Why did Oswald go to the movies?

[Steve Thomas]

He wanted money.

?Mr. BALL. And after you saw the police car go west with its siren on, why at the time the police car went west with its siren on, did you see the man that ducked? This man that you were----
Mrs. POSTAL. This man, yes; he ducked into the box office...?

Isn't that where they keep the money?

 

Steve Thomas

[John Iacoletti]

Other than Butch Burroughs telling the Commission that part of his job was "taking tickets," you are technically correct that there is no direct evidence for the idea. In the sense of "technically correct" that makes other people roll their eyes comment as to how you're acting like a total dorkotronic unit.

I suppose it's less dorky to just assume stuff that you have no evidence for.  The WC was just being UN-dorkotronic.  Yeah, that's the ticket (pun intended).

Taking tickets, tearing them, then giving a punter the stub as a proof of purchase is a ubiquitous activity at theaters. That's because there are well-established practical reasons behind doing it that way: it's a cheap way to cancel the ticket (so it can't be re-used by  someone else) while leaving the customer a receipt proving that they are entitled to to whatever acccess/services granted by the ticket. Ubiquitous enough that it's reasonable to assume that the Texas Theatre did --especially if Burroughs was "taking tickets."

It seems to me that a person claiming that "Oswald didn't buy a ticket", would actually have a basis for that claim, rather than making a speculative argument from "ubiquity".  It would have been easy enough to ask Burroughs when they had him.

[John Iacoletti]

The first clue would be the radio reports Brewer said they were listening to about the murder(s), and cop cars with sirens blaring, flooding Oak Cliff.

Yes, if any of those radio reports had actually said that a suspect was at large.

What you got?

[John Iacoletti]

And this is where you produce a training manual of "suggestions" to support your ideas, but nowhere can you point out that the Dallas lineups were actually "unfair". Go figure.

As opposed to you just assuming that they were fair, because the dept of justice is in the habit of publishing unnecessary "suggestions" to make lineups more fair and less biased.

[John Iacoletti]

Thanks for your answer, Howard, but one question , "how do you know he went there to evade capture?" You wouldn't be guessing yet again, would you, Howard?

Of course he is.  Anybody can make an unsubstantiated guess about anything.  How about this guess?

Oswald went to the movies to see a movie.

[John Iacoletti]

He wanted money.

?Mr. BALL. And after you saw the police car go west with its siren on, why at the time the police car went west with its siren on, did you see the man that ducked? This man that you were----
Mrs. POSTAL. This man, yes; he ducked into the box office...?

That's a good trick, considering the ticket booth was sealed from the front.

[Walt Cakebread]

The best line in the thread so far:
Unlike you suckers we don't need a playbook.

 
Playbook? Ha ha ha, you would have needed a full Spring Training to pull off the crap that some of you crackbags have come up with in order for this Grand Conspiracy to have been executed. Playbook  . Thanks for the laugh. (LOL)

I didn't know that any of you patients needed anything to stimulate your laughter there at the Laughing Academy.....

[Mitch Todd]

I suppose it's less dorky to just assume stuff that you have no evidence for.  The WC was just being UN-dorkotronic.  Yeah, that's the ticket (pun intended).

As a variation on what I 'd said before (that you deleted for some mysterious reason), I have no evidence that tens of thousands of people got up this morning and commuted to work in their automobiles. Did it happen? Of course it did! It happens almost every weekday. It's such a common, regular occurrence that it can simply be assumed to occur daily outside of weekends, holidays, and some tiny population of truly extraordinary events. As such, it can safely assumed. The same goes for someone taking a theater ticket, tearing it in half, and handing the poor sucker a stub as proof of purchase. It's so common that if you want to argue that it didn't happen, you need to come up with some good reason to not expect it to have occurred.

It seems to me that a person claiming that "Oswald didn't buy a ticket", would actually have a basis for that claim, rather than making a speculative argument from "ubiquity".  It would have been easy enough to ask Burroughs when they had him.

You're kidding, right? The person who claimed that Oswald didn't buy a ticket was Julia Postal. She's the girl in the ticket booth selling tickets, so I figure that she'd  know firsthand whether she sold some guy a ticket better than an internet troll would 55 years later.

Evidence that Oswald didn't buy a ticket:
1. Julia Postal said he didn't
2. JC Brewer said he asked Postal, and her response was negative
3. No ticket was found on Oswald's person or belongings at or after he was arrested.

Evidence that Oswald bought a ticket:
none

Now, you tell me what happened, kiddo.