Are there any "researchers" here who started out as LNs but who are now CTs?

[John Corbett]

I would also strongly dsipute John's statement that "people choose to be what they are." Oswald was only 24. He had been shaped by a broken home and a chaotic life with the mother from hell. Every attempt to find a better life had gone awry. He was intelligent, idealistic and frustrated at his inability to achieve what he thought he was capable of achieving. Ernst Titovets, who probably knew him better than anyone, found him likeable, amusing and incapable of anything like the JFKA. I don't completely excuse him, but "evil monster" is way over the top.

Slightly humorous, or at least I think so: I came from a truly traumatic childhood, alone in the home with two incorrigibly alcoholic parents. In 1968, I was a freshman in Apache Dorm at the University of Arizona. One of my good friends informed me that the other residents on our floor had voted me the person "most likely to go up in a tower and start shooting people" as Charles Whitman had done at the University of Texas in 1966. I was deeply flattered and amazed they were so perceptive. Fortunately for me, I got some breaks Oswald never got thanks to a very wealthy grandmother.

Lot's of people come from broken homes and unhappy childhoods. Most of them do not assassinate Presidents. I don't care what problems Oswald faced during his life, he chose to become an assassin and a cop killer. He deserved what he got and wouldn't have if not for Jack Ruby. Even though Oswald probably expected he would be sentenced to death, I doubt he even cared. I'll bet he was looking forward to the notoriety he would receive for what he did. He was finally going to be somebody important. Jack Ruby robbed him of that. Thanks, Jack.

Empathy for Oswald? I feel more empathy when I swat a fly.

[Lance Payette]

I'll bet he was looking forward to the notoriety he would receive for what he did.

DELLA: Minor problem, Perry. That doesn't fit ANYTHING he said or did. No manifesto. No note. No hint in custody. Nada, zilch. Is this a problem, Perry?

MASON: Not at all, Della. Give me a week or so to think about it.

DELLA: Possibly, Perry, he was saving it all for a theatrical trial in which he would at last strut his stuff?

MASON: Nice work, Della. I like it.

DELLA: And yet, Perry, the operation was so fraught with risk that he couldn't reasonably have expected to survive for a trial. Is this a problem, Perry?

MASON: Not at all, Della. Shirley was actually Ted in a latex mask, the dog actually belonged to Bob, and it all stemmed from a confrontation between Shirley and Babs on a summer vacation in Istanbul back in college.

DELLA and DRAKE (in unison): Genius, Perry.

Roll the credits.