So Mr Oswald had a cop put a pistol to his gut and ask him if he worked there, and shortly after this had Mrs Reid tell him, "Oh, the President has been shot, but maybe they didn't hit him", and then went outside thinking he was going to catch the Presidential parade?
Alan....May I remind you that your using the testimony that was extracted from Mrs Reid.... We have no real absolute proof that Mrs reid actually saw Lee Oswald and said to him "Oh, the President has been shot, but maybe they didn't hit him",
I'll grant that is what she stated in her testimony ....But that doesn't prove that she did not make it up out of thin air on the afternoon of the assassination.
It could have been nothing but an innocuous remark by Mrs Reid, which she intended as an insertion of herself into the scene. Many people ( particularly older women ) like to embroidery and place themselves near an exciting event... Mrs Reid could easily have said...
" My goodness...He walked right past me just a couple of minutes after the shooting. I didn't suspect that he had just shot JFK, when I said . Oh, the President has been shot, but maybe they didn't hit him", But once she said that she couldn't very well say....."Oh, I just made that up for the girls in the office".....
Belin NEEDED mrs Reid's testimony....and he wasn't about to challenge her....in fact he encouraged her.....