Post by Rob Caprio on Feb 19, 2024 21:02:46 GMT -5
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The Warren Commission (WC) claimed that Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) assassinated President John F. Kennedy (JFK) on November 22, 1963.
They offered no supporting evidence for this claim, however. In fact, they ignored much evidence and witnesses in their rush to judgment. This post will look at comments made by people after the assassination that shows the WC's claims were hallow.
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Texas School Book Depository (TSBD) employee Carolyn Arnold saw LHO shortly before the assassination. She recognized him in the first-floor lunchroom which meant he couldn’t have been on the sixth floor as claimed by the WC. This couldn’t be allowed. So, as we have seen previously in this series, Harold Weisberg talked with her for his book “Whitewash", and she told him that the FBI altered her statement.
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This is why, as I brought to light in Photographic Whitewash (pages 210-11) in early 1967, the Commission's OWN files REVEAL THE PROOF that Mrs. R.E. (Carolyn) Arnold told the FBI that SHE HAD SEEN OSWALD on the FIRST FLOOR that day AT 12:25 P.M.! Aware of the import, when the FBI interviewed her on November 26, four days after the assassination, it MISTIMED what she said, stating INCORRECTLY that it was a "few minutes BEFORE 12:15 P.M." that she saw Oswald.
When in March, 1964, the Commission asked the FBI to interview all employees in that building and asked them to respond to five Commission questions, Mrs. Arnold STATED THE TIME WAS "AT ABOUT 12:25 P.M."
In taking those March statements the FBI agents who asked the questions wrote out in longhand on yellow pads what they then asked the witnesses to sign. Still acutely aware of the meaning of what Mrs. Arnold said, that she SAW OSWALD ON THE FIRST FLOOR," between the front door and the double doors to the warehouse," in the handwritten statement the FBI then asked her to sign it again MISTATED the time. The statement SET THE TIME she gave INCORRECTLY still again, placing it at "12:25 A.M."! SHE CORRECTED THIS IN HER OWN HANDWRITING.
The FBI then typed these handwritten statements for the Commission. In even its typed form, in facsimile on page 211 of that third of my books, it is APPARENT that the time was CHANGED from A.M. TO P.M. The "P.M." is the ONLY typing on that full page that is OUT OF LINE. It is considerably above the line, as happened with the typewriters of those days when what is typed is REMOVED and then PLACED BACK in the typewriter.
Harold Weisberg, Case Open, Carroll & Graf, 1994, pages 122-23 (Emphasis mine)
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This shows that they altered her statement and this wouldn’t have been necessary if the official version was correct. In 1978 she also told the Dallas Morning News (DMN) that she was misquoted.
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That is completely foreign to me [the FBI account]. [It] would have forced me to have been turning back around to the building when, in fact, I was trying to watch the parade. Why would I be looking back inside the building? That doesn’t make any sense to me.
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Me either. Another witness who was never given a chance to tell what he saw was Lee Bowers. Bowers had a great view of the plaza as he was up high, 12-14 feet above the ground, in a tower controlling the switches and signals for the trains. The WC was careful not to let him tell what he saw at the time of the assassination. He would be interviewed by Mark Lane, and taped, for his book “Rush to Judgment” which was released in 1966.
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At the time of the shooting, in the vicinity of where the two men I have described were [Grassy Knoll], there was a flash of light or …Something I could not identify …some unusual occurrence – a flash of light or smoke or something which caused me to feel that something out of the ordinary had occurred there. (Lee Bowers interview with Mark Lane for “Rush to Judgment”.)
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It’s obvious why the WC didn’t want him to say this before them as it totally contradicts their version of LHO firing from the TSBD all alone. Bowers would tell Lane that between fifty to hundred policemen were on the parking lot behind the picket fence following the assassination. Why would that many policemen go there if the only three shots came from the TSBD? That wouldn’t make any sense to me. How about you?
DMN reporter Ken Biffle wrote an article in 1981 based on his notes from November 22, 1963. It said the following in the article.
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…Only two of us [reporters] had arrived at the ambush building [TSBD] by this point… Getting in was no problem. I just had my press badge… and went in with the first wave of cops… Hours dragged by. The building superintendent [Roy Truly] showed up with some papers in hand. I listened as he told detectives about Lee Oswald failing to show up at a roll call. My impression is that there was an earlier roll call that had been inconclusive because several employees were missing. This time, however, all were accounted for except Oswald. I jotted down the Oswald information… Neither the police in the building nor the superintendent knew that Oswald was already under arrest. (DMN 1981 article by Ken Biffle.)
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His comment shows how easy it was to get in, and out, of the TSBD shortly after the assassination. His comment about the supposed roll call is incorrect as there is no evidence that shows any organized roll call was ever performed. Furthermore, why would TSBD superintendent Roy Truly suspect LHO when he vouched for him to Dallas Police Department (DPD) officer Marrion Baker shortly before when Baker confronted him in the lunchroom? What would have convinced Truly that he was now guilty so fast? As Biffle noted, other employees were gone as well. Were they suspected of being guilty also?
Let’s finish with the person the WC used the most to make LHO appear guilty – his wife, Marina Oswald. She said this in 1988.
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When I was questioned by the WC, I was a blind kitten. Their questioning left me only one way to go: guilty. I made Lee guilty. He never had a fair chance... But I was only 22 then, and I've matured since; I think differently [now]. (Marina Oswald interview published in the Ladies Home Journal in 1988.)
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What she doesn’t say is that she was attracted to all the money that was coming her way for going along with the WC’s version of events. If she professed her husband’s innocence this wouldn’t have happened, and she might have been deported.
This statement shows that LHO was framed. If the official narrative was correct, then none of this would have been necessary.
Once more we see that the version of events we were given by the WC are not correct, therefore, their conclusion is sunk.
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The Warren Commission (WC) claimed that Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) assassinated President John F. Kennedy (JFK) on November 22, 1963.
They offered no supporting evidence for this claim, however. In fact, they ignored much evidence and witnesses in their rush to judgment. This post will look at comments made by people after the assassination that shows the WC's claims were hallow.
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Texas School Book Depository (TSBD) employee Carolyn Arnold saw LHO shortly before the assassination. She recognized him in the first-floor lunchroom which meant he couldn’t have been on the sixth floor as claimed by the WC. This couldn’t be allowed. So, as we have seen previously in this series, Harold Weisberg talked with her for his book “Whitewash", and she told him that the FBI altered her statement.
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This is why, as I brought to light in Photographic Whitewash (pages 210-11) in early 1967, the Commission's OWN files REVEAL THE PROOF that Mrs. R.E. (Carolyn) Arnold told the FBI that SHE HAD SEEN OSWALD on the FIRST FLOOR that day AT 12:25 P.M.! Aware of the import, when the FBI interviewed her on November 26, four days after the assassination, it MISTIMED what she said, stating INCORRECTLY that it was a "few minutes BEFORE 12:15 P.M." that she saw Oswald.
When in March, 1964, the Commission asked the FBI to interview all employees in that building and asked them to respond to five Commission questions, Mrs. Arnold STATED THE TIME WAS "AT ABOUT 12:25 P.M."
In taking those March statements the FBI agents who asked the questions wrote out in longhand on yellow pads what they then asked the witnesses to sign. Still acutely aware of the meaning of what Mrs. Arnold said, that she SAW OSWALD ON THE FIRST FLOOR," between the front door and the double doors to the warehouse," in the handwritten statement the FBI then asked her to sign it again MISTATED the time. The statement SET THE TIME she gave INCORRECTLY still again, placing it at "12:25 A.M."! SHE CORRECTED THIS IN HER OWN HANDWRITING.
The FBI then typed these handwritten statements for the Commission. In even its typed form, in facsimile on page 211 of that third of my books, it is APPARENT that the time was CHANGED from A.M. TO P.M. The "P.M." is the ONLY typing on that full page that is OUT OF LINE. It is considerably above the line, as happened with the typewriters of those days when what is typed is REMOVED and then PLACED BACK in the typewriter.
Harold Weisberg, Case Open, Carroll & Graf, 1994, pages 122-23 (Emphasis mine)
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This shows that they altered her statement and this wouldn’t have been necessary if the official version was correct. In 1978 she also told the Dallas Morning News (DMN) that she was misquoted.
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That is completely foreign to me [the FBI account]. [It] would have forced me to have been turning back around to the building when, in fact, I was trying to watch the parade. Why would I be looking back inside the building? That doesn’t make any sense to me.
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Me either. Another witness who was never given a chance to tell what he saw was Lee Bowers. Bowers had a great view of the plaza as he was up high, 12-14 feet above the ground, in a tower controlling the switches and signals for the trains. The WC was careful not to let him tell what he saw at the time of the assassination. He would be interviewed by Mark Lane, and taped, for his book “Rush to Judgment” which was released in 1966.
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At the time of the shooting, in the vicinity of where the two men I have described were [Grassy Knoll], there was a flash of light or …Something I could not identify …some unusual occurrence – a flash of light or smoke or something which caused me to feel that something out of the ordinary had occurred there. (Lee Bowers interview with Mark Lane for “Rush to Judgment”.)
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It’s obvious why the WC didn’t want him to say this before them as it totally contradicts their version of LHO firing from the TSBD all alone. Bowers would tell Lane that between fifty to hundred policemen were on the parking lot behind the picket fence following the assassination. Why would that many policemen go there if the only three shots came from the TSBD? That wouldn’t make any sense to me. How about you?
DMN reporter Ken Biffle wrote an article in 1981 based on his notes from November 22, 1963. It said the following in the article.
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…Only two of us [reporters] had arrived at the ambush building [TSBD] by this point… Getting in was no problem. I just had my press badge… and went in with the first wave of cops… Hours dragged by. The building superintendent [Roy Truly] showed up with some papers in hand. I listened as he told detectives about Lee Oswald failing to show up at a roll call. My impression is that there was an earlier roll call that had been inconclusive because several employees were missing. This time, however, all were accounted for except Oswald. I jotted down the Oswald information… Neither the police in the building nor the superintendent knew that Oswald was already under arrest. (DMN 1981 article by Ken Biffle.)
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His comment shows how easy it was to get in, and out, of the TSBD shortly after the assassination. His comment about the supposed roll call is incorrect as there is no evidence that shows any organized roll call was ever performed. Furthermore, why would TSBD superintendent Roy Truly suspect LHO when he vouched for him to Dallas Police Department (DPD) officer Marrion Baker shortly before when Baker confronted him in the lunchroom? What would have convinced Truly that he was now guilty so fast? As Biffle noted, other employees were gone as well. Were they suspected of being guilty also?
Let’s finish with the person the WC used the most to make LHO appear guilty – his wife, Marina Oswald. She said this in 1988.
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When I was questioned by the WC, I was a blind kitten. Their questioning left me only one way to go: guilty. I made Lee guilty. He never had a fair chance... But I was only 22 then, and I've matured since; I think differently [now]. (Marina Oswald interview published in the Ladies Home Journal in 1988.)
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What she doesn’t say is that she was attracted to all the money that was coming her way for going along with the WC’s version of events. If she professed her husband’s innocence this wouldn’t have happened, and she might have been deported.
This statement shows that LHO was framed. If the official narrative was correct, then none of this would have been necessary.
Once more we see that the version of events we were given by the WC are not correct, therefore, their conclusion is sunk.