Ok. So, Westbrook's word is good enough after all. That was a quick turnaround. It's nice to see that you've seen the light on that.
You're missing the point, Tim. It's pretty obvious to me that you are doing that on purpose and for a reason, but let's pretend for now that I did not notice that.....
The whole thing comes down to one man; Pinky Westbrook! You either believe him or not, because there is no corroboration for anything he says and the facts are against him.
Let's examine what we know.
When the jacket was found it was described as
white by not one but two officers and DPD radio gave out a description of the suspect of Tippit's killer (likely obtained from an unidentified witness) that had him wearing a white jacket.
All the mumbo jumbo Mytton "science" about different colors under different shades of sunlight do not apply, because the car park was an open area and the jacket was found on the middle of a bright sunny day and, according to the two officers, it was
white.
Now, Westbrook's tale begins. As fas as I can tell, Westbrook never wrote a contemporary report about his activities in 11/22/63. Months later, he tells the WC that somebody, possibly a police officer, who he can not identify, found the jacket and pointed it out to him. Westbrook then takes the jacket, not leaving it in situ, so that when W.E. Barnes of the crime lab arrives there is nothing to photograph but a parked car.
Somehow sounds familiar, doesn't it? Evidence being presented that was found by somebody we don't know and was never photographed in situ.
Anyway, by the time Barnes arrives the jacket is apparently already gone because he never sees it. Westbrook tells the WC that he gave the jacket to another officer, who he also can not identify, before leaving the carpark to go to the Texas Theater.
So, we don't know how the jacket came to be under the car (if it ever was), who really found the jacket nor do we know how it got to the police station.
Next we learn that, according to an unsigned or countersigned receipt of the Identification bureau, Westbrook is submitting a
gray jacket to the CSSS, which has the initials on it of W.E. Barnes and G.M. Doughty, which at best is odd because neither Barnes or Doughty were involved in the chain of custody for the jacket. In his WC testimony, Barnes confirms that he initialed the jacket at the station at around the same time the revolver was being initialed. Btw the revolver also has intitials on it from officers who were not actually involved in the chain of custody.
In other words, the entire "chain of custody" is just one man, Westbrook, who never really had custody of the jacket.... and low and behold it's the same Westbrook who is at the center of the controversy over the wallet that was found at the Tippit scene. It was Westbrook who, according to FBI agent Bob Barrett, was holding and going through that wallet and asked him if he had ever heard of Lee Harvey Oswald or Alek Hidell.
So we have a gray jacket and a revolver being initialed at the police stations by officers who were not involved in the chain of custody and who had no way of knowing where those items really came from and we have a wallet from the Tippit scene that morphes into a wallet taken from Oswald in the car by Paul Bentley, who in turn claims that wallet contained a credit card and a drivers license.
And in the middle of it all;
Captain W.R. Westbrook of the DPD Personnel Office Now let me ask you again, Tim.... Westbrook's word is good enough for you, right?
