life was over and had zero plan for anything after pulling the trigger. If he'd had a plan, there were other locations for the shooting that would have given him a far better chance of escape.
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Self-described Marxist that he was, you may be right in positing that Lee Oswald figured his life would be over (and therefore didn't give much thought to his escape route), but that it would have been worthwhile, gosh darn it, because, as Mark Riebling says in his fine 1994 book, Wedge: The Secret War Between the FBI and CIA, "Out was Kennedy, a charismatic leader who could 'sell' a socially conscious anticommunism in the Third World and even to Western liberals, and in was Johnson, who would only 'heighten the contradictions' between East and West and therefore hasten (by Leninist dialectical reasoning) the ultimate collapse of late capitalism."
But maybe the little Marxist did have an escape plan, and it involved his buying, before he shot JFK (and to use as a "prop"), a Coca-Cola from the dedicated Coca-Cola machine in the second-floor lunchroom instead of a bottle of his favorite, Dr. Pepper, from the dedicated Dr. Pepper machine on the first floor. Put another way, why in the world would he (allegedly) leave his delicious "cheese sandwich and apple" lunch unattended in the first-floor Domino Room for a few minutes and go up to the second floor to buy a bottle of his second-favorite soft drink, and right as the most powerful man in the world and his beautiful wife were passing by within a few feet of the TSBD's front steps, at that?
Bill Brown:
--- Quote from: Royell Storing on August 18, 2025, 03:49:21 PM --- It is possible that Oswald took his shirt off and laid it on a box or on the floor, and then put it back on in order to alter his apparel immediately following the shooting. But, this would indicate premeditation on his part and therefore Not explain his leaving behind a murder weapon that traced directly back to him.
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Oswald had to leave the weapon behind. He couldn't carry it out of the building, could he? Come on now.
Bill Brown:
--- Quote from: Sean Kneringer on August 16, 2025, 05:37:22 PM ---Never thought he'd leave the building alive and made it up as he went along.
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--- Quote from: Lance Payette on August 18, 2025, 10:08:10 PM ---That's always been my belief. Realistically, what WOULD have been the likelihood of Oswald walking out of the TSBD and hopping a bus? Yes, it happened -but how incredibly unlikely was it? Add in the sixth floor being conveniently empty and the lunchroom encounter going as it did, and you're definitely in the realm of truth being stranger than fiction. I believe the JFKA was the act of a guy who thought his life was over and had zero plan for anything after pulling the trigger. If he'd had a plan, there were other locations for the shooting that would have given him a far better chance of escape.
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Another thing to keep in mind re: Oswald making it out of the building...
The simple fact that Oswald did indeed make it out of the building should tell all of us that there was no conspiracy involving him as a patsy. If he were a patsy, he would have been killed before ever making it out, much less be allowed to wander the streets jumping on busses and in taxis.
Royell Storing:
Officer Baker quickly flushing Oswald out of the 2nd Floor Lunchroom threw a monkey wrench into The Plan. Oswald being the "inside man" knew the Huge Gates were "Wide Open". (He probably opened them to begin with). He exited the 2nd Floor Lunchroom and just strolled out those Huge Gates which were right off the 1st Floor. Quick and Easy.
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