Kennedy from a 6th floor snipers nest in the texas school book depository as his limousine proceeded down. One of the tsbd employees, bill shelley oswalds supervisor, may have traveled to louisiana in august, 1963 and been in contact with harvey oswald in new orleans. A couple months ago i began the tour for my book about president. Im wondering if there are any photos looking down at elm st. This is the view from the window from which an assassin fired the shots that killed president john f. The texas school book depository, now known as the dallas county administration building, is a sevenfloor building facing dealey plaza in dallas, texas. Lee harvey oswald was innocent but his gun was used to. Hidell, was found on the sixth floor of the texas school book depository on the day of the assassination, november 22, 1963 at 1. The prevailing claim is that oswald was a discontented young man with communist beliefs who wanted to make a name for himself by. The myth of oswald at the texas school book depository.
Eaglesham recently i looked up the new york times for november 23, 1963 in the archives of the local public library, and found a photograph fig. He also found three spent shell casings lying by the window oswald had used. Tulsa man recalls the day he witnessed history as police searched the texas school book depository for jfks assassin. But such talk is just pure nonsense of the first order. Cyclists get a handle on oswalds oak cliff route after jfk assassination by sherry jacobson, dallas morning news, feb 2, 2009 when lee harvey oswald fled the texas school book depository on that fateful day in 1963, he didnt realize that a group of local history buffs on bicycles would retrace his footsteps nearly 46 years later. Lee harvey oswalds snipers nest was on the sixth floor. Editorial and commentary from oped columnists, the editorial board and contributing writers from the dallas morning news, delivered three days a week. Unlike the oswald rifle, the rifle mentesana filmed had no sling, no scope, and protruded at least 78 inches past the stock, where oswalds extended only 45 inches. He himself was fatally shot two days later by jack ruby 191167 in the dallas county jail. In this installment of the often excellent 50 reasons for 50 years, len osanic says yes. Boxes of school boxes have been set up to screen a sniper from inside the building. Kennedy and severely wounded texas governor john connally as the presidential. A close and detailed photo analysis deffinitively shows. Most of the people gathered in the general area of dealey plaza on november 22, 1963 were not looking up, but some inevitably did look in the direction of the sixth floor window of the texas schoolbook depository, where lee harvey oswald had build his snipers.
Lee harvey oswald planted in the book depository before. Jfks assassin left forensic evidence on the cartons in the southeast corner of the sixth floor of the texas school book depository in dallas. In cooperation with the sixth floor museum at dealey plaza, earthcam has placed a live hd streaming webcam in the southeast corner window of the sixth floor in the former texas school book depository in dallas. Note 411 elm texas school book depository which did not occupy all of 411 elm roscoe white stated he killed jfk using a 7. Lee harvey oswalds sniper perch from the school book depository. Jfk dallas assassination tour i dealey plaza, oswalds. Part 2 lee harvey oswalds 98 rifle bullets and shots fired. The texas school book depository building still appears much as it did the day of the assassination, although the famous hertz timetemperature sign on the roof and the northwest stairway used by oswald after the shooting are in storage. The report issued by the house select committee on assassinations states. Oswald, at this point of his life, was standing on street corners handing out leaflets for support of cuba and the american communist party. The official mythology holds that oswald left the sixth floor snipers nest immediately after shooting the president, moved to the back of the room where he then hid the rifle under a stack of book boxes, ran down the stairs to the second floor, arriving at the same time as baker and truly. Giancana fingered cain as one of the jfk shooters in double cross, as the actual gunman in the alleged oswald snipers nest on the 6 th floor of the texas school book depository.
Oswald, an employee at the depository, shot and killed president kennedy from a sixth floor window on the. Part 2 of lee harvey oswalds 98 rifle, bullets and shots fired. Texas school book depository just seconds after the. The youtube episode focuses on the socalled snipers nest, the area next to the 6th floor window of the texas school book depository tsbd from which lee oswald allegedly fired a mannlichercarcano rifle wounding governor john connally and killing president kennedy. The sixth floor museum the sixth floor museum at dealey. Mooney testified before the warren commission, and circled the three spent hulls. Dealey plaza view from the snipers nest embedded w snipers. We, the members of the oswald innocence campaign, maintain that at the time of president kennedys assassination, lee harvey oswald was standing in the doorway of the texas school book depository, where he was photographed by james ike altgens, which is clearly evident upon close examination of the photograph. Many, many people believe lee harvey oswald was completely innocent of. Lee harvey oswald holds a rifle in this famous photo taken at 214 w.
The texas school book depository distributed school books to five states surrounding texas, including louisiana. If he was planted there to shoot kennedy, the most intelligent thing to do would be to remain in the building as if nothing had happened. A rifle is found on the sixth floor of the texas school book depository building. Texas school book depository m schuett blah blah blah. Texas school book depository building became the sixth floor museum at dealey plaza, tourists can see the alleged oswald snipers nest. Fifty years ago, newsman pierce allman went into the book depository to look for a phone when he ran into lee harvey oswald, who had moments ago shot the president. The widely publicized photograph taken by associated press photographer james w. Altgens within a few seconds after president kennedy was first shot shows a spectator who bears a strong physical resemblance to lee harvey oswald standing at the west end of the texas school book depository entranceway. Discovered by deputy sheriff luke mooney, they were matched ballistically to lee oswalds gun to the exclusion of all other weapons.
The finding of snipers nest empty hulls and one live round a mauser rifle or a mannlichercarcano rifle. Further disputing the theory of a lone gunman, texas authorities reportedly discovered three spent shell casings on the sixth floor of the school book depository where oswald made his snipers nest. If oswald wasnt kennedys assassin, why did he leave the. Solid validation that oswald was in that snipers nest on. Kennedys body leaves parkland hospital and is taken to love field to be carried to washington, d.
A key part of the case against lee harvey oswald is three spent cartridges found in the snipers nest on the sixth floor of the school book depository in the wake of the shooting. Essay rewriting history bugliosi parses the testimony. Giancana also mentioned that charles nicoletti was positioned as another jfk shooter on the opposite end of the 6 th floor of the tsbd from cain. Lee harvey oswald why did he fail to notice that a much smarter snipers nest was available rather than the 6th floor southeast corner window. Oswald was honorably released from active duty in the marine corps into the reserve and defected to the soviet union in october 1959. The youtube episode focuses on the socalled snipers nest, the area next to the 6th floor window of the texas school book depository tsbd from which lee oswald allegedly fired a mannlichercarcano rifle wounding governor john connally and. For many years, two men claimed they each owned the.
A key part of the case against lee harvey oswald is three spent cartridges found in the snipers nest on the sixth floor of the school book depository in the wake. Texas school book depository just seconds after the shooting. Theres little outward indication that an acclaimed worldclass museum that draws a halfmillion visitors a year exists on the buildings sixthfloor. As in, the window through which lee harvey oswald allegedly, i guess shot and killed president john f. Lee harvey oswalds sniper perch from the school book. Published on dec 15, 2006 my own very amateuristic attempt to have a look at what lee harvey oswald saw, if he sat at the snipers nest in the texas school book depository. Oswalds presence in the lunchroom was in fact consistent with several other witnesses who placed oswald on the lower floors of the texas school book depository when, if the commissions account was correct, he should have been on the sixth floor preparing his snipers nest.
Oswald who was the man who shot and killed president john kennedy in 1963 was somehow planted in the texas school book depository building by scheming plotters who were manipulating oswalds every move to suit their patsyserving conspiratorial needs. My own very amateuristic attempt to have a look at what lee harvey oswald saw, if he sat at the snipers nest in the texas school book. Oswald is believed to have fired three shots at kennedys presidential motorcade from a makeshift snipers nest on the southeast corner of the sixth floor of the building. Lee harvey oswalds sniper perch from the school book depository is for sale. Actually, oswald had no reason to leave the building, even if he had been the shooter.
The view from oswalds position in the snipers nest. Who saw lee harvey oswald on the 6th floor of the school. My own very amateuristic attempt to have a look at what lee harvey oswald saw, if he sat at the snipers nest in the texas school book depository. According to the federal governments warren commission report lee harvey oswald shot our 35th president john f. Warren commission exhibit lee harvey oswalds snipers nest. Lee harvey oswald fired from the sixth floor of the texas school book depository located at 411 elm street in dallas. A texasbased assassination research group has publicly named a man believed to have left a previously unidentified fingerprint on a box making up the socalled snipers nest on the sixth floor of the texas school book depository at a may 29 press conference in dallas, researcher and author walt brown said that the fingerprints belong to malcolm e. He lived in minsk until june 1962, when he returned to the united states with.
Lee harvey oswald october 18, 1939 november 24, 1963 was an american marxist and former u. Lee harvey oswald, born october 18, 1939, new orleans, louisiana, u. The texas school book depository marquette university. Color slides of the getaway bus, the snipers nest, oswalds arrest. Although the bullet shells and the rifle implicated lee oswald in the assassination, a substantial proportion of the general public either remained unconvinced that he had acted alone, or doubted that he had been involved at all in order to help the media to convince the public that oswald is the real assassin,1 the warren commission was obliged to describe in detail how oswald.
Kennedy from the corner window on the sixth floor of the texas school book depository 50 years ago this year, on november 22, 1963. Oswald was seen with his rifle in the snipers nest. The finding of snipers nest english version youtube. My book argues that oswalds role in the assassination was to use his 6th floor access as a texas school book depository employee to ready the snipers nest for the actual assassin. According to the snipers, oswald is a level three sniper who is officially credited with making the most difficult shot of all time at the highest priority target, and thats why they dont believe it. Lee harvey oswald is arrested at the texas theater in oak cliff for the murder of officer tippit. The texas school book depository is located in dealey plaza in dallas, texas. Ive seen the photos in the wc exhibits that look down the aisles inside at the snipers nest why at that early date, before the. The socalled oswald window is sealed from the public, but why. Just after the snipers nest was found deputy sheriff eugene boone and deputy constable seymour weitzman searched further and found the carcano rifle in the north west corner of the 6th floor hidden between some boxes.
A new book claims that evidence which seemed to prove lee harvey oswald pulled the trigger, killing jfk, is flawed. The socalled oswald window is sealed from the public. Texas school book depository as in 1963 3d warehouse. A special presidents commission on the assassination of president john f. The building was lee harvey oswalds vantage point in his assassination of united states president john f. The window was removed from the former texas school book depository not long after the assassination. Note more of my response to willy can be found at the link below because i was told my last comment was too long to be accepted here at jfkfacts.
Since the 6th and 7th floors of the texas school book depository building became the sixth floor museum at dealey plaza, tourists can see the alleged oswald sniper s nest from approximately 25feet away behind a glass barricade. Oswald himself claimed that he was eating lunch in the lunchroom. The following walkthrough of the texas school book depository was written for the march, 2008 volume of the dealey plaza echo, the journal of the british assassination. I would have never put anyone in the texas school book depository. The warren commissions report on the assassination of jfk officially states that the alleged murder weapon, an italianmade 6. A reflective environment for people of all ages seeking information and understanding about the assassination and legacy of jfk. Marine who assassinated united states president john f. In the film two police officers are standing on a fire escape at the seventh floor of the depository gesturing to the roof. A key part of the case against lee harvey oswald is three spent cartridges found in the snipers nest on the sixth floor of the school book depository in the wake of the shooting discovered by deputy sheriff luke mooney, they were matched ballistically to lee oswalds gun to the exclusion of all other weapons.
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