Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

I did a Mapquest to get from 1026 N. Beckley to 231 W. Jefferson in Dallas. 

So, the distance is 1 mile and the driving time 3 minutes. Since Oswald left his boarding room shortly after 1 PM and was at the theater by 1:07, according to Butch Burroughs, it means he must have been driven to the theater. Walking was out of the question because even though he could walk a mile briskly in 15 minutes, (assuming Butch Burroughs was wrong about the time) he couldn't do it that fast having to cross city streets and wait for red lights. And, it doesn't seem possible that Butch could have been that wrong. Butch was adamant about the time when he talked to Jim Douglass. Besides, when you consider all the people who witnessed the Tippit shooting at 10th and Patton, don't you think someone would have recalled seeing Oswald walking down Beckley and presumably Zang? When you add to that the fact that interrogators never told us what Oswald said about how he got to the theater, it makes it highly probable that he was driven there. 

Of course, there is no certainty that Tippit drove him, but it is plausible. The timeline works for it. John Armstrong suggests that Tippit dropped Oswald off on the alley behind Jefferson and that he walked through the space between the buildings- a space that no longer exists.  At his request, I made this graphic for John which is featured on the Harvey and Lee website:

So, at the time, there was a little alley there at the far right. So, Oswald was presumably left off behind the building; he walked through the alley; and then 50 to 60 feet down Jefferson to the entrance where Julia Postal was. As I look at it today, it looks more like 75 feet.  

An argument against it being Tippit is that Oswald's landlady said she saw two officers in the police car that honked, and reportedly, Tippit was alone. Another thing that has struck me is that Oswald told the world at the Midnight Press Conference, "I am accused of killing a police officer. I know nothing more than that." It seems like the natural tendency would be to say the officer's name if you knew him. So, to me, that is an argument that Oswald did NOT know Tippit. 

Officially, Tippit was shot at 1:14, and if so, then Oswald was definitely in the theater by then. But, the whole idea that it was Oswald is absurd. What would he have been doing walking east on 10th Street? Going where? They interrogated him. They also investigated. So, they should know. The only destination for Oswald that I have ever heard is Jack Ruby's apartment, which was only a short distance from 10th and Patton, but of course, that is officially rejected since they are not supposed to have known each other. And frankly, I know of no evidence that they knew each other.   

Besides, that plays into the whole thing about Ruby and Oswald being co-conspirators in the plot to kill Kennedy, where Ruby had to shoot Oswald to silence him. But, Ruby didn't shoot Oswald, and Oswald knew nothing about the plot to kill Kennedy. 

The man who shot Tippit was definitely an Oswald look-alike, an Oswald double. John Armstrong is convinced that it was "Lee" that is, the other Oswald who was actually born Lee Harvey Oswald in New Orleans in 1939. And it's plausible. But, even if John is wrong about that, the fact remains that they had somebody there who looked enough like Oswald to be mistaken for him, and that of course, was the whole idea. The fact that there were witnesses who ID'd the guy as Oswald really means nothing. Just talk to the people at the Innocence Project.