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.
Was the lunchroom brightly illuminated?
Mr. BELIN - Did you notice what clothes the man was wearing as he came up to you?
Mr. BAKER - At that particular time I was looking at his face, and it seemed to me like he had a light brown jacket on and maybe some kind of white-looking shirt.
Anyway, as I noticed him walking away from me, it was kind of dim in there that particular day, and it was hanging out to his side.
What was Baker recalling in his minds eye??..... The lunchroom was not "dim in there"........
You illustrate an excellent point there, Mr. Cakebread, considering it goes without saying that the 2nd floor lunchroom was a great source of light, where the executives of each respective publishing company within the building & their administrative staff/employees made great use of it on a daily basis. This would be the last place dimly lit.
To his credit, I believe Marion Baker laced some of his testimony with the actual truth of his genuine experience that afternoon, but following his same day affidavit of that truth, he found himself the next day pulled into an "official" version of events hastily contrived to frame an innocent party.
In the exchange you shared above, Baker was recalling in his mind's eye his & Roy Truly's initial sighting of the wrongly accused near the dimly lit storage room right there on the first floor (of course, given his orders to follow his 2nd day script, Baker could only share what he saw but limited to
where he actually saw it).
Lest we forget, by the 2nd day Baker was now force to add that he and Roy Truly had gone to the roof-top for between 5-10 minutes. Yet in the following affidavit I discovered, we find access to the roof was locked on the afternoon of the shooting ---->
COUNTY OF DALLAS
SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT
SUPPLEMENTARY INVESTIGATION REPORT
Name of Compainant
Assassination Of President Kennedy
Offense
John Wiseman, Deputy Sheriff, Dallas County Sheriff's Department.
Date Nov 23, 1963
I was standing in front of the Sheriff's Office at 505 Main Street, Dallas when the President passed and the car went around the corner and a few more cars had passed when I heard a shot and I knew something had happened. I ran at once to the corner of Houston and Main Street and out into the street when the second and third shots ran out. I ran on across Houston Street, then across the park to where a policeman was having trouble with his motorcycle and I saw a man laying on the grass. This man laying on the grass said the shots came from the building and he was pointing to the old Sexton Building. I talked to Marilyn Sitzman, 202 S. Lancaster who said her boss, Abraham Zaprutes, RI 86071, had movies of the shooting. She said the shots came from that way and she pointed at the old Sexton Building. I ran at once to the Sexton Building and went in. I askes some woman how many doors lead out of the building and she said 4. I left the building and found some DPD patrolmen and we came back to the building. I ran up the stairs and the patrolman started trying to get more help to search the building. I went up the stairs to the 7th floor and started up into the attic and noticed that the door to the roof was locked on the inside with a gate type hook latch. I stopped and started back down the stairs.The tandem of Baker & Truly, according to their testimony, went up to the roof (for 5-10 minutes, more about that lie as we read further along), Yet here we have a Sheriff's Deputy a couple of minutes behind on their heels finding the roof locked from the inside. Something else that runs contrary to the tandem's roof exploits is the following testimony exchange of Inspector Sawyer ---->
Mr. BELIN. You got to the elevator, went up, looked around back there. How long did you spend up there at the top floor that the elevator took you to?
Mr. SAWYER. Just took a quick look around and made sure there was nobody hiding on that floor. I doubt if it took over a minute at the most.
Mr. BELIN. To go up and look around and come down?
Mr. SAWYER. To look around on the floor. How long it took to go up, it couldn't have been over 3 minutes at the most from the time we left, got up and back down.
Mr. BELIN. Then that would put it around no sooner than 12:37, if you heard the call at 12:34?
Mr. SAWYER. Yes, sir.Baker made the mistake of saying in his testimony that he saw Inspector Sawyer while at the same time interval he is supposed to be spending 5-10 minutes on the roof, yet as we see Mr. Sawyer's three minute timeline interval exposes either one or two things: Baker wasn't on the rooftop as he said, or he lied about seeing Sawyer when he said he did. Even more damaging to the tandem's tall-tale about their exploits upon the roof is the following ---->
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1134&search=ladder_AND+roof#relPageId=496&tab=pageNote that well after the tandem said they were on the roof, the document reveals that the roof is inaccessible.
Why they are lying is anyone's guess. To account for their actions otherwise to the contrary of their script?
I agree someone planted those shell casings in the
southeast corner of the sixth floor to stage a 'sniper's nest". I will do more reading to rule in the possibility of your choice, Mr. Cakebread, but my choice--given the following Freudian slip--Roy Truly was the individual Lillian Mooneyham saw ---->
Mr. BELIN. When did you get over to
the southeast corner of the sixth floor? Mr. TRULY.
That I can't answer. I don't remember when I went over there. It was sometime
before I learned that they had found either the rifle or the spent shell cases.
The wrongly accused was framed by a hastily contrived script.
