Why did Oswald go to the movies?

[Mitch Todd]

He was 20 when he started work for Hardy's in 1961. This does not preclude a two-year hitch before this. He claimed to go to school, but can you support this claim with evidence?

Look at the testimony excerpt again. He graduated high school, spent a year at TSTC and another attending a different college before getting on at Hardy's. Unless he graduated high school a couple of years early, then there's no time for a two year enlistment. Then again, people who graduate early tend not to wind up selling shoes.

[Mitch Todd]

Actually, it's the "Oswald-Did-It"-ites who are like the Creationists.  They believe it because their book says so, and because an authority figure said so.

The WC report is based on hundreds, if not thousands, of interviews with eyewitnesses and experts. Pages and pages and pages of reports, photographs, schematics, and graphs, all of which were published alongside the report. Even if you disagree with it's conclusions, implying that the report is some work of faith completely misses reality.

And, by the way, you really stooped to the old "I know you are, but what am I?" Really? Sir, I'll have you know that I am of the finest quality Brazilian rubber while you are composed of cheap, gluten-based sticky-products. Your crap ricochets from me and adheres to your person.

So there. :-P

[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?

I was tempted to answer the question of Why did Oswald go to the movies? [/color with a flippant answer the first time I saw the post....Because only ONE person could answer that question...Lee Oswald.   

I was tempted to answer that he was looking for a cool  dark place to relax and rest when he decided to go to the theater.

And that answer could be as good as any....But I suspect there was a definite reason for Lee going immediately to the theater after leaving his room.   Based on the fact that there were three of Hoover's Extra Special, Special Agents  in that theater, I strongly suspect that Lee was told to go to the Texas Theater and await his contact.     

[John Iacoletti]

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.

I don't believe you've actually demonstrated that it's such a common occurrence -- especially in 1963 in Dallas.  Why make any assumptions one way or the other?

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.

No, I'm not kidding.  She told both Brewer and the FBI that she wasn't sure if she did or not.

And if you can't actually demonstrate that any patron got a ticket stub, then your observation that no ticket was found is not dispositive.  Nor can you rule out the possibility of a ticket being thrown on the floor or in the trash.  At best you can say that there is insufficient evidence to conclude that Oswald did or did not buy a ticket.

Did the guy who bought popcorn from Burroughs at 1:07 also sneak in without buying a ticket?

[John Iacoletti]

The WC report is based on hundreds, if not thousands, of interviews with eyewitnesses and experts. Pages and pages and pages of reports, photographs, schematics, and graphs, all of which were published alongside the report.

Yes, hundreds, if not thousands of exhibits and testimony that don't support the conclusions that were made.

Therein lies the faith.

And, by the way, you really stooped to the old "I know you are, but what am I?" Really? Sir, I'll have you know that I am of the finest quality Brazilian rubber while you are composed of cheap, gluten-based sticky-products. Your crap ricochets from me and adheres to your person.

 

[Howard Gee]

Did the guy who bought popcorn from Burroughs at 1:07 also sneak in without buying a ticket?

No, he paid for his ticket.

The guy that murdered Tippit and assassinated JFK snuck in.

[John Iacoletti]

No, he paid for his ticket.

Cool, because Burroughs said that was Oswald.

The guy that murdered Tippit and assassinated JFK snuck in.

If only something became a fact just because Howard believes it.

[Walt Cakebread]

No, he paid for his ticket.

The guy that murdered Tippit and assassinated JFK snuck in.

The guy that murdered Tippit and assassinated JFK snuck in.

Riiiiiight.....  The guy wanted to be sure to call attention to himself by committing a petty misdemeanor crime ....

Is this rational thinking?   But let's take one step at a time....

How do you know for a FACT  that the guy that murdered Tippit was in that theater??