My point being, Willis "was" in Dealey Plaza. There's proof.
I could give a rat's a$$ about Z202 vs Z204.
Aynesworth "was" somewhere. Dealey Plaza? No proof.
Don't muddle the issue.
We're back to Gerry Ford again. Regardless of what Ted Kennedy said years later, there was still a quid pro quo.
I see. In your mind, I'm the one off-topic.
Nixon resigned not knowing he would be pardoned. The pardon came a month after Nixon resigned, and after it was explained to Nixon that acceptance would mean "an admission of guilt".
"At a 2014 panel discussion, Ford’s lawyer during that period,
Benton Becker, explained an additional element that influenced
Ford’s decision to issue a presidential pardon: a 1915 Supreme
Court decision. In Burdick v. United States, the Court ruled that
a pardon carried an "imputation of guilt" and accepting a pardon
was "an admission of guilt.” Thus, this decision implied that
Nixon accepted his guilt in the Watergate controversy by also
accepting Ford’s pardon.
Prior to Ford’s issuance of the pardon, Becker was tasked with the
difficult job of mediating the negotiations between Ford and Nixon.
Becker said he took copies of the Burdick decision to California
when he met with former President Nixon, and under Ford’s
instructions, walked through the decision with Nixon.
Becker said the discussion with Nixon was very difficult, and the
former President kept trying to change the subject way from Burdick.
Finally, Nixon acknowledged Becker’s argument about what the
Supreme Court decision meant.
After he left the White House, Ford carried part of the Burdick decision
with him in his wallet in case someone brought up the pardon. In a
later interview with Woodward for Caroline Kennedy’s book,
“Profiles in Courage for Our Time,” Ford pulled out the dog-eared
decision and read the key parts of it to [Bob] Woodward."
-- The Nixon Pardon in Constitutional Retrospect
National Constitution Center, September 8, 2020 (
Link )