Why I believe the government's case against Oswald is BS -- Part I

[Gil Jesus]

by Gil Jesus ( 2023 )

There are basically several reasons why I believe that the Dallas Police/ FBI/ Warren Commission's case against Oswald was fraudulent. I believe that these reasons are the "smoking guns" of Oswald's innocence because not only were many of the steps taken by authorities ILLEGAL, they do not fall into any category of what a normal homicide investigation would involve.
Not the least of these reasons was that the prosecutorial system in Dallas was corrupt.

Reason # 1: The prosecutorial system in Dallas was corrupt
In a criminal case, the credibility of the case is directly connected to the credibility of the people making the case. Justice cannot be served if the justice system is geared to anything other than bringing the REAL perpetrators to justice. 

During the tenure of Henry Wade as District Attorney of Dallas County, the DA's office was interested in only one thing: conviction rates.
Conviction rates are determined by dividing the number of convictions by the number of arrests.
For example, if you had nine convictions out of ten arrests, you'd have a 90% conviction rate.
Wade compiled a conviction rate so impressive that defense attorneys ruefully called themselves the 7 Percent Club.

The problem with this system is that your interest is not necessarily in convicting the guilty party, but instead convicting the person you arrested.
And if you arrested the wrong person, it would require you to manufacture evidence against that suspect in such a way to convince a judge or jury of his guilt.

This is exactly what they did in Dallas County under Henry Wade's tenure.

Nineteen convictions — three for murder and the rest involving rape or burglary — won by Wade and two successors who trained under him were overturned after DNA evidence exonerated the defendants. 
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna25917791

District Attorney Craig Watkins became the first black elected chief prosecutor in any Texas county  back in 2006.
The new DA and other Wade detractors said the cases won under Wade were riddled with shoddy investigations, evidence was ignored and defense lawyers were kept in the dark. 
They note that the promotion system under Wade rewarded prosecutors for high conviction rates.

In the case of James Lee Woodard — released in April 2008 after 27 years in prison for a murder DNA showed he didn't commit — Wade's office withheld from defense attorneys photographs of tire tracks at the crime scene that didn't match Woodard's car.

John Stickels, a University of Texas at Arlington criminology professor and a director of the Innocence Project of Texas, blamed a culture of "win at all costs."
"When someone was arrested, it was assumed they were guilty," he said. "I think prosecutors and investigators basically ignored all evidence to the contrary and decided they were going to convict these guys."

In other words, the Dallas DA wasn't interested in convicting the right person, he was interested in convicting the person who was ARRESTED.

Wade wrote a manual for prosecutors in 1969 that was used for more than a decade. It gave instructions on how to keep minorities off juries.

By 1953, Henry Wade already had the city wired. Reporters treated his word as gospel, sometimes even buttressing Wade’s efforts in court with their own testimony. The Dallas Police Department and County Sheriff’s Office eagerly did his bidding.

Henry Wade's word was gold.

Wade was so highly regarded by the people of Dallas that he was able to convince a jury in 1954 to send an innocent man to the electric chair.
https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2016/may/henry-wade-executed-innocent-man/

Wade's office had no problem charging innocent people for crimes they did not commit and presenting evidence in such a way as to obtain a conviction by a judge or jury.
With such a skill for framing innocent people for crimes they did not commit, the credibility of the DA's case against Lee Harvey Oswald deserves a second look.
As does the authenticity of the evidence in this case.

 

Edited November 13, 2023 by Gil Jesus

[Joe Bauer]

GJ, totally agree.

The average American had no clue as to the racist, corrupt make up Henry Wade.

The guy was the poster boy of good-ole-boy Southern segregationist minded prosecutors during that time.

Here's a DA who after just "two days" of investigation into Oswald as the killer of JFK said to the world press...he was convinced of Oswald's guilt to moral certainty.

And immediately after Oswald was eliminated closed the JFK case?

Really?

 

 

[Benjamin Cole]

I have been exploring the issue of evidence tampering in other posts here, particularly in connection with the Walker shooting.  

A sad story indeed. 

[Gil Jesus]

23 hours ago, Gil Jesus said:

John Stickels, a University of Texas at Arlington criminology professor and a director of the Innocence Project of Texas, blamed a culture of "win at all costs."
"When someone was arrested, it was assumed they were guilty," he said. "I think prosecutors and investigators basically ignored all evidence to the contrary and decided they were going to convict these guys."

In other words, the Dallas DA wasn't interested in convicting the right person, he was interested in convicting the person who was ARRESTED.

 

In this case, there is evidence that there was an assumption of guilt at the time of Oswald's arrest as well. Johnny Calvin Brewer testified that during the struggle with Oswald in the Texas Theater, "I  heard some of the police holler, I don't know who it was, 'Kill the President, will you ?' " ( 7 H 6 )

This only goes to prove that this was the culture of the prosecutorial system in Dallas.

Edited November 14, 2023 by Gil Jesus