Was Lee Oswald the passenger in Whaley's Taxi?

[Walt Cakebread]

No, it's not irrelevant at all.

Oswald was obviously very familiar with the area in question, as was Whaley.


Use all of the side streets versus simply staying on Zang.  Riiiight.

A cab located on the Houston Street viaduct at Marsallis would reach 500 North Beckley twice as fast if it took the viaduct to Zang to Beckley than it would if it exited the viaduct at Marsallis and took any of those side streets west.

Common sense told Oswald that the cabbie would take the Houston Street viaduct to Zang to Beckley on it's way to the 500 block.

Common sense told Whaley to take the viaduct to Zang to Beckley on his way to the 500 block.

I don't expect you to understand.

Common sense told Oswald that the cabbie would take the Houston Street viaduct to Zang to Beckley on it's way to the 500 block.

Billy Bob..... You've stated that you believe that Lee Oswald was desperately fleeing the scene and if that were true He most certainly would have had other thoughts going through his mind then wondering about what route he cab woul take to Oakcliff.   

Common sense told Oswald that the cabbie would take the Houston Street viaduct to Zang to Beckley

Are you referring to the "wino" in the blue workman's clothing ?

Commonsense would dictate that Lee Oswald who was not a "wino" and was dressed in a brown shirt and gray trousers, that he didn't need to worry about he police waiting a the rooming house, because he knew that nobody knew where he was living.         

[Bill Brown]

Common sense told Oswald that the cabbie would take the Houston Street viaduct to Zang to Beckley on it's way to the 500 block.

Billy Bob..... You've stated that you believe that Lee Oswald was desperately fleeing the scene and if that were true He most certainly would have had other thoughts going through his mind then wondering about what route he cab woul take to Oakcliff.   

Common sense told Oswald that the cabbie would take the Houston Street viaduct to Zang to Beckley

Are you referring to the "wino" in the blue workman's clothing ?

Commonsense would dictate that Lee Oswald who was not a "wino" and was dressed in a brown shirt and gray trousers, that he didn't need to worry about he police waiting a the rooming house, because he knew that nobody knew where he was living.       

You've stated that you believe that Lee Oswald was desperately fleeing the scene...

I don't recall ever saying that.

...and if that were true He most certainly would have had other thoughts going through his mind then wondering about what route he cab woul take to Oakcliff.

I don't believe Oswald was "wondering about what route" the cabbie would take.  The proper route is pretty much a given and therefore, no "wondering" necessary.

[Walt Cakebread]

I don't recall ever saying that.


I don't believe Oswald was "wondering about what route" the cabbie would take.  The proper route is pretty much a given and therefore, no "wondering" necessary.

Psssst Billy Bob.....  Lee told the interrogators that the taxi ride to the Rooming house was the first time that he'd used a taxi to travel in Dallas.   So how the hell would he know ( or care) what route the driver took?

[Wesley Johnson]

The fact is Oswald was at the North Beckley resident at around 1:00 pm according to Earlene Roberts.

Based on Whaley's description of his passenger .....That passenger was NOT Lee Oswald.   But Lee did apparently acknowledge that he had hired  a Taxi and paid that driver 85 cents for the ride.....   Whaley said he charged his "wino" passenger 95 cents.

Walt, that is a pretty thin argument. If I was a prosecuting attorney I would take that evidence: Oswald said he took a taxi home, Whaley id'ed Oswald as the man he gave a ride to, Earlene Roberts said Oswald came home around 1:00 pm. That places Oswald in the area Tippit was murdered. And when you throw in the evidence against Oswald in the Tippit murder, it doesn't look good. Would you like to be in the defendant's chair?

[Walt Cakebread]

Walt, that is a pretty thin argument. If I was a prosecuting attorney I would take that evidence: Oswald said he took a taxi home, Whaley id'ed Oswald as the man he gave a ride to, Earlene Roberts said Oswald came home around 1:00 pm. That places Oswald in the area Tippit was murdered. And when you throw in the evidence against Oswald in the Tippit murder, it doesn't look good. Would you like to be in the defendant's chair?

Oswald said he took a taxi home, ....That's true....But Lee said he paid 85 cents for the taxi ride, whereas Whaley said his wino passenger paid 95 cents.
Whaley id'ed Oswald as the man he gave a ride to,  That means nothing  Of course Whaley said that Lee was his passenger ( that was the BS he fed his fellow cabbies) But he couldn't describe the clothes that Lee was wearing....Whaley said his passenger looked like a wino and he was wearing a blue workman's uniform and the jacket and trousers made up the uniform.

Earlene Roberts said Oswald came home around 1:00 pm. So what???....That doesn't mean that he rode in Whaley's taxi.

That places Oswald in the area Tippit was murdered.  No it does NOT   Lee was a mile away at the rooming house.

 And when you throw in the evidence against Oswald in the Tippit murder, it doesn't look good.    But the evidence is very very weak.....Dom Benavides watched the killer empty the spent shells from the revolver.....The killer was NOT using a Smith and Wesson....

[Wesley Johnson]

Oswald said he took a taxi home, ....That's true....But Lee said he paid 85 cents for the taxi ride, whereas Whaley said his wino passenger paid 95 cents.
Whaley id'ed Oswald as the man he gave a ride to,  That means nothing  Of course Whaley said that Lee was his passenger ( that was the BS he fed his fellow cabbies) But he couldn't describe the clothes that Lee was wearing....Whaley said his passenger looked like a wino and he was wearing a blue workman's uniform and the jacket and trousers made up the uniform.

Earlene Roberts said Oswald came home around 1:00 pm. So what???....That doesn't mean that he rode in Whaley's taxi.

That places Oswald in the area Tippit was murdered.  No it does NOT   Lee was a mile away at the rooming house.[/b

 And when you throw in the evidence against Oswald in the Tippit murder, it doesn't look good.    But the evidence is very very weak.....Dom Benavides watched the killer empty the spent shells from the revolver.....The killer was NOT using a Smith and Wesson....

Walt come on. You are not going to give me the old "the killer used a semi-auto pistol" are you? Not all revolvers are Smith & Wesson's Walt. When you add in that Barbara and Virginia Davis both saw the killer walk across the property they were living at emptying the shells too, which supports Dom's statement, and that the Davis women both id'ed Oswald in a line-up then your argument just disappears. Are you trying to say that Dom and the Davis sister-in-laws were part of the conspiracy? LMAO.

[Bill Brown]

Psssst Billy Bob.....  Lee told the interrogators that the taxi ride to the Rooming house was the first time that he'd used a taxi to travel in Dallas.   So how the hell would he know ( or care) what route the driver took?

So one must take a taxi in order to learn the streets.  Got it.

[Bill Brown]

Walt come on. You are not going to give me the old "the killer used a semi-auto pistol" are you? Not all revolvers are Smith & Wesson's Walt.

Walt's point is that Oswald's revolver was indeed a .38 Smith & Wesson.  Walt is mistakenly claiming that the killer was not using the same kind of revolver taken from Oswald at the theater.