It is a huge stretch to interpret Mooney's statement as being anything other than the rifle rest. That he was somehow mentally making the distinction between boxes and cartons in a simple affidavit. Other detectives place the chicken in completely different places which is what brings you back to Alyea's statement.
"Mooney knew of no lunch sack by the third window"
Not knowing about the lunch does not mean they weren't there. He did not know about the rifle until is was found. I doubt anyone cried out I found a lunch sack with chicken in it and a frito bag and next to it is a Dr Pepper pop bottle.
"In that time Gerald Hill came to observe the scene. He was photographed hanging ut out the next window along and reporter Tom Ewell told of him announcing about the unfinished chicken in the SN."
The rest of the observation by Ewell is that Hill was waving a piece of chicken. That never happened.
"Mooney knew of no lunch sack by the third window because it wasn’t there at that time. Obviously someone put the chicken piece inside the sack before Studebaker processed it."
This is where this train of thought really goes off the rails. Why would these people just assume it does or does not belong to the assassin? The news media obviously believed that to be the case because they were told that was the case by someone. Why would the detectives conspire to do this evidence tampering in full view of all the other detectives, news media, employees and witnesses searching the 6th floor? How would they possibly know the age of the bones or anything about their history? Why would they assume moving them a short distance would have any impact on the investigation?
I have no idea why you want to "muddy the waters" once again with Alyea, Jack. He was not deposed, he did not provide a motorised statement, he did not testify. He was not at the SN at the time of his discovery. He did not testify to the WC. His recollections are largely unsupported by many of those who described the scene to the WC.
Mooney did make the distinction between "cartons" of the cubby hole and "boxes" of the rifle rest. It is there in black and white? You assumed he was referring to the rest because the sentence followed on from description of the rest. The WC rightly clarified Mooney's position for the lunch sack and unfinished chicken. He was clear in that there was one piece and it was on a SN carton. Hill confirmed Mooney. Ewell remembered Hill yelling about the lunch to those below. The picture does not show him holding the lunch. So what, maybe it was taken before or after Hill held it. Maybe Ewell was mistaken about him holding it but he still remembered him yelling down from the window next to the SN. It was the police who first announced the chicken lunch in the SN......the cold hearted assassin waiting for JFK. How could the press know what was in the sack as it left the TSBD?
In any event, Williams was consistently deceptive about his movements just before the shots all the way to his WC testimony. He never admitted to it being his lunch until the Monday when asked by Day, who merely repeated the final resting position described by Studebaker.
I will agree that some police were influenced by the media/ superiors. Boyd is a good example. His description of 30-40 feet away is unsupported by anyone else at the scene at that time but reflects the final resting place of Studebaker.
