Just once I'd like to see Andrew Mason acknowledge even one of the unsupported or outright false statements he has made in the course of this one forum thread. So far I count 23.
1. There is evidence that the MC was the murder weapon
2. There is evidence that it was fired on 22-11-63
3. There is evidence that it was fired from the SN
4. There is evidence that Oswald owned the MC
Already covered. You just don't accept the evidence.
5. Oswald was last seen before the assassination on 6th floor of the TSBD
Already covered. He was sighted by two workers on either the fifth or sixth floor at about 11:55. Howard Brennan said he saw a man that he later identified as Oswald on the sixth floor seconds before the shots were fired and then saw the rifle being fired. Carolyn Arnold said she thought she may have seen Oswald on the second floor 15 minutes before the shooting but I don't find her evidence very persuasive: "she stated she thought she caught a fleeting glimpse of LEE HARVEY OSWALD standing in the hallway between the front door and the double doors leading to the warehouse, located on the first floor. She could not be sure that this was OSWALD, but said she felt it was and believed the time to be a few minutes before 12:15 PM." FBI statement 26-Nov-63
6. Oswald was the only employee to leave the TSBD before an attendance check was made
Truly did a roll call just before 1:00 pm and noticed that Oswald was the only TSBD employee missing. He reported to the Dallas Police that Oswald was missing. Who else do you think was missing?
7. Oswald left the rooming house quickly after getting his handgun and a jacket
Earlene Roberts was there. You weren't. She thought he was in an unusual hurry (6 H 438):
"Mrs. ROBERTS. I had better back up a minute-he came home that Friday in an unusual hurry.
Mr. BALL. And about what time was this?
Mrs. ROBERTS. Well, it was after President Kennedy had been shot and I...and I just looked up and I said, ?Oh, you are in a hurry.? He never said a thing, not nothing. He went on to his room and
stayed about 3 or 4 minutes."
8. The rifle was mailed to A. Hidell to the post box that Oswald is connected to,
What do you think the Klein's shipping order says? It is pretty obvious that it says that the order was filled with C2766 and a scope shipped to Box 2915 Dallas, Texas. That was Oswald's box. What is it, exactly, that makes you think it was shipped somewhere else or not shipped at all?
9. It arrived before the attempt on Gen. Walker,
The shipping order says it was shipped on March 20, 1963 and the post office official said it took a day to get from Chicago to Dallas. Oswald's back-yard photos were taken in late March or early April, according to Marina Oswald. The attempt on General Walker took place on April 10, 1963.
10. It was identical to the rifle seen in the backyard photos
In the sense that there is absolutely no feature of C2766 that is inconsistent with the rifle held by Oswald in the backyard photos.
11. At the Texas Theater Oswald resists arrest
12. pulls a gun on the arresting officer
What would you call reaching for your gun, holding it in your hand with your finger on the trigger, saying "Well, it's all over now" and struggling with the arresting police officer?
13. During his interrogation, Oswald told one provable lie after another
Well, for starters, that he didn't own a rifle; that he didn't carry a long package to work; and that he didn't have anything to do with the assassination of JFK or murder of Officer Tippit.
14. Oswald's palm prints were on the stock
I corrected that. They were on the part of the barrel covered by the stock, so he handled it when it was disassembled.
15. The envelope was stamped by Kleins stating that the order was filled
What do you think the envelope and the shipping order indicate? That the order was ignored and not filled?
16. CE 399 was found on Connally's stretcher.
It was found on a stretcher. The WC concluded from all the evidence, that it was Connally's stretcher.
17. CE 399 was found by a Parkland nurse
Sorry, I thought Tomlinson was a nurse. He was a maintenance worker.
18. Frazier never said that the bag from the SN was not the same bag.
Already dealt with. Where do you think he said the bag was not the same bag. Being unable to identify the bag shown by the investigator as the bag he saw is not the same as saying it was not the same bag. Why do you think he would be able to identify something that he admitted he didn't pay much attention to?
19. C2766 arrived at the Dallas post office and was picked up 5 days later.
That's an estimate that is based upon post office transportation and processing times.
20. A bullet that was fired from that rifle ended up in the car that was shot at
CE399 was either on that stretcher because it was brought in by someone in the President's limo or it was planted. There is no evidence that it was planted. The grooves on CE399 conclusively match grooves on bullets fired by the C2766 rifle.
21. There is the shipping order that was initialed by the person who was responsible for shipping
The document speaks for itself. Or are you suggesting that it was not made in the ordinary course of processing Oswald's order?
22. There were prints that were consistent with Oswald's on a part of the gun covered by the stock
You think the prints belonged to someone else? They were consistent with Oswald's prints. What are the chances that someone else put prints that were consistent with Oswald's on a gun that belonged to Oswald that was brought to the TSBD in a disassembled position in a bag that was consistent with the bag that Oswald was seen by two people to have been in his possession that morning of the assassination? (that's a rhetorical question). That is enough to conclude that they were Oswald's prints.
23. Marina says Oswald bought a gun through the mail at about that time
I believe the Russian newspapers that he held were shown to be dated March 11 and March 24, 1963. Marina was not sure when she took the photos when she met with the WC and said she didn't pay much attention to them. But later, to the FBI she said the photos were taken in late March or early April 1963 and were taken on a Sunday. That puts it likely at March 31 or possibly April 7, 1963.
