The Walker Case

[Charles Collins]

The only way I can see Oswald shooting at Walker is if he had an accomplice who drove him to and from Walker's home.

None of the theories about how he rode the bus to and from Walker's home with a rifle make any sense. The lack of physical evidence connecting Oswald to the Walker shooting also makes no sense.

The only way I can see Oswald shooting at Walker is if he had an accomplice who drove him to and from Walker's home. None of the theories about how he rode the bus to and from Walker's home with a rifle make any sense.

On Friday, April 5, two days after his first practice session with his new rifle, Lee signed out of work at 5:05 and arrived home just as Marina was about to take the baby for a walk. Out of breath, Lee announced that he would like to join them; go on ahead, he said, and he would catch up with them. Marina pushed the baby slowly in her stroller, and Lee caught up with them before they had walked two blocks. He was moving even more rapidly than usual, and Marina could not help noticing that he was carrying his rifle, clumsily wrapped in his green Marine Corps raincoat. “Where are you going?” she asked. “Target practice,” he replied and asked her to walk him to the bus stop.

“Marina and Lee” by Priscilla McMillan, Page 494




The lack of physical evidence connecting Oswald to the Walker shooting also makes no sense.


The bullet was too badly damaged to provide conclusive ballistics tests, but neutron activation analysis tests later determined that it was "extremely likely" that the bullet was manufactured by the Western Cartridge Company and was the same type of ammunition as was used in the Kennedy assassination.[29]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Walker

Consider all of the evidence, as a jury is required to do, and there is no reasonable doubt as to who took the shot at Walker.

[John Mytton]

The only way I can see Oswald shooting at Walker is if he had an accomplice who drove him to and from Walker's home.

None of the theories about how he rode the bus to and from Walker's home with a rifle make any sense.

Your comment makes no sense, Oswald wrapped up his rifle and carried it on a bus, it's as simple as that.
Why on Earth would anyone give him him a second look?
Do the experiment yourself, wrap a similar sized object and catch a bus and see what happens.

JohnM

[Charles Collins]

Your comment makes no sense, Oswald wrapped up his rifle and carried it on a bus, it's as simple as that.
Why on Earth would anyone give him him a second look?
Do the experiment yourself, wrap a similar sized object and catch a bus and see what happens.

JohnM

Plus, the setting was Dallas, TX, 1963. Attitudes towards guns are quite different these days.

[John Mytton]

Plus, the setting was Dallas, TX, 1963. Attitudes towards guns are quite different these days.

Exactly, the only problem with Oswald openly carrying a rifle to a location near Walker's house would be someone seeing the news and suspiciously connecting the two events but a wrapped up unknown package would be of no reason for concern.
Btw Oswald did get out of Whaley's cab way past his rooming house and imo Oswald would repeat this behaviour and would have also distanced himself from Walker's house in the same way. Oswald also buried the rifle some distance away, so clearly he was planning on not being caught but obviously he couldn't see the future and wrote a note for Marina which even had Oswald contemplating his own death in some sort of Police showdown, which as he predicted  nearly happened at the Texas theatre.

JohnM

[Charles Collins]

Exactly, the only problem with Oswald openly carrying a rifle to a location near Walker's house would be someone seeing the news and suspiciously connecting the two events but a wrapped up unknown package would be of no reason for concern.
Btw Oswald did get out of Whaley's cab way past his rooming house and imo Oswald would repeat this behaviour and would have also distanced himself from Walker's house in the same way. Oswald also buried the rifle some distance away, so clearly he was planning on not being caught but obviously he couldn't see the future and wrote a note for Marina which even had Oswald contemplating his own death in some sort of Police showdown, which as he predicted  nearly happened at the Texas theatre.

JohnM

Yes, also it would appear that LHO’s first plan to shoot Walker would have involved his revolver (which he ordered well before he ordered the rifle). Using the revolver would have necessitated a close encounter with Walker. And due to the close proximity, LHO could likely have been killed by Walker’s protective forces. So, it would appear that he was willing to give his life for his cause…

[John Mytton]

Yes, also it would appear that LHO’s first plan to shoot Walker would have involved his revolver (which he ordered well before he ordered the rifle). Using the revolver would have necessitated a close encounter with Walker. And due to the close proximity, LHO could likely have been killed by Walker’s protective forces. So, it would appear that he was willing to give his life for his cause…

I believe that Oswald pulled out his revolver at the theatre because he expected/wanted to die, suicide by cop. This suicide mentality goes back to Oswald's initial failed Russian defection when he hacked into his own wrist creating a wound which required five stitches. Oswald writes in his "Historic Diary" that "I decide to end it", "Rimma comes at 8 to find me dead", "As I watch my life whirl away", "how easy to die" , "a sweet death".
This Oswald guy was the very definition of a Kook and someone who places no value on his own life imo would have zero respect for the life of anyone else.

JohnM

[John Iacoletti]

The bullet was too badly damaged to provide conclusive ballistics tests, but neutron activation analysis tests later determined that it was "extremely likely" that the bullet was manufactured by the Western Cartridge Company and was the same type of ammunition as was used in the Kennedy assassination.[29]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Walker

Consider all of the evidence, as a jury is required to do, and there is no reasonable doubt as to who took the shot at Walker.

That’s ridiculous. First of all, nobody knows what type of ammunition was used to kill Kennedy. Secondly even if they did, “same type of ammunition” that you can’t even conclusively match to any particular weapon somehow demonstrates who fired the bullet? You call this beyond a reasonable doubt?

[John Iacoletti]

Your comment makes no sense, Oswald wrapped up his rifle and carried it on a bus, it's as simple as that.

And you know this how? Oh yeah, you made it up.