Like many, I have a lot of extra free time now, which I spend wisely on reading, modelling and playing Twilight in the East. And on a return to this fine Forum.
Let me try to respond to your request for "good, intelligent posts to respond to."
One, it seems fatal, flaw in the Oswald-the-patsy theory is that the entire cunning plan to murder the President collapses if the designated patsy fails to show up at the desired location on the day and time of the planned assassination.
So if Oswald had called in sick that day, or had been in hospital after a car accident while riding in Frazier's car, or for whatever other reason had NOT gone to the TSBD on November 22nd, 1963, the assassination would have to been called off or postponed. Unless there was a Plan B.
Was there? Who was the alternative patsy and were his credentials similar to Oswald's?
More than a few excellent points there, Mr. Van De Wiel, thanks for sharing.
In respect to an alternative patsy and/or a stable of potential patsies, we have to consider if Bonnie Ray Williams; Jack Dougherty and/or the man Marrion Baker encountered in his
same day affidavit were cleverly lured/placed into position ---->
AFFIDAVIT IN ANY FACT
THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF DALLAS
BEFORE ME, Mary Rattan, a Notary Public in and for said County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared M. L. Baker, Patrolman Dallas Police Department who, after being by me duly sworn, on oath deposes and says:
Friday November 22, 1963 I was riding motorcycle escort for the President of the United States. At approximately 12:30 pm I was on Houston Street and the President's car had made a left turn from Houston onto Elm Street. Just as I approached Elm Street and Houston I heard three shots. I realized those shots were rifle shots and I began to try to figure out where they came from. I decided the shots had come from the building on the northwest corner of Elm and Houston. This building is used by the Board of Education for book storage. I jumped off my motor and ran inside the building. As I entered the door I saw several people standing around. I asked these people where the stairs were. A man stepped forward and stated he was the building manager and that he would show me where the stairs were. I followed the man to the rear of the building and he said, "Let's take the elevator." The elevator was hung several floors up so we used the stairs instead. As we reached the third or fourth floor I saw a man walking away from the stairway. I called to the man and he turned around and came back toward me. The manager said, "I know that man, he works here." I then turned the man loose and went up to the top floor. The man I saw was a white man approximately 30 years old, 5'9", 165 pounds, dark hair and wearing a light brown jacket.
s/ M. L. Baker
SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN BEFORE ME THIS 22 DAY OF November A.D. 1963
/s/ Mary Rattan
Notary Public, Dallas County, Texas The interesting thing here is we are left to wonder if the aforementioned individuals and their respective movements eliminated them as pasties ---->
Bonnie Ray Williams left his position on the sixth floor in a nick of time to join "Junior" Jarman and Harold Norman down on the 5th floor; Jack Dougherty left the upper floors, taking an elevator downstairs before the authorities arrived; and, when one considers the man Baker encounters above the 2nd floor, we know he isn't anyone established in Commission Exhibit 1381 (where all of the employees state their actual positions while actually viewing the presidential-parade, Yet the building-super' Roy Truly says the following about this fellow, quote,
"I know that man, he works here."
Critical-thinkers know this encounter wasn't with the wrongly accused, because this man according to Baker in his
same day affidavit wrote, quote,
I saw a man walking away from the stairway. Major difference between walking away from a stairway and the inside of a lunchroom.
The mystery here is two-fold: Who is this man? and, Was he lured in position upon the upper floors, but "saw the light" as things begin unfolding and got out of Dodge via the stairway where he encounters Baker? Did Truly, fearing this man would blow the whole plot out in the open, vouch for him in return for his silence? There's more to this case than a lone gunman with a satchel full of magic-bullets...
The wrongly accused did not shoot anybody. Anybody.
