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This essay is what I'd expect of a Warren Commission loyalist. No opportunity is given to directly edit it. As though its logic were unimpeachable.

I'll offer a few critiques.

Regarding the neutron activation analysis conducted on the ammunition recovered from the residence of General Edwin Walker, it only tells us a high probability exists that Mannlicher Carcano rounds were used, which could have been fired by a large number of such rifles in circulation. This hardly singles out Oswald's weapon to the exclusion of all others.

Regarding the witnesses who identified Oswald in the police line-up, it's a farce. Quite contrary to the Warren Commission's statement, that Helen Markham positively singled out Oswald, this is contradicted by her Warren Commission testimony. First she said, "I couldn't identify him by his face, but his clothes". Then testified, "I couldn't identify him by his clothes, but by his face". Benevides testified that he wasn't sure he could identify Tippet's killer. And according to a number of Dallas policemen, the line-ups were carried out in a manner which ran contrary to the standard, which is to place the suspect in with three similar individuals. Instead, the others were distinctively different, often being better dressed, taller, having blond or black hair, or dark complexion. Oswald wore a brown shirt on the day of the assassination. Tippet's killer was described as wearing a jacket with a white t-shirt beneath. How interesting that after Oswald was arrested, his brown shirt was removed, leaving him with just the white t-shirt underneath. All these devices were clearly a deliberate effort to facilitate a false identification.

So when it comes to "witnesses identifying Oswald as Tippet's killer" DO NOT PASS GO, DO NOT COLLECT $200.00

I'll finish with the Alek Hidell card allegedly found in Oswald's wallet. This is the one piece of evidence which connected Oswald with the recovered rifle. You'd have to be a total moron to take the risk of carrying such evidence on your person, and Oswald was no dummy.