10 Facts About Lee Oswald That 70% of Americans Must Not Understand

[nyquil_man]

81. I've always wondered, too,

if Oswald would have fled the building were it not for that encounter with Marrion Baker on the second floor. Running away the way he did only implicated him further. His decision making in general strikes me as very ad hoc; having decided on the central action, he simply improvised the rest. That's why he couldn't keep his stories straight.

Certainly, Ruby's shooting of Oswald throws everything into chaos. I think it was Jim Leavelle who said that Ruby did nobody any favors that morning, which is the epitome of understatement. I can't see it as anything but a spontaneous act, though. Ruby fancied himself an insider and liked to dish; he even told one of his acquaintances that Oswald looked a little like Paul Newman, which strikes me as a fairly impassive opinion of the man he's going to kill in less than 36 hours. He may have had generic thoughts ("somebody ought to kill that bastard&quot , but something clicked in that moment in the basement.