If Oswald was the assassin, wouldn't he claim he was somewhere else anyway?
Sure that would be logical ...Except.... Lee Described an action that took place on the first floor at 12:26....He had to have witnessed that action to describe it.
Oswald gave the time?
What are the odds, that a suspect desperate for an alibi, describes having lunch with the only two co-workers he thought might have been together since noon? Even the most guilty will grasp at any alibi, however weak.
There are TWO major flaws within this statement.....First off Lee never told the interrogators about seeing Norman and Jarman as an alibi....He was merely telling them what he saw while he was on the first floor at 12:26..... And a MAJOR flaw....Lee never said that he was having lunch with Jarman and Norman.....He said he ate lunch ALONE....And J & N passed by the lunchroom as he was eating his lunch.
No note-takers said Oswald used the word "alone".
"said he ate lunch with some of the colored boys who worked with him.
One of them was called ‘Junior’ and the other one was a little short
man whose name he did not know."
— Fritz
"recalled possibly two Negro employees walking through the room
during this period."
— Bookhout
"said he ate his lunch with the colored boys who worked with him.
He described one of them as ‘Junior,’ a colored boy, and the other
was little short negro boy."
— Kelley
If they're headed for the back stairs, how could Oswald have seen them passing through the first floor area?
WOW!...Your ignorance of the basic facts is hanging out a country mile..... Jarman and Norman were NOT going to the back stairs....They were headed for the west elevator which opened into the first floor shipping room....And the 1st floor lunchroom doorway opened onto the first floor shipping room .....
Yes, for some reason, I thought they took the back stairs. But the route they took would need the domino room door open and Oswald in a very tight area inside the domino room, in order for him to have seen them. And that doesn't relate to Oswald having the three in the same room eating their lunch together.
Lee was eating his lunch ALONE in that lunchroom..... And J&N would have passed by the windows on the east and north sides of the lunchroom ....Lee would have had to have been blind to avoid seeing them....
But then Oswald speaks of the two men being in the domino room having lunch with him. This is without mentioning that there is no evidence that Oswald took a lunch to work or bought lunch.