No, I do not consider the excerpt from DOAP "Bombastic".... I simply opened the book it opened at page 280 so I quoted what I saw...
So you do agree that Manchester's account of the DPD radio broadcast by Inspector Sawyer at 12:45 PM is accurate ??...
That's very good... because it refutes the idea that Lee Oswald was the gunman that Howard Brennan saw...
First off... Lee Oswald was 24 years old.... Second...He did NOT weigh anywhere near 165 ponds... (he weighed 131 lbs) but the most obvious part of the description is the FACT that Brennan described a hunting rifle ( possibly a 30-30 Winchester) as the man's weapon...
It is an irrefutable FACT that the FBI has claimed that the murder weapon was an old Italian military rifle, a 6.5mm Mannlicher Carcano. The carcano has the entire barrel covered by a wooden stock....whereas the 30-30 has the entire shiny metal barrel exposed, so there's NO WAY anybody could call a carcano a 30-30 Winchester....
Manchesters account is accurate:
Attention Elm and Houston is reported to be an unknown white male, all squads. Attention all squads. The suspect in the shooting at approximately thirty, slender build, height five feet ten inches, weight one hundred sixty-five pounds, reported to be armed with what is thought to be a 30 caliber rifle. Attention all squads. The suspect from Elm and Houston is reported to be an unknown white male about thirty, slender build, five feet ten inches tall, one hundred sixty-five pounds, armed with what is thought to be a 30-30 rifle. No further description at this time, or information. 12:45.This is the transcript of the police dispatch. But Brennan did not testify that he saw a 30-30 Winchester but a high powered rifle. Either Sawyer misinterpreted Brennan, he incorporated what another witness said about seeing a Winchester type rifle in with Brennan's description, or Brennan is lying about the description of the rifle.
As has been pointed out to you by another poster the circumstances at the time of the event are fluid and based on quick observations during a stressful event. To expect any witness to give an exact description of an individual is asking way too much. In general terms the description did fit Oswald as it would fit a host of other individuals but it also eliminates a host of other individuals. The fact that Brennan stated in his original deposition of 11/22 that he could identify the shooter is clear evidence that he got a good look at Oswald.
The later descriptions that went out after the Tippit shooting also fit Oswald in general terms and were very close to those given by Brennan.
We have a description on this suspect over here on Jefferson. Last seen about 300 block of East Jefferson. He's a white male, about thirty, five eight, (siren) black hair, slender, wearing white jacket, a white shirt and dark slacks. (Sirens)Wanted for investigation for assault to murder on a police officer: A white male; approximately thirty; about five foot eight; slender build; has black hair; a white jacket; a white shirt and dark trousers. The suspect last seen running west on Jefferson from 400 East Jefferson. 1:24Might can give you some additional information. I got an eye-ball witness to the get-away man. That suspect in this shooting is a white male, twenty-seven, five feet eleven, a hundred sixty-five, black wavy hair, fair complected, wearing a light grey Eisenhower-type jacket, dark trousers and a white shirt, and (. . . ?). Last seen running on the north side of the street from Patton, on Jefferson, on East Jefferson. And he was apparently armed with a 32 dark-finish automatic pistol which he had in his right hand.All of the witness descriptions fir Oswald within reason and they led to his eventual arrest at the TT. Just think, if Julia Postal had given a description of an individual sneaking into the TT that was 6', bald, heavy set and dark complected do you think the police would have rushed into the TT?
