Mr. STERN - Then you got inside the building and what did you do?
Mr. SORRELS - I asked for the manager, and I was directed to Mr. Truly. He was standing there.
I went up and identified myself to him. I said, "I want to get a stenographer, and we would like to have you put down the names and addresses of every employee of the building, in the building."
And I then walked on out the front door and asked, "Did anyone here see anything?"
And someone pointed to Mr. Brennan.
Who was that mysterious someone and how did they know about Brennan?
No biggie.
This subject was introduced recently in the Bus and Cab thread and was really off topic.
Based on this link...
http://www.prayer-man.com/the-roll-call-inside-the-tsbd-never-happened/#lightbox[group]/0/
The only mention of a collection of TSBD names or a roll call of any sort contained in the Warren Report that has been advanced... is that of Secret Service special agent in charge Dallas Tx -Forrest Sorrels.
Other points...What ever happened to this request for a stenographer? It might be noted that Brennan could not positively identify Oswald in a line-up but yet the entire dragnet was based on his supposed description of Lee.
Mr. STERN - Mr. Sorrels, I would like to turn now to the morning of November 22 and get from you an account of what you observed as a passenger in the motorcade and thereafter.
In what car were you riding in the motorcade?
Mr. SORRELS - I was riding in what we call the lead car, which is the one immediately in front of the President's car.
Mr. STERN - What was your function in the lead car?
Mr. SORRELS - To be there with the special agent who had made the survey, and with the Chief of Police, and to observe the people and buildings as we drove along in the motorcade.
Sorrels was riding in the lead car and the lead car led JFK to the hospital. If he had seen what Brennan said he did...what could he have done about it?
Mr. STERN - And, at this point, you were not certain that the shots came from the Book Depository?
Mr. SORRELS - No; I didn't know at that time.
Mr. STERN - You just wanted to get to that general area?
Mr. SORRELS - Yes, sir; because I knew that there would be witnesses around there, there would have to be somebody in that vicinity.
And upon arrival at the Book Depository, I went in the back door.
There were people moving around.
I asked, "Where is the manager here?"
Mr. STERN - Just a minute.
How much time do you think elapsed from the time the shots were fired until the time you returned to the Book Depository?
Mr. SORRELS - I don't believe it could have been over about 20 minutes....
Mr. STERN - So you estimate not more than 20 minutes?
Mr. SORRELS - I don't believe it could have been more than 20 or 25 minutes at the very most.
This was
six months after that day but the timing was very well
rehearsed recalled. Why did Sorrels go to the
back door? He said he didn't know where the shots came from until he talked to Brennan but he went to the back door of the building.
Let's say he didn't talk to Truly until about 1:00...How long would it have taken to compile this employee muster and bear in mind that there were other businesses besides the school book people......
Mr Sorrels - So I just waited there until Captain Fritz opened the door, and he had a man who I later found out to be Oswald in custody at the time.
I was informed that an FBI agent had called the office and said that Captain Fritz of the Homicide Bureau had been trying to get in touch with me, that he had a suspect in custody.
Mr. STERN - About what time was that?
Mr. SORRELS - That would be fairly close to 2 o'clock, I imagine.
Would have had to been quite some minutes after 2 as Lee was getting packed into a car around 2 PM [I imagine] Also, it seems that Sorrels got around about as lightning fast as did W R Westbrook and Hugh Aynesworth that day.
Mr Sorrels -And I told Captain Fritz, I said, "Captain, I would like to talk to this man when I have an opportunity."
He said, "You can talk to him right now.".......
And I started talking to Oswald, started asking him some questions, and he was arrogant and a belligerent attitude about him.
Of course he was belligerent...Oswald was a cold blooded murderer---But wait a second---Sorrels never mentioned that he had asked or even tried to find out just exactly what it was that Oswald was charged with? I guess Lee just looked like a cop killer and Sorrels got wise
Mr Sorrels....And I think I asked him whether or not he had ever been in a foreign country and he said that he had traveled in Europe, but more time had been spent in the Soviet Union, as I recall it.
And then he just said "I don't care to answer any more questions."
And so the conversation was terminated.
Mr. STERN - Did he give you his address?
Mr. SORRELS - As I recall it, he did give me an address. I don't remember what it was offhand.
Yeah where were those damn stenographers? And what prompted Sorrels to ask Lee about his travels? He had just met him.
William Shelley [for some reason]"started checking around" MISSES Lee! Finds Truly and reports.
Roy Truly [for some reason]"started checking around" MISSES Lee! Finds Shelley and reports.
Too rich
There was a list of employees it appears but could not possibly have been compiled before Oswald's arrest. So how come he was first on the list? I do not see a WC Exhibit # on this list. Why the check marks?
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
I've never been sure whether there was or wasn't an actual "roll call" of the TSBD warehouse employees, but in an interview conducted by Gary Mack in June of 2002, Buell Wesley Frazier said there definitely WAS a roll call of the Depository's warehouse employees shortly after the assassination, with names being READ OFF by someone. Here's what Frazier said in 2002:
BUELL WESLEY FRAZIER -- "Mr. Shelley got us together—he and Mr. Truly—and we had a roll call."
GARY MACK -- "And where did this take place?"
FRAZIER -- "Outside Mr. Shelley's office."
MACK -- "Did they actually read off names? Or did they just ask you guys, 'anybody missing'?"
FRAZIER -- "No, they read names off and you had to answer."
MACK -- "Okay. And who was missing?"
FRAZIER -- "The only person missing was Lee Oswald."
Who was the "someone" who read off the names if the warehouse employees were the only ones there? Why didn't they [Warren Commissioners] ask Wes Frazier who seemed to know? Harold Norman? Roy Truly? Bill Shelley? Charles Givens? Or some other warehouse employee?
