Oswald isn't killed

Assuming he wasn't killed in prison, he would inevitably be executed. I don't know what the appeals process was like in Texas in 1963, but he would be worked through the system as fast as possible. The public would demand nothing less.
 
Assuming he wasn't killed in prison, he would inevitably be executed. I don't know what the appeals process was like in Texas in 1963, but he would be worked through the system as fast as possible. The public would demand nothing less.

Oswald might not have been executed since the death penalty was briefly abolished in the US in the 70s.
 
Listen, that man would be killed in prison within 30 seconds. Also, if he managed by some miracle to live, he would be exucuted within a week. Max.
 
Ruby dies instead for not finishing his mission, and Oswald later dies in a prison "accident" arranged by the CIA/Mafia/Cubans/Communists/Greys/Greens/Illuminati/Elders of Zion/Klan/Damn Dirty Hippies :p
 
Oswald might not have been executed since the death penalty was briefly abolished in the US in the 70s.

But that was 1963. His trial would be sometime in '64; I can't see him getting off in any way, there would be no O. J. moment here. Plus, he killed Officer Tippett, and they fry cop killers in the south even today, never mind that he had killed the POTUS, so he has to go. The death penalty was declared to be cruel and unusual punishment by the Supreme Court in 1972, and reinstated in 1976, but Oswald would be long gone by this time.
 
But that was 1963. His trial would be sometime in '64; I can't see him getting off in any way, there would be no O. J. moment here. Plus, he killed Officer Tippett, and they fry cop killers in the south even today, never mind that he had killed the POTUS, so he has to go. The death penalty was declared to be cruel and unusual punishment by the Supreme Court in 1972, and reinstated in 1976, but Oswald would be long gone by this time.

Yes, but killing POUTS in 1963 was not a Federal crime
 
I think we can all agree that if he was not killed that the world would find out that he was under CIA orders to kill the president:D:D:D:D.
 
Yes, but killing POUTS in 1963 was not a Federal crime

Whether it was a federal crime or not, the state of Texas would have executed him for killing the policeman, if nothing else. And it had to be a crime for killing the president, and wounding Connoly, never mind what category. Regardless of technicalities, Oswald will have a date with the hangman. No getting away from that. Remember, the assassins of Garfield and Mckinley were executed.
 
District Attorney Henry Wade in Dallas Texas, at the time of Kennedy's murder, had prosecuted 40 murder cases, of those 39 had ended in death sentences. Oswald would have been 40.

I'm not sure of the time lag for an execution in 1963 Texas, but it could have been not long.
 
Texas had Old Sparky back then, and Oswald would have been tried and convicted in Dallas County on two counts of Capital Murder and four counts of attempted Capital Murder (wounding Governor Connally, and he could have missed either JFK or the Governor and hit Jackie, Mrs. Connally, or the two Secret Service agents in the car). Result: Lee Harvey Oswald sits down in the electric chair at the Texas State Prison in Huntsville sometime in 1966 or '67 and doesn't get up again....
 
I agree. He probably would have been executed, or, maybe Jack Ruby goes to prison for some other reason, gets put in the jail where Oswald is staying, and shanks him in prison.
Listen, that man would be killed in prison within 30 seconds. Also, if he managed by some miracle to live, he would be exucuted within a week. Max.
simply put, whoever is in charge of it, whether it is the state district attorney or the attorney general or the governor of texas or whoever would have made certain that oswald was alone his entire time in prison because of the very risk of this, there is no way that any law enforcement agency will accept not having this man live through the trial, for the very same reason that timothy mcveigh wore a bullet proof vest when entering and exiting the courthouse, and why the nazi's at nuremburg were put on 24 hour suicide watch.
 
The trial would be the trial of the century and Oswald could explain who he worked for, if any.

Were there any ballisticstest made from the rifle he was to have used? Any fingerprinttest?
 
I think we can all agree that if he was not killed that the world would find out that he was under CIA orders to kill the president:D:D:D:D.

No. Because Lee Harvey had quite the cranky personality.

What we forget is that he'd been placed in front of the TV cameras the day before he died, and had been allowed to give a bizarre press conference. (It might be worth checking Youtube--I think there was at least a quarter-of-an-hour of Oswald's 'presser' broadcast nationwide.)

No, he can rant all he likes about the CIA, but the public will no more believe him in 1964 than Mohammed Al Fayed is believed today when he makes his 'case' against British intelligence. (But some will believe him, of course. This TL probably sees a dramatic rise in conspiracy theorising.)

And I'm not even suggesting that Oswald would necessarily be lying--it's just that the conventional wisdom would dismiss him as a crackpot...
 
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