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In reply to the discussion: Why has the JFK anniversary meant a push to get total buy-in on the Warren Report? [View all]Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)Anyone who objectively examines the actual evidence (not the distortions and omissions of the evidence presented by various conspiracy theorists) can only reach one conclusion; it was Oswald, and he was acting alone.
Fact: Multiple eyewitnesses saw a rifle protruding from the 6th floor window of the TSBD. Multiple eyewitnesses saw a man fitting the description of Lee Oswald in that window in the minutes just before the assassination; several people saw a man with a rifle in that window at the time of the assassination, one saw Oswald clearly enough that his description went out over the police radio.
Fact: Oswald's rifle was discovered on the 6th floor, along with three spent cartridges.
Fact: Oswald shot and killed Patrolman JD Tippit.
Fact: the revolver Oswald used to kill Tippit was in his possession when he was arrested.
Fact: Oswald's palmprint was found on the rifle, in such a location that it has to've occurred when the weapon was partly disassembled.
Fact: Bullet fragments from JFK's head wound, and the intact bullet from Connally's stretcher, match Oswald's rifle, to the exclusion of all other weapons. Cartridge cases recovered from the Tippit murder scene, and at least one of the bullets recovered from Tippit's body, match Oswald's pistol, to the exclusion of all other weapons.
Fact: Oswald had obtained the job working at the TSBD only seven weeks before, after being told they were hiring by Ruth Paine (the woman his wife Marina was teaching Russian to).
Fact: Kennedy's Dallas motorcade route wasn't chosen until 14 November and not finalised until 18 November (see here)
All of this very much points to Oswald as the only shooter, and also leads to the conclusion that chance and happenstance put him in a position to do it, not some sinister conspiracy.