The "Domino Room Alibi"

[Colin Crow]

It's unlikely the investigators would be able to put 2 plus 2 together and realize that:

1) Oswald could hear Jarman and Norman below him

2) Oswald recognized their voices

3) Oswald concocted his D.R. alibi based on the above two factors

--  MWT 

I might counter with, it is unlikely that anyone in his position would underestimate the ability of the authorities to investigate and appraise evidence (yet I might also argue that they did not!). He knew how long it takes to go from DR to SN.....saying he ate lunch with them in the DR offers him nothing at the end of the day because he knew they were not there at the relevant time.

[Thomas Graves]

I might counter with, it is unlikely that anyone in his position would underestimate the ability of the authorities to investigate and appraise evidence (yet I might also argue that they did not!). He knew how long it takes to go from DR to SN.....saying he ate lunch with them in the DR offers him nothing at the end of the day because he knew they were not there at the relevant time.

Colin,

I was still editing and expanding my last post, above, when you posted this.

You may want to go take a look at it now ...

--  MWT 

PS  K.O. didn't say he ate lunch with them in the D.R., did he?

Iirc, he just said that he saw them "walk through the room", i.e., that part of the first floor which is within view of someone sitting in the D.R. with its only door open.

[Colin Crow]

Even if his alibi doesn't  "wash" with the investigators because, for example, Jarman and Norman entered the building from the rear rather than from the front, or they never even went outside during the lunch break, what has Killer Oswald got to lose by proffering it?

--  MWT 

If his alibi doesn't wash? He saw employees in the City Hall upon his arrest. It lasts until they talk to Norman and Jarman. Was he expecting a daring escape before that happened?

One might expect it to last an hour or so.

You do know that they did enter via the rear, don't you? Much of the debate is predicated on that fact.

Tell me what "killer Oswald" had to gain from this, apart from sending the cops on a (brief) wild goose chase.

[Ray Mitcham]

3) Oswald concocted his D.R. alibi based on the above two factors, plus his remembering that anyone walking in the front door and going upstairs could be seen by someone sitting in the D.R. but wouldn't necessarily be seen by that person, himself.


--  MWT 

How could anyone sitting in he D.R. see anybody walking in the front door?

[John Iacoletti]

PS  K.O. didn't say he ate lunch with them in the D.R., did he?

Depends on which report you want to believe.

[Thomas Graves]

Depends on which report you want to believe.

That's right, Iacoletti, and whether or not you have to have someone read them to you because all you can see are blobs.

-- MWT 

[Bill Chapman]

Yes, yes, they are. In fact she did an experiment where they did a physical measurement.

They did a physical measurement based on an estimation. Lets see you get a 27" package to her testified-to 'almost touch the ground'

Who’s Walters?
>>> The result of an assault from my spellchecker

What are you babbling about now? Walther didn’t say anything about dark-completed people.
>>> Exactly right. She indeed didn't say dark-completed people.

[Thomas Graves]

How could anyone sitting in he D.R. see anybody walking in the front door?

You really do need to read more carefully, Old Chap.

I believe I said (somewhere), "... as they walked past the D.R., or through an area of the first floor that was visible to someone sitting in the D.R.", or words to that effect.

--  MWT