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And, one of the most unlikely elements of the whole affair was that while they were still picking up pieces in the plaza, someone was already tracking Oswald down, and, Oswald managed to shoot a cop dead, in a theate, across town, just to make darn sure he was known as the bad guy.

Oh, yeah, and then there was Ruby, botched autopsies, lost coffins, lost photographs, sealed evidence, and national gnashing of teeth over a lost prince. What's to doubt in all that?

You are aware that the fired cartridge cases in the revolver reportedly taken from Oswald did not match the bullets taken from Dallas Police Department officer Jefferson Davis Tippett's body, and that a second Smith and Wesson revolver similar to the one reportedly in Oswald's possession was submitted for tracing by the DPD at the same time as the *Oswald handgun* aren't you?

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And that as well.

Point is that the entire event was SO managed as it unfolded.
Point is that the investigation never tied up any of the loose ends and we are left to debate snippets and rumor.
Point is that AT THE TIME and based on every input I can host, there were two stories running in parallel: the one you saw and the one you were told, the one that seemed even then to be scripted.

I know that eye witnesses are often wrong, sometimes the worst of all evidence; but no hysteria or panic explains the avalanche of strange events that Daley Plaza kicked off.

Added: if a reason is needed, the country threw itself into such a fit of 'shock and woe' over the shooting (except for my US Government professor) that ANY subsequent plot twist could be accommodated. Huge numbers of people were terrified and expecting worse to come - the conspiracy theories were already in being depending on your starting point.

And, to the good doctor, would a sound be more likely to echo/rebound from an eight story building back toward its source, or from a slight rise in ground level back toward the building?