Mr Ford It's NOT my imagination....Perhaps you should read the reports of Fritz, Hosty and Bookhout in appendix XI of the WR.
Capt Fritz wrote....." Mr Truly had told me that one of the police officers had stopped his man immediately after the shooting somewhere near the back stairway, so I asked Oswald where he was when the police officer stopped him. He said that he was on the second floor drinking a coca cola when the officer came in." "I asked him what part of the building he was in when the president was shot, and he said that he was having his lunch at about that time on the first floor."
NOTE---- No detective would ask a question that would provide information to a suspect.....Fritz didn't ask Lee where he was when the president was shot....He asked lee, where he was at the time the Parade passed by the TSBD...
FBI Bookhout wrote: "Oswald stated that on November 22 at the time of the search ( referring to Baker's search) of the Texas School Book Depository by Dallas police officers he was on the second floor of said building having just purchased a Coca-Cola from the soft drink machine at which time a police officer came into the room with pistol drawn and asked if he worked there.Mr Truly was present and verified that he was an employee and the police officer thereafter left the room and continued through the building. Oswald stated that he took his coke down to the first floor and stood around and had his lunch in the employee's lunch room. He there after went outside and stood around for five or ten minutes."
Why do you skip over the joint report by Agents Bookhout and Hosty which PRECEDES the Bookhout-only report, and which (unlike that later report) was written while Mr Oswald was still alive? Here's what that earlier report says-------------------
“OSWALD stated that he went to lunch at approximately noon and he claimed he ate his lunch on the first floor in the lunchroom; however he went to the second floor where the Coca-Cola machine was located and obtained a bottle of Coca-Cola ‘for his lunch. OSWALD claimed to’ be on the first floor when President JOHN F. KENNEDY passed by his building.”
The eyebrows of alert researchers had long been raised by the rather bizarre vagueness of that last bit: "on the first floor".
Where on the first floor?? Thankfully, the mystery was lifted when an EVEN EARLIER report was finally unearthed in 2019: Mr Oswald told Captain Fritz he bought the Coke on two, then came downstairs for lunch, and
then "went outside to watch P. Parade". The part of the first floor that Mr Oswald must have specified was: the front entrance.
This document of course destroys at a stroke the lie that Mr Oswald ever confirmed a post-assassination lunchroom encounter with an officer and Mr Truly. In fact he told them something that was completely at odds with the lunchroom encounter story. And so......... they buried it.
Comparing the evolving story told from one interrogation report to the next, in short, allows us to watch a key part of the cover-up against Mr Oswald take shape. If you weren't so besotted with the long-discredited lunchroom-encounter fiction, you would have no trouble recognizing the explosive import of the Hosty draft interrogation report that came to light in 2019-------and you wouldn't be taking recourse to ludicrously strained LNer-style argumentation in a desperate effort to explain its contents away.