I'll bite. Who are you referring to and what did they say, re: what the man with the rifle was wearing?
Hi Bill, not really sure why you have to "bite" as this is really common knowledge. As we shall see, the eye-witnesses in question collectively describe the same type and colour of garment the shooter was wearing and it is known that Oswald didn't wear such a garment to work that day and didn't have one in his possessions.
The shooter was wearing clothes that Oswald didn't.
I'll start with Ronald Fischer and Bob Edwards.
Both got a really good look at the man in the SN seconds before the Presidential limo entered Dealey Plaza. Fischer, in particular, got a really good look at him and it must be remembered that these two got a look at the man when his face wasn't obscured by a rifle. Edwards initially pointed him out and was making fun of him in his cramped position behind the boxes but Fischer's attention was drawn to the man because he was doing something that seemed quite unusual - instead of looking at where the motorcade would enter Dealey Plaza, this guy was looking in almost the opposite direction, towards the underpass. Fischer describes the man as being "transfixed".
In the aftermath of the assassination both men were question by Deputy Sheriff Lummie Lewis. In his report the day after the assassination Lewis records that, according to Fischer and Roberts, the man on the 6th floor wore a
"Sport shirt opened at the collar".In his affidavit, taken on the day of the assassination, Edwards states that he noticed the man was wearing
"a sport shirt, it was light colored, it was yellow or white."In his affidavit, Fischer simply states that the man
"had on an open necked shirt".Then we come to their WC testimonies.
Edwards -
Light colored shirt, short sleeve and open neck.Fischer -
And he had--he had on an open-neck shirt, but it-uh--could have been a sport shirt or a T-shirt. It was light in color; probably white, I couldn't tell whether it had long sleeves or whether it was a short-sleeved shirt, but it was open-neck and light in color.
Mr. Belin: The statement here says that he was light-headed and that he had on an open-neck shirt. Did he have an open---neck shirt on?
Mr. Fischer: Yes.Both men got a really good look at the man on the 6th floor, Fischer in particular. They describe him wearing a very light, white or almost white, open necked sport shirt. Oswald was wearing a brown shirt and white t-shirt. It's very easy to tell the difference between a t-shirt of the type Oswald was wearing and an open necked sport shirt. They are two very different garments.
Next up is Arnold Rowland who saw the man on the west side of the 6th floor around 15 minutes before the motorcade arrived. Up front I'd like to say that I'm not a believer in the Major Miracle on Elm Street - that Rowland made up this sighting of a man answering the general description of the other eye-witnesses and who was carrying a scoped rifle on the 6th floor only for it to transpire, by some utterly perverse coincidence, that there was indeed a slender, short-haired, white male carrying a scoped rifle on the 6th floor of the TSBD building. I find discussing this with those who do believe in the "Miracle" a truly fruitless endeavour.
From Rowland's affidavit on the day of the assassination -
"This man appeared to be a white man, and appeared to have a light colored shirt on, open at the neck."From his WC testimony -
"He had on a light shirt, a very light-colored shirt, white or a light blue or a color such as that. This was open at the collar. I think it was unbuttoned about halfway, and then he had a regular T-shirt, a polo shirt under this, at least this is what it appeared to be."A very light coloured, white/off white, open necked shirt, open at the collar. Three eye-witnesses all describing the same man, same open necked shirt, same very light colour, white or almost white.
Oswald was not wearing such a shirt that day and did not have one in his possessions when he was arrested. I can tell the difference between an open necked sport shirt and the plain white t-shirt Oswald was wearing. It's a very easy distinction to make.
For those who need this man to be Oswald then all three eye-witnesses can't make this very simple distinction. Instead of accepting what they are saying we have to hear about what they really meant to say.
Hell, my opinion is that Oswald used the brown shirt (the one he was arrested in) to wipe down the rifle of prints as he fled across the sixth floor. This resulted in microscopic fibers becoming embedded in the crevice between the wooden stock and the metal butt plate which matched test fibers removed from the arrest shirt. Then, once dropping the rifle into place, Oswald puts on the brown shirt by the time he's seen on the 2nd floor by Baker.
There are so many minor details that rub me up the wrong way and Oswald wiping his fingerprints off the rifle is one of them. Why on earth would he bother doing such a thing if he was going to flee the scene anyway? What's the point if he's heading for the border? Why would he bother to wipe the rifle clean but leave the empty shells on the floor? How could he wipe the rifle so clean considering he had to assemble it on site and every piece would have been covered with prints [...and when did he get the chance to assemble the rifle...and when did he get the chance to construct the "rifle bag"].
