Why did Oswald go to the movies?

[Brian Walker]

Has nothing to do with "hindsight".

Do the math if you need the number.

I can see why you would not want to put it out there after saying that Truly JUST vouched for him.  I asked you the time because I wanted to go by what you said. I don't want you argue about how long it was. Is 45 minutes good?

It is hindsight because you are going by what happened and not what could have happened. For example how could Oswald know if 3 minutes after he left the building a coworker told a cop that he saw Oswald shoot at JFK?  Obviously his description could be all over the place and obviously Oswald could not know hat Postal knew at that point. His description could have been on the radio at that point and Postal could have thought he matched the description.

[John Iacoletti]

That evidence had been cited, dozens of times in the old forum, and you ignored it.  I'm not jumping through your kook hoops.

And by "evidence", Bill means subjective and unscientific handwriting "analysis" of two block letters on a photo of a microfilm copy of a 2-inch order coupon.

And moon craters.

[John Iacoletti]

I have addressed your silly claims with substantive respones.

I haven't seen a substantive response from you ever.  Mark is exactly right.  You're all insults and strawmen.  So your complaining about Mark's insults is really rich.

[Brian Walker]

Fine, no problem.

Your highlighted statement, and consequently what follows, makes no sense as it has nothing to do with hindsight. Hindsight is what he would have done HAD he known whatever that might be. For all Oswald KNEW he was in the clear.

It is hindsight Tom. It's your hindsight. You made the argument that Truly vouching for Oswald 45 minutes earlier would have shown Oswald that he had nothing to worry about while buying a ticket from Postal. You can make this statement because you know that no employee came forward minutes after that and told the cops that they saw Oswald shoot JFK. Oswald couldn't look back at the evidence to know exactly what was happening.


There is no way that Oswald could have known that his description and maybe name and even a picture were not out there at that point. You know it is not so because you can look back and see everything that happened. 

[Bill Chapman]

There is no way that Oswald could have known that his description and maybe name and even a picture were not out there.

Exactly right. Why take the chance? Same with his decision to be careful about his rooming house drop-off location.

Every one of us has had situations when we imagine the worst no matter if the reality seems to dictate otherwise.


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[Brian Walker]

Exactly right. Why take the chance? Same with his decision to be careful about his rooming house drop-off location.

Every one of us has had situations when we imagine the worst no matter if the reality seems to dictate otherwise.

That's it, it's all over now. Poor dumb cop. That's it, it's all over now. Poor dumb cop. That's it; it's all over now. Poor dumb cop. That's it; it's all over now. Poor dumb cop. That's it; it's all over now. Poor dumb cop.

Exactly. I was going to bring up the rooming house incident as an example of Oswald not being sure what was going on but figured that would start some argument about that.

I made that argument before and John I made it clear that he does understand hindsight either. He was arguing  that it made no sense for Oswald to be worried at that point because the word was not out yet. I could not get it through to him.

[Bill Chapman]

Exactly. I was going to bring up the rooming house incident as an example of Oswald not being sure what was going on but figured that would start some argument about that.

I made that argument before and John I made it clear that he does understand hindsight either. He was arguing  that it made no sense for Oswald to be worried at that point because the word was not out yet. I could not get it through to him.

He's arguing from the perspective of a defence lawyer. And of a troll. And from the notion that Oswald was innocent so why would he have cause to be nervous. He reminds me of the Melissa McCarthy 'Sean Spicer' impression, on the podium running around bashing into people (but wearing a powdered wig and lawyer's robes)