There's a strange trend among LN's, which is to ignore all the evidence in favor of Oswald's innocence, in favor of pegging Oswald as the killer. That makes no sense at all. Especially when there's more evidence in support of innocence than guilt. In fact, it's safe to say the majority of evidence for guilt shows signs of being planted /fabricated.
So let's look at evidence that exonerated Oswald and has been habitually ignored by so many people, including the Warren Commission, in favor of making Oswald.the assassin. And maybe we can figure out why so many people are willing to betray their own common sense to believe ridiculous nonsense and impossibilities.
To believe Oswald was the assassin is to believe he wanted to be caught, since he worked a lot harder to leave evidence everywhere than he did trying to escape. He may as well have left an admission written on his birth certificate along with everything else. But did the evidence really stack up against him?
1. Testing of the 6th floor rifle by Army marksmen and FBI experts.
The marksmen & experts who tested the rifle both came to the same conclusion, that the rifle was UNUSABLE. Here's what they had to say.
Warren Commission Hearings, vol 3, page 405.
The FBI specialist said... “Every time we changed the adjusting screws to move the crosshairs in the telescopic sight in one direction it also affected the movement of the impact or the point of impact in the other direction. … We fired several shots and found that the shots were not all landing in the same place, but were gradually moving away from the point of impact.”
Warren Commission Hearings, vol 3, page 443.
“They [the US Army marksmen] could not sight the weapon in using the telescope, and no attempt was made to sight it in using the iron sight. We did adjust the telescopic sight by the addition of two shims, one which tended to adjust the azimuth, and one which adjusted an elevation.”
Warren Commission Hearings, vol 3, page page 449.
Problems with the bolt and the trigger mechanism: “There were several comments made — particularly with respect to the amount of effort required to open the bolt. … There was also comment made about the trigger pull … in the first stage the trigger is relatively free, and it suddenly required a greater pull to actually fire the weapon.”
Warren Commission Hearings, vol 3, page 451.
“The pressure to open the bolt was so great that that we tended to move the rifle off the target.”
That might not seem like important evidence to some, but if you were being accused of murder you didn't commit, would you want that evidence ignored? Especially since it shows the improbability of firing that gun 3 times in 8.31 seconds accurately. That's a big deal if you're the accused.
2. The Paraffin tests that proved Oswald's innocence.
Why would anyone ignore this evidence? Would you be comfortable with it if you were wrongly accused or framed for murder? Evidence showing you never fired a gun would be pretty important to your case, wouldn't it?
The first 2 Paraffin tests were Spectrographic analysis & Neutron Activation analysis. The first is a basic test considered reliable for all criminal investigations. The second test is even more reliable since it's capable of identifying the presence of substances in quantities too small to be captured by spectrographic analysis. That test required the use of a nuclear reactor, thus was carried out for the FBI at a reactor owned by the Atomic Energy Commission. The results of that test were hidden until two decades after the assassination, and were only made public as the result of a court case, (Weisberg v. ERDA and the Department of Justice, Civil Action 75–226). Those results are in the Harold Weisberg archive.
Why would the FBI want to hide those results from the public? Does anyone think the FBI would have hidden them if it had proved his guilt?
Barium & Antimony are two substances authorities look for when testing for gunpowder residue. According to an FBI memo, “The results show Punctate traces of nitrate found in the paraffin on the right and left hands consistent with that of a person who handled or fired a firearm. The paraffin of right check [sic] showed no traces of nitrate.” File # 62-109060-8 FBI HQ JFK Assassination.
Ah, so it sounds like he was guilty. But what the FBI failed to mention was that barium and antimony are also found in several common substances such as printing ink used for books. And Oswald most certainly handled books on the morning of the assassination. So the presence of those substances on his hands wasn't sufficient evidence of having fired a gun, but their absence on his cheek was sufficient evidence of having not fired a gun.
The absence of residue on Oswald's face meant he had not fired a rifle that day. And that would be the most important piece of evidence you could hope for if you were wrongly accused of murder. To have the FBI ignore and hide it in favor of manufacturing guilt is most certainly a crime, as well as an obstruction of justice. And it's one of the only reasons the FBI wanted to hide that test.
The other reason is because it not only proves Oswald innocence, but add it to all the other things the FBI & Police stated & used to show guilt, it reveals just how far these men of law went to frame an innocent man, American citizen and United States Marine.
The third Paraffin test was done on 7 marksmen who fired similar rifles to that of the 6th floor one. And all 7 showed substantial traces of residue on both their hands and cheeks.
Those facts alone are enough to absolve anyone of a crime, including you. And for anyone to ignore them for any reason, let alone the sake of being right, is a travesty. Furthermore, it should have never been ignored by the WC or the ARRB, but is, even til this day. That speaks volumes.
3. Run in with officer Baker on 2nd floor
This one should be common sense. In officer Baker's own testimony to the Warren Commission, he ran into in Oswald roughly 1 minute 20 seconds after the shooting on the 2nd floor, also noting that Oswald wasn't out of breath.
The TSBD is a seven floor building w/ roof access from both inside and outside. The stairwell is located in the northwest corner with each floor containing 25 feet of stairs. (7 floors = 175 ft)
The alleged snipers nest is on the 6th floor at the southeast corner, approximately 100 feet from the stairwell, and also contained significant obstacles in between, such as stacks of books & boxes.
Now a person could descend 5 flights of stairs (125ft) in 50 to 60 seconds at a fast pace, but not without exhibiting significant signs of heavy breathing. Adrenaline is also a major factor in increasing breath & heart rate.
Having just shot a president from a visible position with crowds of onlookers would trigger a rush of adrenaline before running across 100 feet of obstacles to carefully hide a weapon and run down 5 flights of stairs at top speed. Vital signs would be significantly raised to a visible state (e.g. heart rate, breath, sweat).
The claim that Oswald was able to fire an unusable gun 3 times in 8.31 seconds accurately, run through 100 feet of obstacles, hide the rifle, descend 125 feet of an old world staircase without being seen by any other co-workers, run another 15 feet to the break room, then encounter officer Baker in less than 1 minute 30 seconds without exhibiting any signs of adrenaline, heavy breathing, or sweating, and without accumulating so much as a single spec of gunshot residue on his cheeks… it just isn’t feasible. Not by any means.
And for anyone to ignore their common sense in favor of believing that nonsense is not only an insult to their own intelligence but damage to their credibility. We're all adults, and fairy tales should be left to kids.
If anyone would like to see how ridiculous other claims were I'll leave this valuable information to use. Keep in mind this doesn’t account for any obstacles such as red lights, which usually take 60 to 90 seconds. Encountering a red light at any or every block could add 1 to 10 minutes of extra time. Crowds of people would significantly slow a person down as well.
Walking Distance & Times
½ block = 0.025 miles (132 ft / 0.04 km) 30 seconds
1 block = 0.05 miles (264 ft / 0.08 km) 1 minute
5 blocks = 0.25 miles (1320 ft / 0.4 km) 5 minutes
10 blocks = 0.50 miles (2,640 ft / 0.8 km) 10 minutes
20 blocks = 1.0 mile (5,280 ft / 1.6 km) 20 minutes
