The Floor-Laying Crew

[Alan Ford]

Again, you haven’t provided a link to this interview of Norman.

https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/4507/harold-norman-oral-history?ctx=bf69a30fdada59d68a55ebc9592a3ff66ca46cff&idx=226

[Alan Ford]

Now! There are two rather curious aspects of Messrs. Norman & Jarman's fifth floor visit:

1. Why did Messrs. Norman & Jarman leave it so late to change their location for the parade? Mr. Norman's testimony timestamps their arrival up there as late as ~12:28pm!

2. Why did they choose to go to the fifth rather than the sixth floor?

Mr. Norman's information--------as furnished in his interviews with the Sixth Floor Museum and with Mr. Glen Sample---------answers both of these questions at a stroke. Going up to five, and at the last minute, reflected no impulsive change of mind: it was the pre-agreed plan. Who wants to spend most of their lunch break to a soundtrack of banging, sawing, etc. from just one floor above?

 

[Alan Ford]

This photograph, taken from the SW side of the sixth floor, gives an idea of what the floor-laying deal looked like. Cleared space, cable for machinery.



Mr. Arnold Rowland of course saw one of the two men (not the 'elderly Negro') near here

 

[Alan Ford]

Detail from Dillard photo, showing SW window of sixth floor just after the shooting-------------------------

[Alan Ford]

From Mr. Charles Givens' 11/22 affidavit:



There is no word of a lie in Mr. Givens' statement here. And that is the key point: every one of the men up on the sixth floor working on the floor-laying project, both internal crew and outside crew, was supposed to be there. There were no 'strangers' in the building. But, unbeknownst (we presume) to the Depository employees helping out up on six, there were assassins---------for whom the floor-laying project provided cover

 

[Alan Ford]

Some basic background:

The floor-laying project had been going on for some weeks by 11/22. First the fifth floor was done (a big job taking several weeks). Then, on Wednesday 11/20, the operation was moved up to the sixth floor.

For those working in the fourth-floor offices, the weeks of renovation of the fifth floor must have been a noisy nuisance!

 

[Jon Banks]

I think Curry meant exactly what he said. "We don't have any proof that Oswald fired the rifle, and never did.”

Right. Curry clearly meant that they didn’t have enough evidence to prove that Oswald was on the Sixth floor shooting a rifle that day.

[Martin Weidmann]

Right. Curry clearly meant that they didn’t have enough evidence to prove that Oswald was on the Sixth floor shooting a rifle that day.

Neither did the Warren Commission. They just assumed he was there because, what they claimed was his rifle was there, but they couldn't even prove that it was his rifle. That was yet another assumption.