Fascinating analysis about Brennan's focus during the WC testimony....
And yet...
Mr. BELIN. And then after lunch, where did you go?
Mr. BRENNAN. I finished lunch and I glanced at a clock--I don't know exactly where the clock is located--and noticed it was 12:18. So I thought I still had a few minutes, that I might see the parade and the President. I walked to the corner of Houston and Elm.
Later he simply offers 12.22-12.24. No recollection of his watch at that point in 1964 under oath.
He offers this. He remembered a specific time leaving the cafe....go figure. He obviously lost focus later on and forgot about looking at his watch but remembered doing so for a book written years later.....of course. One published posthumously in 1987. Right on the money.
And you say I am full of it.....
The book was written in 1983. Howard Brennan read the book before he died in December of 1983. Here are some of Howard Brennan's own words in the introduction:
Early in 1983 my pastor, Edward Cherryholmes, convinced me that I should tell my complete story for future generation who will want to know the truth. Some things in this book will reveal new aspects never before known. I have wanted for a long time to tell publically how it really felt to be an integral part of an historic event. Thousands of times since that day I have asked myself, "Why me?" I still don't know for certain, but I have accepted the fact that I was chosen to be the witness because of certain qualities I possess, as you will learn in this book. Someone like me had to survive to say what really happened. Volumes have been written about the assassination, but this is the only eyewitness account of what actually transpired.On the afternoon of 11/22/63 Howard Brennan went home to his wife Louise. Here is part of what he wrote about that:
Louise wanted to know everything that had happened in the minutest detail. I repeated the events of the day to her, recounting details that were larger than life.The copy of "Witness to History" that I have was signed by Louise Brennan on 10-24-88. She writes:
Dear Lanella & Dan, In loving memory of your friend & cousin (Howard Brennan) Lots of love your cousin Louise Brennan.Louise was told by Howard Brennan, in minute detail, the events of 11/22/63. I don't believe that she would be signing her name to a book that she didn't believe told the truth.
If you think that its all bullspombleprofglidnoctobuns. Its only because it doesn't fit your fantasy scenario.
