How could Truly not be involved from the beginning if his pointing toward Oswald's absence shortly after the assassination is evidence of his complicity in the conspiracy?
How could he have been involved from the beginning of what? I would say that he was caught up in and became involved in the middle of this.
Mr. BELIN. What did you do when you got back to the first floor, or what did you see?
Mr. TRULY. When I got back to the first floor, at first I didn't see anything except officers running around, reporters in the place. There was a regular madhouse.....Then in a few minutes--it could have been moments or minutes at a time like that--I noticed some of my boys were over in the west corner of the shipping department, and there were several officers over there taking their names and addresses, and so forth.......
I noticed that Lee Oswald was not among these boys.
So I picked up the telephone and called Mr. Aiken down at the other warehouse who keeps our application blanks.
First I mentioned to Mr. Campbell--I asked Bill Shelley if he had seen him, he looked around and said no.
Mr. BELIN. When you asked Bill Shelley if he had seen whom?
Mr. TRULY. Lee Oswald. I said, "Have you seen him around lately," and he said no.
So Mr. Campbell is standing there, and I said, "I have a boy over here missing. I don't know whether to report it or not. Because I had another one or two out then.I didn't know whether they were all there or not. He said, "What do you think"? And I got to thinking. He said, "Well, we better do it anyway." It was so quick after that.
Can we see the contradictions? "It was a regular madhouse" Truly
said he noticed Oswald was not among the help. He also said there were others who were also not among his warehouse guys. Who were they? Didn't matter... Truly starts juggling names. He said that he called this Mr Aiken who keeps the application [blanks?]. Why would he do that right then?-- "Campbell was standing there'' Who was Campbell...Truly's shadow? His chief yes man?
Ask Mr Campbell if I didn't ask Mr Shelley Did Shelley really look around- or did he you know..look around?
Mr. BELIN. When you asked Bill Shelley if he had seen whom?That was an ass question but Belin wanted to ice the record.
Truly stated that he did not know "whether to report it [about Oswald] or not"...Then why had he already called this Aiken from the other warehouse? To repeat--he said that some other warehouse guys were also missing...even though it was a 'regular madhouse' and who would want to be there anyway?
Commission testimony was taken months into the following year. No doubt-- though Truly was summarily rehearsed on what to say... it still seemed quite convoluted [like several other witnesses' accounts]
