Sean Murphy's research deserves more

[Marlene Zenker]

The bigger problem I have with this theory is that it means the plotters were't controlling their patsy at all (telling him to wait for a phone call in the first floor warehouse, for example). Which means he could have been standing out there on Elm Street captured by half the photographers that day.

Right. Good point. There's a huge contrast between Fetzer's micromanagement of the assassination in the Plaza and those same managers allowing Oswald to wander out front during the shooting. Truth is they got him into the lunch room where he would be out of the way of everything.

I think one of the most interesting questions, which after 50 years we can't answer with certainty, is what the hell did Oswald think was going on? His behavior after the assassination while still in the TSBD is strange to say the least. He either is outside and goes back in to get a Coke, not the first thing most people would do after what just happened, or he is in the lunchroom and doesn't go outside like any normal curious person would do or maybe he does (ala Prayer Man). He tells the police that he left because he didn't think there would be anymore work that day. (ok, he needed to tell them something about why he left so quickly after the assassination). Another interesting thing, assuming more than one Oswald, he says he took the bus and a cab though he doesn't admit to the cab at first, so he knows there is another Oswald and he is privy to the cover story. Hell, many if not most researchers at this point don't think he took either. When he is questioned about getting into a car he assumes they are talking about Ruth Paine's car. Why would she or anyone using her car be there to begin with if Oswald has no idea what is going on?

So many questions, so few answers.