Friends, we can track the distortion machine doing its work on Mr Oswald's claims if we simply read in sequence the interrogation reports for that first interrogation session when Mr Oswald dropped his bombshell claim to have gone outside to watch the Presidential Parade.
A: Agent Hosty Draft Solo Report
This is a perfectly straightforward account, Mr Oswald claiming
-he visited the second-floor lunchroom for a coke (pre-motorcade & hence no mention of an Officer/Truly encounter)
-he then went down to one to eat lunch (still pre-motorcade)
-he then went outside to watch P. Parade
B: Agents Hosty & Bookhout Joint ReportOSWALD stated that he went to lunch at approximately noon and he claimed he ate his lunch on the first floor in the lunch room; however he went to the second floor where the Coca–Cola machine was located and obtained a bottle of Coca–Cola for his lunch. OSWALD claimed to be on the first floor when President JOHN F. KENNEDY passed this building.This is a masterpiece of obfuscation. Two core elements are retained...
-visit to lunchroom (though still no Officer/Truly encounter!)
-eating lunch on first floor
...but the chronology is weirdly ill-defined. Indeed, one gets the impression that Mr Oswald may have meant that he visited the second-floor lunchroom deep into his lunch-eating session and not before it. It's all delightfully ambiguous.
Most crucially, Mr Oswald's all-important claim to have gone outside to watch P. Parade has been finessed down to "on the first floor when President JOHN F. KENNEDY passed this building". The lack of any specific location on the first floor tells us just how nervously the ALL-IMPORTANT issue has been fudged-------------------
where exactly did the suspect say he was at the time of the shooting? This has the pleasing bonus effect of creating the nefarious impression that the suspect did not wish to be forthcoming on this score
C: Agent Bookhout Solo ReportOSWALD stated that on November 22, 1963, at the time of the search of the Texas School Book Depository building by Dallas police officers, he was on the second floor of said building, having just purchased a Coca–cola from the soft-drink machine, at which time a police officer came into the room with pistol drawn and asked him if he worked there. MR. TRULY was present and verified that he was an employee and the police officer thereafter left the room and continued through the building. OSWALD stated that he took this Coke down to the first floor and stood around and had lunch in the employees’ lunch room. He thereafter went outside and stood around for five or ten minutes with foreman BILL SHELLEY, and thereafter went home.This one is just priceless.
Again, two core elements are preserved...
-visit to lunchroom (now with Officer/Truly encounter included!)
-eating lunch on first floor
...but the time factor has been twisted beyond recognition. Not a word, even a ridiculously vague one, about where Mr Oswald says he was
at the time Pres. Kennedy passed the building. That's just too hot to handle. Instead we have as our new, artificial starting-point "the time of the search of the Texas School Depository Building by Dallas police officers"! This enables the report's writer to put a confirmation in Mr Oswald's mouth of a second-floor lunchroom encounter shortly after the shooting. But in order to make
that little fiction work, the report's writer must brazenly transmogrify "Then went outside to watch P. Parade" in the Hosty draft report into the bizarre scenario of
going outside AFTER said lunchroom encounter involving a gun-toting cop and AFTER standing around a while eating lunch in the domino room!!That's quite a journey from Agent Hosty's draft report to Agent Bookhout's solo one. No wonder the former had to be buried! But--------------thank goodness--------------it was finally unearthed in 2019, to the horror of Warren Gullibles and paid-up members of
Team Keep LHO Away From Dem Steps everywhere!
