Does the entire set-up of the Patsy hinge on his going home at his own request on the 21st?

[Jim Hargrove]

All those scenarios involving the Ralph Leon Yates story sound plausible to me. At least Yates described a package long enough to hold the broken down Carcano.

The least plausible of all the tales, imo, is the officially accepted Frazier version. Besides the fact that there were no fingerprints, that the package described seemed to be too short, that no one at the Depository confirmed it, and that Oswald already had a curtain rod in his Beckley room, there is this ....

Remember all that crap (I THINK it was from Linnie Mae) about watching from the kitchen window as Oswald loaded the package into Wesley's car? As the following exhibits suggest, even the FBI/Warren Commission had a hard time believing that.

In the diagram below, the area shaded green represents Frazier's car. Because the wall of the carport was solid, it would be pretty difficult to see what was going on there.



In the photo below, the arrow points to Frazier's car. You can see the solid wall between the car and the carport and the kitchen area.


The suggestion that the Frazier tale may have been created out of perceived necessity before the Yates saga filtered through the system sounds pretty plausible to me, but no doubt we'll never be certain.

[Albert Doyle]

It's possible the Yates event was deliberate and functional and simply served as a way to get the rifle into the Depository. It had the added bonus of showing Oswald as intending to kill Kennedy.


The Frazier story was simply the firming direct evidence that Oswald went to the Paines with the intent to carry it out.