If I recall correctly, Oswald worked at the Texas schoolbook depository - but I wonder for how long? It has always struck me as an amazing coincidence that the motorcade passed the building where Oswald worked.
The chosen route was not suspicious, it was a common road to get across town in those days. In fact, my mother and grandmother were driving through only three blocks behind, oblivious as to who was ahead. They said the traffic ahead was slow, and then they became stuck in the traffic for hours after the shooting. It wasn’t until later that they heard the news.
I remember my initial disbelief when a student at school stuck his head in the doorway and announced to the classroom that the President had been shot. Then I thought of Lincoln and decided it was plausible. Regular programming on TV was interrupted for three days and I was disappointed there were no cartoons to watch!
It all seems like yesterday and I always hoped the truth would eventually come out. It is one of the few mysteries of my lifetime that I would really like to know.
He worked there for a couple of months. He found out about the job from a neighbor of Ruth Paine, Marina’s friend, benefactor.
There are many problems with the 6th floor sniper’s nest and shots.
Other employees spotted him on the first floor within minutes of the shooting. He has to have run up six floors, take the rifle from hiding, reassemble it, go to the nest and catch his breath enough to make world class shots. This guy was a Superman.
Then there is the testimony of his boss that immediately after the shooting he and a cop saw him in the second floor lunch room drinking a coke exhibiting no evidence of being winder or excited. Unless he was a lizard he would be exhilarated at accomplishing his goal at a minimum.
Then there is the lack of time to construct the Sniper’s Nest given it involved moving 50 lb boxes of books, too many to use quickly without aid.