If she [Earlene Roberts] doesn't completely tell the truth on everything, how do you know what is true and what isn't?
Re: the topic of
"Did Mrs. Roberts Actually See Oswald Enter The Roominghouse On 11/22/63?"....
There are multiple ways to verify that she was telling the truth about that. Besides Oswald's own admission (see my next comment), there's also cab driver William Whaley, who took Oswald to the general area of his roominghouse on 11/22. (Am I now supposed to believe that Whaley took some Oswald look-alike to Oak Cliff instead of the real LHO?)
Given all the things that verify Oswald went to 1026 Beckley on 11/22, is it truly reasonable to believe otherwise? I think not.
Who did Oswald tell that?
Captain Fritz. (See WCR Page 601, below.)
https://history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wr/html/WCReport_0313a.htmOswald's presence at the rooming house is one of the most crucial issues in the Tippit case. If Oswald was there, but only a few minutes later than "just after 1", he could not have been at 10th & Patton on time to kill Tippit.
Conspiracy theorists never seem to want to evaluate ALL of Earlene Roberts' testimony concerning the time that Oswald spent in his room. It's true that Mrs. Roberts testified that Oswald "went on to his room and stayed about 3 or 4 minutes" [
6 H 438], but it's also a fact that she also said that Oswald was in his room
"just long enough, I guess, to go in there and get a jacket and put it on" [
6 H 440].
No CTer ever wants to add in that last important statement made by Roberts.
And does it really take 3 or 4 minutes to wander around a closet-sized bedroom and grab a jacket, a gun, and a few bullets?
Also.....if Oswald was walking faster than the WC investigators who timed the trip from Neely St. to 1026 Beckley at
5 min./45 sec., then Oswald would have reached his room prior to 1:00. That fact, coupled with the almost certain fact that he was only in that room (per Mrs. Roberts)
"just long enough to go in there and get a jacket", plus the additional unknown factor of Oswald possibly walking very fast or even running at least part of the way from Beckley to 10th Street (we'll never know his speed for certain), gives LHO ample time to make it to the site of J.D. Tippit's murder by approx. 1:14 to 1:15 PM CST (which is the time when the sum total of evidence indicates Tippit was very likely shot).
If he didn't leave the rooming house with a jacket, or left it with a darker color jacket (as Roberts testified)....
Maybe you'd better listen again to
this 11/22 interview with Mrs. Roberts. If you fast-forward to 2:40 you'll hear Roberts say that Oswald left his room wearing a
"short gray coat".
Yes, Roberts said something
different later on regarding the jacket color. But on
Day One, she said
"short gray coat".
Of course, we could now start discussing the various shades of "gray" that exist in the color spectrum—light gray vs. dark gray vs. medium gray, etc.
Bonus Link:http://jfk-archives.blogspot.com/2010/06/in-lee-harvey-oswalds-room.html