Thanks guys, really good points and interesting. I had also given some thought to the angle that he had somehow been given instructions to remain inside in the lunch room, but couldn't quite put a finger on why. Matthew Smith's "The Second Plot" neatly ties the evidence of the framing operation as well as the actual assassination together, but I didn't quite feel that he nailed it with regards to why Lee was in the lunch room.
The fake shot operation angle is a good one and I'd not thought of it in relation to the Walker angle before. This could all tie in with the "curtain rails" episode as well, as well as creating Fraser as an alibi that Lee was carrying a long package into work.
Good point about the rifle's hiding spot too - that has always bothered me how it was positioned, not thrown down. And how it was carefully put by the staircase to leave a false trail of breadcrumbs - whereas if it was actually Lee from the claimed location surely he would have just thrown it down anywhere knowing it would be found anyway. But the fact that it was so carefully hidden suggests it was done hours/days beforehand so it would not be discovered until the day.
Good point about the rifle's hiding spot too -
that has always bothered me how it was positioned, not thrown down.
Be alert.... You seem to be referring to the official photos that show the rifle inserted between the boxes that made up the south side of the aisle at the top of the stairs, and sme boxes immediately south of that aisle row of boxes....Those photos that show the rifle inserted between boxes are NOT authentic photos.... They are photos that were taken of the "re- created crime scene". And I'm not sure that there was actually a rifle in the photo when the shutter was snapped.... I suspect that the rifle that
APPEARS to be between the boxes was actually put there photographically. ( With the phones now available, kids perform this trick everyday) Luckily there was a reporter named Tom Alyea who managed to film the rifle as Lt Day picked it up from
THE FLOOR and his film recorded the rifle lying on it's right side with the barrel pointing east and the leather sling up.
Detective Robert Studebaker made many accurate measurements to record various evidence on the six floor. Studebaker recorded that the rifle was lying on the floor with the barrel pointing east and the butt of the rifle about four feet from the west wall of the building. Stubaker recorded that the rifle was 15 feet 4 inches from the north wall of the building ( The rifle was about 8 feet from the top of the stairs in the NW corner of the building) Studebaker recorded that the floor support pillars between floors, were 12 feet from the north wall of the building.
The rifle was on the floor beneath a pallet of boxes of books about thee feet south of the floor support pillar...IOW the rifle was about five feet from the aisle ( which was formed by the row of book boxes) Any person who would have been in the aisle and who would attempt to place an eight pound rifle on the floor beneath a pallet of book boxes would have to be about ten feet tall.....
What I have posted is FACTUAL information... and it utterly destroys the official lie that has Lee Oswald dashing through the area and hastily dumping the rifle as he fled.
And how it was carefully put by the staircase to leave a false trail of breadcrumbs - whereas if it was actually Lee from the claimed location surely he would have just thrown it down anywhere knowing it would be found anyway.
But
the fact that it was so carefully hidden suggests it was done hours/days beforehand so it would not be discovered until the day.I believe the rifle was carefully hidden there beneath those boxes of books after the work crew left the area and went to lunch....
You may recall that Marina said that Lee told her that he hid the rifle beneath some brush when he fired a bullet through Walker's window....
The idea behind his action was to gain enough time to escape to Cuba by way of Mexico.....He thought that tracking dogs would sniff out the rifle and then it would take a couple of days to trace the rifle to him...and by that time he would be out of the country and on his way to Cuba, to fulfill his spy mission for the US.