BUGLIOSIS 53 PIECES OF EVIDENCE

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1. Whenever Oswald had Wesley Frazier drive him out to visit his wife and daughters at the Paine residence in Irving, he?d go on a Friday evening and return to Dallas on Monday morning. The assassination was on Friday, November 22, 1963. For the very first time, Oswald went to Irving with Frazier on Thursday evening, November 21, obviously to pick up his Mannlicher-Carcano rifle for the following day.       

2. Oswald told Wesley Frazier he was going to Irving to pick up some curtain rods for his apartment in Dallas. But Oswald?s landlady testified that the windows in Oswald?s room on North Beckley already had curtain rods and that Oswald never discussed getting curtain rods with her.16 Indeed, Allen Grant, a photographer for Life magazine, took a photo of Oswald?s room on the afternoon of the assassination, and it clearly shows the curtain rods that were already in his room.        Additionally, Ruth Paine had two flat, lightweight curtain rods in her garage, and they were still there after Oswald?s arrest. 17 Oswald never asked Ruth Paine about curtain rods at any time.18 When Marina was asked in her Warren Commission testimony, ?On the evening of the 21st, was anything said about curtain rods or his taking curtain rods to town the following day?? she answered, ?No, I didn?t have any.? Question: ?He didn?t say anything like that?? ?No.?19 And no curtain rods were found in the Book Depository Building after the assassination.20        If Oswald, as he claimed, brought curtain rods to work, whatever happened to them? We know from witnesses (on the bus, the cabdriver, and Earlene Roberts) that he wasn?t carrying any long package after he left the Book Depository Building. And, as indicated, no curtain rods were found in the building after the assassination. As with the supposed killer behind the picket fence on the grassy knoll whom no one saw run away, and the bullet that exited Kennedy?s throat without going on to hit Connally or anything else in the presidential limousine, did the curtain rods simply vanish into thin air? One would think that things like this would at least give the Oswald defenders and conspiracy theorists pause, but instead, their eyes blazing with certainty, they tell you that you just don?t understand.        In addition to the evidence showing that Oswald?s curtain rod story was a fabrication, the story, all by itself, is inherently implausible. If Oswald did want to pick up curtain rods at Ruth Paine?s home for his apartment, why would that require him to go there on a Thursday evening? Could he only pick them up if he went there on a Thursday evening, not a Friday evening?       

3. When Oswald told Wesley Frazier why he was coming to Irving on a Thursday night?to pick up curtain rods?Frazier said to Oswald, ?Oh, very well,? then added, ?Well, will you be going home with me tomorrow also?? and Oswald replied, ?No.?21       

4. Oswald and his wife, Marina, shared an abiding interest in President Kennedy and his family and spoke of them often. Yet on Thursday evening, the night before the assassination, when Marina brought up in conversation with Oswald the president?s scheduled visit to Dallas the next day, she said, ?He just ignored a little bit, you know, to talk about [it]?maybe changed subject about talking about?newborn baby or something like that?It was quite unusual that he did not want to talk about President Kennedy being in Dallas that particular evening. That was quite peculiar.?22       

5. Friday morning, before leaving Ruth Paine?s house in Irving, Oswald left behind his wedding ring and $170, believed to be virtually all of his money, for Marina, demonstrating that he realized he might never see her again?that is, he might not survive the assassination he was contemplating. Moreover, as he left Marina that morning, Oswald told her to use the money to buy shoes for their new baby, Rachel, and ?anything? else that she felt was necessary for the children. Marina thought this to be strange since Oswald had always been ?most frugal? and hardly allowed her to spend any money at all.23       

6. before Oswald got into Frazier?s car that Friday morning, the day of the assassination, he placed a long, bulky package on the rear seat, telling Frazier it contained the curtain rods.24       

7. Wesley Frazier said that on the way to work on the morning of the assassination, he noticed that for the very first time Oswald did not bring his lunch.25       

8. When Frazier and Oswald arrived in the parking lot for the Book Depository Building on the morning of the assassination, Oswald picked up the long package on the backseat and, for the first time ever, walked quickly ahead of Frazier all the way into the building, Oswald being approximately fifty feet ahead at the time he entered the building. Always previously, they had walked the three hundred or so yards from the car to the building together.26       

9. Every morning after arriving for work at the Book Depository Building, Oswald would go to the domino room on the first floor of the building and read the previous morning?s edition of the Dallas Morning News, which another employee had brought in. On the morning of the assassination, for the first time, he did not do this.27       

10. Despite the fact that the president?s visit and route received enormous and inescapable attention in the Dallas papers and on radio and TV, and that Oswald usually read both daily newspapers each day and had to know what was happening, he asked coworker James Jarman somewhere between 9:30 and 10:00 on the morning of the assassination why people were gathering around the corner of Houston and Elm. When Jarman said the president was going to pass by the building, Oswald asked if he knew which way he was coming, whereupon Jarman told Oswald the president?s route was from Main to Houston to Elm.28 Obviously, Oswald was trying to create the false impression that he knew nothing about the president?s visit. If not, these were just two nervous, pointless questions by someone who knew he was about to change history.       

11. After the first and second shots rang out in Dealey Plaza, a motorcade witness, Howard Brennan, sitting on a short concrete wall directly across the street from the sixth-floor window, looked up and actually saw Oswald in the window holding his rifle. Only 120 feet away from Oswald, he got a very good look as he watched, in horror, Oswald (whom he had seen in the window earlier, before the motorcade had arrived) take deliberate aim and fire the final shot from his rifle.29 At the police lineup that evening, Brennan picked Oswald out, saying, ?He looks like him, but I cannot positively say,? giving the police the reason that he had since seen Oswald on television and that could have ?messed me up.?30 However, Brennan signed an affidavit at the Dallas sheriff?s office within an hour after the shooting and before the lineup saying, ?I believe that I could identify this man if I ever saw him again.?31 On December 18, 1963, Brennan told the FBI he was ?sure? that Oswald was the man he had seen in the window.32 And he later told the Warren Commission that in reality at the lineup, ?with all fairness, I could have positively identified the man? but did not do so out of fear. ?If it got to be a known fact that I was an eyewitness, my family or I?might not be safe.?33 Although Brennan did not positively identify Oswald at the lineup, he did say, as we?ve seen, that Oswald looked like the man. And we know Brennan is legitimate since the description of the man in the window that he gave to the authorities right after the shooting?a slender, white male about thirty years old, five feet ten inches?matches Oswald fairly closely, and had to have been the basis for the description of the man sent out over police radio just fifteen minutes after the shooting.34       

12. Apart from Brennan, we know that Kennedy?s assassin was at the subject sixth-floor window. Among other evidence, the rifle that was used to murder Kennedy was found on the sixth floor of the Book Depository Building, witnesses other than Brennan saw a rifle sticking out of the southeasternmost window on the sixth floor, a sniper?s nest was found around the subject window,and three cartridge casings from the murder weapon were found on the floor beneath the window.       

13. Although in his interrogation on Friday afternoon, November 22, Oswald said he was having lunch on the first floor of the Book Depository Building at the time of the assassination,35 during Sunday?s interrogation Oswald slipped up and placed himself on the sixth floor at the time of the assassination, making him the only employee of the Book Depository Building who placed himself on the sixth floor, or was placed there by anyone else, at the time we know an assassin shot Kennedy from the sixth floor. In his Sunday-morning interrogation he said that at lunchtime, one of the ?Negro? employees invited him to eat lunch with him and he declined, saying, ?You go on down and send the elevator back up and I will join you in a few minutes.? He said before he could finish whatever he was doing, the commotion surrounding the assassination took place and when he ?went downstairs,? a policeman questioned him as to his identification, and his boss stated that he was one of their employees.36 The latter confrontation, of course, refers to Officer Marrion Baker, in Roy Truly?s presence, talking to Oswald in the second-floor lunchroom within two minutes after the shooting. Where was Oswald at the time the Negro employee invited him to lunch, and before he descended to the second-floor lunchroom? The sixth floor. Charles Givens testified that around 11:55 a.m., he went up to the sixth floor to get his jacket with cigarettes in it and saw Oswald on the sixth floor. He said to Oswald, ?Boy, are you going downstairs?it?s near lunchtime.? He said Oswald answered, ?No, sir. When you get downstairs, close the gate to the elevator.?37        There is another very powerful reason why we can know that Oswald, at the time of his confrontation with Baker in the second-floor lunchroom, had just come down from the sixth floor, not up from the first floor, as he claimed. It is an accepted part of conspiracy dogma to believe what Oswald told Fritz during his interrogation?that he had been eating lunch in the lunchroom on the first floor at the time of the shooting and had walked up to the second floor to get a Coke from the Coke machine just before Baker called out to him.38 Assassination literature abounds with references to ?the Coca-Cola machine in the second floor lunchroom.? And indeed there was a Coca-Cola machine in the subject room.39 But to my knowledge, there is no direct reference in the assassination literature to a second soft drink machine in the Book Depository Building, and in a phone call to Gary Mack, the curator at the Sixth Floor Museum in the building, he told me he was ?unaware? of any other soft drink machine in the building at the time of the assassination.40 What prompted my call to him was not the frequent references in the literature to the Dr. Pepper bottle found on the sixth floor after the shooting,41 since some soft drink machines contain a variety of drinks, but a reference in stock boy Bonnie Ray William?s testimony before the Warren Commission to his getting ?a small bottle of Dr. Pepper from the Dr. Pepper machine,?42 and stock boy Wesley Frazier?s testimony that ?I have seen him [Oswald] go to the Dr. Pepper machine by the refrigerator and get a Dr. Pepper.?43        Neither Williams nor Frazier expressly said what floor this machine was on, and I was aware, from a photo,44 that there was a refrigerator next to the Coca-Cola machine on the second floor. Through a few phone calls I was able to reach Wesley Frazier, whom I hadn?t talked to since 1986, when he testified for me at the London trial. Still living in Dallas, he told me that ?there was a Dr. Pepper machine on the first floor.? Where, specifically, was it? ?It was located by the double freight elevator near the back of the building.? Was there a refrigerator nearby? I asked. ?Oh, yes, right next to it.? (And indeed, I subsequently found proof of the existence of the machine, with the words ?Dr. Pepper? near the top front of it, in an FBI photo taken for the Warren Commission of the northwest corner of the first floor, and it is located right next to the refrigerator.)45        Frazier said that ?almost all the guys would get their drinks for lunch from this Dr. Pepper machine. It mostly had Dr. Pepper, but also other drinks like orange and root beer.? I asked him, ?What about the Coca-Cola machine in the second-floor lunchroom? Did it have other drinks too?? He said it ?only had Coca-Cola in it? and ?the only time anybody would go to that machine is if they wanted a Coke, which I did from time to time.? When I asked him whether or not ?it was rare? for the workers to go to the second floor to get a Coke, he said, ?Yes. We had our own machine on the first floor, where we ate our lunch. It was more convenient to use the machine on the first floor.? Frazier said he could not say whether Oswald ever went to the second floor to get a Coke or ever drank soft drinks other than Dr. Pepper, but ?I only recall seeing him with a Dr. Pepper.?46 Author Jim Bishop, in his book The Day Kennedy Was Shot, writes (without a citation, however) that Oswald ?invariably drank Dr. Pepper.?47 And we know that Marina told her biographer, Priscilla McMillan, that when he was working at Jaggers-Chiles-Stovall in Dallas in 1963, ?after supper? he would walk down the street as he often did ?to buy a newspaper and a bottle of Dr. Pepper.?48        So we see that apart from all the conclusive evidence that Oswald shot Kennedy from the sniper?s nest, and therefore had to have descended from there to the second floor, his story about going up to the second floor to get a Coke doesn?t even make sense. Why go up to the second floor to get a drink for your lunch when there?s a soft drink machine on the first floor, the floor you say you are already on, particularly when the apparent drink of your choice is on this first floor, not the second floor?       

14. There is yet another reason why Oswald?s statement that he was on the first floor eating lunch at the time of the shooting makes no sense at all. If he had been, once he heard the shots and the screaming and all the commotion outside, if he were innocent, what is the likelihood that he would have proceeded to go, as he claims, up to the second floor to get himself a Coke? How could any sensible person believe a story like that?       

15. Though Oswald was probably more politically oriented than all thirteen other warehousemen at the Book Depository Building put together, if we are to believe Oswald?s story, he apparently was the only one who had no interest at all in watching the presidential motorcade go by, either from out on the street or froma window, claiming in one version that he was having lunch on the first floor of the Book Depository Building at the time of the shooting, and in another version that he was working on the sixth floor. Indeed, Oswald, the political animal, was so uninterested in the fact that the most powerful politician on earth had just been shot that he had no inclination to stick around for a few minutes and engage in conversation with his coworkers about the sensational and tragic event. Does that make any sense?       

16. After the shooting in Dealey Plaza, nearly all of the sixteen warehousemen who worked in the Depository Building returned to the building and were present at a roll call of employees. Only Lee Harvey Oswald and Charles Givens were not present; Givens was located shortly thereafter.49 So only Oswald left the building and was unaccounted for. Dallas Morning News reporter Kent Biffle, who was inside the Depository Building, wrote in his journal that day, ?I listened as the building superintendent [Roy Truly] told detectives about Lee Oswald failing to show up at a roll call. My impression is that there was an earlier roll call that had been inconclusive because several employees were missing. This time, however, all were accounted for but Oswald.?50*       

17. After exiting the front door of the Book Depository Building, if Oswald hadn?t just murdered the president but still wanted to go home, he only had to turn left on the sidewalk in front of the building, cross Houston, and wait for the Beckley bus, which stopped at the northeast corner of Houston and Elm.51 This is the same bus that he took every weekday to and from work, picking it up almost directly in front of his rooming house52 and getting off at Houston and Elm, and on the way home getting off diagonally across the street from his rooming house on the northwest corner of the intersection of Beckley and Zangs Boulevard.53        But instead of waiting at the bus stop at Houston and Elm for his Beckley bus, Oswald walked past the bus stop and continued walking east on Elm, apparently wanting to get as far away as he could and looking for the very first Oak Cliff bus that came along, eventually boarding the Marsalis bus, which was proceeding westbound on Elm about seven blocks from the Book Depository Building.54 But the closest the Marsalis bus could possibly take him to where he lived was Marsalis and Fifth Street, requiring him, if he had stayed on the bus, to walk five blocks to the west and one block north to get to his home.55 Why would Oswald take a bus that he knew couldn?t take him closer than a half mile from his home (when he knew the next bus, the Beckley bus, would take him to his front door) if he weren?t in a frenzied flight from the scene of where he had done something terrible?56       

18. When the Marsalis bus he had boarded got snarled in traffic, Oswald got off after just a few blocks, again demonstrating he was in flight from the scene of a crime. Flight, in the criminal law, is always considered circumstantial evidence of a consciousness of guilt.       

19. When Oswald got in the cab shortly after getting off the bus for the trip to Oak Cliff, and the cab drove off, the cabdriver, seeing all the police cars crisscrossing everywhere with their sirens screaming, said to Oswald, ?I wonder what the hell is the uproar?? The cabdriver said Oswald ?never said anything.? Granted, there are people who are very stingy with their words, and this nonresponse by Oswald, by itself, is not conclusive of his guilt. But ask yourself this: If a thousand people were put in Oswald?s place in the cab, particularly if they, like Oswald, were at the scene of the assassination in Dealey Plaza and knew what had happened, how many do you suppose wouldn?t have said one single word in response to the cabby?s question?       

20. Instead of having the cabdriver, William Whaley, drop him off at his residence, 1026 North Beckley, Oswald had him drive directly past his residence and continue on for about almost blocks before dropping him off close to the intersection of Neely and Beckley.57 Since we know Oswald was going home, this was obviously a feeble but incriminating effort to prevent the cabdriver from telling the authorities where the passenger he drove that day lived, and/or Oswald, in driving past his residence, was checking to see if the authorities had zeroed in on him yet. So instead of getting out of the cab in front of his residence, Oswald has the cabdriver, William Whaley, drive right past it. And this is the person who conspiracy theorists believe was as innocent as a newborn baby of the assassination that had taken place about a half hour earlier.       

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21. Oswald entered his rooming house around 1:00 p.m. on the day of the assassination, and per the testimony of the housekeeper, Earlene Roberts, before the Warren Commission, he seemed to be ?walking unusually fast?he was all but running.? When she said to him, ?Oh, you are in a hurry,? he did not respond.58 The first person who interviewed Roberts on the afternoon of the assassination was Dallas Morning News reporter Hugh Aynesworth. Roberts told Aynesworth, ?He came in running like the dickens, and I said to him ?You sure are in a hurry? but he didn?t say anything?just ran in his room, got a short tan coat and ran back out.?59       

22. Oswald picked up his revolver at the rooming house, not a normal thing to do unless he felt he had a need to protect himself in light of some terrible act he had just committed. That he had no nonincriminating reason for getting his revolver was proved by the fact that when police later asked him why he picked up his revolver, he lamely answered, ?You know how boys do when they have a gun, they just carry it.?60       

23. In addition to picking up his revolver at the rooming house, Oswald changed his trousers.61 So Oswald changed his clothing, in the middle of the day, after the assassination.       

24. Forty-five minutes after the shooting in Dealey Plaza, out of the close to three-quarters of a million or so people in Dallas, Lee Harvey Oswald is the one who just happened to murder Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit on Tenth Street near Patton in the Oak Cliff area, only about nine-tenths of a mile from his rooming house. One witness, Helen Markham, identified Oswald in a lineup later in the day as the man she saw shoot Tippit.62 (Years later, the HSCA found another witness, Jack Tatum, who saw Oswald shoot and kill Tippit).63 Another witness, William Scoggins, identified Oswald as the man he saw approachTippit?s car after it pulled up alongside Oswald, who was walking on the sidewalk. He lost sight of Oswald behind some shrubbery, but heard the shots that killed Tippit, saw Tippit fall, and then saw Oswald, with a pistol in his left hand, run away south on Patton Street in the direction of Jefferson Boulevard.64 Another witness, William Smith, heard some shots, looked up, and saw Oswald running west on Tenth Street out of his sight.65 Two other witnesses, Virginia and Barbara Davis, identified Oswald as the man they saw cutting across the front lawn of their apartment house right after they heard the sound of gunfire from the Tippit murder scene and a woman screaming. Oswald had a revolver in his hand and was unloading the shells from his gun on their lawn. They saw Oswald proceed down Patton toward Jefferson Boulevard.66 Four other witnesses (Ted Callaway, Sam Guinyard, B. M. Patterson, and Harold Russell), from their position on two used-car lots at the intersection of Patton and Jefferson, identified Oswald as being the man who, right after the Tippit shooting, ran past them on Patton toward Jefferson Boulevard (where the Texas Theater was located) holding a revolver in his hand.67 Two men who were on one of the lots, Warren Reynolds (the owner of the lot) and Patterson, followed Oswald until they lost him behind a Texaco gasoline station on Jefferson. Mrs. Mary Brock, the wife of a man who worked at the gas station, identified Oswald as the person she saw walk past her, at a fast pace, into the parking lot behind the station.68        One of the canards of the conspiracy theorists that they?ve sold to millions is that there was only one eyewitness to Oswald killing Officer Tippit, Helen Markham, and she wasn?t a strong one. But in addition to Jack Tatum also being an eyewitness to the killing, for all intents and purposes there were eight other eyewitnesses. For instance, with the Davis women, can anyone make the argument that although someone else shot Tippit, it was Oswald who was seen running from the Tippit murder scene with a revolver in his hand unloading shells? And when Scoggins saw Oswald approach Tippit?s car and then lost sight of him for a moment, Tippit?s true killer appeared out of nowhere, shot and killed Tippit, then vanished into thin air, whereupon Scoggins then saw Oswald again, running away from Tippit?s car with a pistol in his hand?        So there were ten witnesses who identified Oswald as the murderer. And we know that the physical evidence was all corroborative of their testimony.        Granted, mistaken identity has resulted in many wrongful convictions. But here, and not counting Mrs. Brock, there were many eyewitnesses who identified Oswald. Show me any other case where ten eyewitnesses were wrong.        I argued to the jury in London that ?Oswald?s responsibility for President Kennedy?s assassination explains, explains why he was driven to murder Officer Tippit. The murder bore the signature of a man,? I argued, ?in desperate flight from some awful deed. What other reason under the moon would he have had to kill Officer Tippit??69* It should be noted that even if we assume just for the sake of argument that Oswald didn?t murder Officer Tippit, then who in the world did? The conspiracy community never says. And although we know why Oswald would have had a reason to kill Tippit, what possible reason would the phantom killer have had?       

25. Within minutes after the murder of Tippit, the manager of a shoe store on Jefferson Boulevard that was located several doors down from the Texas Theater, hearing police sirens on Jefferson and having heard over the radio of the shooting of the president and Officer Tippit, saw a man enter the recessed area of the store off the sidewalk and stand with his back to the street. After the sirens grew fainter, the man looked over his shoulder, turned around, and walked up the street toward the Texas Theater. The shoe store manager positively identified the man as Oswald. Because Oswald?s hair was ?messed up and he looked like he had been running, and he looked scared,? the manager ?thought the guy [Oswald] looked suspicious? and followed Oswald to the theater.70       

26. The cashier at the theater said that Oswald had ?ducked in? to the theater without buying a ticket.71       

27. Responding to a call from the cashier, the police approached Oswald in his seat in the theater. When the lead officer told Oswald to stand up, Oswald rose and said, ?Well, it is all over now.? What else could he have possibly meant by these words other than that he knew the police had been in pursuit of him and were there to arrest him? And how would he have known they were after him if he hadn?t killed Kennedy and/or Tippit?72       

28. After saying, ?It is all over now,? Oswald immediately struck the officer in the face with his left fist and drew his loaded revolver, but he was subdued by other officers after a struggle and placed under arrest.73 If Oswald hadn?t just murdered Kennedy and Tippit, not only wouldn?t he have been likely to have a loaded revolver on him, but there wouldn?t have been any reason for him to draw that revolver on the arresting officer and strike him. Is that what an innocent person normally does when a police officer approaches to arrest him?pull a revolver on the officer and physically resist arrest? Or does he say words to the effect, ?What?s going on? What have I done? Why are you doing this to me??       

29. After Oswald?s arrest at the Texas Theater, he refused to give even his name to the Dallas police officers who captured him.74 As a pretty consistent general rule, when a person is innocent of a crime, he cooperates with law enforcement. 

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30. While being led by Dallas detectives down the hallway of police headquarters on the day of the assassination, Oswald suddenly lifted his manacled right hand in a clenched-fist salute of some nature (see photo section). One would expect an innocent person to have an expression on his face conveying bewilderment or anger or a plea for help. Instead, it?s clear Oswald is making some type of statement by his clenched-fist salute, one closer to that of defiance, satisfaction, even triumph. In no way would he confess to Kennedy?s murder, which would ensure his execution, but by the body language of his clenched fist (for which he would suffer no consequences), he seems to be telling posterity that he did it. If not, ask yourself how many people charged with a murder they did notommit would respond the way Oswald did?with a clenched-fist salute? One out of a thousand? One out of a million?       

31. When asked to, Oswald refused to take a lie detector test.75 By contrast, Ruby volunteered to take one. In view of all the other evidence of Oswald?s guilt, his refusal to take a lie detector test, though certainly not conclusive, goes in the direction of showing a consciousness of guilt on his part.       

32. No one knew Oswald as well as his wife, Marina, and after the assassination, Marina never cooperated with any writer or journalist as much as she did with Priscilla McMillan, who ended up writing the very well-received Marina and Lee, a 659-page anatomy of their life together. Marina told McMillan that when she visited her husband in jail on the day after the assassination, she came away knowing he was guilty. She said she saw the guilt in his eyes. Moreover, she said she knew that had he been innocent, he would have been screaming to high heaven for his ?rights,? claiming he had been mistreated and demanding to see officials at the very highest levels, just as he had always done before over what he perceived to be the slightest maltreatment. For her, the fact that he was so compliant, that he told her he was being treated ?all right,? was an additional sign that he was guilty.76 In Marina?s appearance before the Warren Commission on February 3, 1964, she testified, as she later told McMillan, that when she visited with her husband on November 23 at the jail, ?I could see by his eyes that he was guilty.?77 In her September 6, 1964, testimony before the Warren Commission, she said ?I have no doubt in my mind that Lee Oswald killed President Kennedy.?78        The Physical Evidence               

33. A Mannlicher-Carcano rifle, serial number C2766, was found on the sixth floor of the Book Depository Building shortly after the shooting in Dealey Plaza. Handwriting experts determined that the writing on the purchase order and money order for the rifle was Oswald?s. And the seller shipped the rifle to Oswald?s post office box in Dallas. So Oswald owned the Carcano. Also, photographs taken by Oswald?s wife, Marina, in April of 1963 show Oswald holding the Carcano, and Oswald?s right palm print was found on the underside of the rifle barrel following the assassination.* So we know that Oswald not only owned but possessed the subject rifle.        In the same vein, a tuft of several fresh, dark blue, Gray-black, and orange-yellow cotton fibers was found in a crevice between the butt plate of the Carcano and the wooden stock. The FBI laboratory found that the colors, and even the twist of the fibers, perfectly matched those on the shirt Oswald was wearing at the time of his arrest.79 Though such fibers could theoretically have come from another identical shirt, the prohibitive probability is that they came from Oswald?s shirt.       

34. Firearms identification experts from the Warren Commission and the HSCA concluded that two large bullet fragments found in the presidential limousine were parts of a bullet fired from Oswald?s Carcano rifle to the exclusion of all other weapons. Likewise, the firearms experts found that the whole bullet recovered from a stretcher at Parkland Hospital, believed to be the stretcher Governor Connally was on, was fired from Oswald?s rifle to the exclusion of all other weapons.       

35. Firearms experts determined that the three expended cartridge shells found on the floor beneath the southeasternmost window on the sixth floor of the Book Depository Building were fired in and ejected from Oswald?s Mannlicher-Carcano rifle to the exclusion of all other weapons.?        So we know, not just beyond a reasonable doubt, but beyond all doubt, that Oswald?s rifle was the murder weapon, the weapon that fired the bullets that struck down the thirty-fifth president of the United States. If there were no other evidence against Oswald, the fact that the murder weapon belonged to him, and that there was no evidence or even likelihood that anyone else had come into possession of the weapon, would be devastating evidence of his guilt.        But likewise, it should be realized that even if, hypothetically, Oswald had succeeded in secreting his weapon and law enforcement never found it, and hence, the murder weapon could never be connected to him, as can be seen from all the preceding pages and those that follow, the evidence against him would still be much more than enough to prove his guilt beyond all doubt. Convictions are secured every day without the prosecution finding the murder weapon.       

36. A large brown handmade bag of wrapping paper and tape of the appropriate size to contain Oswald?s disassembled Carcano rifle, undoubtedly the bag Wesley Frazier saw Oswald carry into the Book Depository Building on the morning of the assassination, was found inside the sniper?s nest on the sixth floor close to the three cartridge cases ejected from Oswald?s rifle. Oswald?s left index fingerprint and right palm print were found on the bag.80       

37. Oswald?s left palm print and right index fingerprint were found on top of a book carton next to the windowsill of the southeasternmost window on the sixth floor of the Book Depository Building. The carton appeared to have been arranged as a convenient gun rest. Both prints were pointing in a southwesterly direction, the same direction the presidential limousine was proceeding down Elm Street.81 A print of his right palm was found on top of the northwest corner of another carton just to the rear of the gunrest carton.82       

38. The revolver in Oswald?s possession at the time of his arrest at the Texas Theater was a Smith & Wesson .38 Special caliber revolver, serial number V510210. Handwriting experts found that the mail-order coupon for the revolver contained the handwriting of Lee Harvey Oswald, and the seller of the revolver sent it to Oswald?s post office box in Dallas.       

39. Four bullets were recovered from the body of Officer Tippit. A firearms identification expert for the Warren Commission concluded that one of the four bullets was fired from Oswald?s revolver to the exclusion of all other weapons, and another expert acknowledged that all four bullets ?could have been? fired from the revolver, since the bullets recovered from Tippit had the same general characteristic as those test-fired from Oswald?s revolver?five lands and grooves (including the same width of the lands and grooves) with a right twist. (Recall thatthe bullets were .38 Special bullets, not .38 Smith & Wesson bullets, and the barrel of Oswald?s revolver was slightly oversized for such a bullet. Therefore, during the passage of these slightly smaller bullets through the barrel, the barrel did not clearly imprint its signature striations or markings on the sides of the bullets to enable a positive identification.)       

40. Four expended cartridge cases were found near the site of the Tippit killing. Firearms experts from the Warren Commission and the HSCA concluded that all four were fired in and ejected from Oswald?s Smith & Wesson revolver to the exclusion of all other weapons. At the time of his arrest, then, Oswald owned and had in his possession the revolver used to kill Tippit. Also at the time of his arrest, he was carrying in one of his pockets five live .38 Special cartridges.*        So we know that not only was Oswald the owner and possessor of the rifle that killed Kennedy, but he was also the owner and possessor of the revolver that killed Tippit. In a city of more than 700,000 people, what is the probability of one of them being the owner and possessor of the weapons that murdered both Kennedy and Tippit, and yet still be innocent of both murders? Aren?t we talking about DNA numbers here, like one out of several billion or trillion? Is there a mathematician in the house?       

41. Dallas police performed a paraffin test on Oswald?s hands at the time of his interrogation to determine if he had recently fired a revolver, and the results were positive, indicating the presence of nitrates from gunpowder residue on his hands.83       

42. When Oswald left the Book Depository Building within minutes after the shooting in Dealey Plaza, he left his blue jacket behind, the jacket being found on December 6, 1963, in a depressed area beneath the windowsill in the domino room on the first floor.84 Marina Oswald identified the jacket as one of two he owned, the other being a light-colored Gray jacket.85 Several brown head hairs found inside the blue jacket had the same microscopic characteristics as a sample of hair taken from Oswald.86 Leaving one?s jacket behind, particularly where Oswald did, can only go in the direction?though certainly not conclusively?of a consciousness of guilt, not innocence.       

43. When Oswald left his rooming house around 1:00 p.m. on the day of the assassination, the housekeeper noticed that he was zipping up his jacket, which he had not been wearing a few minutes earlier when he arrived at the rooming house. When he was arrested around forty-five minutes later, he did not have a jacket. Shortly after Tippit?s murder and after Oswald was seen running toward the rear of a Texaco gas station on Jefferson Boulevard, police found a light-colored jacket with a zipper under one of the cars in the parking lot behind the gas station. The last time anyone saw Oswald before he appeared near the Texas Theater was when Mary Brock, the wife of an employee at the gas station, saw him, wearing a light-colored jacket, walk past her into the parking lot at a fast pace.87 Marina Oswald later identified the jacket as being the second one her husband owned.88 What is additionally damning to Oswald is that the jacket was found along the path (from Tenth and Patton, south on Patton to Jefferson, then right or west on Jefferson, with a slight detour behind the gas station, then on to the Texas Theater) we know the murderer of Officer Tippit took after the slaying. Finally, dark blue, Gray-black, and orange-yellow cotton fibers were found in the inside areas of the sleeves of the jacket, and their microscopic characteristics matched those of the dark blue, Gray-black, and orange-yellow cotton fibers composing the brownish shirt that Oswald was wearing at the time of his arrest.89       

44. Oswald?s clipboard was found on the sixth floor after the assassination. Three orders for Scott, Foresman & Company books were on the clipboard, all dated November 22, 1963. Oswald had not filled any of the orders.90       

Oswald?s Own Words during His Interrogation             
I told the jury in London that during his interrogation, ?Oswald, from his own lips, told us he was guilty. Almost the same as if he had said, ?I murdered President Kennedy.? How did he tell us? Well, the lies he told, one after another, showed an unmistakable consciousness of guilt.?91 Oswald tried very hard to lie his way out of the quickly developing evidence against him. Let?s look at some of the more important lies he told, each of which, alone and by itself, is evidence of his guilt because if he were innocent, he wouldn?t have had any reason to tell even one of the lies. More often than not in a criminal case, the means a criminal employs to conceal his guilt (here, Oswald?s words) are the precise means that reveal his culpability.       

45. Oswald lied when he denied purchasing the Carcano rifle from Klein?s Sporting Goods Company in Chicago. He even denied owning any rifle at all.92 Since Oswald knew he had killed Kennedy with that Carcano rifle, he knew he had no choice but to deny that the rifle was his. (It?s interesting to note that although Oswald himself knew the obvious, that ownership of the murder weapon was tantamount to identifying himself as Kennedy?s killer, his countless defenders in the conspiracy community apparently do not realize this.)       

46. When Oswald was shown a backyard photograph of himself holding the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle, he lied and said it was not he holding the rifle, that someone had superimposed his face on someone else?s body.93       

47. He also lied when he said he had never seen the photograph before, even though handwriting experts concluded it was Oswald?s handwriting on the back of a copy of the photograph that was found among the personal effects of a friend of Oswald?s who later died.94       

48. Oswald consciously tried to distance himself from the murder weapon so much that he apparently even went to the following extreme: He and Marina and their daughter June lived at the apartment on Elsbeth Street in Dallas for exactly four months (November 3, 1962, to March 3, 1963),95 and then moved to the apartment on Neely Street for close to two months (March 3, 1963, to April 24, 1963).96 However, when he was asked to furnish all of his previous residences since his return from Russia, and the approximate time he lived at each, he gave all of them (including his residences in Fort Worth and New Orleans) with one notable exception. He omitted any reference to the Neely residence, the residence, of course, where he knew his wife had photographed him with the murder weapon in the backyard. He cleverly accounted for the close to two months at Neely bysaying he lived seven months (not the actual four) at Elsbeth.97 And when Captain Fritz, during his interrogation of Oswald, asked Oswald about the Neely address, Oswald flat-out denied ever living there.98 All of this, of course, shows a consciousness of guilt on Oswald?s part.       

49. Oswald denied telling Wesley Frazier that the reason he came to Irving on Thursday night was to get curtain rods for his Dallas apartment.99       

50. He also denied putting any kind of long package or bag on the backseat of Frazier?s car on the morning of the assassination, saying he only brought a cheese sandwich and some fruit to work with him. But unfortunately for Oswald, not only did Frazier see him put the long package in the car, but Frazier?s sister, Linnie Mae Randle, also saw him put such a package in the car.100 Oswald also denied carrying any long package or bag into the Book Depository Building, which Frazier saw him do.101 He also denied telling Frazier that curtain rods were inside the large bag.102        Warren Commission critics and defenders of Oswald have always steadfastly maintained that the brown paper bag was too short to contain even a disassembled Carcano. But if the Carcano was not in the bag that Frazier and his sister, Linnie Mae Randle, saw Oswald place in the backseat, and something nonincriminating was, instead of lying and saying he never placed a large bag or any other bag on the backseat, why didn?t Oswald admit placing the bag there and simply tell Captain Fritz what was in the bag? To put it succinctly, if Oswald?s rifle wasn?t in that bag, he wouldn?t have had any reason to lie and say that he did not put the bag on the backseat of Frazier?s car and did not carry it into the building that day.       

51. Oswald told Fritz that the only thing he brought to work on the morning of the assassination was his lunch, but we know from Frazier that this was the only day he noticed that Oswald did not bring his lunch.103       

52. Oswald told Fritz that at the time the president was shot, he was having lunch on the first floor with ?Junior? (James Jarman Jr.) and another employee he did not identify, but Jarman testified that he did not have lunch with Oswald, that he ate alone.104       

53. Oswald told Fritz he had bought his .38 caliber Smith & Wesson revolver in Fort Worth,105 when he actually purchased it from a mail-order house in Los Angeles.106

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even a lie can contain 80% truth as the expression goes . meaning that even when a person blatantly lies they still probably have a lot of truth (or atleast in the case of jfk have a lot of the OFFICIAL line ) in their lie . one thing we will learn on this forum and in these posts is that what is the truth and what the official line or conclusions state can be very different things . because bugliosi or another person like him cites the official line that doesnt mean they are telling you the truth or the whole truth .

another interesting comment by another was that distortion is the sister of omission . a crafty person can try to deceive by INTENTIONALLY omitting (not mentioning) information that they feel or know will harm their argument . this is an instance when intentionally not mentioning something they know will hurt them is used as an advantage . and such deception to a dishonest person can be as good as a lie IF NOT BETTER , because if caught in a lie their dishonesty is proven , by omitting they can simply say THEY FORGOT to mention something . when it comes to jfk and his assassination we need to be aware of both deceptions .

the truth doesnt require distortion or omission , and it certainly doesnt require lies , the truth is all that is required UNLESS ONE IS AFRAID OF THE TRUTH .

LIES: lies should be self explanatory .
DISTORTION: in this case to twist the truth or facts into something they are not or never were .
OMISSION: to omit , failure to mention vital information and facts intentionally .

we will take a look at the above 53 pieces of evidence against oswald , yes some of the above is factual , some is a distortion , in some cases there are serious omissions , and yes there are also lies . anyone can make an error or be misinformed or claim something untrue due to poor or no research . bugliosi conducted 22 years of research , he also had jfk authors ghost writing for him such as dale myers . he had access to much information in those 22 years from multiple commissions including the ARRB that other previous authors in the 60s and 70s (such as thompson and weisberg ) did not . so lets look at bugliosis 53 .

now if i dont mention any of the 53 its because i feel they are reasonably accurate .


1. Whenever Oswald had Wesley Frazier drive him out to visit his wife and daughters at the Paine residence in Irving, he?d go on a Friday evening and return to Dallas on Monday morning. The assassination was on Friday, November 22, 1963. For the very first time, Oswald went to Irving with Frazier on Thursday evening, November 21, obviously to pick up his Mannlicher-Carcano rifle for the following day.   


so this is the LN (lone nut advocate) line where they say oswald had a routine and on november 21 he broke that routine . well the routine LNs say oswald had was JUST OVER A 6 WEEK PERIOD MAX . thats all the time he worked in the depository , so its not oswalds regular routine , as much as what he did or did not do in a small 6 week period .

in fact in the 6 week period that oswald worked in the depository contrary to what bugliosi said oswalds "routine" changed atleast 3 times . bugliosi asserts basically that oswald only did something different on thursday november 22 by going home to irving on thursday instead of friday .

in fact the previous week oswald never went home to irving at all . and a week or two before that he changed his "routine" again for veterans day . so atleast 3 weeks out of the 6 weeks he worked in the depository oswald did something different in regards irving .

so what do we know about thursday november 21 ? . well the week prior to that oswald and marina argued , thats why he didnt go home to irving the previous weekend . he spent much of thurday november 21 trying to reconcile with marina after the argument they had had , and she decided to be hard on him . marina is an LN star witnesses and she said this in testimony .

LNs make a lot of wes fraziers claim about curtain rods , that he said oswald mentioned that he was going to collect some at irving . of course they make this in to a big lie so as to incriminate oswald . im neither trying to incriminate or exonerate , in all my posts here not once did i say oswald was innocent and i wont if i cant prove it . i just want the truth and to get it out there . we know oswald spent the evening trying to reconcile with marina after what must have been a bad argument seeing as how he didnt go home the week prior , is it unreasonable to assert that oswald (known for being quiet and keeping to himself ) didnt want to tell frazier his marriage was rocky and that he had to go home to try and save it ? . and that he may have given frazier a false reason such as curtain rods ? . this bit is of course speculation as only two people were in the car that evening frazier and oswald and oswald isnt here to contradict him . but as mr bugliosi himself used speculation i see no reason why i cant use a bit .

"Oswald went to Irving with Frazier on Thursday evening, November 21, obviously to pick up his Mannlicher-Carcano rifle for the following day." bugliosi

the above is of course pure speculation . both frazier and his sister said the the package oswald had was 24 inches give or take the odd inch . the carcano rifle EVEN WHEN BROKEN DOWN IN TO PIECES was 36 inches (3 feet long ) . and a witness insider the depository building that morning , just inside the door , and who saw oswald walk in the door said HE WAS SURE that oswald wasnt carrying the 3 foot long , 12 inches wide atleast , and several inches deep package that the warren commission claimed he carried . the rifle was supposedly ordered under the name hidell and delivered to a post office box in which mail COULD NOT be received under that name . the post office box as with the rifle deserve their own threads .