Touring the Tippit Scene

[Walt Cakebread]

Excellent, Mr I.....  Thanks for posting that photo.   It's hard to imagine that Butch Burroughs could fail to see anybody climbing those stairs to the balcony.  And Lee wasn't encountered in the balcony.....so he had to have walked across the floor in front of the concession counter,  to the doors that opened into the main floor seating area.  IOW.... Lee never sneaked into the theater.

   

[Richard Smith]

Excellent, Mr I.....  Thanks for posting that photo.   It's hard to imagine that Butch Burroughs could fail to see anybody climbing those stairs to the balcony.  And Lee wasn't encountered in the balcony.....so he had to have walked across the floor in front of the concession counter,  to the doors that opened into the main floor seating area.  IOW.... Lee never sneaked into the theater.

 

What manner of logic is that? And what point you are trying to make?  We know Oswald was in the theatre.  However he got there he was apparently not seen.  Or do you think Burroughs was in on the plot and lying? Postal confirmed that Oswald bought no ticket.  Burroughs did not take any ticket from him.  Oswald had no movie ticket in his possession.  But he is found in the movie theatre.

[Walt Cakebread]

What manner of logic is that? And what point you are trying to make?  We know Oswald was in the theatre.  However he got there he was apparently not seen.  Or do you think Burroughs was in on the plot and lying? Postal confirmed that Oswald bought no ticket.  Burroughs did not take any ticket from him.  Oswald had no movie ticket in his possession.  But he is found in the movie theatre.

Where do you get your information? Anal extraction?

Postal confirmed that Oswald bought no ticket. Huh??.... Postal didn't even know who Johnny Brewer was referring to when he asked Postal if she had sold the man a ticket.

 Burroughs did not take any ticket from him.  Again You distort....Burroughs didn't recall taking a ticket from Lee...

Oswald had no movie ticket in his possession.     Really?? how do you know that?.....Apparently Capt. Fritz didn't know that because he never asked Lee if he'd bought a ticket. 

[John Iacoletti]

What manner of logic is that? And what point you are trying to make?  We know Oswald was in the theatre.  However he got there he was apparently not seen.  Or do you think Burroughs was in on the plot and lying? Postal confirmed that Oswald bought no ticket.  Burroughs did not take any ticket from him.  Oswald had no movie ticket in his possession.  But he is found in the movie theatre.

Postal told bother Brewer and the FBI that she wasn’t sure if she sold him a ticket or not.

[John Iacoletti]

Postal confirmed that Oswald bought no ticket. Huh??.... Postal didn't even know who Johnny Brewer was referring to when he asked Postal if she had sold the man a ticket.

Exactly right. She said “what man?”

[John Iacoletti]

Excellent picture.  Any idea if there was another set of stairs that would have enabled someone to cross the balcony area and exit out of sight of the lobby and enter the main lower seating area where Oswald was found?

I believe so. If this drawing from Armstrong is accurate, then there was another set of stairs on the north side that came down into the theater area.

[Charles Collins]

I believe so. If this drawing from Armstrong is accurate, then there was another set of stairs on the north side that came down into the theater area.

Interesting layout. So someone who was familiar with the theater layout would know that sneaking past Postal made it possible to bypass the concession stand by going up the stairs to the balcony first. (No wonder there was a bunch of high school boys playing hooky in the balcony; have one of the group buy a ticket and distract Postal while the others sneak in.) And then by using the northern set of stairs, someone could enter the main floor seating area. LHO had lived in the neighborhood before, and was most likely familiar with the Texas Theater.

[Martin Weidmann]

Interesting layout. So someone who was familiar with the theater layout would know that sneaking past Postal made it possible to bypass the concession stand by going up the stairs to the balcony first. (No wonder there was a bunch of high school boys playing hooky in the balcony; have one of the group buy a ticket and distract Postal while the others sneak in.) And then by using the northern set of stairs, someone could enter the main floor seating area. LHO had lived in the neighborhood before, and was most likely familiar with the Texas Theater.

LHO had lived in the neighborhood before, and was most likely familiar with the Texas Theater.

Why do you constantly make assumptions? I lived near a theater for the better part of 20 years. I was never there and don't know the first thing about the interior. So, what makes you assume that Oswald was familiar with the theater?