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the escape route
Mon 24 Mar 2014, 4:56 pmAnonymous
I'm just going to posit a hypothetical, as a way of illustrating a question. Let's assume, that we go with Oswald being on the 2nd floor at the time of the shooting. Let's posit there was "some other shooter" up on the 6th floor (a bunch of people saw a shooter up there, so let's go with that for this illustration). So, here's the question: what's the escape route? How did "the shooter" get out of the building?

Let's even give "the shooter" all the benefits of the doubt. Let's say someone had the whole thing staged in advance, so "the shooter" didn't even have to hide the rifle. He had complete freedom immediately after the shooting, and his only job was to get out of the building. How did he do it?

He had basically three ways to get downstairs, the elevators, the back stairs, and the front stairs. The elevators were stuck on the 5th floor 90 seconds after the shooting (according to Baker & Truly), so it's unlikely "the shooter" could have made it down on an elevator. And, weren't there a couple of women sitting on the 4th floor by the back stairs, eating lunch or something? "The shooter" would have run right into them on the way down, and they didn't see anyone. So that would leave the front stairs, wouldn't it?

Those elevators have been studied to death, haven't they? I've ridden in plenty of elevators of that kind, even if Oswald's job was only to keep an elevator waiting, it would have taken about 20 seconds to descend, and no one heard anything anyway, so it's quite unlikely an elevator went down then up again. The stairs would seem to be the logical answer - and what of the personĀ at the 4th floor window, do we know who that is? Hm.

How about... the fake secret service guy that somehow showed up at the back entrance of the building and hung out for a while?

And, the strangest possibility of all... the shooter remained inside the building (posing as a secret service man, even). Either way though, he had to get downstairs somehow, and out of the building eventually. What could we deduce about the exact escape route the shooter must have taken (or tried to take)?
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