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In reply to the discussion: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy believed President Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy. [View all]stopbush
(24,393 posts)BTW - what do you think about the many provable lies your hero Oswald told to the police, the FBI etc during his short time in custody? Do innocent people tell lie after easily provable lie when asked simple questions?
Why did Oswald deny to police that he ever owned a rifle? He knew that to be a lie. He knew that he had had Marina take pictures of him holding the rifle. He knew he had ordered the rifle through the mail, using a fake name (A Hidell). Why not answer, "sure I own a rifle. Who in Texas doesn't own a rifle?" Instead, he tells an obvious lie.
When confronted with the photographic evidence of him holding the rifle, why did he lie and say the photos were faked? He knew they weren't faked, a truth that was fully proven when one of the photos taken was discovered 14 years after the assassination, a photo that Oswald had signed on the back?
Why deny that he sometimes used the alias A Hidell? He knew that the post office box that bore that alias was actually registered to his real name.
Why deny telling Wesley Frazier that he was carrying curtain rods to work?
Why tell the press, "I was denied counsel during that very short and sweet hearing," when he was never denied counsel? In fact, he had called Ruth Paine and asked her to contact a specific lawyer in NYC.
Why tell the press, "I didn't shoot anybody; no sir," when the reason he was tracked down so quickly was because multiple witnesses saw him kill Officer Tippett? Surely he noticed the people standing there watching as he killed Tippet. Did he think none of them would ID him?
There are more Oswald lies as well. Suspects who tell lie after lie when there is no reason to do so are easily tripped up and caught in their own web of lies by trained interrogators, as was Oswald.
So why did your hero feel the need to lie?