One explanation says that Oswald was never in the sixth story window sniper's perch at all, due to the fact some witnesses observed him down in the lunchroom drinking a soda during a time frame where he would not have been able to be upstairs and pull the Mannlicher-Carcano's trigger three times in succession within seven seconds, then race back down to appear nonchalantly with a bottle of coke in his dirty little commie hand, as observed by the witnesses. In Joachim Joesten's book about Oswald, there's also a photograph of our friend Lee in the front entrance of the School Book Depository snapped right as Kennedy's motorcade was passing by. Later someone claimed that the guy in the entrance-way was just another TSBD employee by the name of Billy Lovelady. But the resemblance to Lee was uncanny.
One of Dick's novels, Dr. Futurity explains why there were so many Oswalds seen in and around Dealey Plaza and the School Book Depository at the time of the hit. What happens in Dr. Futurity is that the protagonist ends up going back in time to change some event and when he screws up has to keep going back to the past again and again, trying to get it right, meanwhile bumping into his former selves already there in the past who think he's an impostor. So what we end up with is the protagonist pitted against his former selves as he attempts to accomplish his impossible mission in just one of the many schizoid worlds that PKD created on amphetamines during his lifetime as a vehicle to express the higher truth of how the Kennedy Assassination transpired.
That's what we had in Dealey Plaza; at least four Lee Oswalds there, because the first, second and third times he'd attempted the assassination, Lee fucked up. So he hopped into his time machine from the 23rd Century for a fourth time and finally got it right, blowing a hole through the back of Jack's skull, leaving that large gaping wound that we have all become so familiar with. The first time Lee appeared was in the lunchroom when he got his timing all wrong. The second time he screwed up again, when we see him in the photo in front of the TSBD. The third time he got off two shots: one that went through the back of JFK's neck and the other that nailed Connally through the chest, in the wrist and eventually falling out pristine--as you might recall--on a stretcher in Parkland Memorial Hospital. When Lee returned the fourth time he dealt the fatal bullet blow which we now all know, thereby explaining how Oswald could have fired so many shots in such a short span of time.
As far as the alternate realities go, people have claimed seeing a myriad of assassins all over Dealey Plaza; from the fabled Grassy Knoll to the Dal-Tex Building to the TSBD to popping out of storm drain holes like malevolent jack-in-the-boxes to the Guy with the Umbrella and even the Secret Service Agent who drove Jack's black limo of death through the nightmare on Elm Street. I've even heard one balmy theory that had LBJ as the assassin with machine gun a-blazin' a path of glory straight to the Oval Office.
All of this suggests to me (once again of course under the influence of Datura and Jolt this was all revealed!) that JFK's Assassination was a huge reality shifting mess that no one ever in their right mind has been able to unravel due to the simple, complex fact that everyone there that day in Dealey Plaza saw it all a little bit or a whole lot different, in addition to the theories of researchers afterwards which have also been influenced by the after-shocks of the Assassination; those reality shifting ripples and currents emanating from Dealey Plaza & reaching out far and wide, ostensibly skewing the perceptions of JFK Assassination Theorists, such as Cliff Cheers Clavin's theory that the Beatles shot JFK that sunny Texan day in a four-way triangulation of gun fire!
I like my theory the best.
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