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JFK Assassination Discussion & Debate / Re: T.F. Bowley, A Wind-Up Wristwatch & 1:17
« Last post by Richard Smith on Today at 01:25:56 PM »@Richard:
You are right, I should not have speculated that Oswald’s reason to return to his boarding house asap was to get his revolver, let alone to head out to Rubys house located SE of Oswalds boarding house.
Its just seems odd to me that Oswald’s heading SE to get to 10th and Patton was not exactly the most direct route to take if Oswald was intending to go to a theater that’s located SW of the boarding house.
Since Frazier described the bag length as 2 feet plus or minus a couple of inches , then something else must have been in the bag other than a disassembled (34.5”) MC rifle.
Questions
1.So what could be in the bag and why was Oswald carrying it into TSBD loading dock annex building yet NOT apparently into TSBD building itself, since Jack Dougherty saw nothing in Oswald’s hands when Oswald entered the door to TSBD?
2.Why were Oswald and Ruby seen together on several occasions ?
3. How did Oswald manage to have as much as $200 cash on his person by Thursday night?
These are questions that led me to suggest Oswald involved in drug trafficking thru Ruby mafia connections and therefore it’s a possibility that the reason Ruby shot Oswald in front of cameras no less, was because Oswald had become too much of a liability connecting Mafia to drugs and to the JFK assassination as well.
The mafia was already under investigation by RFK and having one boss known to have made remark such as “cutting the head of the snake off” , it’s not so implausible to consider that Ruby HAD to shot Oswald asap especially after Oswald was arrested and charged with shooting Tippit and under suspicion of having shot JFK.
There is no reason to believe that Oswald intended to go to the Texas Theatre. That's like claiming the Boston bomber planned to end up in a boat in someone's backyard. I think Oswald was trying to get a particular bus. There are some good FBI materials explaining the nearby bus routes. If he had any plan - and there wasn't a good one under the circumstances - it would have been to get out of Dallas likely heading to Mexico. After the Tippit encounter, however, Oswald was simply in flight. Moving in any direction still available. And the theatre was just a matter of necessity with the police closing in. In terms of the bag, Frazier was simply off in his estimate of its length. There are lots of reasons to support that conclusion. No bag matching Frazier's description was ever found, a longer bag with Oswald's prints was found, Oswald denied carrying any long bag or curtain rods rendering his story to Frazier suspect etc.