Why did Oswald go to the movies?

[Nicholas Turner]

I would think, given that Brewer had heard about  the assassination and the murder of Tippit, that if someone stepped into the lobby of his shop when there were police sirens in the area, stared ahead with his back to the street, then left when the sirens were moving away, that being a bit suspicious of that man would be quite understandable.

[Rob Caprio]

What actual evidence is that?

My comment was based on the actual evidence.

[Richard Smith]

Perhaps Lee Harvey Oswald considered the possibility of law-enforcement checking everyone who entered the TSBD. Lee would not like to be found to have a rifle "and" a hand-gun in a building on the President's motorcade route?

Oswald could have contemplated the possibility of being stopped from leaving the TSBD after he shot President Kennedy. If not for Truly vouching for Oswald, Officer Baker would have searched him.

It seems to me that Oswald carrying a revolver in the TSBD Friday morning would have been risky. He was shrewd enough to know that.

How does anyone know for sure that Oswald didn't have his hand gun at work that day?  I doubt that he did, but there is no conclusive way to know for certain.  To get his handgun to the TSBD on Friday, Oswald would to have taken it to work with him on Thursday, hid it all day, smuggled it with him on his trip to Irving, hid it at the Paine home that night, taken it back with him on Friday morning. I suppose he could have left it in the building overnight on Thursday but that would risk discovery.   Oswald has no real need for a handgun that morning.  He has his hands full pulling off the assassination.  He has a loaded rifle as he escapes the 6th floor.  If he needs to shoot anyone, he does so with his rifle.  Once he is off the floor, he is just another employee in the building.  And in the end, we don't need to know why to accept his guilt in the assassination.  The evidence proves he did it.

[Bill Chapman]

What reaction?  He just "looked scared and funny" whatever that means.

scared     
fearful, frightened, panicky, panic-stricken, petrified, scared sh*tless, shaken, sh*t scared   

1. funny haha

2. funny strange, odd, unusual, especially in such a way as to arouse suspicion.
eg: ?there was something funny going on'

[Richard Smith]

The record is clear that Brewer found Oswald suspicious and that led to his arrest.  It is hard to understand the relevance of calling into question Brewer's motives for finding Oswald suspicious.   Even if some contrarian believes that Brewer's explanation for doing so isn't satisfactory, why does that matter unless they are implying that Brewer was a conspirator playing a role in the plot to lead the police to Oswald?  If not and the implication of a conspiracy in questioning Brewer's motives is a "strawman", then Brewer's reasons - whether reasonable or unreasonable - for concluding that Oswald was acting suspiciously doesn't seem to matter.  At best, all you are claiming is that Brewer acted differently than you would expect under the circumstances.  So what?

[John Iacoletti]

He didn't have to, but you're excused anyway.

Just as I thought.  Another misrepresentation of the evidence.

Maybe on Planet CK it would be rational to ignore someone someone ducking into the alcove of your store as police cars go by and not have your suspicions aroused

[John Iacoletti]

How does anyone know for sure that Oswald didn't have his hand gun at work that day?

They don't.  The people who made up the narrative just decided that he picked up a handgun at the rooming house, even though there is no evidence of such.

  I doubt that he did, but there is no conclusive way to know for certain.  To get his handgun to the TSBD on Friday, Oswald would to have taken it to work with him on Thursday, hid it all day, smuggled it with him on his trip to Irving, hid it at the Paine home that night, taken it back with him on Friday morning.

Sort of like what he would have to have done with the alleged paper sack?

Oswald has no real need for a handgun that morning.  He has his hands full pulling off the assassination.  He has a loaded rifle as he escapes the 6th floor.  If he needs to shoot anyone, he does so with his rifle.

And just hope that he didn't need more than one bullet.   

  Once he is off the floor, he is just another employee in the building.  And in the end, we don't need to know why to accept his guilt in the assassination.  The evidence proves he did it.

The evidence doesn't prove diddly-squat.

[John Iacoletti]

scared     
fearful, frightened, panicky, panic-stricken, petrified, scared sh*tless, shaken, sh*t scared   

1. funny haha

2. funny strange, odd, unusual, especially in such a way as to arouse suspicion.
eg: ?there was something funny going on'

Ever useful as always.