The Brown Paper Bag

[Duncan MacRae]

The Brown Paper Bag

[Benjamin Cole]

Great clip.

I wonder if LHO on 11.22 only carried the wooden stock of the M-C, having secreted the barrel into the TSBD earlier.

Gotta say, Dan Rather is not convincing in this vignette.

[Tom Graves]

Gotta say, Dan Rather is not convincing in this vignette.

Not enough flash-bang?

[Benjamin Cole]

TG--

The proper expression is, "smoke-and-bang."

[Tom Graves]

TG--

The proper expression is, "smoke-and-bang."

AKA KGB SMOKE AND MIRRORS

[John Corbett]

Great clip.

I wonder if LHO on 11.22 only carried the wooden stock of the M-C, having secreted the barrel into the TSBD earlier.

Gotta say, Dan Rather is not convincing in this vignette.

That would have required him to make two trips to the Paine house. Since he only found out on Monday at the earliest that JFK was going to be passing by the TSBD, that gave him a small window of time to get his gun and Frazier never indicated he drove Oswald to the Paine's house other than on Thursday.

Oswald's reason for making a special trip to the Paine's house made no sense. His normal routine was to go with Frazier to Irving on Friday and spend the weekend with Marina and the kids, then return to Dallas with Frazier on Monday morning. He would not get to his rooming house until Monday afternoon anyway, so why the urgency to get the curtain rods on Thursday? Why not just follow his normal routine and bring the curtain rods to the TSBD on Monday morning and take them back to the rooming house on Monday afternoon. I have to believe the reason for his special trip to Irving on Thursday night was to retrieve something he needed on Friday. It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure out what that something was.

[Benjamin Cole]

JC-

Verily, on the two trips necessary to move the M-C rifle from the Paine residence to the TSBD, if done in stages.

I concede that.

OTOH, the Dallas Morning News reported on Sept. 25 that JFK would visit Dallas on 11.22. By all accounts LHO was an avid reader of news, and a political student.

LHO is reported to have scoped out rooftop vantage points along Elm St., pre-11.22

In other words, LHO may have been planning or pondering whether to assassinate JFK in the month before 11.22, maybe from the TSBD, or maybe somewhere else, which ever was most propitious. The cavernous TSBD, with plenty of hiding spots, was a good place to cache the M-C, in any event.

So LHO moved the rifle in, but in parts. Maybe the barrel inside a pant leg.

My guess is LHO was part of the JFKA...what part, I can't tell you.

Dan Rather with that bag...I dunno. Great clip though.