Why did Oswald go to the movies?

[John Iacoletti]

`You lot`... who would that be? Be precise!

That's Chapman's way of arguing with you about something that you didn't actually say.

[Ross Lidell]

A more interesting question. Two questions actually... now that I think about it:

-- Why didn't Oswald go directly to the movies (Texas Theater) after leaving the TSBD rather than going home first?

-- Why did Oswald take a revolver to the movies (Texas Theater)?

[Anthony Clayden]

-- Why didn't Oswald go directly to the movies (Texas Theater) after leaving the TSBD rather than going home first?

Obvious answer based on his actual actions is that he wanted to get changed out of dusty\dirty work clothes into more casual clothes. He went to the boarding house got changed and then went out, seems like a normal set of actions.

-- Why did Oswald take a revolver to the movies (Texas Theater)?
LN Answer - As the shooter, he wanted to use it to avoid arrest, like he did at the Tippet scene.
CT Answer - 1) He had worked out that he had been set up, and was scared or 2) He was just being a lad and carrying a gun made him feel more macho. or 3) It wasn't his


I've always wondered why not take it in the morning, when he was going to do the actual shooting.

[Bill Chapman]

`You lot`... who would that be? Be precise!

I thought you lot said he was going to a movie

Some people do indeed say that.

Guess he thought the theatre was on a 'go nowhere' street

I imagine the same people who say Oswald went to a movie also say he was not at 10th/Patton.


But okay, sure, Martin... he was just 'out for a walk'

Since he had no obvious purpose to be at 10th street, do you have any idea what he was doing there?

It seems a pretty silly thing to do, walking down a 'go nowhere' street just after having killed the President, don't you think?


Actually, only some people claim he want to see a movie. Others believe he went there for a meeting with his CIA handler

He had a CIA handler?
Oh, yeah a lot of people say that, don't they Martin...

[Ross Lidell]

-- Why didn't Oswald go directly to the movies (Texas Theater) after leaving the TSBD rather than going home first?

Obvious answer based on his actual actions is that he wanted to get changed out of dusty\dirty work clothes into more casual clothes. He went to the boarding house got changed and then went out, seems like a normal set of actions.

-- Why did Oswald take a revolver to the movies (Texas Theater)?
LN Answer - As the shooter, he wanted to use it to avoid arrest, like he did at the Tippet scene.
CT Answer - 1) He had worked out that he had been set up, and was scared or 2) He was just being a lad and carrying a gun made him feel more macho. or 3) It wasn't his


I've always wondered why not take it in the morning, when he was going to do the actual shooting.

Perhaps Lee Harvey Oswald considered the possibility of law-enforcement checking everyone who entered the TSBD. Lee would not like to be found to have a rifle "and" a hand-gun in a building on the President's motorcade route?

Oswald could have contemplated the possibility of being stopped from leaving the TSBD after he shot President Kennedy. If not for Truly vouching for Oswald, Officer Baker would have searched him.

It seems to me that Oswald carrying a revolver in the TSBD Friday morning would have been risky. He was shrewd enough to know that.

[Martin Weidmann]

Perhaps Lee Harvey Oswald considered the possibility of law-enforcement checking everyone who entered the TSBD. Lee would not like to be found to have a rifle "and" a hand-gun in a building on the President's motorcade route?

Oswald could have contemplated the possibility of being stopped from leaving the TSBD after he shot President Kennedy. If not for Truly vouching for Oswald, Officer Baker would have searched him.

It seems to me that Oswald carrying a revolver in the TSBD Friday morning would have been risky. He was shrewd enough to know that.

Perhaps Lee Harvey Oswald considered the possibility of law-enforcement checking everyone who entered the TSBD. Lee would not like to be found to have a rifle "and" a hand-gun in a building on the President's motorcade route?


So it wouldn't have mattered to Oswald if he was checked carrying only a rifle. It would only be a problem if he had a rifle and a revolver. Is that really what you are saying?

Oswald could have contemplated the possibility of being stopped from leaving the TSBD after he shot President Kennedy. If not for Truly vouching for Oswald, Officer Baker would have searched him.

How in the world would you even know what Baker would have done without the intervention of Truly?

And your logic seems contradictory. The purpose for carrying the revolver would be to defend himself against arrest, right? Yet you seem to claim that he didn't take the revolver to the TSBD because of the possibility of being stopped from leaving the TSBD. But isn't possibly being stopped the main reason for taking a revolver to aid him to get away?

It seems to me that Oswald carrying a revolver in the TSBD Friday morning would have been risky.

More risky than carrying a rifle?

He was shrewd enough to know that.

How do you know this? Did you know him personally?

[Martin Weidmann]

He had a CIA handler?
Oh, yeah a lot of people say that, don't they Martin...

Yes... a lot of people probably say that