The whole damn narrative was assumed.
Well, according to some people here he was washing the blood off of his shoes at Markham's laundromat.
LOL I never heard that one of washing blood at Markhams washeteria before.
To me a direct run to the theatre and a killer on the run could act like that. As indirect as that 36 minutes not so likely though.
More likely a LHO lookalike used to set Oswald up and the lookalike slipped into one of his aquaintances nearby houses for
that 36 minutes - AND THEN to draw attention to the theatre - my pov anyway.
