24. In the same vein, although Oswald applied for his job at the Book Depository Building with Roy Truly on October 15, the Depository had two buildings, the one at Houston and Elm that everyone knows about, and another building called the ?Warehouse,? located at 1917 Houston, a building that was larger than the one at Houston and Elm but with two fewer stories.*The Warehouse was not on the parade route, being about four blocks north of the Book Depository Building. (Indeed, at that time in 1963, Houston Street became unpaved one block north of Elm.) Truly just as well could have assigned Oswald to work in the building at 1917 Houston as at the building at Houston and Elm. ?I might have sent Oswald to work in a warehouse two blocks away,? Truly said. ?Oswald and another fellow reported for work on the same day [October 15] and I needed one of them for the depository building. I picked Oswald.? Truly said he ?hired? the other ?boy? for the Warehouse.64 Neither Oswald nor the supposed conspirators behind him could have possibly known or foreseen which building Truly would have assigned Oswald to. And if Truly had sent Oswald to 1917 Houston, Kennedy would not have passed under Oswald?s window and there wouldn?t have been an assassination. What type of massive conspiracy by the CIA, mob, et cetera, to murder Kennedy would be completely dependent on what building Truly assigned the assassin to? I mean, would any group of conspirators choose a location for killing Kennedy that depended on an arbitrary decision such as this one that was wholly beyond its control? Of course, we could make Roy Truly part of the conspiracy to kill Kennedy, something that would be perfectly all right with the conspiracy theorists.
It should be noted further that, as we saw in this book, there is absolutely no evidence that any group such as the CIA or mob had anything to do with Oswald getting a job at the Book Depository Building, the building that literally enabled Oswald to successfully kill Kennedy.
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JohnM
Since this was a conspiracy, everyone associated with LHO being at the right place at the right time (as the patsy) was part of the conspiracy. This includes Ruth Paine who got him the job at the TSBD and was obviously 1 of his handlers. Whoever else was involved with LHO working at the TSBD (owned by oilman D. Harold Byrd) on Nov 22, 1963 was also a conspirator, which includes Truly. But these low level conspirators probably were never informed what they were conspiring to do, right up to the fateful day. They had their orders to handle LHO and set him up in a designated spot, which just happened to overlook the motorcade where JFK would be handed to him on a silver platter.
So why then did Oswald wait 8 seconds after the limo's turn onto Elm before taking his 1st shot? He had JFK at a full stop, 60 feet in front of him, dead to rights.
