25-10-2015, 09:16 PM
Drew Phipps Wrote:You also should mention the angry mob outside, who also didn't ride with the officers, yet somehow had time to collect there and holler for a lynchin'.
You discount this possibility: someone might have actually wanted Oswald to escape, to subsequently be captured or killed in a more "incriminating" location (on his way to Cuba, perhaps?). Tippet might have had second thoughts, if his "job" was to help Oswald escape.
True. However the evidence indicates there were two Oswalds in the theater. One was wearing a brown shirt, he's the one who was sitting on the main floor, he's the one who got arrested (I'll call him the "real Oswald"). Then there was another one, who was wearing a white shirt, and he was up in the balcony (I'll call the white-shirted one the "decoy", for lack of a better term and for the purpose of discussion).
The evidence I'm aware of says, Butch Burroughs saw the real brown-shirted Oswald enter the theater at 1:06 or 1:07, he paid for his ticket like any ordinary customer, and then sat down near a succession of other theatergoers, each one just briefly, as if he was looking for someone.
Whereas, the white-shirted decoy is the one who was seen by Julia Postal and by Butch Burroughs running up the stairs from the ticket taker directly up to the balcony. This may or may not have been the same person seen by the witnesses at the Tippit shooting, who also say the shooter was wearing a white shirt.
The real brown-shirted Oswald gets involved in the scuffle on the main floor, and is thereafter taken out the front of the theater, whereas the white-shirted decoy is taken out the back of the theater and placed in a police car and driven away.
We then have the further complication of the Wes Wise story and the '57 Plymouth with PP4537 plates, which was seen being driven by someone who closely resembled the white shirted decoy. And, the whole point here, is that the white shirted decoy was the spitting image of the real Oswald. Six different witnesses use the term "identical twin" to describe the white-shirted decoy as he relates to Oswald, .... they look "identical", impossible to tell apart, at least from any distance...
So what he have here, it seems to me, is two competing theories. The first theory says, the Tippit shooting was a mistake, that he screwed up somehow or refused to obey orders or "something" happened to where he had to be killed by his minder(s). The second theory says that the Tippit shooting was an essential part of the frame of Oswald, that it was planned in advance and that subsequent events were planned around the success of the Tippit outcome.