The MC rifle on the 6th floor. Was it fired by a conspirator shooter or did he just pre plant that rifle, while he used a totally different rifle firing a pointed bullet? The conspirator shooter took his special rifle that folds in half , with him as he escaped using the west elevator while Truly and Baker were ascending the stairs just after they had seen Oswald in the 2nd floor lunchroom?
Could Oswald have devised this diabolical plan of pre planting the mail order MC on Wed/Nov 21/63 late by using a bus to transport him from his boarding room to TSBD later that night?
If Oswald had the MC rifle at his boarding room which he could have removed from the Paines garage in Oct/63 ( thus the note that Mrs Paine wrote on her calendar in the Oct block). Oswald decided to pre plant the mail order MC rifle on late night of Wed/Nov 20/63 after he was inspired earlier that day by Warren Castor showing off 2 rifles to Roy Truly. Oswald took a bus from boarding house to take the rifle into TSBD after work hours , then took taxi or another bus back to boarding room.
On Thursday afternoon, Oswald gets a ride from B.W. Frazier in order to get the Carbine Cavalry MC rifle from the Paines garage where he had left it hidden somewhere better than in the blanket that he had kept the 40” MC rifle which he removed by Oct/63.
Was there a 2nd type of MC rifle , the Cavalry Carbine version, which Oswald could have bought in Mexico untraceable to himself?
If so, the Cavalry Carbine MC rifle has a much shorter wooden stock and barrel and when disassembled could easily fit in 24” length bag.
So here is a speculative CT devious plan by the Marxist kook with delusions of grandeur:
To plant the MC mail order rifle with only one unfired round in the chamber, between some boxes near the staircase. The Kook thinks that he can make it appear like a set up of himself. He figures the bullets he fires from his Cavalry Carbine MC when the shells are found, and any bullets found will cause a problem for the authorities as they will be the same type 6.5 mm bullets ( except maybe pointed?) and they will NOT match the MC 40” rifle that is found.
Oswald is betting that they will be under great pressure to link that MC 40” rifle to him because of the serial no. Linking to a Fake ID and Oswald’s own P.O.Box too. He will carry the fake ID with him when he makes a call to Tippit , setting up Tippit to be shot by 1:07 pm after shooting Tippit and throwing shells at the scene ( he thinks this will be reason for a jury to consider that as a set up going on) , Oswald will run around with the gun in the air and make sure that some people see him throwing a jacket under a car. The final act is to make himself appear suspicious at Brewers store about 1:30 and then hopefully the police will be called when Brewer spots Oswald going into the theater without stopping at the ticket booth.
Oswald will go home with B.W.Frazier on Thursday to implement the his plan to carry the Cavalry carbine MC disassembled to fit in a 20” length bag , which he will make sure that BWF will notice by placing the package in plain view on the back seat of the car. Oswald also hopes that BWF will notice how his carries the package under his armpit and other end in the palm of his hand.
Oswald also made a fake transfer ticket resembling McWatters punched tickets which he kept in his shirt pocket. This is because he had plan to go straight to catch a taxi by 12:40 so he needs the ticket to make it appear he was on a bus 7 blocks from TSBD at 12:43-45 and therefore he could not possibly have walked or even run, to a position 1.5 blocks east of 10th and Patton, turn around, walk back 1.5 blocks towards Tippit and shoot him only 7 minutes from when Oswald left his boarding house at 1:04 pm.
Oswald is counting on Earlene Roberts being a dingbat who will not remember how early he actually arrived at 12:50 by using Whaleys taxi.
So that’s why Oswald only mentioned having taken a bus to Fritz and not anything about a taxi.
The escape from TSBD plan:
Oswald was able to get down to the 2nd floor lunchroom by 55 secs post shots as he could run immediately , carrying his Cavalry Carbine MC rifle with him, to the East elevator , held on the 6th floor by an Accomplice. After dropping off Oswald on 2nd floor storage room, the accomplice returns the east elevator to the 5th floor by 70-75 secs. This Oswald figures will allow him a good chance of getting down to the 2nd floor lunchroom unseen by any would be TSBD employees using stairs or standing by the stairs.
Exiting onto the storage room from the east elevator , Oswald hides the Cavalry Carbine rifle under the floor planks , or in a box scheduled to be sent out. and then goes into the 2nd floor lunchroom, buys a coke. His plan now is to simply go down the staircase to 1st floor, then out thru the west back door of the TSBD annex bldg.
The accomplice may or may not be involved in disposing of the cavalry carbine rifle at some later date, or the box was labeled to be sent somewhere where the accomplice can pick
It up days later.
The plan at this stage is interrupted by Baker / Truly ascending the staircase which forced Oswald to turn around and go back into the lunchroom. He was just opening the lunchroom door when Baker arrived on the 2nd floor landing about 85 secs post shots. The flicker of light of the door opening and closing caught Bakers eye, which caused him to move over to where he could see Oswald in the lunchroom thru the 2x2 window.
After the brief interaction, Oswald figured it would be to his advantage to slowly enter into the 2nd floor office and hope someone would see him moving slowly carrying a coke. Fortunately, Mrs Reid entered the front door and saw Oswald doing just as he had planned. And the really ingenious part of this plan was to take off his brown shirt and hide it in his pants so that Mrs Reid would remember seeing him only wearing a T-shirt.
The final part of the escape plan was to get out of TSBD in a way which would seem impossible. Oswald figured he could linger in the front lobby and maybe some reporters might ask him some questions. And then once he saw that the front doors were locked Oswald figured he could go out the rear west door of the annex building attached to TSBD as that door would likely not yet be guarded or locked.
The plan is not yet finished though, because Oswald has one other devious deception planned which was to linger around by the SW corner of TSBD until about 12:45, then to run down to a 2nd accomplice driving a Rambler station wagon very similar to Ruth Paines car.
The whistle is blown several times to hopefully attract attention of people nearby, and then
Oswald runs down to catch the car. This, Oswald figures will further confuse the investigators and will aid his overall plan of making it appear as though he was being set up. He hopes to implicate Ruth Paine whom he does not like any more than he did Earlene Roberts and Bledsoe.
Tippit shooting alternate plan:
Oswald figures that a 3rd accomplice who looks very similar to himself can do the Tippit shooting , drop shells at the scene, discard a jacket, linger at store suspiciously and lead police to the Texas theater. This 3rd accomplice will then
Give the revolver to Oswald who having arrived much earlier to his boarding room at 12:50, was able to walk to the theater and be seen (hopefully) by a couple of people as Oswald bought popcorn at1:07-1:15 and was seated at 1:20pm.
Oswald figures that there will be serious doubt that he could be either the JFK assassin or the Tippit shooter and that is why he begins the “I’m a Patsy” routine by shouting that he is not resisting arrest after he pulls out the revolver that the 3rd accomplice had given him only about 10 minutes earlier.
The final chapter of the plan was that Oswald would get a famous attorney who liked communist Kooks , to put on a fabulous trial of the century where Oswald could enjoy all the fame he desired, and all the clever planted evidence and the aid of 3 accomplices would convince the jury that Oswald was a patsy.
It might have worked except for the unexpected Jack Ruby shooting Oswald with just one bullet laced with cyanide , thus Oswald only achieved a post mortem infamy while leaving the public to guess whether he did it or not.
