Allan, in reply #13 I asked if you could provide this august forum with your opinion on how Oswald got the job at the book depository. It's just a simple question that deserves to be the subject for discussion and debate, particularly since, IMHO, you brought it up with the implied purpose of it having sinister motives. I would appreciate a reply addressing this subject only.
So....you want to base it on the mcadams post of 1996?
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/leejob2.txt"Lee made a favorable impression upon Roy Truly and got the job:
He seemed quiet and well mannered. ... [he filled out an
application] And he told me - I asked him about
experience that he had had, or where he had worked, and
he said he had just served his term in the Marine Corps
and had received an honorable discharge, and he listed
some things of an office nature that he had learned
to do in the Marines.
I questioned him about any past activities. I asked him
if he had ever had any trouble with the police, and he
said no. So thinking that he was just out of the Marines,
I didn't check any further back. I didn't have anything
of a permanent nature in mind for him. He looked like
a nice young fellow to me - he was quiet and well mannered.
He used the word "sir", you know, which a lot of them
don't do at this time.
So I told him if he would come to work on the morning
of the 16th, it was the beginning of a new pay period.
(3H214-214)
Young Lee helped himself by lying about his past, during the interview
with Truly and on the job application."
It seems that this should have been a VERY VERY important piece of information that should not have been too hard to produce at the time of the assassination, fill out a job application with lies on it but can't produce it for the investigation 5 weeks later?
This certainly should have been one of the most important pieces of the evidence puzzle that an investigator would have looked at in a real investigation at the time and found that in Truly's filing cabinet. Or was it something he read and shredded it - not keeping it? Just as important would be to have looked at LHO bank accounts and tax returns to determine how he was funding trips to Russia and so on and whose payroll he was on. The money trail could have told you alot about his activities and when and where he withdrew money. Who cares about ordering a Carcano rifle out of the "Klein's mail order service" under the name of J. Hidell! 33 years after the fact, we have Mcadams digging around and not producing a job application by LHO that would have been about 5 weeks old at the time of the assassination. I wonder how he signed that one -HOL?!
Find that job application please, Mr. Navarro, authenticate please and we will discuss whether it was more than rhetoric. That document is more important than his mail order for a gun 5 months before and would have been kept on file in Mr. Truly's office surely! They can find all sorts of paper trails on the Carcano! That is a very important factual piece of evidence to uncover as well. The mail order document was easily found - alias name or not! Why not the job application form? We need more than a "she said he said report", typed up and presented as the evidence. Wouldn't an investigative team want to know all that or do you just keep on following the trail by have someone drop carrots along the way to guide the herd of rabbits, (sometimes known as a warren!)?
