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The Education Forum, Lance Payette has made several excellent points regarding Lee Harvey Oswald's so-called "Domino Room Alibi". If you'd like to take a gander, here's the link....
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/26009-who-was-mrs-robert-reid/page/2/?tab=comments#comment-406382As an addendum to Lance's comments on this matter, I'd like to also point out the following fact (which Lance has not mentioned [as yet anyway])....
For the sake of argument, even if all three of the individuals being discussed in the "Domino Room Alibi" discussion (Jarman, Norman, and Oswald)
were, in fact, together at the same time in or near the Domino Room on the first floor of the Book Depository Building shortly before JFK was killed on 11/22/63, that fact most certainly
does not exonerate Lee Harvey Oswald as President Kennedy's assassin.
Why?
Because we know that two of those three people—James Jarman Jr. and Harold Norman—were present on the south side of the fifth floor of the TSBD at the time of the assassination. They were photographed by Tom Dillard just seconds after the last shot was fired.
Therefore, since we know that Jarman and Norman had the capability of getting from the first-floor Domino Room to an upper floor of the Depository prior to the time when President Kennedy arrived at the corner of Elm and Houston Streets, then why wouldn't Lee Harvey Oswald have possessed that same capability?
Conspiracy theorists would no doubt argue that the above scenario is not very realistic, in that it would be hard to believe that a person who was planning on killing the President would have been located on the first floor (and at the back of the building) at a time when he should have been in his sniper's perch on the sixth floor waiting for the President to arrive in Dealey Plaza.
But there are several "unknown" factors associated with Lee Oswald's pre-assassination actions and mindset that have never been proven or firmly established—such as the "unknown" answers to these three questions:
Where and when did Oswald assemble his rifle (and how long did it take him to do so)?and...
How long did it take Oswald to construct his "Sniper's Nest" of boxes?and...
What exactly was Oswald thinking in the hours and minutes leading up to JFK's arrival?I'm not saying that I think that Oswald
was in the Domino Room with Jarman and Norman just a few minutes before the assassination. I don't believe he was. But I
am saying that the so-called "Domino Room Alibi", which many conspiracy theorists think is some sort of rock-solid
proof of Lee Harvey Oswald's innocence, is really nothing of the kind—even if Oswald
had been located in that Domino Room a few minutes before 12:30 PM on November 22, 1963.