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Haygood is still wearing his gloves in this frame.

Just to follow up on this point, in 1963 a bus ticket from Dallas to Houston cost about $6; a bus ticket from Dallas to Tulsa, Oklahoma, cost about $9.50; and a bus ticket from Dallas to San Antonio cost about $10.50. In 1963, you could buy a hamburger or a hot dog for about 30 cents, a movie ticket for about 85 cents, a new shirt for about $4.00, etc., etc.

The fact that Oswald had $13 in his pocket is just one fact that casts serious doubt on the specious tale that he snuck into the Texas Theatre without paying. Credible evidence places Oswald in the theater at right around 1:07, which rules him out as Tippit's killer.

Why did Oswald go get his revolver? A better question is, Why didn't Oswald take his revolver to work if he planned on shooting JFK?

Oswald grabbed his revolver after he returned to his room because he realized something had gone terribly wrong in Dealey Plaza and that may have been set up. Once in police custody, he had no doubt that he had been framed, which is why he told journalists he was a patsy. Voice-stress analysis of Oswald's statements to newsmen while in police custody shows he was telling the truth when he said he had not shot anyone, and NAA testing of the paraffin cast of Oswald's right cheek proves he did not fire a rifle on 11/22/63.

Even the uber-cautious Pat Speer, who is loathe to accept any evidence of planted or faked evidence, has demolished the curtain-rod myth cited by WC apologists to explain how Oswald allegedly got the rifle inside the TSBD.

Well, Google AI answered my question:

Yes. Both Mississippi and Georgia previously used voting systems that functioned similarly to the U.S. Electoral College to decide their governors.

Mississippi

Until it was repealed by voters in 2020, Mississippi used an electoral-style process established under its 1890 Constitution. To win the governorship, a candidate was required to win both a majority of the popular vote and a majority of the 122 state House of Representatives districts. If no candidate won both, the race was sent to the state House to decide the winner. This system was originally designed to dilute the voting power of African Americans and protect rural interests, and it actually decided the 1999 gubernatorial election. You can read more about its repeal on the Mississippi Free Press.

Georgia

 From 1917 to 1962, Georgia used a system for statewide primary elections called the "County Unit System," which explicitly functioned like an Electoral College. All 159 counties were split into three categories (Urban, Town, and Rural) and assigned unit votes on a winner-take-all basis. Because rural counties were vastly overrepresented, candidates could win the popular vote while losing the election if they failed to secure a majority of the 410 unit votes. This system was ultimately struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court. Learn more about its history through the New Georgia Encyclopedia.

Most of these claims are years behind the information curve; they reflect research that seems to have stopped many years ago.

For starters, the last official U.S. Government investigation into the assassination, i.e., the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) in 1978-1980, rejected the WC's lone-gunman conclusion, and we now know that three of the WC members themselves doubted the lone-gunman scenario.

The HSCA's investigation was far more thorough than the WC's slipshod, hurried investigation. Among other things, the HSCA concluded that there were two gunmen, that four shots were fired, that one of the shots came from the grassy knoll, that Ruby lied about how he entered the police basement to shoot Oswald, that Ruby lied about why he shot Oswald, that someone was moving boxes around in the sixth-floor window shortly after the shooting at a time when Oswald could not have been the one moving the boxes, that Oswald associated with virulent right-wing extremists David Ferrie and Guy Banister, that the first shot was fired at a time when the sixth-floor gunman's view of JFK would have been obstructed by the oak tree on Elm Street, that Howard Brennan's identification of Oswald as the sixth-floor gunman was unreliable, and that two of the shots were fired only 1.66 seconds apart, that Ruby stalked Oswald before killing him, that Silvia Odio's account is credible (her account shows someone was trying to frame Oswald before the assassination), that JFK was hit before frame 190 in the Zapruder film, that the autopsy doctors mislocated the back wound, that the autopsy doctors failed to follow basic autopsy procedures, that the back wound's abrasion collar proves the bullet hit at an upward angle, that the tunneling inside the back wound ranges upward, that the Secret Service protection of JFK in Dallas may have been "uniquely insecure," and that the WC failed to follow up on leads that indicated conspiracy.

For those who want more information, I recommend these articles:

The Warren Commission's Failed Investigation
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12x-2gGg50JQPrEfxZSxha_EYjgSfq0kJ/view?usp=sharing

Did Oswald Shoot Tippit? A Review of Dale Myers’ Book With Malice
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_j_022lJYli3B5Xyw8wLs-0nl6mDLo2t/view?usp=sharing

Extra Bullets and Missed Shots in Dealey Plaza
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WRwhDQ9HMydf5pICsHwgtkoNKw0YSO8T/view?usp=sharing

JFK's Clothing Proves the Single-Bullet Theory Is Impossible
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MAgWA0frOLVeWY6ok9nzdrgpRN4Wv1AL/view?usp=sharing

Why JFK's Tie and Shirt Slits Destroy the Single-Bullet Theory
https://sites.google.com/view/jfkshirtandtiedestroysbt/home

Faulty Evidence: Problems with the Case Against Lee Harvey Oswald
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R1CZaCZfLA5QFjTCHNINcKxTH4cBiPfw/view?usp=sharing