An Interesting Photo -- maybe

Hahahaha...what?


Oh, by the way, Dallas and Ft. Worth are not the distant from each other. 45 minutes at the most, maybe 20 back then. :rolleyes:
 
"... were ..."

Nothing in particular, except that he was busier that day than folks had surmised.
Thanks for the grammatical correction.

Oswald's movements and location for the evening of Thursday Nov. 21 and Friday morning Nov. 22 are well documented by multiple witnesses. He was in Irving, Texas all of Thursday evening visiting his wife, Marina, with whom he spent the night. He walked to a co-workers house at approximately 7:15 a.m., with whom he drove to work. They arrived at the schoolbook depository in time to begin their work day which started at 8 a.m.

Oswald was not at the Fort Worth breakfast on the morning of Nov. 22nd.

The Long and Bulky Package

On the morning of November 22, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald left the Paine house in Irving at approximately 7:15 a.m., while Marina Oswald was still in bed.145 Neither she nor Mrs. Paine saw him leave the house.146 About half-a-block away from the Paine house was the residence of Mrs. Linnie Mae Randle, the sister of the man with whom Oswald drove to work--Buell Wesley Frazier. Mrs. Randle stated that on the morning of November 22, while her brother was eating breakfast, she looked out the breakfast-room window and saw Oswald cross the street and walk toward the driveway where her brother parked his car near the carport. He carried a "heavy brown bag." 147 Oswald

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gripped the bag in his right hand near the top. "It tapered like this as he hugged it in his hand. It was ... more bulky toward the bottom" than toward the top.148 She then opened the kitchen door and saw Oswald open the right rear door of her brother's car and place the package in the back of the car.149 Mrs. Randle estimated that the package was approximately 28 inches long and about 8 inches wide.150 She thought. that its color was similar to that of the bag found on the sixth floor of the School Book Depository after the assassination.151

Frazier met Oswald at the kitchen door and together they walked to the car.152 After entering the car, Frazier glanced over his shoulder and noticed a brown paper package on the back seat. He asked, "What's the package, Lee?" Oswald replied, "curtain rods."153 Frazier told the Commission "... the main reason he was going over there that Thursday afternoon when he was to bring back some curtain rods, so I didn't think any more about it when he told me that."154 Frazier estimated that the bag was 2 feet long "give and take a few inches," and about 5 or 6 inches wide.155 As they sat in the car, Frazier asked Oswald where his lunch was, and Oswald replied that he was going to buy his lunch that day.156 Frazier testified that Oswald carried no lunch bag that day. "When he rode with me, I say he always brought lunch except that one day on November 22 he didn't bring his lunch that day." 157

Frazier parked the car in the company parking lot about 2 blocks north of the Depository Building. Oswald left the car first, picked up the brown paper bag, and proceeded toward the building ahead of Frazier. Frazier walked behind and as they crossed the railroad tracks he watched the switching of the cars. Frazier recalled that one end of the package was under Oswald's armpit and the lower part was held with his right hand so that it was carried straight and parallel to his body. When Oswald entered the rear door of the Depository Building, he was about 50 feet ahead of Frazier. It was the first time that Oswald had not walked with Frazier from the parking lot to the building entrance.158 When Frazier entered the building, he did not see Oswald.159 One employee, Jack Dougherty, believed that he saw Oswald coming to work, but he does not remember that Oswald had anything in his hands as he entered the door.160 No other employee has been found who saw Oswald enter that morning.161
http://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report/chapter-4.html#curtain
 
Being a student of U.S. History I follow, often in great detail, events that have taken place in the 20th Century. I understand that a lot of people have an emotional attachment to this particular event, as many might to September 11, 2001 but, I wasn't born until 1984 so the whole JFK thing is only of historic interest to me. What I do find amusing, however, is the level of anxiety and paranoia associated with any discussion of the assassination. There is an age-break there: if you were old enough to have been cognitive when it happened, you are much more likely to be more aggressive on the subject and be saddled with a very short fuse. People my age don't have that same reaction.
If you are a student of history, I would expect you to have some appreciation for and perhaps even some emotional investment in its accuracy.

I have little patience for people who intentionally or through stubborn commitment to ignorance distort history for whatever reasons. I don't know if that is an age thing or not, but in my case, it certainly is not restricted to the facts surrounding the Kennedy assassination.

I've gotten quite incensed with 9/11 truthers and UFO enthusiasts as well.
 
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