From: wix@eskimo.com (Dennis Wicks)
Subject: Re: LHO MYSTERY ID
Organization: >>> Eskimo North (206)-FOR-EVER <<<
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 01:50:32 GMT

In article <00964CB5.550B64C0@vms.csd.mu.edu> 6489mcadamsj@vms.csd.mu.edu writes:
>In article <1992Dec7.015050.8875@eskimo.com>, wix@eskimo.com (Dennis Wicks) writes:
>
>>How about this:  If Oswald were allowed to remain free, he would
>>be a liability forever.  Being "unstable" he might spill the
>>beans at anytime.  If he were captured, then they could get
>>"someone" eg. Jack Ruby, to silence him permenantly.
>
>OK, it served the interests of The Conspiracy to kill him.  Wouldn't it make
>more sense to help him get away, and then kill him out of public view?  Yes,
>people get killed in police custody, but it's usually much easier when there
>aren't a lot of officers with guns around, and much better for The Conspiracy
>that it be done without the whole world watching.
>
Please note that all this is speculation on my part, but also a
possible explanation for some of the things that happened.  If
Oswald were indeed a "patsy" and he was trying to escape, perhaps
he was doing something, going somewhere, other than what had been
arranged.  If this were the case, then the conspirators might
have felt that enlisting the aid of the Dallas PD to locate LHO
and pin him down would be preferable to losing him completely and
trying to find him before he let the cat out of the bag.
>
>Then there is the question of whether Oswald would "spill the beans" before
>they could kill him.  Would any conspiracy assume that they could kill him
>before he did, if he were in police custody?  In a case like this?
>
If Oswald did not suspect that the conspirators had anything to
do with his apprehension, he could have still been expecting to
be "rescued," even if he suspected that he may have been set up.
As for the conspiracy's assumptions, since they had just
successfully assasinated the President of the United States, they
might consider the infiltration of the Dallas PD merely childs
play.  That is if they had not already done so.
>
>>
>>I personally think he was a patsy.  He was recruited by somebody
>>to do something very different from what actually happened.  He
>>may have realized what was up when the bullets started flying,
>>and up til the time he was killed by Ruby may have been expecting
>>to be rescued at any minute.
>
>Then how did he happen to get planted at the School Book Depository?  Kennedy's
>actual route wasn't known until a couple of days before the assasination.  How
>did The Conspiracy know they needed someone working in that precise building? 
>Or are you saying that The Conspiracy arranged for Kennedy to drive by?
>
Again, speculation, but it is possible that LHO wasn't the only
person planted at various places around Dallas.  He just happened
to be the one they used.  In most cities there are only a few
"parade routes" because of problems with traffic control, public
access, emergency vehicle routes, and other considerations.  So
once the visit to Dallas was firm there were probably only a few
possibilities that had to be covered.  And, it is possible that
someone connected to the conspiracy could have influenced the
choice of routes so that the one used was one they had covered.

I have a few related questions.  I haven't seen them discussed
here recently, and if they were covered in the media at the time
I have forgotten them.

- Was it usual practice for prisoners to be transferred as LHO
was at the time of his murder?

- How did the press learn of the transfer?  Especially the time
of the transfer?

- More importantly, how did Jack Ruby learn about it?

- Why was security so lax that nearly everybody and their dog was
there to observe the transfer?

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