Why did Oswald go to the movies?

[Richard Smith]

We already know where misinformation usually originate from.

This is what your hero reported back to Postal:

Mr. BELIN - Then you went upstairs. Did you see him upstairs?
Mr. BREWER - No; I couldn't see anything upstairs.
Mr. BELIN - Did you hear any noises there?
Mr. BREWER - When we first went down to the exit by the stage, we heard a seat pop up, but couldn't see anybody. And we never did see him. But we went back and upstairs and checked, and we came down and went back to the box office and told Julia that we hadn't seen him.
Mr. BELIN - Julia Postal is the cashier?
Mr. BREWER - Yes; and she called the police, and we went----Butch went to the front exit, and I went down by the stage to the back exit and stood there until the police came.

Balcony double checked -- no cigar, but nice try.

Brewer said he "couldn't see anything upstairs."  That can mean it was too dark to tell whether Oswald was there or not.  All it means is that they didn't see Oswald anywhere - upstairs or down in a dark theater.  But they knew he had gone in and somehow got past Burroughs without being noticed. Postal knew from experience that it was possible to elude Burroughs in the foyer by heading up the balcony stairs upon entering the theatre because some kids had apparently done that in the past.  It seems entirely reasonable that this became the basis of the balcony report.     

[John Iacoletti]

Brewer said he "couldn't see anything upstairs."  That can mean it was too dark to tell whether Oswald was there or not.  All it means is that they didn't see Oswald anywhere - upstairs or down in a dark theater.  But they knew he had gone in and somehow got past Burroughs without being noticed.

How did they know that he had gone in?  Neither Brewer, Postal, or Burroughs saw anyone go in at that time, and Brewer and Burroughs did not see him when they checked the balcony and the theater area.

[Nicholas Turner]

This was discussed earlier. I think it came from the idea that that is where people (kids) who had sneaked in before had tended to go, prior experience. I don't see it as suspicious, do you?

Still don't really get your question but am guessing you are asking where it says this. Yes?

[Richard Smith]

Down the rabbit hole we go again. Why would they check the theatre for him if they did not have cause to believe Oswald had gone in?  LOL.  Postal explains it in her testimony.  She sees a man approach from the east.  He doesn't go by her on the west.  Brewer is following him.  If he doesn't go forward down the street and doesn't go backward toward Brewer, there is only one thing he could have done.  Go into the theatre.  How do we know this for certain?  Wait for it - because Oswald was found in the theatre.  Ergo he had to enter the theatre.   

Mrs. POSTAL. Well, I didn't actually----because I stepped out of the box office and went to the front and was facing west. I was right at the box office facing west, because I thought the police were stopping up quite a ways. Well, just as I turned around then Johnny Brewer was standing there and he asked me if the fellow that ducked in bought a ticket, and I said, "No; by golly, he didn't," and turned around expecting to see him.

[Howard Gee]

How did they know that he had gone in?  Neither Brewer, Postal, or Burroughs saw anyone go in at that time, and Brewer and Burroughs did not see him when they checked the balcony and the theater area.

Brewer sees Saint Patsy acting suspiciously. Brewer decides to keep an eye on Saint Patsy. Brewer watches Saint Patsy walk in the direction of the TT. Brewer sees Saint Patsy reach the front of the theater and disappear.

Brewer isn't standing directly in front of the theater so I guess it's accurate that 55 years later a troll could state Brewer didn't see Saint Patsy enter the theater.

It's also accurate for the troll to state Brewer doesn't initially see Saint Patsy in the balcony or ground floor seating of the darkened theater.

Unfortunately for the troll, once the lights in the theater go on, Brewer most definitely does see the man that was acting strangely in front of his store - the same man that he trailed and watched walk to the front of the theater and disappear.

That man's name was Lee Harvey Oswald, AKA Saint Patsy.

Trolletti will continue to ask 'how do we know he entered the theater', not because the answer isn't obvious, but because that's what TROLLS do.

[Bill Chapman]

The buddies were two unidentified "IBM men" who weren't customers but apparently just liked lounging around his shoe store  (as IBM men do) and I guess he wasn't too worried about abandoning his store with them in there.

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=16235#relPageId=9&tab=page

'(as IBM men do)'

(as IBM men did)
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=16235#relPageId=10&tab=page

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[Bill Chapman]

LNers love this particular strawman.

I don't have any evidence, but if I did you wouldn't believe it anyway.  Therefore I'm right.

Where did I say I was right about anything here...