MR. BALL -- "What about the width?"
MR. FRAZIER -- "Well, I say, like I say now, now I couldn't see much
of the bag from him walking in front of me. Now he could have had some
of it sticking out in front of his hands because I didn't see it from
the front. The only time I did see it was from the back, just a little
strip running down from your arm and so therefore...I know that the
bag wouldn't be that long. So far as being that wide...I couldn't be
sure."
No cherry picking needed. Why can’t you just accept what Frazier said?
Actually he also saw the package on the back seat.
Mr. FRAZIER - Let's see, when I got in the car I have a kind of habit of glancing over my shoulder and so at that time
I noticed there was a package laying on the back seat, I didn't pay too much attention and I said, "What's the package, Lee?"
I understand that the back seat of Frazier's car was measured at 62" and would provide some points of reference . Obviously a 35" bag takes up more than half of the seat (56%) where as a 24" estimate occupies less than half (39%).
Mr. FRAZIER - He got out of the car and he was wearing the jacket that has the big sleeves in them and he put the package that he had, you know, that he told me was curtain rods up under his arm, you know, and so he walked down behind the car and
standing over there at the end of the cyclone fence waiting for me to get out of the car, and so quick
as I cut the engine off and
started out of the car, shut the door just
as I was starting out just like getting out of the car, he started walking off and so I followed him in.
So, eventually there he kept getting a little further ahead of me and I noticed we had plenty of time to get there because it is not too far from the Depository and usually I walk around and watch them switching the trains because you have to watch where you are going if you have to cross the tracks.
One day you go across one track and maybe there would be some cars sitting there and there would be another diesel coming there, so you have to watch when you cross the tracks, I just walked along and I just like to watch them switch the cars, so eventually he kept getting a little further ahead of me and by that time we got down there pretty close to the Depository Building there, I say, he would be as much as, I would say, roughly 50 feet in front of me but I didn't try to catch up with him because I knew I had plenty of time so I just took my time walking up there.
Mr. BALL - Did you usually walk up there together.
Mr. FRAZIER - Yes, sir; we did.
Mr. BALL - Is this
the first time that he had ever walked ahead of you?
Mr. FRAZIER - Yes, sir; he did.
It seems that Oswald picked up the package and then waited for Frazier. It had been raining that morning and it could be that it was Frazier who dawdled behind Oswald for the first time.
