Williams had no trouble going directly to the relative exact same window on the floor below, what stopped him from at least looking at these windows just in case his friends were at these windows on the 6gth floor, it doesn't make sense?
When you read all of the various statements by Williams, initially he was elusive about being on the 6th floor and as time went on, he admitted more and more. Imo it appears that there was a sinister reason(he saw Oswald and being black immediately distanced himself) for his lack of consistent memories.
I reckon from this line of questioning about this very subject from the WC that they had a similar idea, because when hearing Williams answer about the sniper's nest, Ford immediately associates Williams with breaking the law, Breaking the Law.
Mr. DULLES. How much of the room could you see as you finished your lunch there? Was your view obstructed by boxes of books, or could you see a good bit of the sixth floor?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Well, at the time I couldn't see too much of the sixth floor, because the books at the time were stacked so high. I could see only in the path that I was standing--as I remember, I could not possibly see anything to the east side of the building. But just one aisle, the aisle I was standing in I could see just about to the west side of the building. So far as seeing to the east and behind me, I could only see down the aisle behind me and the aisle to the west of me.
Representative FORD.Have you ever had any trouble with the law at all?
Mr. WILLIAMS. No, sir.
Representative FORD.No difficulty as far as the law is concerned?
Mr. WILLIAMS. I have never been inside of a courthouse before.
JohnM
I think that it is
possible that BRW either saw LHO or at least “sensed” that someone else might have been on the sixth floor while he was eating his lunch. The reason I say “sensed” is that sometimes I can just “get a feeling” that someone is looking at me and inexplicably look up and see that a person actually is looking at me. And I have heard other people relate similar stories of these types of “feelings.” Call it ESP if you want to.
However, in this case, I think that BRW’s memory wasn’t the greatest (just look at how many times he said he couldn’t remember things in his testimony). And that it took a reenactment of sorts that the Warren Commission did, I believe on March 20th, where they took some photos of the three men on the fifth floor, to refresh his memory on some of the aspects. Also, I think that it is possible that he could have simply temporarily mentally blocked his presence on the sixth floor. Mental blocks are common when people experience things that they perceive as being very bad. An extreme example is Jackie Kennedy having no memory of crawling onto the trunk of the limo. But the experience doesn’t have to be that extreme for there to be a mental block. At any rate, I don’t believe that there
necessarily was anything sinister about BRW’s early omissions regarding the sixth floor.