You missed the relevance to Bill Chapman and his views on early statements entirely. He didn’t take the bait, not surprising. I thought you had seen his comments previously.
I don’t know what Bill views are on witness statements. I suspect that his views are probably pretty reasonable. I have not read through all his posts on all the threads nor all his posts on this thread.
My views on witnesses:
• Witnesses are unreliable.
• Even honest, intelligent, witnesses are unreliable.
• Witnesses who don’t remember important details right away, but later on “remember” these details, are extra unreliable.
• Witnesses who belated come up with a “memory”, which matches events known to occur after the event they think they are remembering, are extra, extra unreliable.
Like not remember a police car parked outside while Oswald was there, then seeing many police cars parked outside during the next week, then belatedly remembering a police car parked outside while Oswald was there.
A classic example of an unreliable memory, which may be true, but likely is not.
As for plans to get away......$13 is a weird amount. Not enough for escape but more than enough if nothing happened. He could even have gone back to Irving with Frazier if needed.
$13 is no good for getting away to Mexico. But a perfectly good amount if Oswald has to call off the assassination because:
• JFK or Jackie come down with a minor illness.
• It rains, and the bubble top is put on and Oswald mistakenly thinks it is bulletproof.
• Friends of his co-workers show up on the sixth floor to watch the motorcade from a good position and Oswald has to keep the rifle hidden.
• His rifle jams and he can’t get off any shots.
• Or some other unforeseen event.
If the unexpected happens, he can still keep the rifle hidden and pay for his room and buy some food until his next paycheck. A perfectly reasonable amount to keep, if he does not expect to escape capture if he fires any shots.
