Burroughs Saw Two Oswalds Arrested at Texas Theater

[Jim Hargrove]

I would like to know exactly how the back-door Oswald was handled. Driven somewhere and allowed to escape I assume. This Oswald then became TF White's Oswald sitting in Carl Mather's car. And later, Sgt Vinson's covert air evacuation Oswald.

Absolutely!!! It's too bad more of these witnesses didn't describe more of this Oswald's clothing, or at least his shirt color. Unless he changed clothes, a white-shirted Oswald would match numerous accounts from earlier in the day.

This back-door Oswald is analog for total police corruption in the Dallas Police department that can then be transferred to the basement job on the front-door Oswald.

There is little doubt some systemic corruption occurs in most big city police departments. If police think a suspect they've nabbed might get away with a crime because a "liberal judge" or an "ignorant jury" might let a technicality, say, no search warrant, lead to dismissal, I think a huge percentage of police will turn a blind eye to such "minor technicalities." Some of that was undoubtedly going on in this case.

But beyond this kind of normal corruption, I'm betting only a few Dallas cops were involved. Westbrook, Croy, and Roscoe White certainly come to mind.