"Overthinking" (or maybe not?) the Walker attempt

[Lance Payette]

Charles, is your 1/24th scale limo one of these expensive puppies ($350 and $220): https://livecarmodel.com/products/1-24-road-signature-1961-lincoln-x-100-limousine-quick-fix-with-flags-diecast-car-model.html?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=18077476773&gbraid=0AAAAADoejY_6hAEUgmAXenm__jshLs4QY&gclid=Cj0KCQjw_vnQBhCxARIsADcZyxKNOaowPvrZU4E0x86POs6nBC1JUlA76h5k4EqTPTv3dPtPbXYTtzcaAoVvEALw_wcB. I may spring for one and see what I can do with a tiny Mafia guy on the roof of a 1/24th scale Dal-Tex building. 

[Lance Payette]

I'm speculating and I don't pretend to know this for a fact. It's really not important which sights he used. Either would likely aim high at such a short range and not surprising, the bullet struck the bottom of the window frame instead of passing through the open window. Maybe he did adjust for the short range and just fired a poor shot. It's not important to know why his shot went high. We just know that it did and likely saved Walker's life.

There's nothing wrong with speculating about things we don't have definitive evidence for as long as we recognize our speculations aren't evidence. Your problem is you use your speculations as excuses to dismiss the conclusive evidence that Oswald was the assassin. Sure, there's all that forensic evidence that Oswald was the assassin, but you try to cast doubt on that evidence because Oswald made different decisions than you think he should have made such as using his mail order rifle instead of buying an untraceable one locally. You use Oswald's attempt to reconcile with Marina as being inconsistent with someone planning to kill JFK. You disregard the fact he broke his routine by coming to Irving on a Thursday instead of the weekend and that he brought the bag he made at the TSBD with him to smuggle the rifle into the TSBD. I believe that is known as Malice Aforethought which is evidence of premeditation. Maybe he would have abandoned his plan to kill JFK if Marina had agreed to reconcile. We'll never know that. What we have ample evidence of is that he did smuggle his rifle into the TSBD the next morning and used it to kill JFK. None of your speculations about Oswald's mindset does anything to negate that evidence.

OK, I'm bored, so let's examine this. It's not a matter of what I think Oswald "should" have done. It's a matter of what it seems to me that someone of Oswald's intelligence who was thinking rationally would have done; since that isn't what he did, I wonder why he did what he did (or if he actually did it) and do not immediately leap to the typical LN responses of "it's irrelevant" (well, no it's not) or "Oswald was a madman" (well, no, he wasn't). Yes, he made an unusual trip to Irving the evening before the JFKA - highly suspicious. On the other hand, both Ruth and Marina accepted that he was there to try to make peace with Marina, and he made great efforts to do exactly that. The extent of those efforts and his reactions that Marina described are "just a bit" hard to explain if he was really there to get his rifle and shoot JFKA. Neither Ruth nor Marina saw anything like the mysterious paper bag or any conduct by Oswald suggesting he was taking the rifle out of the blanket and wrapping it in the bag. Indeed, as Martin has pointed out, there is no solid evidence that the rifle was even in the garage on 11-21. No one saw him making the bag in the TSBD, which would have been an odd choice anyway, and Frazier neither saw nor heard any evidence of it on the ride to Irving. Then, of course, we have Frazier's and Randle's stubborn insistence that the bag they saw was too short. It may well be that the LN version of events is 100% correct, but to suggest it's free of all doubt goes too far. Moreover, we encounter this at virtually every stage of the JFKA. For some reason, we weren't blessed with a cut-and-dried case that Perry Mason could've wrapped up in an hour.

[Lance Payette]

I am on this, people! I've already lined up my 1/24 scale Mafia gunmen, and it appears there are multiple choices for a 1/24 scale Carlos Marcello. The 1/24 scale Dal-Tex building is going to be larger than my actual house, so we may have to go with a "Potemkin village" Dal-Tex building (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village).

[Charles Collins]

Charles, is your 1/24th scale limo one of these expensive puppies ($350 and $220): https://livecarmodel.com/products/1-24-road-signature-1961-lincoln-x-100-limousine-quick-fix-with-flags-diecast-car-model.html?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=18077476773&gbraid=0AAAAADoejY_6hAEUgmAXenm__jshLs4QY&gclid=Cj0KCQjw_vnQBhCxARIsADcZyxKNOaowPvrZU4E0x86POs6nBC1JUlA76h5k4EqTPTv3dPtPbXYTtzcaAoVvEALw_wcB. I may spring for one and see what I can do with a tiny Mafia guy on the roof of a 1/24th scale Dal-Tex building. 

It might be the same. However my box says it was made by Luckydiecast.com. I have had mine a few years now. It wasn’t quite that expensive normally, and I found a steeply discounted vendor price. I don’t remember who it was but it seems like it was some women’s group of some sort. Here’s a photo of the back of the box. I apologize for it being upside down. Something funky seems to be going on with the image hosting site.