Gentlemen,
Some encouraging reading, especially the spotlight focus upon the three (3) "witnesses" hedging their bets while trying to frame an innocent individual without fear of perjury upon further review by a much closer examination of their statements.
Of course, that lingering fear was forever lifted off Baker, Truly & Reid after the wrongly accused was dispatched to a status of permanent silenced. Thus the horse manure we are still dissecting today (a phantom 2nd floor encounter between Mr. Baker and Truly-nothing truly about him; Mrs. Reid's phony encounter of the same; and, of course, omitting the actual encounter of the wrongly accused on the first floor near the storage room).
Anyone who has any lingering doubts that Mrs. Reid isn't lying, please read Geneva Hines WC testimony, where she leaves little doubt that Mrs. Reid did not immediately return to the 2nd floor as she claimed...
Mr. BALL. When you came back in did you see Mrs. Reid?
Miss HINE. No, sir; I don't believe there was a soul in the office when I came back in right then.
Mr. BALL. Did you see anybody else go in through there?
Miss HINE. No, sir; after I answered the telephone then there was about four or five people that came in.
Mr. BALL. Was there anybody in that room when you came back in and went to the telephone?
Miss HINE. No, sir
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In fact, Mrs. Hine observes Mrs. Reid come in with a group of five to six others.
Mr. BALL. Did you see Mrs. Reid come back in?
Miss HINE. Yes, sir; I think I felt sure that I did. I thought that there were five or six that came in together. I thought she was one of those.
Now, it gets even more interesting, because the only way Mrs. Reid could have seen the wrongly accused is Mrs. Hine was in position to vouch for it, but she doesn't ---->
Mr. BALL. Did you see Oswald come in?
Miss HINE. My back would have been to the door he was supposed to have come in at.
Mr. BALL. Were you facing the door he is supposed to have left by?
Miss HINE. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. Do you recall seeing him?
Miss HINE. No, sir.
An honest to goodness answer. The wrongly accused wasn't anywhere near that office, let alone in that office on the 2nd floor in spite of Baker, Truly & Mrs. Reid's hastily contrived horse manure to frame an innocent man.
"Anyone who has any lingering doubts that Mrs. Reid isn't lying, please read Geneva Hines WC testimony,"You've left out something important - to read Hine's testimony with an unbiased, impartial eye rather than the frothing prejudice you are clearly displaying.
A fanatical mentality can only see that which supports it's own prejudice.
Here's a slightly more lucid look at Hine's testimony and, just for the record, I'd like to make it known that I don't believe Oswald took the shots.
Geneva Hine is alone in her office as the motorcade passes by. She watches what she can from an east window from which she can see part of Elm Street and up Houston Street. She actually sees JFK as the limo passes by. Then three shots ring out.
Mr. BALL. How many did you hear?
Miss HINE. Three.
Mr. BALL Could you tell where the shots were coming from?
Miss HINE. Yes, sir; they came from inside the building.
Mr. BALL. How do you know that?
Miss HINE. Because the building vibrated from the result of the explosion coming in.
Mr. BALL. It appeared to you that the shots came from the building?
Miss HINE. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. Did you know they were shots at the time?
Miss HINE. Yes, sir; they sounded almost like cannon shots they were so terrific.
She continues to look out of the east window - "I just stood there and saw people running to the east up Elm Street. I saw people running; I saw people falling down, you know, lying down on the sidewalk."
She decides to see what's going on so
she leaves her office.
While this is happening, Jeraldean Reid, according to her testimony, is on her way up to the second floor office Hine has just vacated. Hine tries one door, knocking on and calling out but to no avail. She then walks down the short corridor to Southwestern Publishing Co:
Miss HINE. And there was a girl in there talking on the telephone and I could hear her but she didn't answer the door.
Mr. BALL. Was the door locked?
Miss HINE. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. That was which company?
Miss HINE. Southwestern Publishing Co.
Mr. BALL. Did you call to her?
Miss HINE. I called and called and shook the door and she didn't answer me because she was talking on the telephone; I could hear her. They have a little curtain up and I could see her form through the curtains. I could see her talking and I knew that's what she was doing and then I turned and went through the back hall and came through the back door.
While Hine is trying to get the attention of the girl talking in the office, Reid and Oswald have their interaction. Hine then walks "through the back hall" (that is, the corridor leading towards the lunchroom), which is why she didn't see Oswald leaving. She enters her office "through the back door" and goes to her desk. She is sure there is no-one in the office when she returns from the corridor. She is instantly swamped with phone calls:
Miss HINE. Yes; and I went straight up to the desk because the telephones were beginning to wink; outside calls were beginning to come in.
Mr. BALL. Did they come in rapidly?
Miss HINE
They did come in rapidly.Mr. BALL. From the time you walked into the room you became
immediately busy with the phone?
Miss HINE.
Yes, sir; sure was.
Hine is aware of a group of people come in but she doesn't have a clue whether Reid is with them:
Mr. BALL. Do you have any definite recollection of Mrs. Reid coming in?
Miss HINE.
No, sir; I only saw four or five people that came by and they all came and were all talking about how terrible it was.
Hine doesn't recognise Reid coming in with this group but she is aware Reid being there as they all talk about "how terrible it was".
The question is - if Reid encountered Oswald as she says, why isn't she in the office when Hine returns?
Read Reid's testimony with an impartial eye (
fat chance) and you'll understand why Reid wasn't in the room when Hine returned.
