OK...Is it possible to graduate from junior high school here and dispense with the impiety?
If folks here are inclined to believe that Oswald was a jerk [like they really knew him and hung out with him] this would still be immaterial to the facts. Any motive involved with these facts is pure guess work.
A word about landladys.... I've had my experiences with them and they all went south for me. One was a snoop entering the place [for no other reason than to poke around] while I was gone to work. Another was completely batty and would knock on the door in the middle of the night to voice various complaints. Ultimately I discovered the joy of owning my own home ;DNah.
Also...why would Oswald lie about changing his shirt?
It's not that I believe that St. Oswald the Patsy was a jerk it's the view of many of those who knew him that he was a jerk. Most of the Russian expatriates who got to know St. Oswald the Patsy thought so. His wife Marina thought so on many occasions. Ruth and Michael Paine didn't think very highly of him. His fellow workers at Jaggars, Chiles and Stovall didn't think very highly of him. He was thrown out of the Cuban Embassy in MC by Azcue for being a jerk. He was both physically and mentally abusive with Marina. The letter he sent from Russia to his brother Robert declaring that he thought of both he and his mother as just workers and had no personal attachments to them and that he was willing to even kill his own brother if Robert put on a uniform and fought against the Soviet state (or something to that effect), that's a profound testament to jerkiness (and I'm putting it mildly).
Now, to Mrs. Bledsoe. It does appear to me that attacking the messenger is the only option you have in order to discredit her testimony. But you fail miserably on that account because her testimony is unassailable. It's also pathetic and inconsiderate to assail the woman's character in order to cover for a miserable individual such as St. Oswald the Patsy.
