Why did Oswald go to the movies?

[Walt Cakebread]

Finally, you're asking a question and a good one at that. I've always wondered about that. It's a conundrum for sure, but then so is him going to a middle of nowhere place like 10th street. What in the world was he doing there, walking along with no obvious place to go, when he could have been on a bus out of town?

Lee went to the theater because that's where he'd been told to meet his contact......  As part of the hoax attempt to shoot JFK Lee thought that his contact would escort him out of the country where he could seek asylum  in Cuba.

There were three of Hoover's "Extra Special" Special agents in the Texas Theater before the police arrived......

Either those agents were as fast as lightning, and beat the cops to the theater or..........

[John Iacoletti]

** Oswald arranged for a unique weeknight ride to where his wife was staying instead of the usual weekend ride.

He had only had the job for a few weeks, and still it wasn't the only time he came to Irving on a different day.  What makes this "unique" in your mind?

** Oswald brought to work a long object wrapped in paper (it would be too embarrassing to be seen with curtain rods).

An object that both witnesses who saw it said was too short to hold the alleged murder weapon.

** Oswald was the only one at work who immediately left the Dealey Plaza area. Someone correct me if I am wrong but I understand a few others left the building to check out what happened from other people in the plaza. And then found themselves locked out of the building by the police. Only then did they go home.

Hang on.  What makes you so sure that Oswald didn't find himself locked out of the building by police?

** Oswald got on a bus and then immediately off when it was stuck in traffic.

The bus driver confused Milton Jones for Oswald.  So you're relying on Mary Bledsoe who doesn't even have any evidence that she ever rented a room to Oswald.  Her son "sold" the page out of her calendar that would have helped confirm her story.  Darn the luck.

** Oswald ordered his only taxi ride (quite an expense) that we know of during his life.

If he actually did take this taxi ride, it was a buck.  Roughly $8 in today's dollars.  Not exactly a fortune.  He made $1.25 an hour.

This seems pretty consistent to me. If Oswald lived and told me a different story, I probably would not believe him.

Consistent with what?  What does any of this have to do with murdering the president?

[John Iacoletti]

Because unlike the majority of Americans, who were huddled around televisions and radios to learn of the President's fate, he decided it was more important to see a Mickey Mouse short and a war movie. Totally normal behavior if you think about it.

How can you be sure that Oswald even knew that the president was shot?

[Wesley Johnson]

How can you be sure that Oswald even knew that the president was shot?

Got any evidence that he didn't know to back that up Grand Poobah?

[Martin Weidmann]

Got any evidence that he didn't know to back that up Grand Poobah?

Hilarious...

[Brian Walker]

He went to the movies because he  had  no plans and was aimlessly walking around and the movie theater was there and cops were around.  I know even come LNs disagree with me but I don't think there is any chance that Oswald thought he was getting out of the TSBD and didn't plan on what do do if he did. He had no plans and no place to go.

If he had plans to get away he would have brought his pistol with him and would not have needed to go back to the rooming house. How did he know the cops were not going to bust him at the rooming house? I don't think there is any way someone could shoot a President in front of all of those people and cops and think they are going to just walk out of that building. Plus if he had any real plans he would have kept more money.

[John Iacoletti]

Got any evidence that he didn't know to back that up Grand Poobah?

There you go again....

[Bill Brown]

An object that both witnesses who saw it said was too short to hold the alleged murder weapon.

That's not at all what Frazier and Randle said.  Your spin of what they really said would be valid if they had actually been shown the alleged murder weapon and were then asked to compare it to the bag they saw Lee carrying that morning.  Since they were not shown the rifle, you're comment above is meaningless (and untrue).