Why did Oswald go to the movies?

[Richard Smith]

I don't care what somebody in the thread was guessing.

Focus: Who told dispatch the suspect was hiding in the balcony?

That's the interesting question. If not Postal somebody else called in or furnished that info.

Police reports confirm arriving officers (front) were directed, possibly by Postal, to the balcony.

BALL, in his continued line of failures, failed to settle that issue leaving the possibility open that Oswald was set up at the TT.

You've read this one by Detective Toney?

https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark%3A/67531/metapth337070/

Who was the manager on duty?

Who was the young man on top of stairs?

Did suspect pass man on stairs and if so when?

Have you seen any of those (or similar) questions asked by the WC?

We know Postal called the police.  We know she thought the man was in the balcony because he had not been seen by Burroughs in the lobby and she knew from past experience that a way to avoid Burroughs was to head directly up the stairs upon entering the TT to the balcony.  She made a logical inference that may or may not have been correct.  Oswald very well could have gone up to the balcony and cut across to avoid the lobby and Burroughs.  So Postal is the obvious source of the balcony report.   

[Rob Caprio]

Brewer said he "couldn't see anything upstairs."  That can mean it was too dark to tell whether Oswald was there or not.  All it means is that they didn't see Oswald anywhere - upstairs or down in a dark theater.  But they knew he had gone in and somehow got past Burroughs without being noticed. Postal knew from experience that it was possible to elude Burroughs in the foyer by heading up the balcony stairs upon entering the theatre because some kids had apparently done that in the past.  It seems entirely reasonable that this became the basis of the balcony report.   

If only you had evidence for your story.

[Richard Smith]

If only you had evidence for your story.

It's in her testimony.  Clear as day.  She thought the man had gone to the balcony because Burroughs did not see him pass through the lobby.  Burroughs came to the same conclusion as he confirmed in his testimony.  Postal called the police.  The police received a report that the man was in the balcony.  2+2=4.

[Rob Caprio]

Cases are solved by professional investigators trained to recognise significant details but also to consider how people react and behave and not to get lost in minutiae, not by online amateur sleuths looking for things which they think supports their beliefs.

Looking at the minutiae is not on its own an issue but each detail should not be viewed in isolation but should be viewed with an over view and feeling for the bigger picture and how people act in difficult situations.

This is your fancy way of saying that you have no answers or supporting evidence.

[Rob Caprio]

The WC was flawed and there were clearly attempts to cover things up. That doesn't mean necessarily that there was a conspiracy before the event, nor that the overall conclusion of the WC, that LHO acted alone, is wrong.

I judge from what I see and read on here and elsewhere.

Covering things up equals conspiracy. If it happened the way the WC claimed then there would have been no need to cover anything up.

[Rob Caprio]

We know Postal called the police.  We know she thought the man was in the balcony because he had not been seen by Burroughs in the lobby and she knew from past experience that a way to avoid Burroughs was to head directly up the stairs upon entering the TT to the balcony.  She made a logical inference that may or may not have been correct.  Oswald very well could have gone up to the balcony and cut across to avoid the lobby and Burroughs.  So Postal is the obvious source of the balcony report.

So what made him a suspect? Supposedly sneaking into a theater?

[Rob Caprio]

It's in her testimony.  Clear as day.  She thought the man had gone to the balcony because Burroughs did not see him pass through the lobby.  Burroughs came to the same conclusion as he confirmed in his testimony.  Postal called the police.  The police received a report that the man was in the balcony.  2+2=4.

Except for  -- what part of this tale made him a "suspect?"

[Ray Mitcham]

Julia Postal said that Oswald had a panicked look on his face "Mrs. POSTAL. Yes; and when the sirens went by he had a panicked look on his face, and he ducked in" as he passed her yet  she didn't see him go past her.
"Mr. BALL. And you didn't see him actually enter the theatre then?
Mrs. POSTAL. No, sir.
Mr. BALL. You hadn't seen him go by you?
Mrs. POSTAL. I knew he didn't go by me, because I was facing west, and Johnny, he had come up from east which meant he didn't go back that way. He had come from east going west. "

If she didn't see him go past her, how could she see he had a panicked look on his face?