The fixation on witness discrepancies while ignoring the elephant in the room is a common trait of many CTers. There is no doubt that Oswald was at his boardinghouse. There is no doubt that he was the Tippit scene with a gun at the time the crime was committed. Several different witnesses place him there. He literally committed the crime in broad daylight on a public street in the presence of numerous witnesses. He is still holding the smoking gun. He is arrested with this gun a short distance away after random citizens reported him acting suspiciously. He had the exact same two brands of ammo when arrested that were used to murder Tippit. So unlucky! Endless pedantic nitpicking of testimony and subjective interpretation of those witness recollections to reach a desired outcome in a desperate attempt to suggest false doubt is not a compelling way to rebut the evidence. It is a good way, however, to take every single thread on this forum down the same rabbit hole.
He had the exact same two brands of ammo when arrested that were used to murder Tippit. So unlucky!
Revolver Cartridges and Cartridge CasesWhen Oswald was arrested six live cartridges were found in the revolver. 63 Three were Western .38 Specials, loaded with copper-coated lead bullets, and three were Remington-Peters .38 Specials, loaded with lead bullets. 64 Five additional live cartridges were found in Oswald's pocket, 65 all of which were Western .38 Specials, loaded with copper-coated bullets. 66 The Western and Remington-Peters .88 Special cartridges are virtually identical--the copper coating on the Western bullets is not a full jacket, but only a gilding metal, put on principally for sales appeal. 67
Four expended cartridge cases were found near the site of the Tippit killing. 68 Two of these cartridge cases were Remington-Peters .38 Specials and two were Western .38 Specials. 69 Based on a comparison with test cartridge cases fired in the V510210 revolver, the four cartridge cases were identified as having been fired in the V510210 revolver. https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report/appendix-10.html#revbulBtw another interesting factoid is Oswald's revolver was rechambered and not rebarrelled, meaning the bullets fired were difficult to link back to the original weapon, which leads to the question, why set up Oswald with a weapon of this type?? The only person who would use a weapon which could not be easily matched up to the gun would be a ruthless murderer who intended to have the least amount of linking evidence!
JohnM
