Excellent job Bill. Your memory for detail is amazing. Have you ever come across any pictures or maps of the interior of the Texas Theatre at the time of Oswald's arrest? The balcony report has always been interesting to me since it appears to derived right from the beginning. It seems to come from the fact that no one saw Oswald go through the lobby and the assumption was made that he went straight to the balcony because he wasn't seen by Burroughs. There was some indication that the balcony could be accessed immediately upon entering the lobby and some teenagers had apparently done so on prior occasions to avoid the ticket taker. But I've never seen any confirmation that the balcony could be so accessed. I've been there but the balcony is long gone. It's entirely possible that Oswald just made his way unseen through the lobby, but I also wonder if he might have gone up to the balcony and somehow gone down another set of stairs to access the main level without being seen.
Thanks Richard, much appreciated buddy.
I've always believed that Oswald went straight up to the balcony immediately upon entering the theater and this is how he went unnoticed by Burroughs.
Hugh Aynesworth once told me that he (Aynesworth) went up to the balcony when he got to the theater (he arrived at the theater with many of the police officers out front). He said there were some school boys up in the balcony playing hooky from school. If true, Oswald (arriving up in the balcony minutes earlier) could have thought better of staying up there once he saw all of the boys there and simply decided to go down to the main auditorium.
