10-12-2017, 05:34 PM
There's another major issue going on immediately post-encounter, and that is the descent of the west freight elevator. Oswald seems to have waited in the 2nd-floor lunchroom until that elevator arrived on the 1st floor and whoever was in it disembarked.
And it's not out of the question that he used the hallway, not the central offices, to get to the front lobby stairs. That would explain why Geneva Hine, alone in the central office, missed seeing him. Her own post-shooting itinerary brought her to a couple stops in that hallway, knocking on publishers' doors (Lyons & Carnahan and Southwestern), but she returned to her office via the back door (adjacent to the vestibule). There's a likelihood she was actually knocking on Southwestern's door, which she did repeatedly, while the lunchroom encounter was going on.
If Oswald heard someone using that back door he may have opted for the hallway route as less troublesome to get himself outside.
And it's not out of the question that he used the hallway, not the central offices, to get to the front lobby stairs. That would explain why Geneva Hine, alone in the central office, missed seeing him. Her own post-shooting itinerary brought her to a couple stops in that hallway, knocking on publishers' doors (Lyons & Carnahan and Southwestern), but she returned to her office via the back door (adjacent to the vestibule). There's a likelihood she was actually knocking on Southwestern's door, which she did repeatedly, while the lunchroom encounter was going on.
If Oswald heard someone using that back door he may have opted for the hallway route as less troublesome to get himself outside.