Is the revolver a S&W?

[Walt Cakebread]

Whaley said: " he had on a brown shirt with a little silverlike stripe on it". So not "silver" literally.



The arrest shirt was mercerized, which causes fabric to have a shiny look. The shirt has what appears to be light yellow vertical stripes on it. Overall, the shirt in this picture has an orange-brown color.


The arrest shirt appears to exhibit a hole in the right elbow.

The shirt with the button down collar is the shirt that Lee would have been wearing IF IF he had been William Whaley's passenger.....There isn't a hint of a silver thread running through the fabric....

[John Iacoletti]

And ,,, no "silver thread" in this one either.

So who was Whaley’s actual passenger? Faded blue khaki uniform? Work jacket that almost matched the pants? Two jackets?

[Walt Cakebread]

So who was Whaley’s actual passenger? Faded blue khaki uniform? Work jacket that almost matched the pants? Two jackets?

I don't think the identity of Whaley's passenger is important.....But he sure as hell was NOT Lee Oswald.   

However the man who got out of Whaley's taxi did walk off in the direction of tenth and Patton, the site of Tippitt's murder.

   

[Walt Cakebread]

And ,,, no "silver thread" in this one either.

no "silver thread" in this one either.

That's correct....  And this IS the shirt that Lee would have been wearing at the time that Whaley transported the young man who was wearing a BLUE workman's type uniform jacket.  Whaley said that his passenger was wearing a shirt with silver threads running through the fabric...  As you can see there are no "silver threads" running through this shirt.    And it definitely IS the shirt that Lee took off and left in the drawer of his dresser at the rooming house.

[Walt Cakebread]

I don't expect witnesses to record minute details as if they were digital cameras, though a "a brown shirt with a little silverlike stripe on it" seems appropriate as a rough recall of the lighter stripes on the mercerized shirt and its overall color. Did Whaley identify Oswald as the man in his cab?

Did Whaley identify Oswald as the man in his cab?

How could Whaley have Identified Lee Oswald as his passenger?......  When Lee Oswald clearly was NOT wearing" a brown shirt with a little silverlike stripe on it", nor was he wearing a "blue workman's type jacket".....  Clearly Whaley described a man who was NOT Lee Oswald.

[Walt Cakebread]

I don't expect witnesses to record minute details as if they were digital cameras, though a "a brown shirt with a little silverlike stripe on it" seems appropriate as a rough recall of the lighter stripes on the mercerized shirt and its overall color. Did Whaley identify Oswald as the man in his cab?

Mr. BALL. Did you notice how he was dressed?

Mr. WHALEY. Yes, sir. I didn't pay much attention to it right then.
But it all came back when I really found out who I had. He was dressed
in just ordinary work clothes. It wasn't khaki pants but they were
khaki material, blue faded blue color, like a blue uniform made in
khaki. Then he had on a brown shirt with a little silverlike stripe on
it and he had on some kind of jacket. I didn't notice very close but I
think it was a work jacket that almost matched the pants.

[Walt Cakebread]

If you're going to give Whaley and Brennan full-credit on minor details, how about giving them credit on their identification of Oswald as the man they saw?

Huh??.... Yer hallucinating ...  The DETAILS that Brennan and Whaley relate are details that do not fit with the description of Lee Oswald.  So if they said that the man they saw was Lee Oswald, then they are liars...because the descriptions that they gave do NOT fit Lee Oswald.

[Walt Cakebread]

I don't expect witnesses to record minute details as if they were digital cameras, though a "a brown shirt with a little silverlike stripe on it" seems appropriate as a rough recall of the lighter stripes on the mercerized shirt and its overall color. Did Whaley identify Oswald as the man in his cab?

"a brown shirt with a little silverlike stripe on it" seems appropriate as a rough recall of the lighter stripes on the mercerized shirt and its overall color.

"THE LIGHTER STRIPES "


Mr. WHALEY. Yes, sir. I didn't pay much attention to it right then.
But it all came back when I really found out who I had. He was dressed
in just ordinary work clothes. It wasn't khaki pants but they were
khaki material, blue faded blue color, like a blue uniform made in
khaki. Then he had on a brown shirt with a little silverlike stripe on
it and he had on some kind of jacket.

Whaley didn't say anything about Multiple STRIPES.... He said the man's shirt had   a little silverlike stripe on it