CT's, in court how would you defend Oswald?

[John Iacoletti]

Marina said a lot of things.

Marina Oswald Porter's Statements of a Contradictory Nature

[Anthony Clayden]

Quick initial thoughts on how to go about defending LHO...
(I'm not a pre shooting CTer (LHO may have been the shooter), but definitely think the post shooting investigations were corrupted.)

Firstly I would apply to get a Bench trial but failing that, seek to load jury with vehemently anti catholic jury, in 60's Dallas, you must just luck out with a juror who thought it was good Kennedy was gone.
If jury trial, it would be, "if the trip don't fit, he couldn't do the hit."
Seek to show an early exit from Adams and Styles, and that Garner was blocking his descent. Also highlight the evidence he had already purchased the Coke before meeting Baker.
Throw as much suspicion onto Dougherty as possible, get him on the stand and put a series of questions to play to the jury the possibility of him being the assassin. His answers to the WC are so bad and jumbled, that under a real trial condition, a skilled lawyer could make him look very guilty.
Buell and his sister to throw doubt on the bag length.
Connally and his wife to increase doubt as to the number of bullets. try to establish 4 bullets, and that therefore whatever happened it was more organized than Oswald could have managed.

[John Iacoletti]

To defend Oswald, all you have to do is show that:

- Nobody can reliably place Oswald on the 6th floor during the shooting or at anytime after 11:50
- Even Brennan failed to identify Oswald at the lineup and then changed his mind after being pressured by the FBI
- Brennan couldn't have observed a shooter taking aim for the head shot from the alleged window "from the belt up" nor could he discern said shooter's height, weight, age, and clothing from that position, which would necessarily be crouched in the corner behind boxes.
- Carl Day's story about the magic palmprint does not comport with the observations of Drain and Latona and therefore there is no reliable evidence that Oswald ever touched the supposed murder weapon
- There is no evidence that the long bag was in the alleged sniper's nest when it was initially discovered, or that CE139 or any rifle was ever inside it.
- No documented chains of custody for the supposed limo "fragments".
- No documented chain of custody for the intact bullet found on an unrelated stretcher at Parkland Hospital.
- No blood or tissue on the intact bullet found on an unrelated stretcher at Parkland Hospital.
- And therefore no good reason to think that CE139 was necessarily even the murder weapon.
- Another expert handwriting "analyst" engaged by the defense to opine that the handwriting on the copy of the Klein's coupon either doesn't match or is indeterminate
- Cheek paraffin tests were negative for firing a rifle
- Dougherty said Oswald was empty-handed when he entered the building

[Charles Collins]

To defend Oswald, all you have to do is show that:

- Nobody can reliably place Oswald on the 6th floor during the shooting or at anytime after 11:50
- Even Brennan failed to identify Oswald at the lineup and then changed his mind after being pressured by the FBI
- Brennan couldn't have observed a shooter taking aim for the head shot from the alleged window "from the belt up" nor could he discern said shooter's height, weight, age, and clothing from that position, which would necessarily be crouched in the corner behind boxes.
- Carl Day's story about the magic palmprint does not comport with the observations of Drain and Latona and therefore there is no reliable evidence that Oswald ever touched the supposed murder weapon
- There is no evidence that the long bag was in the alleged sniper's nest when it was initially discovered, or that CE139 or any rifle was ever inside it.
- No documented chains of custody for the supposed limo "fragments".
- No documented chain of custody for the intact bullet found on an unrelated stretcher at Parkland Hospital.
- No blood or tissue on the intact bullet found on an unrelated stretcher at Parkland Hospital.
- And therefore no good reason to think that CE139 was necessarily even the murder weapon.
- Another expert handwriting "analyst" engaged by the defense to opine that the handwriting on the copy of the Klein's coupon either doesn't match or is indeterminate
- Cheek paraffin tests were negative for firing a rifle
- Dougherty said Oswald was empty-handed when he entered the building

Based on my mock-up, this is the view that Brennan had:

[Gary Craig]

Based on my mock-up, this is the view that Brennan had:

If that's Ozzie wouldn't he be about 3 feet tall?

[Charles Collins]

If that's Ozzie wouldn't he be about 3 feet tall?

Eye level for a 5’-9” person sitting on a box that is 1’-1” high is approximately 3’ above finished floor. This is based on measurements made on myself.

[Gary Craig]

[Charles Collins]

That is from a different angle than Brennan’s. Here is my mock-up from roughly the same angle: