Why did Oswald go to the movies?

[Walt Cakebread]

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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"Poor dumb cop."  This is what William Scoggins, a cabbie who was hiding beside his cab as Tippits killer jogged by, imagined he heard .....    .
"Poor dumb cop"

Did the killer know that Tippit was just a "poor dumb cop" who was simply a patsy who had been used to lure the police to the theater where the conspirators thought Lee Oswald would be killed by the enraged cops ?

[Walt Cakebread]

Who would Oswald have bought a ticket from?  Postal didn't sell him one.  He doesn't have a ticket or ticket stub on him when arrested.

Postal didn't sell him one.

Did Postal remember every patron who she sold a ticket to??....   While she was being distracted by police cars zipping by??

He doesn't have a ticket or ticket stub on him when arrested.

I'd bet that 75% of the patrons didn't have a ticket stub on them in the theater.....People routinely throw the ticket stub away once they are inside the theater......

[Brian Walker]

C'mon Brian.  Are you suggesting that a clerk being inside a shoe store during the day on a Friday would have been the least bit unexpected?  He would have seen Brewer there just as easily as Brewer saw him.  And yet, "careful Oswald" lingered there anyway.  So was he being cautious just in case or wasn't he?  It seems like he was only cautious when it fits your narrative.

Not even to mention how this careful guy supposedly hung around the Tippit crime scene emptying his gun and looking at people in the face.  Whoever this guy was, he wanted to be seen.

Is there any evidence that Oswald saw Brewer? I have not talked about  acting cautious or not and Ii don't care. If he was erratic then fine. That changes nothing.    For the most part I don't care about how I think he should have acted.  I don't know if most killers would have waited a few extra seconds at the Tippit seen. That leads nowhere.
At the Tippit scene he was not getting away without being seen.  How long did he hang around there John? There was no way he was not going to be seen at the Tippit shooting. To ack like hanging around a few extra seconds is going to change anything is ridiculous.;

[Richard Smith]

Postal didn't sell him one.

Did Postal remember every patron who she sold a ticket to??....   While she was being distracted by police cars zipping by??

He doesn't have a ticket or ticket stub on him when arrested.

I'd bet that 75% of the patrons didn't have a ticket stub on them in the theater.....People routinely throw the ticket stub away once they are inside the theater......

Postal indicated in her affidavit that she was asked by the DPD when she called to report a suspicious person whether he had bought a ticket.  And she confirmed that he had not.  Do you really believe she would not have remembered whether she had sold Oswald a ticket just moments before calling the police?  And poor old Lee.  He couldn't catch a break that day!  He is in the building from which shots are fired at the president with no alibi, knocks off to go to the movies and less than an hour later passes the scene of the murder of a DPD officer (the only one in about a three year period) then for some unknown reason he draws the attention of a random shoe salesman to such an extent that he follows him and then Postal can't remember him buying a ticket just an instant before calling the cops on him and the ticket taker is distracted but unlucky Lee throws his ticket away anyway and on and on and on....LOL

[Richard Smith]

Oh dear, our WC parrot is back.

Worth noting that Postal's affidavit is dated DECEMBER 4th. Wow, it took them way over a week to get back to her or did it need that much work to even sound creditable?

https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth340274/m1/1/?q=julia%20postal

BTW, was there a need to buy a ticket it you had a pass?

Mrs. POSTAL. We had three. Adults 90 cents, teenager with a card is 50 cents, and a child is 35, and you have a pass ticket.

A whole week or so!  LOL.  And she is recounting a call that happened seconds after Oswald entered the theatre in which she was asked and confirmed that she did not sell him a ticket.   Oswald had a "pass ticket"?  I give you extra credit for trying real hard.  It's better than John I's embarrassing attempt to claim Oswald somehow and for some unknown reason bought a ticket that morning.  Not realizing the box office didn't even open until after noon.  Postal never suggested or implied Oswald had a "pass ticket."  But we await any evidence whatsoever that you have to show us that Oswald had such a pass ticket (which he presumably would need to show someone who didn't remember it - more bad luck).  Is it listed, for example, among his possessions upon arrest or did he throw away his golden Willy Wonka ticket that gave him access to the movies?  Arguing that Oswald may have had a ticket and that -  Postal - a random citizen who had worked at the TT for a decade or so - is the liar is why these conspiracy claims are laughable.  Brewer and Postal going about their normal work days are suspect parties.  But Oswald is not.  You can't make that sort of thing up. 

[Matt Grantham]

 Maybe folks can weigh in on the idea that if we are two believe the witnesses there seems to be good evidence that two separate events occurred in terms of an Oswald presence One around 1.10 and another at 1.30?

[John Iacoletti]

Who would Oswald have bought a ticket from?  Postal didn't sell him one.

Postal wasn't sure whether he did or not.

  He doesn't have a ticket or ticket stub on him when arrested.

This is as colossally stupid as your argument that "they never found Oswald's bag".  Do you always save your ticket stubs?  Did  any cop ever check the theater floor/trash cans, etc for any ticket stubs?  How do you even know that ticket stubs were returned to people at that theater?