No matter what evidence were to be developed by digging into the above material, you and your fellow WC true believers would never admit that someone was impersonating Oswald in the weeks leading up to the assassination.

The Innocence Project has been successful in setting aside convictions based on mistaken eyewitness identification evidence.  Eyewitness identification evidence is not fact observation unless the witness knows the person and recognizes them at the time of the offence.  There are also serious problems with ensuring the evidence is not contaminated with bias of the official conducting a photo or in-person line up.

But the Innocence Project has also been successful in reversing convictions by getting forensic evidence thrown out:  Good examples being faulty bite mark evidence posing as “science”;  comparative bullet lead analysis being rejected completely; rejecting evidence of hair and fibre comparison “matches”; and getting opinions of so called arson experts excluded (have a look at the tragic Texas case in which Todd Willingham was convicted to see what kind of junk science masquerades as “forensic science”.).

In Canada, the wrongful conviction of a man charged with murder based on flawed forensic medical evidence that conflicted with the timeline established by several independent witnesses was set aside after a reenactment showed how the victim likely died.  The correct verdict showed that the witnesses were right. Lookup the Clayton Johnson case.

I have officially retired from the JFKA Wars in the interests of my sanity. However, I happen to be finishing Gus Russo's Live by the Sword, the Kindle edition of which I bought in connection with my work on the Sportsdrome Gun Range. Russo basically accepts the LN scenario but with a high likelihood that Oswald's willingness to kill JFK was made known in Mexico City and actively encouraged by Castro’s people (even though the plan was to dump Oswald’s body in the Gulf of Mexico rather than fly him to Havana after the JFKA).

My immediate problem with this conspiracy theory was, "Why didn't Oswald do a whole lot of things more suggestive of his intent to kill JFK in the nearly two months between his return from Mexico City and 11-22-63? Why does the JFKA seem like such an unplanned last-minute decision?"

Russo does have Oswald doing several assassination-type things, including scouting tall buildings in Dallas and practicing at the Sportsdrome Gun Range. Since I am the world's leading expert on the Sportsdrome - well, sort of, anyway - Russo's credulous acceptance of everything related to it was enough to make me call into question the rest of his authoritative-sounding research. (In fact, ALL of the most dubious aspects of his research seem to be precisely those relating to Oswald being part of a conspiracy!)

But forget all that. All we’re talking about here is Oswald's mysterious inquiry about employment at the Alright Parking System at 1208 Commerce in Dallas (0.7 mile from the TSBD) and his exceedingly odd questions about the view from the roof. Russo seems to accept this as an actual Oswald sighting. Because I am officially retired from the JFKA Wars in the interests of my sanity, I am not going to be exploring or attempting to bust this potential factoid.

BUT IT IS DAMN WEIRD, and I would definitely be looking into it if I were a CTer. It’s the sort of weird little incident that probably has far more CT potential than the Bombshell Lunacy that Bombshell Loons like Certain People I Could Mention love to post here.

If it’s all entirely innocent, it still falls squarely into the category of “YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP” – yet another twist and turn to the JFKA that you’d laugh at it if it were in a really bad Agatha Christie whodunnit.

I won’t beat this to death because you can do your own research. At Michael Capasse’s JFK Boards, the mysterious “Tom Sorensen,” who may or may not exist, has done a nice job of summarizing and linking the relevant documents about halfway down this page: https://jfk.boards.net/thread/621/dead-ringer-lee-oswald?page=2. Russo did some follow-up interviews in 1993, and his discussion begins at Kindle Location 6,006 of his book.

In a nutshell, here is what will have you slapping your forehead and saying, “WHAT?”

1. Detective Bob Carroll of the Special Services Bureau of the DPD received information from a confidential informant that Oswald had applied for a job at Alright about two weeks before the JFKA.

2. The Special Services Bureau took the Alright sighting seriously. The piece at JFK Boards summarizes and links their several visits and reports.

3. From those reports, the witnesses’ photo identifications, and Russo’s follow-up, it certainly sounds like someone who looked very much like Oswald and gave the name Oswald did inquire about a job at Alright and weirdly asked about the view from the roof. His first reported visit was the evening of November 16, the day the Dallas Morning News first reported that JFK’s motorcade would go down Main Street (but did not mention Elm). He asked night manager Hubert Morrow about JFK’s motorcade and whether Main Street could be seen from the roof. He then returned the next day and asked cashier Viola Sapp about a job and the view from the roof. It’s hard for me to see what any conspirators would have gained by having an Oswald imposter go through this exercise.

4. “Oswald” did not fill out a job application. However, Detective W. S. Biggio went through the job applications and discovered that in early December a guy named Fred Kaiser Jr. had applied. Fred listed his last place of employment as the TSBD and told the general manager of Alright, Garnett Hallmark, that he had quit his job at the TSBD the day before the JFKA!

5. Fred Kaiser listed his address as 5230 W. Ledbetter and his emergency contact as Frankey Kaiser at the same address. He also, somewhat weirdly, gave Geneva Hine as a reference.

6. Frankey (or “Frankie,” according to the Warren Commission) Kaiser was Franklin Kaiser, who was still employed at the TSBD in a role similar to Oswald’s. While Fred “just happened” to quit the TSBD the day before the JFKA, Frankie “just happened” to be absent both the day before and the day itself; he told the Warren Commission he was having a tooth abscess worked on at the Baylor Dental College when the JFKA occurred. He did not mention Fred but confirmed that he lived at 5230 W. Ledbetter, which an FBI interview describes as a trailer park.

7. Mysterious Frankie is the TSBD employee who gave Oswald his order-filling clipboard. Mysterious Frankie is also the TSBD employee who later found Oswald’s clipboard on the sixth floor. Mysterious Frankie is also the TSBD employee who later found Oswald’s blue jacket in the domino room.

8. On the list of TSBD employees assembled by Detectives Westphal and Parks for Lt. Revill, Frankie Kaiser does not appear (nor does Fred, although presumably he had quit). Frankie’s name does appear on Hoover’s 4/3/64 transmittal of witness statements to Rankin, but Hoover notes that no statement was obtained from Frankie because he was absent from work on the day of the JFKA.

9. Fred and Frankie were twins. Neither resembled Oswald. Fred died in 2004 at age 65, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/195093977/fred-kaiser, and Frankie died in 2018 at age 78, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/187187721/frank-kaiser. Freddie and Frankie sound like distinctly unsuspicious characters to me – but, hey, that’s exactly why they ARE suspicious, right?

That’s all I know and is as far as I’m taking this, but it does all strike me as damn weird and potentially a more fruitful avenue of CT-oriented research than, say, the Huge Gates or the Missing Brain. 

That's all for now and for the foreseeable future from the Prison of Rational Thought.

(I suppose it should be noted that Oswald practicing at the Sportsdrome and scouting tall buildings after JFK's trip had been announced would be entirely consistent with the LN scenario. It's the Kaiser stuff that's bizarre.)