If Oswald was “lingering for several minutes” out front on the steps after meeting Baker/ Truly then
1. Oswald is NOT in much hurry to leave the TSBD to return to his boarding room at this point in time.
2. If not in a hurry, therefore, would not Oswald consider going to get his jacket left somewhere inside the TSBD, before he begins his trip to return to his boarding house?
3. Since it’s Mr.Kaiser linked to this story of finding CE 163 in the Domino room , then if the clip board story is suspect, then so is the jacket in Domino room story
4. Did Oswald perform his type of work lifting and moving boxes while carrying /wearing items such as his bracelet, ring, keys to house /room and P.O. Box , his wallet with possibly 13$ (= $100 in 2021) , on his person in loose shirt and pants pockets?
5. A plausible answer to 4. Is that Oswald took these items and placed them in his jacket pockets for safe keeping to avoid accidental loss while performing his job.
6. It’s plausible that Oswald therefore placed his jacket somewhere in TSBD that he thought to be more secure than in the Domino room.
7. One place could be the 2nd floor lunchroom closet or a room adjacent to lunchroom
8. If Carolyn Arnold saw Oswald at 12:15 in the 2nd floor lunchroom, it is therefore plausible that Oswald may have left his jacket there after leaving to go back down to the Domino room where it’s likely he was at 12:23 so as to have heard/seen Jarman/Norman returning thru back door of TSBD.
9. 12:25, Oswald moves to the front lobby without his CE 163 Blue jacket, having left it in 2nd floor lunchroom closet or other adjacent storage room.
He may have been seen here also by Carolyn Arnold given that she never really categorically denied the 12:25 FBI report when she made her later 12:15 FBI statement.
10. The probability factor that Oswald could have been such an obstruction in front of the TSBD door that it caused a collision with a DPD cop with his gun drawn and subsequent Mr.Truly having to vouch for Oswald, and this event was totally unnoticed by Mr Williams, Mr Shelley adjacent and Pauline Sanders also, makes this an scenario defying reasonable probability and thus less plausible than other possibilities.
11. An alternative possibility that does not require one to have to result to label Baker/Truly as abject liars, does not require a leap beyond reasonable probability, yet preserves the principle PM=Oswald theory, is the Oswald Follows After Baker/Truly scenario, and is predicated on the passenger elevator being used by Oswald to 2nd floor which allows a more probable coincidental timing of an 85 sec post shots sighting by Baker of Oswald in the 2nd floor lunchroom.