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In reply to the discussion: Those who demand that everyone "just ACCEPT that Oswald did it"... [View all]stopbush
(24,398 posts)Because the evidence he did it is air-tight:
1. he owned the rifle. Serial number was traced back to the store he bought it from in Chicago, who shipped it to Oswald's post box. Handwriting on Oswald's gun order matched definitively to his handwriting
2. ammo cartridges used were purchased by Oswald from the Western Cartridge Company, who were even able to supply the FBI with cartridges from the same lot sold to Oswald to use in later tests of Oswald's rifle
3. rifle had Oswald's fingerprints and palm prints on it. Palm print was found on a place on the rifle where it could only have been placed when rifle was disassembled
4. no other fingerprints were found on Oswald's rifle but his
5. striations on bullet CE399 (stretcher bullet) matched to Oswald's rifle to the exclusion of every other firearm in the world
6. lead fragments recovered from Connally and bullet fragments recovered in limo from shot to JFK's head matched to Oswald's rifle to the exclusion of all other firearms in the world
7. 3 spent shells found in sniper's nest matched to Oswald's rifle to exclusion of all other weapons in the world
8. Oswald's fingerprints found in and around sniper's nest, including on boxes used to construct sniper's nest
9. Oswald positively identified as shooter by eyewitnesses on the street who saw him shooting the rifle
10. empty Dr Pepper bottle found near sniper's nest (Oswald drank a lot of DP)
11. Ear witnesses on 5th floor below sniper's nest heard shots and spent shells hitting the floor above them
12. paper bag used to bring rifle (curtain rods) to TSBD found on 6th floor. Paper bag was plainly seen by Frazier, who drove Oswald to work that day
I could go on.
So, we add all that up, and you say it doesn't prove Oswald was the shooter. I would guess that were any ONE of those things found to be true about any other person, you CTists would be shouting from the rooftops that you'd finally identified the "real shooter."
But in your conspiracy diseased mind, Oswald owned the rifle, built the sniper's nest, spent the entire day on the sixth floor of the TSBD, all the time waiting for someone else to come along and use his rifle to kill JFK, and without getting any of THEIR fingerprints on the rifle or the sniper's nest in the process. Then, Oswald takes the rifle from the real shooter, hides it behind some boxes, races down to the lunchroom - while the real shooter miraculously vanishes into thin air - and then flees the crime scene because he didn't just shoot JFK, it was someone else using his rifle.
Sounds logical.