Then went outside to watch P. parade ( Parts 1 & 2 )

[Dan O'meara]

Correct! 

Had Mrs Reid been telling everyone about having seen "Oswald" just after the shooting, she would not have been treated like just another office worker and let home 2pm-2:30pm. The fact that this supposedly key witness isn't brought down to City Hall to give an affidavit until the next day speaks for itself.

Incorrect 

Key witnesses such as Geneva Hine, Harold Norman and Junior Jarman weren't taken down to City Hall that day.

[Alan Ford]

That Reid was telling her co-workers about her encounter with Oswald is confirmed by Karen Westbrook Scranton in her Oral History interview.
She doesn't need to know his name - "I saw that scrawny loser...etc."

Fanciful

But why is she talking about such an innocuous event. The president has been shot and she's talking about passing some creep holding a coke. Why?

It's like the question, 'Why does Officer Baker, rushing to get to the top of the building, take a time-wasting detour off the second floor landing to check out a guy who happens to be on the far side of a door but then later amazingly turns out to have been Mr Prime Suspect?'

And it has the same answer: It never happened. Mr Truly put Mrs Reid up to it.

[Alan Ford]

Incorrect 

Key witnesses such as Geneva Hine, Harold Norman and Junior Jarman weren't taken down to City Hall that day.

Ms Hine, Mr Norman and Mr Jarman have one thing in common: they make no claim of having seen Evil Mr Oswald near the time of the motorcade.

And I suggest you read the affidavit Mr Jarman does give the following day!

[Dan O'meara]

Fanciful

Go and check out the Scranton interview.
There's nothing 'fanciful' about it.
You would just like to wish it away.

It's like the question, 'Why does Officer Baker, rushing to get to the top of the building, take a time-wasting detour off the second floor landing to check out a guy who happens to be on the far side of a door but then later amazingly turns out to have been Mr Prime Suspect?'

It's not even remotely similar.
The reason Reid is talking about such a seemingly innocent event is because it has become common knowledge amongst those trapped inside the TSBD that Oswald is being sought after.
Why else mention it?

And it has the same answer: It never happened. Mr Truly put Mrs Reid up to it.

You don't have one scrap of evidence for this assertion.
It's your own invented opinion.

[Dan O'meara]

Ms Hine, Mr Norman and Mr Jarman have one thing in common: they make no claim of having seen Evil Mr Oswald near the time of the motorcade.

And I suggest you read the affidavit Mr Jarman does give the following day!

Carolyn Arnold claims to have seen Patsy Oswald near the time of the motorcade.
She isn't hauled in either.
What's your point?
Reid was called in the next day to give a statement, one of the few office workers to do so.
Her claim must have been considered important.

[Alan Ford]

The reason Reid is talking about such a seemingly innocent event is because it has become common knowledge amongst those trapped inside the TSBD that Oswald is being sought after.

If it has become common knowledge that Mr Oswald is being sought after, how come Mrs Reid doesn't yet know his name---------and won't do so until she later sees his picture and hears his name mentioned?

[Alan Ford]

Carolyn Arnold claims to have seen Patsy Oswald near the time of the motorcade.
She isn't hauled in either.

Yes, because what she has to say is disastrous to the massive official effort to put Mr Oswald up on six

[Walt Cakebread]

Fanciful

It's like the question, 'Why does Officer Baker, rushing to get to the top of the building, take a time-wasting detour off the second floor landing to check out a guy who happens to be on the far side of a door but then later amazingly turns out to have been Mr Prime Suspect?'

And it has the same answer: It never happened. Mr Truly put Mrs Reid up to it.

It's like the question, 'Why does Officer Baker, rushing to get to the top of the building, take a time-wasting detour off the second floor landing to check out a guy who happens to be on the far side of a door but then later amazingly turns out to have been Mr Prime Suspect?'

Why did Baker want to see what was going on behind that door?     Because he was a cop, and his suspicions were alert....