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In reply to the discussion: Bugliosi: 53 Reasons It Was Lee Harvey Oswald [View all]ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)80. Has Ancient Aliens covered this yet?
        I would like a more rational, objective point of view, that we have all come to expect from the show, Ancient Aliens.
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        (1) Oswald always visited Marina in Irving on a Friday. Nov 21 was the first Thursday visit ever.
        Bolo Boffin
        Mar 2013
        #2
      
        
        (2) Oswald's claim to be getting curtain rods in Irving was an implausible lie.
        Bolo Boffin
        Mar 2013
        #4
      
        
        (3) Oswald told Frazier he would NOT be coming back to Irving on Friday night.
        Bolo Boffin
        Mar 2013
        #6
      
        
        (4) That night Oswald avoided Kennedy talk with Marina, a subject it was their custom to discuss.
        Bolo Boffin
        Mar 2013
        #7
      
        
        (5) Friday morning, Oswald left almost all his cash and his wedding ring in Irving.
        Bolo Boffin
        Mar 2013
        #9
      
        
        (6) On Friday morning, Oswald placed a long paper-wrapped package in the back seat of Frazier's car.
        Bolo Boffin
        Mar 2013
        #11
      
        
        (7) Frazier noticed that for the first time on a return trip from Irving, Oswald brought no lunch.
        Bolo Boffin
        Mar 2013
        #12
      
        
        (8) On arrival at the TSBD, Oswald walked faster and ahead of Frazier for the first time ever.
        Bolo Boffin
        Mar 2013
        #13
      
        
        (9) For the first time ever, Oswald didn't read the paper in the TSBD domino room.
        Bolo Boffin
        Mar 2013
        #14
      
        
        (11) Howard Brennan saw Lee Harvey Oswald fire the third shot that killed the President.
        Bolo Boffin
        Mar 2013
        #16
      
        
        What you've said here doesn't negate the fact that Brennan saw Oswald take the third shot. n/t
        Bolo Boffin
        Mar 2013
        #63
      
        
        Right, bbut you and I would both probably discount any such testimony in a live criminal case
        alcibiades_mystery
        Mar 2013
        #77
      
        
        (13) During interrogation, Oswald put himself on the sixth floor at the time of the assassination.
        Bolo Boffin
        Mar 2013
        #18
      
        
        (14) Oswald's story of getting a Coke after hearing commotion of assassination is not sensible.
        Bolo Boffin
        Mar 2013
        #19
      
        
        (15) It makes no sense that Oswald the "political animal" had no interest in the President's death.
        Bolo Boffin
        Mar 2013
        #20
      
        
        I figured you needed more than one person pumping his own thread, so I'll add this...
        MrMickeysMom
        Mar 2013
        #21
      
        
        Many of these are largely debunked by Enemy of the Truth, Myths, Forensics, and the Kennedy Assassin
        OrwellwasRight
        Apr 2013
        #149
      
        
        I am not here to be told that people do not know what they smell and where.
        OrwellwasRight
        Apr 2013
        #151
      
        
        The fact that you can't agree to disagree means you are in fact trying to make me feel inferior.
        OrwellwasRight
        Apr 2013
        #157
      
        
        I'm not here to engage in Monty Python Argument Clinic Style "discussions"
        OrwellwasRight
        Apr 2013
        #158
      
        
        " I'm not here to engage in Monty Python Argument Clinic Style "discussions""
        zappaman
        Apr 2013
        #159
      
        
        "your implicaiton that I am feebleminded" - something you're importing to the conversation.
        Bolo Boffin
        Apr 2013
        #160
      
        
        Do you understand that 'credible evidence' and 'non-credible evidence' are legal terms?
        Bolo Boffin
        Apr 2013
        #165
      
        
        Oh, Sherry Fiester was present at the autopsy and was able to examine the body? n/t
        Bolo Boffin
        Apr 2013
        #167
      
        
        Also, there's a slight problem with the location Feister IDs as the site of the kill shot.
        Bolo Boffin
        Apr 2013
        #170
      
        
        Fact: You claimed a statement was made about the south overpass position. It was about the north.
        Bolo Boffin
        Apr 2013
        #190
      
        
        "What is also a fact is that I have told you I don't want to continue this conversation. "
        zappaman
        Apr 2013
        #194
      
        
        My mind is quite open to the facts and reasonable interpretations of them.
        Bolo Boffin
        Apr 2013
        #202
      
        
        Why? Because if I do, that conflicts with the little box you want to file me away in?
        Bolo Boffin
        Apr 2013
        #237
      
        
        Vague foreknowledge? The roll calls were taken after the assassination. n/t
        Bolo Boffin
        Mar 2013
        #73
      
        
        (17) Oswald walked past his normal bus stop and walked seven blocks to board a different line.
        Bolo Boffin
        Mar 2013
        #28
      
        
        Your attempt at parody/mind reading doesn't negate that this actually happened.
        Bolo Boffin
        Mar 2013
        #62
      
        
        (19) Oswald's not speaking to the cab driver about the assassination is striking.
        Bolo Boffin
        Mar 2013
        #30
      
        
        (20) Oswald had the cab drive past his residence, dropping him off down the road.
        Bolo Boffin
        Mar 2013
        #31
      
        
        (21) Oswald's behavior at his boarding house indicates a flight in progress.
        Bolo Boffin
        Mar 2013
        #32
      
        
        Oswald's clipboard was found later. He'd filled no orders. He'd done no TSBD work that day.
        Bolo Boffin
        Mar 2013
        #74
      
        
        (25) A store manager saw Oswald evading police sirens in front of his store.
        Bolo Boffin
        Mar 2013
        #49
      
        
        (27) When approached by police in the Texas Theater, Oswald said "Well, it is all over now."
        Bolo Boffin
        Mar 2013
        #51
      
        
        (29) After arrest, Oswald refused to even give his name to arresting officers.
        Bolo Boffin
        Mar 2013
        #53
      
        
        This thread is not about disproving a second shooter. It's about Oswald's involvement.
        Bolo Boffin
        Mar 2013
        #122
      
        
        (32) After visiting him on Saturday, Marina came away convinced of Oswald's guilt.
        Bolo Boffin
        Mar 2013
        #56
      
        
        Agreed. There also may be multiple explanations for his behavior, as well as for the other evidence.
        eomer
        Mar 2013
        #91
      
        
        (33) Oswald's Mannlicher-Carcano rifle was found on the sixth floor of the TSBD.
        Bolo Boffin
        Mar 2013
        #83
      
        
        (34) The mostly intact bullet (CE 399) and two of the fragments were fired from this rifle.
        Bolo Boffin
        Mar 2013
        #84
      
        
        (35) The three expended shells on the sixth floor were "fired in and ejected from" Oswald's rifle.
        Bolo Boffin
        Mar 2013
        #85
      
        
        (36) A handmade paper bag large enough to carry Oswald's rifle was found in the sniper's nest.
        Bolo Boffin
        Mar 2013
        #86
      
        
        (38) Oswald was the sole owner of the revolver found in his possession on arrest.
        Bolo Boffin
        Mar 2013
        #88
      
        
        (39) The bullets recovered from Tippit's body were consistent with being fired from Oswald's .38.
        Bolo Boffin
        Mar 2013
        #89
      
        
        (40) The four cartridge shells found at the Tippit murder scene were fired from Oswald's revolver.
        Bolo Boffin
        Mar 2013
        #90
      
        
        I've only been to Dallas a couple of times but do bullets just fly around all the time?
        ryan_cats
        Apr 2013
        #161
      
        
        (41) A paraffin test on Oswald's hands showed he'd fired a revolver just before his arrest.
        Bolo Boffin
        Mar 2013
        #103
      
        
        Does the paraffin test showing Oswald never field a rifle that day speak for itself as well?
        bogmanla
        Feb 2014
        #250
      
        
        (45) Oswald lied about owning a rifle, and about owning the Mannlicher-Carcano specifically.
        Bolo Boffin
        Mar 2013
        #107
      
        
        (46) Oswald lied about being in the backyard photo where he was holding his rifle.
        Bolo Boffin
        Mar 2013
        #108
      
        
        If someone said something about a "mysterious line across Oswald's chin," it was somebody
        AnotherMcIntosh
        Apr 2013
        #206
      
        
        Maybe you should believe the experts using technology not available 50 years ago.
        zappaman
        Apr 2013
        #208
      
        
        Who says that I don't believe the "experts."  Are you trying to engage in a poor ad hominem attack?
        AnotherMcIntosh
        Apr 2013
        #209
      
        
        So I do what?  Believe "experts" instead of my lying eyes?  Is that what you do?
        AnotherMcIntosh
        Apr 2013
        #211
      
        
        I'm not trying to convince you of anything or even to think for yourself.
        AnotherMcIntosh
        Apr 2013
        #215
      
        
        Others can see the link.  Sorry to hear about your comprehension problem.
        AnotherMcIntosh
        Apr 2013
        #228
      
        
        You "would expect a real photo-analyst to know" that whether or not the chin looks cleft depends on
        AnotherMcIntosh
        Apr 2013
        #238
      
        
        (48) Oswald lied about living at the place where the picture with the rifle was taken.
        Bolo Boffin
        Mar 2013
        #110
      
        
        (50) Oswald lied about putting a long package into Frazier's car that morning.
        Bolo Boffin
        Mar 2013
        #112
      
        
        (51) Oswald told police the only thing he'd brought to work that morning was his lunch.
        Bolo Boffin
        Mar 2013
        #113
      
        
        (52) Oswald lied about having lunch on the first floor with two other employees.
        Bolo Boffin
        Mar 2013
        #114
      
        
        Allow me to disabuse you of the notion that Kennedy was shot from the front: he wasn't.
        Bolo Boffin
        Mar 2013
        #129
      
        
        I don't think you understand my use of the term "legitimate researcher"
        OrwellwasRight
        Mar 2013
        #133
      
        
        Yes, your list in #128 is made up of non-credible evidence and false and misleading assumptions.
        Bolo Boffin
        Apr 2013
        #144
      
        
        Interns and doctors trying desperately to save JFK's life vs. a lengthy, laborious autopsy
        Bolo Boffin
        Apr 2013
        #136
      
  