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Tomorrow, Nov. 22, 2023, will mark the 60th anniversary of the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Turning to the 46 year-old president's assassin, one of the many things conclusively proving the guilt of Lee Harvey Oswald, is the overwhelming amount of lies Oswald told while in police custody.
Oswald was a loser.
He was guilty of our then young-president's murder, not just beyond any reasonable doubt but, in the words of the famous prosecutor and author Vincent Bugliosi, "beyond all doubt."
Oswald was so bad at lying that he lied about things that he didn't even need to lie about.
Telling police why he carried his pistol into the Texas Theatre after murdering officer J.D. Tippit, "Oh that’s just something boys do (in carrying a gun)" was but one example.
This was after Oswald, the employee of the Texas School Book Depository, went directly home after the assassination, then hurriedly changed his manner of dress and grabbed the pistol that was later used to kill Tippit, at Tenth Street and Patton Avenue in the Oakcliff section of Dallas.
That same weapon was used in the attempt to murder another another police officer, while being purused then captured in Texas movie theater.
These are hardly the actions of a "patsy."
Oswald gave a very thorough account of most of his residences to the Dallas Police he, albeit not so cleverly, tried to omit only one of his previous addresses.
It was the address that the infamous backyard photos were taken months before showing Oswald with the rifle, the one he used to kill President Kennedy, and the pistol used to kill Officer Tippit.
Oswald’s wife Marina admitted to taking the photos and has never retracted her claim.
Perhaps Oswald’s biggest lie, other than the obvious of saying he did not murder the president or Officer Tippit, came from his last interrogation minutes just before his own murder on Nov. 24, 1963, at the hands of nightclub owner Jack Ruby; an interrogation that involved legendary Dallas Police Homicide and Robbery Captain Will Fritz and Harry Holmes, an inspector in an often-forgotten federal agency, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.
Oswald ordered his rifle using an alias.
He denied doing so U.S. Postal Inspector Holmes.
Inspector Holmes showed Oswald that his wife Marina was listed as being able to receive mail at a New Orleans post office box.
Oswald said "So what?" as Marina was his wife.
Inspector Holmes then told Oswald that the alias later used to order and ship the rifle to a Dallas P.O. Box, was the same alias that Oswald used at the New Orleans post office box where he had also listed his wife as being able to receive mail.
Oswald said that he did not know anything about that.
Oswald’s pattern of lying ended pathetically.
In previous interrogations Oswald said he was downstairs eating his lunch, supposedly not watching the president’s motorcade despite being the most politically interested individual by far in the Texas School Book Depository.
Yet, in the interrogation with Postal Inspector Holmes and others, Oswald slipped up and said that was on one of the upper-floors during the time of the assassination and then went downstairs.
Again, this is contradictory to what Oswald previously told the police about never being on the upper floors at the time of the president’s murder.
It's also worth noting that Oswald had been assigned to the now infamous sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository on the day of the assassination.
A couple of weeks after the assassination his clipboard for filling orders on Nov. 22, 1963 was found on that very floor.
Not one single order was filled.
The list of Oswald’s lies about the assassination of President Kennedy and the murder of Officer Tippit are extensive.
Oswald was not great. He left absolutely no legacy of greatness, of any kind.
The view of him as a criminal is not reflective of discrimination, it's the truth.
This unstable young man achieved really only one thing in life, the rank of assassin.
Please let's not elevate Lee Harvey Oswald to martyr status.
He acted alone that day without help of any kind.
This is the sane view of what happened on that fateful day. A day indelibly putting Dealey Plaza, and Dallas, Texas, on the global map of eternal history.
Larry Provost has written for Townhall, Fox News, The Baltic Times and InFocus (Jewish Policy Center) and has appeared on several television outlets, including "FOX News @Night with Shannon Bream." He holds degrees from several colleges, and is a veteran of the World Trade Center search and rescue, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He and his wife are adoptive parents. Read more Larry Provost reports — Here.
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