Oswald's sack in the Sniper's nest.

[Walt Cakebread]

A sign in Nowhere, Special -----showing Chapman's contribution to this forum....

LOL !....  An appropriate road side sign for Chappie.....   That's what he contributes, because that's what he knows about the case.

[Jerry Freeman]

  Maybe he doesn't want to be heard tearing the bag open just before he is getting ready to assassinate the president. 

Keep 'em coming.

[John Iacoletti]

Somewhere there is a report of cigarette butts being picked up in the imaginary "Sniper's Nest".....

If you ever manage to find that, I’d sure like to see it.

[Colin Crow]

I can't understand how the bag being open at one end somehow lends itself to the conclusion that Oswald did not carry the rifle in it.  When the bag was constructed at the TSBD, Oswald would have, by necessity, left one end unsealed in order to put the rifle in it later.  Maybe he discovers there is no tape to seal it in the Paine's garage after putting the rifle in it.  Or maybe he just decides to fold that end down and carry the bag upright.  Most people don't seal their lunch bag shut in fear of the contents spilling out.  It suffices to fold the open end down and then not hold it upside down.  Gravity takes care of the rest.  Maybe he doesn't want to be heard tearing the bag open just before he is getting ready to assassinate the president.  Lots of plausible reasons.  We can't know for sure, but it doesn't seem like a big deal in terms of whether Oswald carried the rifle in the bag.

Sure, just let gravity do it’s thing. Just hope you don’t trip and all the bits fall out. 

Then gravity is his enemy. There was twine on the blanket as a backup. Do you think he used that?

[John Iacoletti]

When the bag was constructed at the TSBD, Oswald would have, by necessity, left one end unsealed in order to put the rifle in it later.

And your evidence that Oswald constructed a bag at the TSBD would be...?

<crickets>

[John Iacoletti]

After all, she bathed the little prick until age 11.

Why are you so infatuated with that story? You bring it up on a regular basis.

Are you jealous?

[Walt Cakebread]

If you ever manage to find that, I’d sure like to see it.

Is it really crucial?   Common sense tells you that they picked up that empty cigarette package at the "crime sense" .     That would indicate that someone was smoking .....and if they were smoking there were probably cigarette butts.    But I knew about the gathering of the cigarette butts from the "sniper's Nest" long before I realized that Johnson was carrying the empty package.    ( Perhaps the fact that I knew they had gathered cigarette butts was what caused me to notice Johnson carrying the empty package)   Ya Know John...It's possible that I read about the gathering of the cig butts in a newspaper or magazine article.....And I would never be able to recall where I had read that tidbit of information.

[Bill Chapman]

A sign in Nowhere, Special -----showing Chapman's contribution to this forum....

And yet here you are...