Oswald's Motive

[Jon Banks]

In reality Kennedy was not sitting in a barrel of cotton, nor fitted with animal bones. Nor was he born needing a precise load of gunpowder.

Nor was FMJ ammo designed to pass through-and-through a barrel of cotton, nor crunch a bag of goat bones

That's not the only reason to doubt that CE399 struck both JFK and Connally of course but I don't find the explanations for the lack of damage to 399 to be convincing. It doesn't add up.

[John Iacoletti]

When making a conclusion, the totality of the evidence is what should be considered.

Things that are not evidence are not part of “the totality of the evidence”. The only thing that makes Oswald’s “calmness” “significant” is your imagination.

[Bill Chapman]

That's not the only reason to doubt that CE399 struck both JFK and Connally of course but I don't find the explanations for the lack of damage to 399 to be convincing. It doesn't add up.

It was meant as mockery but it could have been more clearly written, I admit
See Jerry Organ's piece (Reply #117)

[Charles Collins]

Things that are not evidence are not part of “the totality of the evidence”. The only thing that makes Oswald’s “calmness” “significant” is your imagination.

A suspect’s behavior before and after the crime is evidence. Fleeing the scene is but one example. Notwithstanding your opinion, Robert Oswald, Marina Oswald, and several law enforcement officers and investigators all thought his calmness was significant.

[Martin Weidmann]

A suspect’s behavior before and after the crime is evidence. Fleeing the scene is but one example. Notwithstanding your opinion, Robert Oswald, Marina Oswald, and several law enforcement officers and investigators all thought his calmness was significant.

People react and behave differently in stressful situations. To even suggest that a suspect being calm is somehow evidence of guilt is idiotic!

[Bill Chapman]

From 'Dead Oswald Tour'


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[Jon Banks]

From 'Dead Oswald Tour'


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The mostly intact bullet, CE399, is not consistent with the number of bullet fragments found in Governor Connally (some fragments were removed from his wrist while he died with other fragments never being removed).

[Charles Collins]

LHO’s calmness while in police custody was enough out of character that both Marina and Robert Oswald thought it was significant. Here’s a snip from a Washington Post article that describes his out of character calmness before the assassination. I think that Mailer’s comparison to what some combat soldiers experience before combat is interesting.


Now, months later, after putting Junie to bed he asked Marina if he could help her wash the dinner dishes — again, out of character. In recounting the scene, Mailer wrote, “Oswald has reached that zone of serenity that some men attain before combat, when anxiety is deep enough to feel like quiet exaltation: You are finally going into an action that will be equal in dimension to the importance of your life.”


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/10/25/jfks-assassin-lee-harvey-oswalds-eerie-calm-the-day-before-he-pulled-the-trigger/