If Oswald was walking east prior to the shooting, as the Warren Commission claimed, why didn Scoggins see him pass his cab?
Scoggins’ cab was parked at the corner of Tenth and Patton – 150 feet west of the shooting scene. The front bumper of the cab was nearly blocking the crosswalk along the path that Oswald would have taken had he been walking east. That means that Oswald’s pant leg would have nearly brushed up against Scoggin’s front bumper as he passed in front of the cab. How could Scoggins have missed such an event if Oswald had indeed passed his cab heading east? By Scoggins own account, he was sitting in his cab eating lunch and looking around. The scenario of an eastbound Oswald defies logical given Scoggins unmistakable testimony. Once it is realized that the two witnesses – Tatum and Markham – who claimed Oswald was walking east only observed Oswald after noticing Tippit’s squad car pulling to the curb 150 feet east of the corner of Tenth and Patton where Scoggins was parked, it seems abundantly clear what happened. Oswald was walking west on Tenth, as William Lawrence Smith and Jimmy Burt observ
