Why would Oswald in broad daylight carry an alleged rifle sack into TSBD

Mickp wrote:Could anyone please explain to me, like I'm a two year old, why on earth Oswald would have carried an alleged brown paper bag hiding no less a rifle, in broad daylight and in plain sight into the TSBD.

Mickp wrote:Hi Greg, thanks for the welcome.
Thanks also for your reply, my tongue is firmly in my cheek when I pose the opening question. I am not an academic, but have worked for many years in the media, both film and TV. Obviously I have very definite opinions regarding the Z film, but that's a different story for now. I am reasonably well versed , after studying for 3 or so years on most general aspects of the case. As much as my original question might seem ridiculous on the surface, I don't believe it is. Just why would he ("Oswald") take such an item to his work place on the very day he would allegedly kill JFK. Call me, silly, even stupid, but that in itself is sufficient grounds to at least ask more than Why? As for the media's handling of the JFK case, its very intriguing. I know how they think, I know how they operate, especially commercial Networks. I know its clichéd, but this is a cold case, and it's very very old news, they've always needed a sledgehammer ie: the "Smoking Gun" the "Elephant in the room" for them to resurrect this story and I'm guessing they just never thought they saw one.

Mickp wrote:Could anyone please explain to me, like I'm a two year old, why on earth Oswald would have carried an alleged brown paper bag hiding no less a rifle, in broad daylight and in plain sight into the TSBD.

ianlloyd wrote:

Mickp wrote:Could anyone please explain to me, like I'm a two year old, why on earth Oswald would have carried an alleged brown paper bag hiding no less a rifle, in broad daylight and in plain sight into the TSBD.

I suppose we could look at it this way - was/is it so unusual for someone to walk around town carrying a long package?

Doesn't really seem that unusual to me...

Mickp wrote:Greg, This is a great forum. I've looked at the rest and they're full of hate, even from within and supposedly the same side.

Thanks Mick. I  got lucky and a bunch of pretty cool, bright and like-minded people started posting. 

Great Doc regards the sack on the Friday evening by the way. My question still stands! Nobody's been able to put Oswald on the sixth floor, with a gun in his hand and pulling the trigger at 12.30pm. NOBODY! Period! I've seen in the evidence that has been supplied by the WCR and or anyone else for that matter, and it amounts to naught, zero, zilch. So, we come full circle, and not so much as why would Oswald carry the sack with a rifle in it in broad daylight to his work place on the day of the presidents visit to down town Dallas but, why, how, and when. Clearly, from the interviews of evidence supplied to the official investigative body, No-one, not a single witness saw him carry the package that the authorities would have us believe he carried to his work place that day. The package they want us to believe he carried was not in his hands, never, ever. So, if this is so, and we know it is, simply by reviewing what the  2 witnesses had to say from that fate-full, Friday morning then clearly Oswald did not have a weapon in his hands on the 22/11/63 because he did NOT carry it to his work place.

I think you've pretty well nailed it. The question that seems to be lingering in the background is how did they get away with such obvious shite. The answer to that probably needs a team of anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists and taxi drivers to figure out. It does kind of remind me of a study that was done in Nazi Germany to determine percentages and types of individuals who would ( a ) become Nazis themselves, ( b ) just go with the flow without actively joining or ( c ) actively resist. The study turned out to be remarkably accurate.  If you understand the psychology of the masses, you can use it to your advantage, or to manipulate opinion. And the period was one where authority was seldom questioned. It wasn't so much an investigation as a Public Relations exercise masquerading as investigation. PR is a powerful tool and a lot of the BIG lies were accepted on face value because of it.  It helped sell a too small bag, non-identifications, magic bullets, broken evidentiary paper trails and a host of other things as hard evidence of guilt. 

Later, when the critics started making inroads, the CIA called in its media assets and declared war.

Mickp wrote:Hey Greg, just to be sure was that the great and wise JD, who posted on this Forum?

Mickp wrote:I don't know your background "mate" (you know that's a term of endearment) but The forum speaks for itself. If you've managed to get JD to post, and keep the posts civil then that's a huge thumbs up from me and it should be noted from all who visit.

Robert Charles-Dunne wrote:Irrespective of whether the “Oswald rifle” was to be used by Oswald or by a conspirator, whether or not affiliated with Oswald, it makes no sense to leave the introduction of the rifle into the crime scene until the day of the event.  Whomever introduced the weapon on that day might have been stopped, and neither Oswald nor any other conceivable shooter would have any way of knowing with certainty it was safe to bring it that day without police or Secret Service intercession.

That nobody saw Oswald carry the rifle in on 11/22/63 rather subverts the assumption that he did so.  And given where it was secreted when found, it could have been there for days or perhaps weeks prior to its eventual discovery.  The earlier it was brought into the TSBD, the less likely anyone would presume it had relevance to JFK’s impending visit.

The Warren Caster incident illustrates the point.  Even after the assassination, no suspicion fell upon Caster as a possible conspirator, despite him having a pair of rifles in the TSBD two days before the event.  Interestingly, Oswald seems to have been a witness to that event, recalling to his interrogators that he had seen Roy Truly handling at least one rifle in his own first floor office.  That one of the rifles was a Mauser likewise failed to register any suspicion toward Caster.