During Oswald's alleged "escape route" he is supposed to have worn a light gray jacket, which was later found on a car at a car park near Jefferson. That, at least, is the official narrative.
However, in his testimony, Wesley Buell Frazier saw Oswald wearing a jacket which he described as "gray, more or less flannel, wool-looking"
Mr. BALL - On that day you did notice one article of clothing, that is, he had a jacket?
Mr. FRAZIER - Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL - What color was the jacket?
Mr. FRAZIER - It was a gray, more or less flannel, wool-looking type of jacket that I had seen him wear and that is the type of jacket he had on that morning.
Mr. BALL - Did it have a zipper on it?
Mr. FRAZIER - Yes, sir; it was one of the zipper types.
Frazier was adamant that it wasn't CE 163, which he claimed he had never seen before.
As Marina confirmed that Oswald had only two jackets, being CE 162 and CE 163, and Frazier clearly dismissed CE 163, it is fair to assume that Frazier did indeed see Oswald wear CE 162 to Irving on Thursday evening. It's either that, or Marina was wrong and Oswald did in fact have three jackets instead of two.
But when asked in her testimony, Marina identified CE 162 as the gray jacket that Lee was wearing when he arrived in Irving.
Mr. RANKIN. Do you recall any of these clothes that your husband was wearing when he came home Thursday night, November 21, 1963?
Mrs. OSWALD. On Thursday I think he wore this shirt.
Mr. RANKIN. Is that Exhibit 150?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.
Mr. RANKIN. Do you remember anything else he was wearing at that time?
Mrs. OSWALD. It seems he had that jacket, also.
Mr. RANKIN. Exhibit 162?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.
Mr. RANKIN. And the pants, Exhibit 157?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes. But I am not sure. This is as much as I can remember.
So, now we have two people who, although not 100% sure, say they saw Oswald wearing CE 162 in Irving on Thursday evening.
The only person who saw Oswald leaving the roominghouse on Friday afternoon was Earlene Roberts. She said that Oswald was wearing a jacket but failed to identify CE 162.
Mr. BALL. You say he put on a separate jacket?
Mrs. ROBERTS. A jacket.
Mr. BALL. I'll show you this jacket which is Commission Exhibit 162---have you ever seen this jacket before?
Mrs. ROBERTS. Well, maybe I have, but I don't remember it. It seems like the one he put on was darker than that. Now, I won't be sure, because I really don't know, but is that a zipper jacket?
Mr. BALL. Yes---it has a zipper down the front.
Mrs. ROBERTS. Well, maybe it was.
Mr. BALL. It was a zippered jacket, was it?
Mrs. ROBERTS. Yes; it was a zipper jacket. How come me to remember it, he was zipping it up as he went out the door.
The official narrative tells us that Oswald's dark-gray jacket CE 163 was later found at the TSBD, which justifies the assumption that he must have worn that jacket to work on Friday 11/22/63. This in turn means of course that he must have left his gray jacket CE 162 in Irving.
So, the crucial question to answer is; how did a jacket (CE 162) that was last seen in Irving on Thursday evening end up at the roominghouse on Friday afternoon, for Oswald to put on, or, alternatively, how did it it end up being presented by Captain Westbrook at the evidence room as the jacket found under a parked car that was earlier described as being white and why did that gray jacket have initials on it from police officers who were no where near the car park where the jacket allegedly was found?
