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The Two Faces of Lee Harvey Oswald

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My review is on the comments made specifically from David R Von Pein. Number one JFK was late & 10 min before the motorcade arrived, Lee Harvey Oswald was seen eating in the lunch room on the 2nd floor. 90 seconds after the last shot Officer Marion Baker spotted Oswald in the same room drinking a coke, calm & not aggitated. There were 3 shells on the 6th floor, although one had a dent in it. But the 1st rifle found was a German Mauser 7.5 not the Manlicer. This was found & verified by 3 deputy sherrifs, one who had a sporting goods store, all three very familar with rifles. Oswald's rifle was not even tested to see if it had been fired that day. There were no nitrates on his face from the paraffin tests, but some on his hands which could have come from the ink in the boxes. Meaning he did not fire a rifle that day, unless he was wearing a plastic mask. The bag found before the FBI destroyed it & made a new one was not long enough to carry a Manlicer Carcano even broken down. The palm print on the rifle was not found byt the FBI, & was not found until after OSwalds death. If you look at the Zapruder film, as JFK comes out from the sign, there is a splinter on the windshield just below the mirror proving a frontal shot as all the doctors at Parkland stated he received in his neck. Several reporters stated that there was a bullet hole in the windshield the size of a #2 pencil. My brother is a police investigator with over 30yrs experience including Army Intel & told me while at the book depository that there is a live oak tree just past the one it was said he couldn't have made the 1st shot at that time. He told me that between the two trees 3 shots could not have been shot even with an automatic rifle. If you look at the autopsy photo you can see a bullet hole above the right temple, Fr Huber who gave JFK the last rites stated that there was a bullet hole in his right temple. You have to be a moron to not realize that the last shot was a frontal shot, I don't care about fantasies like jet wash effect. I have talked to several police officers including my brother that state there is no way a body is going to move violently towards the shot period. I have studied the assassination for over 20yrs (I was 12 when JFK was shot) & I took a college course on it, in where I already knew 90% of what the professor was teaching. Oswald could not have made it to the 2nd floor in time to be found by police in the 90 seconds that passed. Having 1st crossed the room zig-zag around many boxes, whipped the rifle (all while his heart is beating like crazy - hopefully he won't get caught), run down the stairs, pass two women who do not see anyone & be on the 2nd floor drinking a coke cool & collected instead of making it out the building so he couldn't get caught. The whole case against him is ridiculous. The rifle had to be fitted with shims because the FBI couldn't fire it accurately. Not one of the professional riflemen duplicated what Oswald was accused of. They fired at stationary targets 30 ft down below not moving targets over 60 ft down & going away from them. Not one of them hit their targets in the neck & head area. You have to be a real moron to believe what the FBI & the Warren Commission accused Oswald of.

Fleming has written a dramatic and partial account of the assassinaton from Oswald's eyes. As such don't expect this book to dwell too long on the whys and wherefores of the number of bullets, the grassy knoll etc etc But taken as a piece of drama this is one of the best alternative accounts of the JFK Assassination that exists in print today. Steadily paced, Fleming perfectly captures the pandemonium of the Dallas Police Department in the days following the assassination - and while some might criticise Fleming's basic premise (that Oswald was a patsy) as a piece of drama it can't be faulted is deserving of the highest praise. What are you waiting for screenwriters?

This is a superb piece of writing, looking at the assassination through the eyes of Oswald, desparately trying to find a way out of the situation he is in up to his neck and the water is rising.

OK this is written as fiction, but there is the bonus in knowing that maybe, just maybe Oswald wasn't the 'lone nut'( Which I don't believe by the way)and he was part of a big larger conspiracy with Ferrie a pivotal player.

Excellent!

While this book offers some interesting speculation into Oswald's final days, it is difficult to give a great deal of credence to a Kennedy Assassination book that misspells "Dealey" Plaza.

President John F. Kennedy was killed on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. That seems to be about the only fact surrounding the assassination that the "CTers" (Conspiracy Theorists) and "LNers" ('Lone Nut' advocates) can readily get together and agree on.

But, based on ALL the evidence in total, this case does indeed indicate that Lee Harvey Oswald was firing from his sixth-floor Sniper's Perch in the Texas School Book Depository Building (TSBD), despite attempts in various pro-conspiracy books to 'prove' otherwise (including this 343-page volume by Glenn B. Fleming, "The Two Faces Of Lee Harvey Oswald").

The evidence in its entirety, in my opinion, also indicates that Oswald was the only person firing a weapon at President Kennedy's motorcade that Friday afternoon in 1963.

So MUCH added manipulation of the existing evidence would have been required in the type of cover-up plot that many/most conspiracy theorists seem to think did occur (including either physically altering JFK's wounds and/or faking several photographs and X-rays) -- all without any non-plotters "getting wise" and blowing the plan all to pieces -- that it would have been virtually impossible in the "real world" in which we reside for such a covert conspiracy and cover-up to have been pulled off successfully, IMO.

Many conspiracists seem to feel that much (if not MOST) of the evidence against Oswald has been somehow tampered with, and that Oswald was just what he said he was after being arrested -- a "Patsy".

Just THINK about the logic of that CT assertion for a moment. Is it truly REASONABLE to believe that the MAJORITY of the evidence linking ONLY Oswald to the crime (plus the J.D. Tippit murder too don't forget) was "planted or manipulated" by evil-doers?

Has ALL of the following evidence been "faked", "forged", "manipulated", "fabricated", and/or "planted" -- in order to implicate a completely-innocent "Patsy" named Oswald? ........

>> Oswald's very own rifle being found where it was (on 6th Floor of TSBD);
>> Oswald's fingerprints being on the homemade paper bag found in the "Sniper's Nest";
>> The three spent rifle hulls below the window where witnesses saw a man resembling Oswald firing a rifle at the motorcade below;
>> Witness Howard Brennan positively identifying Oswald as the man firing a rifle at the President;
>> More than 10 witnesses at the Tippit murder scene IDing Oswald as Tippit's killer (or watching him flee immediately afterward);
>> No other bullet traces other than those from Oswald's weaponry found anywhere near the scene of the crimes (JFK's or Tippit's);
>> Oswald bringing a bulky (non-lunch) bag to work on 11/22;
>> The vast majority of witnesses hearing shots that came ONLY from BEHIND President Kennedy's limousine and the vast majority hearing ONLY THREE SHOTS;
>> Oswald tells multiple lies to police after he was arrested;
>> The autopsy photos & X-rays (which show no signs of any frontal shooter having hit President Kennedy);
>> No whole bullets left inside JFK's neck/back;
>> The so-called "Magic Bullet" ("CE399") linked to both Oswald's Carcano rifle and one victim (Governor John Connally);
>> No bullets left inside Connally's body (if bullet #CE399 didn't cause Connally's wounds, then WHERE on Earth did the REAL bullet that struck Connally vanish to?!);
>> And the BIGGIE ......

...... How on Earth did the multiple shooters somehow manage to perfectly mimic the "SBT" (Single-Bullet Theory) using three rifles and three separate shots, so that these bullet holes ALL somehow lined up to fool the Warren Commission panel (and later investigations as well) into believing these THREE separate shots were all caused by just one shot from Oswald's rifle?

And not only that -- In ADDITION to making sure (incredibly) that these multiple wounds on TWO victims "lined up" in accordance to what could be later deemed just a SINGLE shot -- these amazing shooters in Dealey Plaza ALSO had to perfectly synchronize their shots to make it SEEM like the THREE shots were being fired into the two bodies AT THE EXACT SAME TIME (this, of course, is necessary for the timing of the SBT to be correct, so as to "fool" Arlen Specter and Company even more).

Who's buying this nonsensical bill of goods?

Because LACKING a SBT, the CTers have NO choice but to accept the above preposterous piece of CT fiction re. THREE shots that would have to REPLACE the one SBT bullet.*

* = Unless you want to believe in a SBT variation, and have the bullet go through JFK and then into the back seat of the limo instead of into Mr. Connally's body. But this, too, requires STILL MORE "manipulation" and "covering up" of the true evidence (on top of the laundry list above). Because in that scenario, the bullet would need to be recovered from the limo's seats and disposed of promptly before any non-conspirators see it. AND, the hole(s) in the limousine caused by this missile would need to be eradicated immediately, to make it look like the bullet never struck the limo's interior.

Reasonable cloak-and-dagger conclusions? I vote: No. They are not "reasonable" conclusions at all.

An excerpt from the "Editorial Reviews" for this book says..........

>>> "LEE HARVEY OSWALD: NUT. No-one, be it The Warren Commission, The House Select Committee on Assassinations, the U.S. Secret Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or the Dallas Police Department, has ever proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Lee Oswald was in that window, with that rifle, at that time, on that day." <<<

The above passage couldn't BE more incorrect (IMHO). .....

These are the facts:

1.) It was Oswald's OWN rifle found on the School Book Depository's 6th Floor.
2.) Three bullet cartridges were found below the sniper's window, which were traced to Oswald's Mannlicher-Carcano rifle.
3.) Oswald's palmprint was on the rifle found on the 6th Floor.
4.) Oswald's fingerprints were found on the empty paper sack found on the 6th Floor (INSIDE the bowels of the "Sniper's Nest").
5.) Oswald's fingerprints were on two of the boxes located INSIDE the "Sniper's Nest".
6.) Oswald was seen by fellow TSBD employees on the sixth floor approx. 35 minutes prior to the assassination. (This particular point doesn't place him in the window with a gun at precisely 12:30 PM; but it DOES place him on the "Floor of Death" a short time before the shooting occurred.)
7.) Oswald had a Depository elevator "sent back up" to him on the 6th Floor after other employees went downstairs for lunch.
8.) Oswald was seen carrying a bulky-looking package into work on the morning of November 22nd.
9.) Oswald was positively identified as the man Howard Brennan saw shooting at the President from a 6th-Floor TSBD window.**

** = And regarding the theory that Brennan's description of Oswald was completely "influenced" by Brennan having seen Oswald on TV prior to making his positive ID of Oswald -- I'd submit this: Brennan's INITIAL description of the assassin in the Depository window -- which was given to police just minutes after the shooting and well BEFORE Brennan had ever seen Lee Oswald on TV or in newspapers -- very closely matched Oswald.

In addition to Brennan, there are also the eyewitness accounts of Robert Edwards and Ronald Fischer, who both saw a man who almost perfectly matched Oswald's description in the same Depository window just minutes prior to the assassination.

The CTers must think that it's just a coincidence, then, that the gunman in the TSBD looked VERY MUCH like Oswald (but, per CTers, really WASN'T Oswald -- just another of the many "Oswald Look-alikes" that have popped up over the years I guess).

It was either another in an amazing string of coincidences for the plotters that linked ONLY Lee Oswald to the crime, or it was mighty convenient for the conspirators to have had a perfect "Oswald Imposter/Look-alike" on their "Assassin Payroll", which enabled these conspirators to place a good shooter in that Depository window who JUST HAPPENED to very closely resemble Mr. Oswald. (Yeah, right.)

The physical evidence, the eyewitness accounts, and the massive circumstantial evidence against Oswald are undeniable in my considered view (including Oswald's behavior and actions after the JFK killing, which ALL point irresistibly toward Oswald's guilt in the Kennedy murder).

Plus the fact that Oswald told lie after provable lie to the various authorities that interviewed him following his apprehension for the Tippit slaying. And the fact that Oswald had no verifiable alibi to account for his whereabouts at the time President Kennedy was being murdered on Elm Street directly in front of Oswald's place of employment. Not one person is known to have seen Oswald during the time the shooting occurred at 12:30 PM on 11/22.

ALL of this evidence against Oswald -- in my mind -- easily indicates, beyond any and all REASONABLE doubt, that Lee Harvey Oswald was guilty of two murders in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963.