A short post for the conspiracy naysayers.

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228. Depends on what getting away means.

He did get away from the scene of his crime, but he was ultimately captured within 1.5 hours.

Oswald was a nut, and not necessarily the smart kind of nut. Why didn't he bring his revolver with him to work that day? Anybody with a bit of brains would bring the revolver in case they needed to shoot their way out of the TSBD. But not Oswald. He took the bus back to his place to pick up his revolver. Then, rather than laying low, he starts walking the streets, encounters and kills Officer Tippett in front of about 10 witnesses (two who saw the entire shooting and others who saw him fleeing the scene, gun in hand, ejecting spent shells as he ran). Even after he successfully fled the TSBD, he had no ability to think of the next step in avoiding capture.

All of which points to the fact that this was a crime of opportunity for Oswald. He really didn't spend a lot of time planning anything but the shooting. And the fact is, the "person" of his target didn't matter. All he was concerned about was that it was somebody famous, and JFK was famous. Earlier, he took a shot at another almost-famous person, Gen Walker.

When you think about it, Oswald's entire life was his lurching from one ill-considered or not-considered situation to the next, and never with any plan or thought for what Step 2 would be after Step 1.