candycorn
Diamond Member
I don't know, I think it is in doubt. If you are going to assassinated someone, when are you going to do it? When he's in the car heading straight at you down an unobstructed street and you have a clear line of sight, or after he turns and heads down a street driving away from you and after he passes a tree? There were windows on both sides in that room, he could have shot in either direction.
Also, according to one documentary I watched a policeman was right outside the school book depository and rushed in when he heard the shots. He found Oswald in the employee breakroom in the basement where all the other witnesses had said they had seen him that day. He was not out of breath. There were people on the stairs who had not seen anyone pass. It took 2 minutes for the elevator to get from the 6th floor to the basement without stops (it was old and slow). The cop swears he saw him within less than a minute after the shoots were fired. There's just no way he could have gotten from the 6th floor to the basement in that little amount of time.
How would you explain his actions afterword then? Leaves for the day at lunch? Takes a bus, then a cab. Goes home. Gets his Revolver. Leaves. Ducks into a theater without paying?
Considering he'd been in the break room all day waiting for a "phone call" I think when he heard the shots and saw the cop he put two and two together and realized he was a patsy and tried, stupidly to get away.
Man, if we could only find those curtain rods...