Why did Oswald go to the movies?

[Richard Smith]

They were watching a movie FFS. Why would they notice another movie goer then check their wrist watches?
Man,  it didn't take long for this thread to become absurd.

And if they had, CTers would just imply there was something sinister about this. Or they would note that a witness estimated Oswald's age as approximately 30 or a few pounds heavier than he was bringing into question their identification of him.   It's an endless circle of lunacy.

[Bill Chapman]

I was going to make the same point but let it pass. 

One lets a lot of CTer comments pass. I file them here:

[Nicholas Turner]

I was asking what you would say if other people came forward to support what Brewer said and to confirm the WC timeline

50+ years later I would be ultra skeptical although level of detail would mean something.

I also asked why, if it is being suggested that Brewer was saying what the WC wanted, why weren't more people 'encouraged' to provide supporting testimony.

As suggested you need to look closer at the evidence, the "Tippit witnesses" is a great start.

You may also ask yourself why the hero was waiting in line to until December 6 to deliver his affidavit.

What do the Tippit witnesses have to do with people who could support Brewer's description of how the person outside his store acted, what he looked like and what Brewer did in response? That is what I was referring to, not the other reports, many have which I have read. If I have missed evidence given by people who also saw Oswald outside the shoe shop please point it out to me as would find it interesting.

[Ray Mitcham]

@Newbies

Unspeakably Awful
http://www.washingtondecoded.com/site/2009/12/unspeakably-awful.html

I agree entirely. McAdams' critique of the Douglass book is indeed unspeakably awful. Look at the readers responses to the article, lower down.

[Nicholas Turner]

OK, I read your request in a broader perspective not specific to the (alleged) shoe store sighting.

Negative on anyone else than Brewer.

Thanks, that's what I thought.

So for those questioning Brewer's account, are you suggesting Brewer was part of a conspiracy? If so, what weren't others encouraged to give supporting evidence? If that is not what is being suggested, what is?

[Howard Gee]

I asked you which Oswald murdered Tippit.

[John Iacoletti]

The irony is that you also rarely post evidence and instead rely on your memory where everything is dishonestly stripped back to its barest essentials and numbers like 3 magically become 2.

Nope.  3 numbers never magically became 2.  However two spent shells did magically become three.

[Rob Caprio]

Remember that it is a "strawman" argument to suggest that anyone here is alleging that Brewer's actions were nefarious or that he was part of a conspiracy.  CTers are apparently just questioning his motives to pass the time without meaning to imply anything that would require them to actually provide any proof or a narrative that makes sense of how a random shoe salesman in Dallas get recruited into the plot and how they somehow ensure that Oswald walks past his store and into TT as part of the frame up scenario.

The "strawman" is your invention. No one said that Brewer's bosses were involved in the conspiracy. No one.