Did Captain Westbrook Watch Tippit's Murder?

[Jim Hargrove]

The problem with John's conclusion is that it becomes a cul-de-sac for investigation, ultimately yielding no valuable conclusion as to who was impersonating Oswald, and why; and we know from time to time it did happen. The fact that the impostor knew a great deal about Oswald should help us identify them; the more the impostor knows, the smaller a circle of people it could be. If someone was impersonating Oswald in preparation for the assassination, that should lead us directly to the conspirators - but it won't, if we just conclude that there were two of them, and then construct an elaborate scenario around that conclusion.

But the Terrible Twosome do lead directly to the conspirators! Mata Hari had a double. Two of Castro's top intelligence agents were twins. Allen Dulles wrote fondly about the use of doubles in spycraft. The Two Oswalds throughout a four or five year period were either spying or circulating among intelligence assets. "The Oswald Project," as CIA's Wilcott referred to it, pointed directly at American intelligence. That was surely the real state secret of the Kennedy assassination.

How many times does someone have to be impersonated before you begin to consider alternative explanations? Laura Kittrell described the similarities and differences of the two Oswalds rather well. These personality traits can be traced from several incidents in elementary school, through the Marine Corps, and right up to Kittrell's encounter with both of them in 1963.

C'est la vie... et la mort!