JFK Assassination Forum

I think opening up a separate P.O. Box for Alek Hidell would have been much more prudent. However, one needs to keep LHO’s extreme frugality in mind….


Per Google AI:

“in 1963, the Post Office Department (the predecessor to the USPS) did not require a verifiable previous address or a street address to open a P.O. box. During this era, applicants simply needed to fill out an application and prove their identity to rent a box.The requirement for a physical street address and two forms of identification (one to verify the applicant's identity and one to verify their physical residence) was introduced much later, primarily as a security and anti-fraud measure.”

Where else could he have it sent?

If it's impossible to say, why would you think Oswald would have been tried separately for each murder. I can think of lot's of cases where someone charged with multiple homicides had them tried in a single trial. I can't think of one in which they were tried separately except in cases where the crimes were committed in different jurisdictions.
Yes that is true. Our criminal justice system has a duel purpose. Find the truth while protecting the rights of the accused and sometimes those two are at cross purposes. History doesn't have that problem. It's sole purpose is to find the truth. We do not have to be concerned with Oswald's rights because he no longer has any. He cannot be deprived of life, liberty, or property because he has none of those either. That's why it always amuses me when CTs claim a particular piece of evidence would be inadmissible in court. Who freaking cares if it would have been inadmissible? If it helps tell us who killed JFK, that should be our only concern.

Oswald had agency, made his decisions (however limited they were) on his own, they weren't forced on him. He had two brothers who also grew up in the same (roughly) environment. They turned out not only to not be bad men they turned out to be good ones.

He disgraces himself in the Marines (among other things twice court-martialed), he defects to the Soviet Union and tells his family to get lost but then asks for help when he needs them. He brutally beats Marina. He prevents her from learning English so that she's dependent on him. He tries to kill Walker and in doing so would abandon his family on their own. He then tries to defect to Cuba and again is abandoning his family including a seven months pregnant Marina (he told Marina to find her way to Cuba on her own). Instead of providing for him family he thinks he's some type of historic figure. Then of course he kills JFK. And a police officer. Both men with families and small children.

That's just a partial list. He was a bad man who made decisions on his own. He had free will.

It's impossible to really say. OJ was tried for both murders, but they were at the same scene at the same time. I would think that in Oswald's case if he were tried for JFK first the judge would allow evidence up to and including his visit to the room on Beckley and getting his revolver, as well as his arrest in the theater. Overlapping the two cases would be highly prejudicial to Oswald in the JFK case unless he had been convicted of the Tippit murder. I believe a judge would be extremely careful about not allowing that to happen. The most straightforward way would be to try him for Tippit first. AI agrees with me, which i'm not sure I should find comforting: "Under Texas criminal procedure, a defendant must be tried separately for each distinct, unrelated offense unless the charges stem from the exact same criminal act (e.g., a single bomb that kills two people). Because the Tippit shooting and the Kennedy assassination were two separate events involving different victims at different locations, they would have required two distinct trials."

Like it or not, the criminal justice system exists to protect the accused. The deck is heavily stacked in favor of the accused in almost every way. In the hands of a really skillful criminal defense team, Oswald's trial likely would have looked far different from how most LNers picture it looking - and the outcome, IMO, would have been far less certain.