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

[Richard Smith]

the idea that he just decided to run down to the lunchroom and calmly get a nice refreshing soda after supposedly shooting at the president and hiding a rifle is just plain silly.

This is one for " Ripley's Believe it or Not"

Believe it or not Jerry....When Curry first learned of Baker's encounter with Lee Oswald in the lunchroom.....he told reporters that Oswald was such a fiend that when Baker confronted him he was calmly drinking a Coca Cola just seconds after he had murdered the president.   That's the spin that Curry put on the lunchroom encounter.....and that caused a huge problem because Curry had acknowledged that Lee was DRINKING A COKE at the time that Baker burst into the lunchroom. When the WC "investigators" re-enacted  Lee Harrrrrrvey Osssssswald's flight from the "Sniper's Nest" to the second floor lunchroom they discoveed that there simply wasn't enough time for Lee to have got the coke from the vending machine prior to Baker's arrival.
So Curry's  statement had to be expunged.....     

As you've pointed out the idea that Lee was calmly drinking a coke to celebrate his deed is completely insane ...but the fact that it happened, highlights the lengths they would go to to frame Lee Oswald.

How is it a problem for Oswald to be drinking a soda?  He didn't shoot JFK and intend to head to the lunch room for a refreshing beverage break.  He ducked in there to avoid the folks coming up the stairs.  He is trying to hide and using the soda as a prop.  And it worked.  He got out of the building. 

[Alan Ford]

The fourth floor??

Third!

[Alan Ford]

Imagine the NYTs getting a detail wrong! LOL.

NYHT. Imagine Mr Smith getting a detail wrong! LOL.

The NYHT quote is of course perfectly accurate, as proved by the fact that the SS reenactment tallies so perfectly on this 'detail' with what Mr Truly is quoted here as saying 

And they had a "snack bar" at the TSBD?  Was that next to the sauna?

Wow, talk about desperate 

The second-floor lunchroom is referred to as a "snack bar" in Mr Truly's 11/22 FBI interview report. Don't cry, Mr Smith!

[Alan Ford]

It would not matter if LHO was standing up, sitting down or standing on his head...

It very much does matter if Officer Baker's 11/22 affidavit gives us an 'employee' who was "walking away from the stairway"

[Alan Ford]

A couple of weeks after the assassination,  Roy Truly was interviewed by a reporter from the magazine US News and the reporter quoted Truly as saying that Lee Oswald was sitting at a table in the second floor lunchroom, drinking a coke, when DPD officer Baker confronted him.

Thank you, Mr Cakebread 

Where did you come across this interview?

[Alan Ford]

the idea that he just decided to run down to the lunchroom and calmly get a nice refreshing soda after supposedly shooting at the president and hiding a rifle is just plain silly.

This is one for " Ripley's Believe it or Not"

Believe it or not Jerry....When Curry first learned of Baker's encounter with Lee Oswald in the lunchroom.....he told reporters that Oswald was such a fiend that when Baker confronted him he was calmly drinking a Coca Cola just seconds after he had murdered the president.   That's the spin that Curry put on the lunchroom encounter.....and that caused a huge problem because Curry had acknowledged that Lee was DRINKING A COKE at the time that Baker burst into the lunchroom. When the WC "investigators" re-enacted  Lee Harrrrrrvey Osssssswald's flight from the "Sniper's Nest" to the second floor lunchroom they discoveed that there simply wasn't enough time for Lee to have got the coke from the vending machine prior to Baker's arrival.
So Curry's  statement had to be expunged.....     

As you've pointed out the idea that Lee was calmly drinking a coke to celebrate his deed is completely insane ...but the fact that it happened, highlights the lengths they would go to to frame Lee Oswald.

On 11/22 Chief Curry told reporters Mr Oswald had been confronted by a cop at the front entrance of the building just after the shooting

On 11/23 Chief Curry told reporters Mr Oswald had been seen, along with several other employees, by a cop who looked into the second-floor lunchroom

Officer Baker did indeed see Mr Oswald, in the midst of several other employees, with a coke in his hand just after the shoooting---------------and this happened by the front door

 

[Alan Ford]

This is not rocket science.  Oswald was attempting to avoid detection by exiting the stairs, entering the lunchroom, and appearing to be drinking a soda.

So he sat down at one of the tables, as per SS reenactment film and Mr Truly's initial story?

[Alan Ford]

First he switched the lights off!

The fiend!!