The Brown Paper Bag

[John Mytton]

Thanks for posting this photo, but I'm afraid it's backfiring badly. And in fact whoever did this demonstration was setting out to deceive.

For a start Frazier who is taller than 6 foot can barely hold a 24 inch package under his arm and his hand isn't cupped because the package is being held by the tips of his fingers. Look at the second photo and Frazier is showing a cupped hand!! Ouch!

Secondly Oswald was at least 3 inches shorter and he definitely wasn't built like a gorilla with extrrraa long arms.

Thirdly, Linnie Mae estimated the package at the testimony to be 28.5 inches but quickly interjected that her previous estimate was smaller. Why was she so keen to shrink the package?

Mrs. RANDLE. And this goes this way, right? Do you want me to hold it?
Mr. BALL. Yes.
Mrs. RANDLE. About this.
Mr. BALL. Is that about right? That is 28 1/2 inches.
Mrs. RANDLE. I measured 27 last time.
Mr. BALL. You measured 27 once before?
Mrs. RANDLE. Yes, sir.

But funnily enough and before Linnie Mae realized her brother was in potentially serious trouble, her initial estimate was;

RANDLE stated that about 7:15 a.m., November 22, 1963, she looked out of a window of her residence and observed LEE HARVEY OSWALD walking up her driveway and saw him put a long brown package, approximately 3 feet by 6 inches

JohnM

[Michael Capasse]

Thanks for posting this photo, but I'm afraid it's backfiring badly. And in fact whoever did this demonstration was setting out to deceive.

For a start Frazier who is taller than 6 foot can barely hold a 24 inch package under his arm and his hand isn't cupped because the package is being held by the tips of his fingers. Look at the second photo and Frazier is showing a cupped hand!! Ouch!

Secondly Oswald was at least 3 inches shorter and he definitely wasn't built like a gorilla with extrrraa long arms.

JohnM

same old tired garbage.

Mr. BALL - When you cupped the bottom of your package in the hands, will you stand up, again, please,
and the upper part of the package is not under the armpit, the top of the package extends almost up to the level of your ear.

Mr. FRAZIER - Right.

[Tommy Shanks]

OK let's have a little fun and imagine that Oswald did NOT bring his rifle to work that day (which he most assuredly did). How did it get into the building then? Did someone steal it from Ruth and Michael Paine's garage and hide it in the TSBD for the "real" shooters to find and use?

[Martin Weidmann]

It would be pointless to continue to do a point-by-point rebuttal of your posts. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Suffice it to say you are really, really bad at weighing evidence. You can't see that the accumulative effect of all the probative evidence of his guilt eliminates any reasonable doubt of his guilt. There really isn't much room even for unreasonable doubt. Oswald did it and anyone who can't see that is willfully blind to a very obvious fact. There is no universe in which there could be so much evidence of a man's guilt if he were in fact innocent.

It is duly noted that you failed to support your claim that evidence that should be there is missing or that evidence was "ignored, misrepresented, dismissed and/or suppressed". Why doesn't that surprise me?

PS. I wouldn't feel too bad about your inability to weigh evidence. It seems to be a requirement for anyone who insists on believing Oswald didn't kill JFK.

It would be pointless to continue to do a point-by-point rebuttal of your posts. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

And yet, here you are after 35 years making the same arguments over and over again and we are to believe you are doing so without expecting a different result? Wow!

Suffice it to say you are really, really bad at weighing evidence.

Of course, mr. "reasonable"! Clearly it couldn't be the case that you are actually the clueless one instead, right?

You can't see that the accumulative effect of all the probative evidence of his guilt eliminates any reasonable doubt of his guilt. There really isn't much room even for unreasonable doubt. Oswald did it and anyone who can't see that is willfully blind to a very obvious fact. There is no universe in which there could be so much evidence of a man's guilt if he were in fact innocent.

Damn, there it is again... a complete failure to add the magic words "in my opinion". Why is that oh "superior" one? Could it be you are one of those poor delusional souls who thinks he's always right and could not possibly be wrong? I'm only asking as it would explain a lot!

It is duly noted that you failed to support your claim that evidence that should be there is missing or that evidence was "ignored, misrepresented, dismissed and/or suppressed". Why doesn't that surprise me?

Nope. I did not fail to leave that out. I decided not to put it in as it would have made my post even longer than it already was and as I was talking to you, it was obvious it would be a waste of time, as you wouldn't and couldn't respond to it with a coherent counter argument anyway. This isn't my first rodeo with a LN clown!

But just for fun, I'll gladly give you a couple of examples;

In the suppressed category, the Stroud letter (about Dorothy Garner) features prominent.

In the misrepresentation category, the grey jacket comes to mind. The jacket now in evidence shows the markings of seven officers, when we know from Westbrook that an unknown patrol officer found the (then described as being white) jacket, showed it to him and then he gave it to another unknown and never identified officer. After that, the jacket disappeared until it surfaced again at the police station as being grey and containing the markings of officers who could not have been in the chain of custody and never came forward to claim they were.
Another example in the same category is the BY photo shown to Micheal Paine on Friday evening and shown to Oswald as an enlargement on Saturday morning was claimed to having been found at Ruth Paine's house during the second search (with a warrant) on Saturday afternoon.

In the dismissed category, there is a long list of witnesses who were dismissed as being wrong just because what they said didn't fit the preferred narrative.

And in the ignored category, there is Oswald's statement that he bought a revolver at Fort Worth. Where the FBI visited some 400 dry cleaners in the Dallas and New Orleans area in a vain attempt to try to match a dry cleaning label found in the grey jacket, nobody bothered to check out Oswald's claim by checking the gun shops in Fort Worth.

The list goes on and on, but what I have written so far will probably give you a headache, so I'll leave it here.

PS. I wouldn't feel too bad about your inability to weigh evidence. It seems to be a requirement for anyone who insists on believing Oswald didn't kill JFK.

And where exactly did I say that I insist that Oswald didn't kill JFK? Please come back when you are grown up, have acquired some critical thinking skills and are able to have a normal conversation. In the meantime, please keep on trying not to learn anything new. Shouldn't be too hard as you have been doing that for 35 years.

Btw, I understand why you are running, but don't worry, I won't tell anybody.

[Martin Weidmann]

Any theories about Oswald's state of mind or his thought process is pure speculation. We can never know what Oswald was thinking at any given time. It is my belief that he didn't expect to get away with the crime. He didn't think he was going to get away with it had he succeeded in killing General Walker so I doubt he had any expectation of getting away with the JFKA. As already stated, that's pure speculation.

Amazing. Do you ever think before you write something as pathetic as this?

Calling any theory about Oswald's state of mind speculation, only to follow it up with your belief about what he was thinking. Is this comedy hour?

[Martin Weidmann]

How about Oswald's palm print on the underside of the barrel. That could only have been placed there with the rifle disassembled. The we have the fibers in the bag that matched the blanket Oswald stored his rifle in when it was in Paine's garage. That ties the rifle to the bag and the bag could only hold a disassembled rifle without sticking out the top of the bag.

As previously noted, you are really, really bad at weighing evidence. That being the case, this hobby doesn't seem to suit you. Maybe you should consider stamp collecting as an alternative.

How about Oswald's palm print on the underside of the barrel. That could only have been placed there with the rifle disassembled.

And now you are going to tell us you know exactly when the rifle was disassembled, right?

we have the fibers in the bag that matched the blanket Oswald stored his rifle in when it was in Paine's garage.

Talking about being bad at weighing evidence! You have no evidence whatsoever that a rifle was stored in Ruth Paine's garage at any time after late September 1963.

And as far as the fibers go.... there is no such thing as fibers matching a particular object. Besides, you have already been told that evidence photos show the bag and the blanket lying next to each other on a table, so there was a real possibility of cross contamination. Ignoring reality seems to be a requirement for your kind of "weighing evidence".

That being the case, this hobby doesn't seem to suit you. Maybe you should consider stamp collecting as an alternative.

Is it in the LN handbook to conduct yourself in an arrogant manner while throwing childish insults around that only make you seem weak?

By the way, it was very impressive to see how you completely avoided to respond to the substance of the post you were replying to. Why was that? Could it be you had no credible reply?

[Martin Weidmann]

Thanks for posting this photo, but I'm afraid it's backfiring badly. And in fact whoever did this demonstration was setting out to deceive.

For a start Frazier who is taller than 6 foot can barely hold a 24 inch package under his arm and his hand isn't cupped because the package is being held by the tips of his fingers. Look at the second photo and Frazier is showing a cupped hand!! Ouch!

Secondly Oswald was at least 3 inches shorter and he definitely wasn't built like a gorilla with extrrraa long arms.

Thirdly, Linnie Mae estimated the package at the testimony to be 28.5 inches but quickly interjected that her previous estimate was smaller. Why was she so keen to shrink the package?

Mrs. RANDLE. And this goes this way, right? Do you want me to hold it?
Mr. BALL. Yes.
Mrs. RANDLE. About this.
Mr. BALL. Is that about right? That is 28 1/2 inches.
Mrs. RANDLE. I measured 27 last time.
Mr. BALL. You measured 27 once before?
Mrs. RANDLE. Yes, sir.

But funnily enough and before Linnie Mae realized her brother was in potentially serious trouble, her initial estimate was;

RANDLE stated that about 7:15 a.m., November 22, 1963, she looked out of a window of her residence and observed LEE HARVEY OSWALD walking up her driveway and saw him put a long brown package, approximately 3 feet by 6 inches

JohnM

Oh poor Johnny is still misrepresenting the evidence, as per usual.

You do know that the three photos of Frazier holding a bag are stills from a video interview in which the bags were constructed. It clearly shows that the bag Frazier saw came close to the one he is holding in the first picture. I'm sure you don't like that, but there it is.....

For a start Frazier who is taller than 6 foot can barely hold a 24 inch package under his arm and his hand isn't cupped because the package is being held by the tips of his fingers. Look at the second photo and Frazier is showing a cupped hand!! Ouch!

Secondly Oswald was at least 3 inches shorter and he definitely wasn't built like a gorilla with extrrraa long arms.

And yet, Frazier still says that's the way Oswald carried the package. So, perhaps the actual package was even shorter than the 24 inch estimate!

Btw, Frazier told FBI agent Odum on 12/02/63 that he "observed that Oswald had his package under his right arm, one end of the package being under his armpit and the other end apparently held with his right fingers". You are of course aware of this, right?

But funnily enough and before Linnie Mae realized her brother was in potentially serious trouble, her initial estimate was;

RANDLE stated that about 7:15 a.m., November 22, 1963, she looked out of a window of her residence and observed LEE HARVEY OSWALD walking up her driveway and saw him put a long brown package, approximately 3 feet by 6 inches

There is no proof whatsoever that Linnie Mae ever really said that. This information - and you know this - comes from an FBI FD 302 report, so it was the FBI agent who claimed she said it. To this day, FD 302 reports are for internal use and frequently contain incorrect information.

Not that this would stop you misrepresenting the facts, right?