[Ben Holmes]

(5) Friday morning, Oswald left almost all his cash and his wedding ring in Irving.

This is by no means a certain issue. We don't even know who found the ring ... the earliest report stated that the police had found it. 22H764 (CE 1401) - Then we have both Marina finding it 23H399 (CE 1787) and 23H475-476 (CE 1820), and Ruth Paine finding it 3H111-112

Marina had testified that Oswald didn't like wearing his ring when he went to work, due to the width of the ring:

Quote:Mr. RANKIN. Had your husband ever left his wedding ring at home that way before?
Mrs. OSWALD. At one time while he was still at Fort Worth, it was inconvenient for him to work with his wedding ring on and he would remove it, but at work--he would not leave it at home. His wedding ring was rather wide, and it bothered him. I don't know now. He would take it off at work.

Another major problem here is that you can see him wearing a ring on his 'ring finger' of his left hand when arrested. Although records state that this was a Marine Corps ring - the fact that such a ring is not in the National Archives, and the fact that he was wearing it where a wedding ring should go - cause problems for this case. It's not at all certain that the story told by the Warren Commission is a truthful one.

As for the cash he left, it's sheer speculation that this was "almost all his cash". As anyone married knows, his wife and children needed more money than he did. I find it particularly amusing that financially caring for his family is turned into evidence that he murdered the President.

I can't even recall how many times I've left my ring at home... but I've not been charged with shooting the President yet... (One day last week I left my ring on the kitchen table... no police at my door yet...)