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The Warren Commission (WC) claimed Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) shot and killed both President John F. Kennedy (JFK) and Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit (JDT) on November 22, 1963. In an effort to prove he acted alone, and with NO help from anyone else, they included an entire “Rumors and Speculation” section to their Report (WCR) to quell any notion of a conspiracy in the murder of JFK.
This post will look at some of their claims in regards to various “speculations”.
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The WCR included in Appendix XII a section dedicated to various speculations about the assassination of JFK and the murder of JDT. The first one was regarding the source of the shots.
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Speculation.—The shots that killed the President came from the railroad overpass above the triple underpass.
Commission finding.—The shots that entered the neck and head of the President and wounded Governor Connally came from behind and above. There is NO evidence that any shots were fired at the President from anywhere other than the Texas School Book Depository Building (TSBD). (WCR, pp. 639-640) (Emphasis added)
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This is a false claim by the WC as their twenty-six volumes of Hearings & Exhibits contain evidence of shots being fired from other places than the TSBD. Why are they saying witness testimony and affidavits are NOT evidence? Numerous witnesses placed the wound in JFK’s head in the right-rear portion of his head; and numerous witnesses said they thought the shots originated from the Grassy Knoll (GK)/Triple underpass area. Their statement above was made in DIRECT OPPOSTION to their OWN evidence. Why were they ignoring this evidence? Because it did NOT point to the pre-conceived conclusion they were following which the FBI gave them in their report dated November 29, 1963.
The next speculation listed by the WC was this one.
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Speculation.—The railroad overpass was left unguarded on November 22.
Commission finding.—On November 22 the railroad overpass was guarded by two Dallas policemen, Patrolmen J.W. Foster and J.C. White, who have testified that they permitted only railroad personnel on the overpass. (WCR, p. 640)
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J.C. White said this during his WC testimony about their orders on November 22, 1963.
Mr. BALL. You had certain instructions, didn't you?
Mr. WHITE. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. What were they?
Mr. WHITE. Not to let any unauthorized personnel on top of the overpass.
Mr. BALL. Now, you did permit some people to stay on the overpass, didn't you?
Mr. WHITE. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. Who were they?
Mr. WHITE. Workers of the railroad company.
Mr. BALL. Were they people you knew?
Mr. WHITE. No, sir.
Does the obvious jump out at you too? If people could have fake Secret Service (SS) identification (as seen by a number of witnesses), why could they NOT have fake railroad identification? Since White did not know these people how did he know they actually worked for the railroad? In fact, it seems the issue of identification was NOT even an issue for most of them.
Mr. BALL. Well, how did you know they were workers with the railroad company?
Mr. WHITE. Majority of them were there when we got there, working on the rails.
Mr. BALL. And you let them stay there?
Mr. WHITE. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. How many people?
Mr. WHITE. About 10, approximately. I didn't count them.
So the majority of the 10 people (approximately) were already there and did NOT show any identification based on his testimony as he just “allowed them to stay”. What would have stopped an assassin from donning railroad clothes and joining them? He could have said he was new and sent that day to help them. Nothing from what I can see here based on White’s testimony. Let’s look at Foster’s testimony about this issue.
Mr. BALL - Now, you had instructions to keep all unauthorized personnel off of that overpass?
Mr. FOSTER - Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL - Did you do that?
Mr. FOSTER - Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL - Did you permit some people to be there?
Mr. FOSTER - Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL - Who?
Mr. FOSTER - People that were working for the railroad there.
Mr. BALL - Were there many people?
Mr. FOSTER - About 10 or 11.
We see the same information being given here by Foster. About 10-11 people were allowed to stay on the overpass because they supposedly all worked for the railroad, but what we don’t see is any questions about checking their identification to make sure. Why NOT? Foster will claim they are all in front of him, but how do we know this is true and that he kept an eye on them all the time? We don’t of course. The fact anyone was allowed to stay on that overpass with a motorcade coming is quite surprising and then we have to add in the FACT no one was really checked to see if they belonged there based on the testimony of Foster and White. So we see the claim of the WC is false again since they could NOT show that Foster and White ONLY allowed railroad personnel on the overpass at the time of the assassination.
Here is another claim by the WC that is false.
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Speculation.—There are witnesses who alleged that the shots came from the overpass.
Commission finding.—The Commission does not have knowledge of any witness who SAW shots fired from the overpass. (Ibid.) (Emphasis added)
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Notice the trickery of the WC here as they made it about SEEING SHOTS BEING FIRED from the overpass when that was NOT what the “speculation” said. Quite a few witnesses did NOT allege that shots came from the overpass, but instead said this is where they thought the shots originated from. Here is but one example.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you have any idea where they were coming from?
Mrs. BAKER. Well, the way it sounded--it sounded like it was coming from-- there was a railroad track that runs behind the building--there directly behind the building and around, so I guess it would be by the underpass, the triple underpass, and there is a railroad track that runs back out there and there was a train that looked like a circus train as well as I can remember now, back there, and we all ran to the plaza--the little thing there I guess you call it a plaza-back behind there this other girl and I almost ran back over there and looked and we didn't see anything.
By changing this testimony from being the area for the source of the shots to them “SEEING” shots fired from the overpass the WC changed the whole conclusion from what their OWN evidence showed. If you are searching for the truth there is NO need for trickery like this.
They also told a false claim in this “Commission finding.”
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Speculation.—A bullet was found on the stretcher used for President Kennedy at Parkland Hospital.
Commission finding.—No bullet was found on the stretcher used by President Kennedy. An almost whole bullet was found when it rolled off the stretcher used by Governor Connally. (WCR, p. 641)
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This is again totally at odds with their own evidence as Darrell Tomlinson would NOT say the whole bullet he found was on the stretcher Governer John B. Connally (JBC) had been on (he also would NOT say Commission Exhibit (CE) 399 was the bullet that he found). Here is the portion from his testimony before the WC that shows this.
Mr. SPECTER. And where did you push it to?
Mr. TOMLINSON. I pushed it back up against the wall.
Mr. SPECTER. What, if anything, happened then?
Mr. TOMLINSON. I bumped the wall and a spent cartridge or bullet rolled out that apparently had been lodged under the edge of the mat.
Mr. SPECTER. And that was from which stretcher?
Mr. TOMLINSON. I believe that it was "B".
Stretcher “B” was the stretcher that was already there against the wall. Arlen Specter had denoted the stretcher JBC had been on as “A”.
Mr. SPECTER. Will you mark with a "B" the stretcher which was present at the time you pushed stretcher "A" off of the elevator?
This means Tomlinson said he did NOT find the whole bullet on Stretcher “A” as the WC just claimed in their “Commission finding” regarding this issue. Why did they constantly ignore their OWN evidence to make these claims in an effort to counter what they called “speculation?” It would seem the SPECULATION was coming from the WC!
The falsehoods continued with this one about the P.O. Box issue.
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Speculation.—The post office box in Dallas to which Oswald had the rifle mailed was kept under both his name and that of A. Hidell.
Commission finding.—It is NOT KNOWN whether Oswald’s application listed the name A. Hidell as one entitled to receive mail at the box. In accordance with U.S. Post Office regulations, the portions of the application listing the names of persons other than the applicant entitled to receive mail was discarded after the box was closed on May 14, 1963. During the summer of 1963, Oswald rented a post office box in New Orleans, listing the name “Hidell” in addition to his own name and that of his wife. Hidell was a favorite alias used by Oswald on a NUMBER of occasions. Diligent search has failed to reveal any person in Dallas or New Orleans by that name. It was merely a creation for his own purposes. (WCR, pp. 644-645) (Emphasis added)
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What do they mean it was NOT known if LHO listed A. Hidell on the post office box application or not? The FBI told them that he DID NOT LIST that name for goodness sake. This is from an earlier post in this series.
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12. CLAIM: The Post Office Box in Dallas to which Oswald had the rifle mailed was kept under both his name and “A. Hidell.” Page 111.
INVESTIGATION: Our investigation has revealed that Oswald did NOT indicate on his application that others, INCLUDING “A. HIDELL,” would receive mail through the box in question, which was Post Office Box 2915 in Dallas. This box was obtained by Oswald on October 9, 1962, and relinquished by him on May 14, 1963. (CE 2585, p. 859-page 4 in original document.) (emphasis mine)
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We again see evidence in the WC’s own twenty-six volumes that shows us they claimed something this evidence did NOT show. Why did they do this IF LHO was really guilty? The “Commission finding” also told a falsehood about the U.S. Postal regulations as they are supposed to be kept for TWO YEARS after the box is closed, and yet, supposedly they weren’t in this case. Why NOT? Of course they were as Dallas Postal Inspector Harry Holmes said a week after the assassination that he had seen the application and that LHO had listed NO one else to receive mail at his P.O. Box. They then tried the trick of saying that because he had added the name in New Orleans he had to have added it in Dallas as if that proves anything. He had added Marina Oswald in New Orleans, but did NOT add her in Dallas so this shows their claim is unsupportable in terms of an indication of what he would do. They then said a “diligent search” showed no such person existed in New Orleans or Dallas, but did NOT seem ready to consider the idea that perhaps someone else was using it as an alias beyond LHO.
Here is another claim that is not telling the reader the whole story.
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Speculation.—Oswald did not have time for all of the movements imputed to him between his departure from the Texas School Book Depository and his encounter with Tippit.
Commission finding.—Time tests of all of Oswald’s movements establish that these movements could have been accomplished in the time available to him. (WCR, p. 649)
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We just saw in a recent post that cab driver William Whaley said the test he ran took NINE minutes in terms of the distance between the Greyhound Bus Depot and 500 N. Beckley Street which was near LHO’s rooming house. This alone would disqualify the WC’s “timetable”. So what did the WC do? They did another recreation ride with a DIFFERENT SET OF PARAMETERS as they moved the drop off point to the 700 block of N. Beckley. Perhaps they made other changes they did NOT tell us about as well to shorten the time as they needed it to be around 5 and half minutes. Playing fast and loose with the evidence like this to make it fit your claim does NOT engender anyone to your ultimate conclusion.
The final comment does NOT engender much confidence either as they say these movements (that they claimed) “could have been accomplished” in the time that was available. Wasn’t it their job to make sure for us? It would seem the WC lived on “could have” and “might have” too many times to believe their conclusion.
Another claim the WC made involves letters LHO supposedly wrote.
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Speculation.—Oswald’s letters vary so greatly in quality (spelling, grammar, sentence structure) that he must have had help in preparing the better constructed letters or someone else wrote them for him.
Commission finding.—There is NO evidence that anyone in the United States helped Oswald with his better written letters or that anyone else wrote his letters for him. His wife stated that he would write many drafts of his more important letters. His mother indicated that he would work hard over the drafts of some of his letters. It is clear that he did take greater pains with some of his letters than with others and that the contrasts in quality were accordingly substantial.
It is also clear that even his better written letters contained some distinctive elements of spelling, grammar, and punctuation that were common to his poorer efforts. Oswald wrote in his diary that he received help from his Intourist Guide, Rima Shirokova, in the preparation of his letter of October, 16, 1959, to the Supreme Soviet. (WCR, pp. 666-667) (Emphasis added)
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You will notice the WC said “NO one in the U.S.” helped LHO write letters as there is evidence he did get help or someone wrote a letter for him when he was in Russia in the WC’s own twenty-six volumes of evidence. In CE 2766 we see the evidence from Charles Sternberg, Program Director of International Rescue Committee, Inc., which states the following.
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A few days later we received a letter from Mrs. Harwell of the Wilberger County Chapter, Vernon, Texas [Red Cross], dated January 14, 1962, to which, to the best of my recollection were attached copies of a letter written by Consul Norbury, American Embassy, Moscow, to Lee Harvey Oswald, dated December 14, 1961, and of a letter addressed to the International Rescue Committee, dated January 13, 1961 [sic], and ostensibly written by Oswald. Mrs. Harwell’s letter is not in our files.
To a layman's eye it would appear that both copies were typed on the same typewriter. I do not know who added the handwritten words, "Mrs. Helen Harwell, Executive Secretary, American Red Cross," to the Norbury copy. What is most puzzling, although it did not then attract my attention, is that the letter from Oswald, dated January 13, could have reached the United States by January 14, and that it reached us via Texas. It is also puzzling that instead of the letter we were given a transcript thereof.
On or about February 5, 1962 we did receive a handwritten letter directly from Oswald, dated January 26, which makes no reference to a previous communication of his. . . . (CE 2766, pp. 150-151)
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This evidence shows a couple of really important things. It shows a letter supposedly written by LHO, and dated January 13, 1961, could reach the International Rescue Committee, Inc. (IRC) offices in New York, NY (NYC), via Texas by the NEXT DAY—January 14, 1963! How in the world could a letter be delivered halfway around the world that fast? It couldn’t of course so this shows us something is hokey with this letter. Of course the January 14 letter is NOT in the files of IRC either as this could let someone claim the letter did NOT go to NYC via Texas if need be. Mr. Sternberg said that “both copies were typed on the same typewriter”, but how could that be when one was supposed to have been written by LHO in Russia and one by Mrs. Harwell in Texas? Also, the fact he did not get the original, but rather a “transcript thereof” is puzzling and probably further proof that the “Oswald letter’ dated January 13, 1961, was NOT written by him as claimed. Instead, it was probably written by someone else, possibly Mrs. Harwell.
This evidence also shows that LHO did write a letter, dated January 26, 1961, which made NO reference to LHO saying he ever sent a letter to IRC. It also showed how long a letter really took to get to NYC from Russia—January 26 to February 6 (ten days)!
Clearly the claim by the WC is not correct as their OWN evidence shows someone other than Rima Shirokova wrote a letter for LHO. This is the one we know about too, but how many others could have been written by others for LHO? We will never know since once again the WC seemed NOT to be interested in finding out for us.
We once again see that most claims the WC made (as seen in this post and the hundred of other posts in this series) in trying to rebut what they called “speculation” are false and show that it was the WC that was using SPECULATION (incorrect speculation to boot!) most of the time!
With so many claims shown to be false there is NO way their conclusion is correct, thus, they are sunk again.
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The Warren Commission (WC) claimed Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) shot and killed both President John F. Kennedy (JFK) and Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit (JDT) on November 22, 1963. In an effort to prove he acted alone, and with NO help from anyone else, they included an entire “Rumors and Speculation” section to their Report (WCR) to quell any notion of a conspiracy in the murder of JFK.
This post will look at some of their claims in regards to various “speculations”.
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The WCR included in Appendix XII a section dedicated to various speculations about the assassination of JFK and the murder of JDT. The first one was regarding the source of the shots.
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Speculation.—The shots that killed the President came from the railroad overpass above the triple underpass.
Commission finding.—The shots that entered the neck and head of the President and wounded Governor Connally came from behind and above. There is NO evidence that any shots were fired at the President from anywhere other than the Texas School Book Depository Building (TSBD). (WCR, pp. 639-640) (Emphasis added)
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This is a false claim by the WC as their twenty-six volumes of Hearings & Exhibits contain evidence of shots being fired from other places than the TSBD. Why are they saying witness testimony and affidavits are NOT evidence? Numerous witnesses placed the wound in JFK’s head in the right-rear portion of his head; and numerous witnesses said they thought the shots originated from the Grassy Knoll (GK)/Triple underpass area. Their statement above was made in DIRECT OPPOSTION to their OWN evidence. Why were they ignoring this evidence? Because it did NOT point to the pre-conceived conclusion they were following which the FBI gave them in their report dated November 29, 1963.
The next speculation listed by the WC was this one.
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Speculation.—The railroad overpass was left unguarded on November 22.
Commission finding.—On November 22 the railroad overpass was guarded by two Dallas policemen, Patrolmen J.W. Foster and J.C. White, who have testified that they permitted only railroad personnel on the overpass. (WCR, p. 640)
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J.C. White said this during his WC testimony about their orders on November 22, 1963.
Mr. BALL. You had certain instructions, didn't you?
Mr. WHITE. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. What were they?
Mr. WHITE. Not to let any unauthorized personnel on top of the overpass.
Mr. BALL. Now, you did permit some people to stay on the overpass, didn't you?
Mr. WHITE. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. Who were they?
Mr. WHITE. Workers of the railroad company.
Mr. BALL. Were they people you knew?
Mr. WHITE. No, sir.
Does the obvious jump out at you too? If people could have fake Secret Service (SS) identification (as seen by a number of witnesses), why could they NOT have fake railroad identification? Since White did not know these people how did he know they actually worked for the railroad? In fact, it seems the issue of identification was NOT even an issue for most of them.
Mr. BALL. Well, how did you know they were workers with the railroad company?
Mr. WHITE. Majority of them were there when we got there, working on the rails.
Mr. BALL. And you let them stay there?
Mr. WHITE. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. How many people?
Mr. WHITE. About 10, approximately. I didn't count them.
So the majority of the 10 people (approximately) were already there and did NOT show any identification based on his testimony as he just “allowed them to stay”. What would have stopped an assassin from donning railroad clothes and joining them? He could have said he was new and sent that day to help them. Nothing from what I can see here based on White’s testimony. Let’s look at Foster’s testimony about this issue.
Mr. BALL - Now, you had instructions to keep all unauthorized personnel off of that overpass?
Mr. FOSTER - Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL - Did you do that?
Mr. FOSTER - Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL - Did you permit some people to be there?
Mr. FOSTER - Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL - Who?
Mr. FOSTER - People that were working for the railroad there.
Mr. BALL - Were there many people?
Mr. FOSTER - About 10 or 11.
We see the same information being given here by Foster. About 10-11 people were allowed to stay on the overpass because they supposedly all worked for the railroad, but what we don’t see is any questions about checking their identification to make sure. Why NOT? Foster will claim they are all in front of him, but how do we know this is true and that he kept an eye on them all the time? We don’t of course. The fact anyone was allowed to stay on that overpass with a motorcade coming is quite surprising and then we have to add in the FACT no one was really checked to see if they belonged there based on the testimony of Foster and White. So we see the claim of the WC is false again since they could NOT show that Foster and White ONLY allowed railroad personnel on the overpass at the time of the assassination.
Here is another claim by the WC that is false.
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Speculation.—There are witnesses who alleged that the shots came from the overpass.
Commission finding.—The Commission does not have knowledge of any witness who SAW shots fired from the overpass. (Ibid.) (Emphasis added)
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Notice the trickery of the WC here as they made it about SEEING SHOTS BEING FIRED from the overpass when that was NOT what the “speculation” said. Quite a few witnesses did NOT allege that shots came from the overpass, but instead said this is where they thought the shots originated from. Here is but one example.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you have any idea where they were coming from?
Mrs. BAKER. Well, the way it sounded--it sounded like it was coming from-- there was a railroad track that runs behind the building--there directly behind the building and around, so I guess it would be by the underpass, the triple underpass, and there is a railroad track that runs back out there and there was a train that looked like a circus train as well as I can remember now, back there, and we all ran to the plaza--the little thing there I guess you call it a plaza-back behind there this other girl and I almost ran back over there and looked and we didn't see anything.
By changing this testimony from being the area for the source of the shots to them “SEEING” shots fired from the overpass the WC changed the whole conclusion from what their OWN evidence showed. If you are searching for the truth there is NO need for trickery like this.
They also told a false claim in this “Commission finding.”
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Speculation.—A bullet was found on the stretcher used for President Kennedy at Parkland Hospital.
Commission finding.—No bullet was found on the stretcher used by President Kennedy. An almost whole bullet was found when it rolled off the stretcher used by Governor Connally. (WCR, p. 641)
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This is again totally at odds with their own evidence as Darrell Tomlinson would NOT say the whole bullet he found was on the stretcher Governer John B. Connally (JBC) had been on (he also would NOT say Commission Exhibit (CE) 399 was the bullet that he found). Here is the portion from his testimony before the WC that shows this.
Mr. SPECTER. And where did you push it to?
Mr. TOMLINSON. I pushed it back up against the wall.
Mr. SPECTER. What, if anything, happened then?
Mr. TOMLINSON. I bumped the wall and a spent cartridge or bullet rolled out that apparently had been lodged under the edge of the mat.
Mr. SPECTER. And that was from which stretcher?
Mr. TOMLINSON. I believe that it was "B".
Stretcher “B” was the stretcher that was already there against the wall. Arlen Specter had denoted the stretcher JBC had been on as “A”.
Mr. SPECTER. Will you mark with a "B" the stretcher which was present at the time you pushed stretcher "A" off of the elevator?
This means Tomlinson said he did NOT find the whole bullet on Stretcher “A” as the WC just claimed in their “Commission finding” regarding this issue. Why did they constantly ignore their OWN evidence to make these claims in an effort to counter what they called “speculation?” It would seem the SPECULATION was coming from the WC!
The falsehoods continued with this one about the P.O. Box issue.
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Speculation.—The post office box in Dallas to which Oswald had the rifle mailed was kept under both his name and that of A. Hidell.
Commission finding.—It is NOT KNOWN whether Oswald’s application listed the name A. Hidell as one entitled to receive mail at the box. In accordance with U.S. Post Office regulations, the portions of the application listing the names of persons other than the applicant entitled to receive mail was discarded after the box was closed on May 14, 1963. During the summer of 1963, Oswald rented a post office box in New Orleans, listing the name “Hidell” in addition to his own name and that of his wife. Hidell was a favorite alias used by Oswald on a NUMBER of occasions. Diligent search has failed to reveal any person in Dallas or New Orleans by that name. It was merely a creation for his own purposes. (WCR, pp. 644-645) (Emphasis added)
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What do they mean it was NOT known if LHO listed A. Hidell on the post office box application or not? The FBI told them that he DID NOT LIST that name for goodness sake. This is from an earlier post in this series.
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12. CLAIM: The Post Office Box in Dallas to which Oswald had the rifle mailed was kept under both his name and “A. Hidell.” Page 111.
INVESTIGATION: Our investigation has revealed that Oswald did NOT indicate on his application that others, INCLUDING “A. HIDELL,” would receive mail through the box in question, which was Post Office Box 2915 in Dallas. This box was obtained by Oswald on October 9, 1962, and relinquished by him on May 14, 1963. (CE 2585, p. 859-page 4 in original document.) (emphasis mine)
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We again see evidence in the WC’s own twenty-six volumes that shows us they claimed something this evidence did NOT show. Why did they do this IF LHO was really guilty? The “Commission finding” also told a falsehood about the U.S. Postal regulations as they are supposed to be kept for TWO YEARS after the box is closed, and yet, supposedly they weren’t in this case. Why NOT? Of course they were as Dallas Postal Inspector Harry Holmes said a week after the assassination that he had seen the application and that LHO had listed NO one else to receive mail at his P.O. Box. They then tried the trick of saying that because he had added the name in New Orleans he had to have added it in Dallas as if that proves anything. He had added Marina Oswald in New Orleans, but did NOT add her in Dallas so this shows their claim is unsupportable in terms of an indication of what he would do. They then said a “diligent search” showed no such person existed in New Orleans or Dallas, but did NOT seem ready to consider the idea that perhaps someone else was using it as an alias beyond LHO.
Here is another claim that is not telling the reader the whole story.
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Speculation.—Oswald did not have time for all of the movements imputed to him between his departure from the Texas School Book Depository and his encounter with Tippit.
Commission finding.—Time tests of all of Oswald’s movements establish that these movements could have been accomplished in the time available to him. (WCR, p. 649)
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We just saw in a recent post that cab driver William Whaley said the test he ran took NINE minutes in terms of the distance between the Greyhound Bus Depot and 500 N. Beckley Street which was near LHO’s rooming house. This alone would disqualify the WC’s “timetable”. So what did the WC do? They did another recreation ride with a DIFFERENT SET OF PARAMETERS as they moved the drop off point to the 700 block of N. Beckley. Perhaps they made other changes they did NOT tell us about as well to shorten the time as they needed it to be around 5 and half minutes. Playing fast and loose with the evidence like this to make it fit your claim does NOT engender anyone to your ultimate conclusion.
The final comment does NOT engender much confidence either as they say these movements (that they claimed) “could have been accomplished” in the time that was available. Wasn’t it their job to make sure for us? It would seem the WC lived on “could have” and “might have” too many times to believe their conclusion.
Another claim the WC made involves letters LHO supposedly wrote.
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Speculation.—Oswald’s letters vary so greatly in quality (spelling, grammar, sentence structure) that he must have had help in preparing the better constructed letters or someone else wrote them for him.
Commission finding.—There is NO evidence that anyone in the United States helped Oswald with his better written letters or that anyone else wrote his letters for him. His wife stated that he would write many drafts of his more important letters. His mother indicated that he would work hard over the drafts of some of his letters. It is clear that he did take greater pains with some of his letters than with others and that the contrasts in quality were accordingly substantial.
It is also clear that even his better written letters contained some distinctive elements of spelling, grammar, and punctuation that were common to his poorer efforts. Oswald wrote in his diary that he received help from his Intourist Guide, Rima Shirokova, in the preparation of his letter of October, 16, 1959, to the Supreme Soviet. (WCR, pp. 666-667) (Emphasis added)
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You will notice the WC said “NO one in the U.S.” helped LHO write letters as there is evidence he did get help or someone wrote a letter for him when he was in Russia in the WC’s own twenty-six volumes of evidence. In CE 2766 we see the evidence from Charles Sternberg, Program Director of International Rescue Committee, Inc., which states the following.
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A few days later we received a letter from Mrs. Harwell of the Wilberger County Chapter, Vernon, Texas [Red Cross], dated January 14, 1962, to which, to the best of my recollection were attached copies of a letter written by Consul Norbury, American Embassy, Moscow, to Lee Harvey Oswald, dated December 14, 1961, and of a letter addressed to the International Rescue Committee, dated January 13, 1961 [sic], and ostensibly written by Oswald. Mrs. Harwell’s letter is not in our files.
To a layman's eye it would appear that both copies were typed on the same typewriter. I do not know who added the handwritten words, "Mrs. Helen Harwell, Executive Secretary, American Red Cross," to the Norbury copy. What is most puzzling, although it did not then attract my attention, is that the letter from Oswald, dated January 13, could have reached the United States by January 14, and that it reached us via Texas. It is also puzzling that instead of the letter we were given a transcript thereof.
On or about February 5, 1962 we did receive a handwritten letter directly from Oswald, dated January 26, which makes no reference to a previous communication of his. . . . (CE 2766, pp. 150-151)
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This evidence shows a couple of really important things. It shows a letter supposedly written by LHO, and dated January 13, 1961, could reach the International Rescue Committee, Inc. (IRC) offices in New York, NY (NYC), via Texas by the NEXT DAY—January 14, 1963! How in the world could a letter be delivered halfway around the world that fast? It couldn’t of course so this shows us something is hokey with this letter. Of course the January 14 letter is NOT in the files of IRC either as this could let someone claim the letter did NOT go to NYC via Texas if need be. Mr. Sternberg said that “both copies were typed on the same typewriter”, but how could that be when one was supposed to have been written by LHO in Russia and one by Mrs. Harwell in Texas? Also, the fact he did not get the original, but rather a “transcript thereof” is puzzling and probably further proof that the “Oswald letter’ dated January 13, 1961, was NOT written by him as claimed. Instead, it was probably written by someone else, possibly Mrs. Harwell.
This evidence also shows that LHO did write a letter, dated January 26, 1961, which made NO reference to LHO saying he ever sent a letter to IRC. It also showed how long a letter really took to get to NYC from Russia—January 26 to February 6 (ten days)!
Clearly the claim by the WC is not correct as their OWN evidence shows someone other than Rima Shirokova wrote a letter for LHO. This is the one we know about too, but how many others could have been written by others for LHO? We will never know since once again the WC seemed NOT to be interested in finding out for us.
We once again see that most claims the WC made (as seen in this post and the hundred of other posts in this series) in trying to rebut what they called “speculation” are false and show that it was the WC that was using SPECULATION (incorrect speculation to boot!) most of the time!
With so many claims shown to be false there is NO way their conclusion is correct, thus, they are sunk again.