I've merely pointed out how you mischaracterized Rankin's words and the absurdity of anyone needing to expedite Oswald's visa

Mischaracterized Rankin's words?
I was the one who posted Rankin's words. Not you.
Just because I misquoted what I'd already posted you jumped on it because you had nothing else. No argument, No evidence.
That's all you had to troll the discussion with.
Zero contribution. Just trolling.

And you pointed out the absurdity of anyone needing to expedite Oswald's visa??
But Oswald's visa WAS EXPEDITED!
It was done in 24 hours!
What don't you understand about things being expedited?
The only thing "absurd" is your presence on this forum.

In response, I've gotten a blizzard of insults and rants.

Stop playing the victim.
You're nothing but a troll.
If you want respect do something worthy of it.

The CIA, according to the WC Report, was silent on the question of which flight Oswald embarked from to arrive in Helsinki
at a time of day that would fit the post arrival narrative. A cost of $111.90 is listed on pg. 257 of the WueCR with no accompanying supporting info.
Two flights from Paris with one intermediate stop was information not volunteered by the CIA, despite offering no support for a London flight
beyond departure time and unsupported cost. No flight manifests were reported to be found.

https://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wr/html/WCReport_0141a.htm.


Kat Ford reported to the FBI that Marina said she first met her future husband after he arrived in Moscow to represent his employer at the Science Fair.
Marina explained why she had an address of a building associated with a residence of Robert E Webster in Leningrad, if memory serves me.

In 1965, Nixon hope to suddenly show up with his lawyer on the doorstep of by then retired Khrushchev, but reportedly could not find him  The after the fact reporting claimed the group obtained visas in Helsinki in as few as three hours.
 
In the early 1980's the name of the lawyer was linked in a Washington Post article, if I recall the , 19809accurately, to the boyhood town of Tampico in Illinois in which
the two had first met. The population was 600 in 1911 and the lawyer's father was the grocer.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170828135015/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1980/07/15/the-republicans-in-detroit/a1b4b68b-2673-4b6c-b86c-ecac9147f3e0/?utm_term=.550271ac570d
THE REPUBLICANS IN DETROIT
July 15, 1980

I have a copy of the wedding announcement,, circa 1949, stating that the lawyer's best man
was his former OSS advanced weapons development team member, Jim Rand, who happened to be
the employer who sent Robert Webster to that 1959 Moscow Science exhibition where Webster defected to the Soviet Union from.

That same lawyer was assigned a large role in the October Surprise investigation and its mysteries. He died of cancer about 1984 before
that investigation fully ramped up, leaving his longtime employee, Roy Furmark and Bill Casey's assistant, Robert Gates, questioned after Casey had also
suddenly died, holding the bag, so to speak. Gates did such a poor job answering congressional inquiry questions that he could not be advanced as
planned, to receive senate committee approval for his nomination for DCI.

in the early 1980s a Harvard graduate who in 1959 had been a 29 year old PhD Archeology candidate, came across and reread a journal he had been
keeping during a train trip to Helsinki in which he had written the name of his young berth mate of several days on the train. He had completely
forgotten until then that the name of his travel companion he had written in that journal was Harvey Oswald. About 40 years later the Finnish government
released details that supported the man's claims. He the name of that man as #6 and Oswald's just below it as #7.

His recent obit includes a papragraph describing that encounter,
https://onlinedigeditions.com/article/In+Memoriam%3A+William+B.+Trousdale/5078414/857731/article.html

This is attributed to well known US researcher Weberman who allegedly received it from a Finnish researcher who sent it to him.

https://www.nytimes.com/1965/04/11/archives/nixon-back-in-moscow-debates-again-issue-of-kennedys-slaying-raised.html
April 11, 1965
Nixon, Back in Moscow, Debates Again; Issue of Kennedy's Slaying Raised by University Aide
".... Mr. Nixon arrived this morning as a private tourist with a group of American and Canadian businessmen with whom he had visited Helsinki on business. His trip to Moscow was decided upon on the spur of the moment Thursday after the group had completed its business in the Finnish capital with unexpected speed. To the surprise of all, including the consular officers at the United States Embassy in Helsinki, a Soviet visa came through quickly in less than three hours. On arrival, after a 20-hour train ride, Mr. Nixon told reporters that he had made no arrangements to see any Soviet officials or any United States or other diplomats. He was philosophical about his own changed station in life and that of his debating partner of almost six years ago. I was on July 24, 1959, that Mr. Nixon, in Moscow to open the American National Exhibition, debated with Mr. Khrushchev

Bennett was already sitting higher than Ken O'Donnell and would have had no difficulty seeing JFK over top of O'Donnell.  Bennett is in the right rear seat in the QM as seen in the Betzner photo at z186:

Who was it, then, who was sitting on the passenger's side of the car and around Z-145 started leaning far to his right while continuing to look straight ahead?

at what point do you think Secret Service Agent Glen Bennett started leaning far to his right (in order to see around Ken O'Donnell) to see if JFK was okay?

Bennett was already sitting higher than Ken O'Donnell and would have had no difficulty seeing JFK over top of O'Donnell.  Bennett is in the right rear seat in the QM as seen in the Betzner photo at z186:

The CIA historian published a CIA-vetted report, on CIA letterhead, that Clay Shaw was a "highly paid contract source" for the CIA in the 1950s.

You say Shaw was only a volunteer. 

After Baldwin got hired as AMA "PR Flack" in 1955, Shaw hired Jesse Core, Baldwin's sidekick in Calcuitta, to take Baldwin's place.
Edwin Walker's Turtle Creek landlord hosted Core and William Ruffle's daughter's engagement party in the same house Oswald allegedly
later broke an exterior window pain, of.  William Ruffle was a Dallas newspaper opinion editor who is credited with coining the oppressive phrase, "Right to Work"!

Do you think Clay Shaw was a "highly paid contract source" who was helping the CIA bring fascism back to Italy?