They did. How long is he supposed to have stood around?
Let's say, for argument's sake, two minutes. . . .
Let's say, for argument's sake, half a minute...
Which is the more reasonable estimate of the time Earlene Roberts, the housekeeper, observe Oswald at the bus stop?
Now remember, when Oswald came in, she was turning on the TV because she heard that the president had been shot. With about the biggest story of her lifetime, would she turn away from the TV to observe Oswald waiting at a bus stop? For 2 minutes? For 30 seconds? For any amount of time?
Earlene Roberts affidavit of December 5, 1963:
?Oswald went out the front door. A moment later I looked out the window. I
saw Lee Oswald standing on the curb at the bus stop just to the right, and on the
same side of the street as our house. I just glanced out the window that once.
I don?t know how long Lee Oswald stood at the curb nor did I see which direction
he went when he left there.?
Of course the amount of time Earlene Roberts observed Oswald at the curb is the amount we would expect, about 1 or 2 seconds.
Earlene Roberts said she saw Oswald standing on the curb at the bus stop, maybe waiting for a bus or taking a moment to decide on what to do next.
Earlene Roberts did not know if he stood there for five seconds, thirty seconds, two minutes or ten minutes? She only glanced at him. Naturally, she was mostly concentrating on the TV.
The only way to prove that Oswald did not have enough time to walk to the Officer Tippit murder scene is to assume, for argument sake, that Oswald waited for a certain amount of time, like two minutes. Heck, why not assume, for argument?s sake, twenty minutes? Then he couldn?t have made it without a time machine.
