[Ben Holmes]

(18) Oswald left the Marsalis bus when it got caught in traffic.

Presuming that Oswald was on a bus, it's not exactly evidence that he murdered someone if he gets off the bus. It's merely historical FACT that everyone who was on that bus got off of it that same day, and likely within an hour or so - does this make them all suspects???

Watch as believers, such as Patrick Collins - ABSOLUTELY REFUSE to publicly admit just how silly and nonsensical this particular bit of "evidence" is...

Nor will Patrick accuse Mrs. Bledsoe of the crime... it's a provable fact that she also got off the bus... indeed, so did Cecil McWatters... the bus driver... as did Milton Jones, the teenager later identified by McWatters as the "grinning" man he'd originally thought was Oswald.

Is it cowardice by Patrick Collins, or dishonesty? I'll let the readers decide...

It's merely speculation that someone got off the bus -due to traffic- ... nor would it be particularly strange for someone to do so if they weren't willing to wait.

Nor is it particularly well established that he was even on the bus.

One question that is rarely raised is why would Oswald get on the Marsalis bus in the first place? The nearest this bus would take Oswald to his rooming house on North Beckley is seven blocks away. Oswald regularly used public transport, as he didn't drive and had no car. Public transportation has schedules. Anyone regularly using the bus generally knows these schedules. Knowing the schedules helps to not be fired from work. Oswald must have known the schedule of the Beckley bus. It left the St Paul transfer point at the same time as the Marsalis/Munger bus that Cecil McWatters was driving. That time was 12:36pm. McWatters claimed that he was probably ahead of the Beckley bus because he couldn’t see it in front of him. If Oswald was heading back to his rooming house why would he get a bus that didn’t take him there? Especially if the one that did take him all the way home was probably right behind it?

And, if we accept the EARLIEST account, that of McWatter's Affidavit – then Oswald being on the bus is an alibi for the Tippit murder... because he let Oswald off the bus AFTER the Tippit murder.