Sean Murphy's research deserves more

[Marc Ellis]

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.

He wasn't behaving like a shooter would have behaved IMO. He seemed to be aware of what had happened. He was waiting for something, instructions, a ride, a chance to leave for a rendezevous, or perhaps merely for a certain aount of time to pass. Something might have gone wrong. Or maybe he had a scheduled meet-up somewhere.

Looks like Sean's man is buttoning up his sleeves before getting back to work with the rest of them,
(or okay opening a can of... kick ass).

But, if Oswald is really that innocent about what's going on around him (doesn't even find it significant that the President has been shot outside his workplace), then he really should have been hanging around the TSBD for another half-hour to hour like a normal employee.

Oswald's actions after the assassination indicate someone who either played a minor role in the plot, or someone who has just realized that he's been set up (by people he knows) and he'd better escape.

Both, I think - especially the latter. BUT...the plotters could not have planned for LHO to be arrested. So they would not have deliberately abandoned him. There would have been no need for Jack Ruby if they had.

BTW, I thought Summers did a good job on the TSBD & Oswald's whereabouts during and immediately after the shooting. Wherever Oswald was, he was not on the sixth floor. But I cannot decipher anything from the images in this thread.