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The Warren Commission (WC) claimed that Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) fired three shots from the southeastern window of the Texas School Book Depository (TSBD) Building on the sixth floor when he assassinated President John F. Kennedy (JFK) on November 22, 1963.
A key person in the whole assassination saga was Bonnie Ray Williams (BRW) as he was on the sixth floor eating his lunch according to the WC just prior to LHO setting up the sniper’s nest (SN).
We have encountered BRW from time to time in this long series, but we have not looked at him exclusively in this series yet, but this post will resolve that issue.
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BRW was a twenty-year old employee of the TSBD who began his tenure as a wrapper.
Mr. BALL. What kind of work did you do when you first went with the Texas School Book Depository?
Mr. WILLIAMS. I think the first day I started work there they started me off as a wrapper. Then the fellows told me that I had qualifications to be a checker, so they put me on as a checker there.
He would be doing a variety of things after his first day including order filling.
Mr. BALL. What are you doing now?
Mr. WILLIAMS. At the present time I do anything--check, pack, fill orders, anything.
As we saw with LHO an order filler had access to all floors in the TSBD. BRW was also a wrapper so one could surmise that he could have had access to the wrapping paper in the TSBD. That is something to keep in mind.
Another interesting point is that he didn’t start working at the TSBD until September 1963.
Mr. BALL. Then where did you go?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Then I found this job at the Texas School Book Depository.
Mr. BALL. When did you get that job?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Around about September 8th.
Mr. BALL. What year?
Mr. WILLIAMS. 1963.
Mr. BALL. Well, did anybody tell you you might get a job at the Texas School Book Depository before you went down there?
Mr. WILLIAMS. No, sir.
Mr. BALL. You were just looking for a job?
Mr. WILLIAMS. I just put in applications everywhere.
His testimony paints the following picture. He was working an overnight job, his wife was pregnant so he wanted a daytime job, he put in applications everywhere, and then with no one telling him he finds the TSBD and is hired on the same day he first visits it. Given his struggle to get a job don’t you think he would remember the day he was hired?
Why does he say that he was hired “around September 8” instead of the exact date? Why didn’t the WC ask him for the exact date? We then see this interesting comment.
Mr. BALL. When you went to work there, did you work at the building on the corner of Houston and Elm?
Mr. WILLIAMS. No, sir. The first time I went there I was hired on at the other warehouse, the lower part of Houston Street.
Mr. BALL. By lower part, do you mean north of the main building?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Yes, sir. Down further, the big white building.
Mr. BALL. That is sort of a warehouse?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. You went to work there. That is about a block, a block and a half north?
Mr. WILLIAMS. A block and a half.
Mr. BALL. North of the corner of Houston and Elm?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. And how long did you work at that place?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Well, I worked there until business began to get slow. I think that was—it was before November. I think it was some time during October. I am not sure.
This shows us that BRW wasn’t hired for the TSBD building on Houston and Elm Streets, the location of the alleged SN per the WC, but rather for the warehouse a block and a half away. He wasn’t moved to the Houston and Elm Streets location until October, but once again his memory failed him in terms of an exact date. And once again the WC showed no interest in trying to pin it down. Why? Perhaps because it was either in conjunction with, or very close to, the hiring of LHO. Why should this cause concern for the WC? I don’t know, but the fact of the matter is that they allowed BRW to be very vague about the dates on which he was hired by the TSBD and the date that he transferred to the location on Houston and Elm Streets.
The WC would claim that no prints were found on the cartons that they processed, but this is odd since BRW said that he moved cartons before the work on the sixth floor started.
Mr. BALL. Before you started to lay the floor, did you have to move any cartons?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Yes; we did.
Mr. BALL. From what part of the sixth floor did you move the cartons?
Mr. WILLIAMS. We moved cartons from, I believe, the west side of the sixth floor to the east side of the sixth floor, because I think there was a vacancy in there.
Mr. BALL. Clear over to the east side?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Yes, sir.
This shows us that BRW moved boxes from the west side of the sixth floor to the east side, and so did others as he said “we did” in answer to the question. So why were none of their prints found on these boxes supposedly?
Notice what BRW says about LHO’s normal behavior for lunch.
Mr. BALL. Did you ever have lunch with him?
Mr. WILLIAMS. No. The only time he would come into the lunchroom sometimes and eat a sandwich maybe, and then he would go for a walk, and he would go out. And I assume he would come back. But the only other time he would come in and read a paper or nothing, and laugh and leave again.
Here BRW tells us that LHO was prone to “go for a walk” and “go out” during lunch time from what he knew, but of course on November 22 all that changed according to the WC. We are told by them that LHO, BRW, and others, just ambled upstairs that day after noon when the former head of the Secret Service (SS), U.E. Baughman (1948-1961), said that the SS and Dallas Police Department (DPD) should have made the TSBD superintendent Roy Truly keep everyone off the upper floors (third floor and up) as the motorcade time approached. Why didn’t this happen?
As an order filler LHO had access to every floor and the WC made a point of this in their report.
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Lee Harvey Oswald was hired on October 15, 1963, by the Texas School Book Depository as an ”order filler”. He worked principally on the first and sixth floors of the building, gathering books listed on orders and delivering them to the shipping room on the first floor. He had ready access to the sixth floor, from the southeast corner window of which the shots were fired. (WCR, p. 137)
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Here they state that LHO worked “principally on the first and sixth floor” and had “ready access to the sixth floor”. As we have seen previously in this series LHO’s immediate supervisor, William Shelley, said that LHO could work on the fifth, sixth and seventh floors to get stock, but it was never shown that he spent a good bit of his day on the sixth floor on most days.
There is evidence in BRW’s testimony that shows LHO wasn’t up on the sixth floor during the whole morning of November 22.
Mr. BALL. Now, this morning, did you see Oswald on the floor at any time?
Mr. WILLIAMS. This morning of November 22d?
Mr. BALL. 22d.
Mr. WILLIAMS. The morning of November 22d Oswald was on the floor. The only time I saw him that morning was a little after eight, after I had started working. As usual, he was walking around with a clipboard in his hands, I believe he was.
Mr. BALL. That is on the first floor?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Yes. He had a clipboard in his hand.
Mr. BALL. That is the only time you saw him that morning?
Mr. WILLIAMS. That is the only time I saw him that morning. I saw him again between 11:30 and maybe 10 until 12:00.
Mr. BALL. We will come to that in a moment. Where did you work that morning?
Mr. WILLIAMS. That morning I worked on the sixth floor. I think we went directly up to the sixth floor and I got there.
So we see from this that BRW worked on the sixth floor laying a new floor all morning and never saw LHO at all. This means that on the morning of the assassination LHO never found a reason to go to the floor he supposedly fired from. So how did he get the rifle up there then? When did he spend time at the window to study the angles of the path of the motorcade? These are important questions that the WC never answered for us.
BRW also mentions how Harold Norman came up to help because he had nothing to do. This begs the question – why were LHO and BRW hired when there wasn’t enough work to keep everyone busy? According to BRW Norman had been employed by the TSBD for two years too.
BRW also revises his earlier statement about seeing LHO on the sixth floor that morning since the WC obviously was not happy with him saying that he didn’t see him. He changes it to seeing him once on the east side, but not near the SN area. He is not asked why he changed his testimony.
Then he was not sure again.
Mr. BALL. This morning, when you think you saw Oswald on the sixth floor, can you tell us about where he was?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Well, as I said before, I am not sure that he was really on the sixth floor But he was always around that way. In the place I think I saw him was as the east elevator come up to the sixth floor, he was on that side of the elevator.
So he is not sure again. Can you imagine how this would have played out in court with the defense attorney? We now come to the famous chicken lunch that BRW brought with him on the morning of November 22.
Mr. BALL. What did you have in your lunch?
Mr. WILLIAMS. I had a chicken sandwich.
Why was the chicken sandwich famous? Because initially it was claimed that it was the lunch of the assassin of JFK. The book Four Days contained the following comment about the lunch. “A lunch bag and a pop bottle held here by a Dallas police technician, and three spent shell casings were found by the sixth floor window. The sniper had dined on fried chicken and pop while waiting patiently to shoot the President.”
This made LHO look even more vicious as he supposedly calmly ate his lunch while waiting for JFK to arrive. This is all nonsense, but the point is that DPD Chief Curry and District Attached Wade pushed this claim to the media. The key point is that BRW never came forward to set the record straight. Why?
BRW would eat his lunch on the sixth floor and he said that there was no one else there.
Mr. DULLES. You ate your lunch on the sixth floor?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Yes, sir.
Mr. DULLES. And you were all alone?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Yes, sir.
How could LHO be a mere 30 feet away moving boxes and assembling his alleged rifle and BRW not hear or see him? It’s impossible. In addition to this we have already seen in this series that there is no evidence showing that LHO was ever at that window at 12:30 p.m. on November 22, 1963.
Keep in mind he said he thought that he heard someone on the fifth floor and that is why he went down there as he was looking for people to watch the motorcade with.
Mr. BALL. Did you know there was anyone there before you started down?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Well, I thought I heard somebody walking, the windows moving or something. I said maybe someone is down there, I said to myself. And I just went on down.
Mr. BALL. Did you find anybody there?
Mr. WILLIAMS. As I remember, when I was walking up, I think Harold Norman and James Jarman as I remember, they was down facing the Elm Street on the fifth floor, as I remember.
This illustrates my point as he heard someone on the fifth floor, but heard no one on the sixth floor. Again, how could LHO be doing what was attributed to him and BRW not hear or see him?
BRW said that he stayed on the sixth floor until 12 or 15 minutes past 12:00 p.m , and LHO supposedly fired the three shots by 12:30 p.m. This may sound like enough time to move boxes (keep in mind that at least one, and perhaps two, of the boxes weighed 55lbs and would had to have been carried from the southwest corner to the southeast corner window which is anywhere from eighty to hundred feet away), reassemble his rifle, load it, and sight it, shown himself at the window several times (Robert Edwards, Ronald Fisher, Howard Brennan & Arnold Rowland), and stare off in the distance towards the Triple Underpass (Ronald Fisher), but JFK was actually scheduled to pass the TSBD at 12:25 p.m. How would LHO know that this time had changed, and how could he accomplish all this in the small window of time that would have been available to him?
If he really wanted to assassinate JFK he could have went to the seventh floor much earlier and had much more privacy. Why would he pick a floor with so much activity on it? None of this makes any sense. This is why the early accounts made it seem as though the sixth floor was vacant for the most part.
Here is what TSBD president Jack Cason told the press on the evening of November 22, 1963.
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President Kennedy’s killer could have been holed up in that six-story hideaway for as long as four days without anybody bothering him, the president of the Texas School Book Depository said Friday night…Jack C. Cason, president of the Depository, said the sixth floor was used solely, as a “dead storage” area…Cason, who left the scene about 30 minutes before the President’s caravan rode down Main Street, a block away, said the firm often had had difficulty in finding employees who had fallen asleep amidst the stack of books. ”Sometimes it will be three or four days without anyone going up to the sixth floor to get anything,” Cason said… (Dallas Morning News, November 23, 1963, edition)
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Statements like this by Jack Cason should explain to the WC defenders why so many people do not believe the official conclusion. This is but one example of outright lies being trumpeted right after the assassination. The sixth floor was not deserted as claimed, in fact, next to the first floor it may have had the most activity on it. If LHO was actually guilty falsehoods like this would not have been necessary.
Since this left little time for LHO to do what the WC was claiming he did the FBI went to work.
Mr. BALL. Well, now, when you talked to the FBI on the 23d day of November, you said that you went up to the sixth floor about 12 noon with your lunch, and you stayed only about 3 minutes, and seeing no one you came down to the fifth floor, using the stairs at the west end of the building. Now, do you think you stayed longer than 3 minutes up there?
Mr. WILLIAMS. I am sure I stayed longer than 3 minutes.
Mr. BALL. Do you remember telling the FBI you only stayed 3 minutes up there?
Mr. WILLIAMS. I do not remember telling them I only stayed 3 minutes.
This was yet another example of the FBI altering what someone said in order to make the WC conclusion seem possible.
Now, let’s look at what he said regarding the shots that he would have heard while on the fifth floor at the time of the assassination.
Mr. BALL. Did you notice where did you think the shots came from?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Well, the first shot-I really did not pay any attention to it, because I did not know what was happening. The second shot, it sounded like it was right in the building, the second and third shot. And it sounded-it even shook the building, the side we were on cement fell on my head.
Mr. BALL. You say cement fell on your head?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Cement, gravel, dirt, or something from the old building, because it shook the windows and everything. Harold was sitting next to me, and he said it came right from over our head. If you want to know my exact words, I could tell you.
This is important testimony. He said that he did not hear the first shot because he wasn’t paying attention and didn’t know what had happened, but that he couldn’t ignore the second and third shots because they shook the building to the point of causing dirt, gravel and cement to shake loose and fall on his head.
How could the first shot have been fired from the TSBD when it did not cause the noticeable reverberations that the other two shots did? Based on his testimony if the first shot had been fired from the TSBD he surely would have been aware of it, but he wasn’t, thus, it had to have been fired from another location.
We see some interesting things in this post like BRW joining the TSBD just months before the assassination, and that he started out as a wrapper. He also failed to come forward and tell the authorities that the chicken lunch was actually his. These are things to remember and put into place in the overall picture.
We again see evidence that sinks the WC’s conclusion.
Here is Bonnie Ray Williams' affidavit (CE 2003, p. 65):
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The Warren Commission (WC) claimed that Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) fired three shots from the southeastern window of the Texas School Book Depository (TSBD) Building on the sixth floor when he assassinated President John F. Kennedy (JFK) on November 22, 1963.
A key person in the whole assassination saga was Bonnie Ray Williams (BRW) as he was on the sixth floor eating his lunch according to the WC just prior to LHO setting up the sniper’s nest (SN).
We have encountered BRW from time to time in this long series, but we have not looked at him exclusively in this series yet, but this post will resolve that issue.
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BRW was a twenty-year old employee of the TSBD who began his tenure as a wrapper.
Mr. BALL. What kind of work did you do when you first went with the Texas School Book Depository?
Mr. WILLIAMS. I think the first day I started work there they started me off as a wrapper. Then the fellows told me that I had qualifications to be a checker, so they put me on as a checker there.
He would be doing a variety of things after his first day including order filling.
Mr. BALL. What are you doing now?
Mr. WILLIAMS. At the present time I do anything--check, pack, fill orders, anything.
As we saw with LHO an order filler had access to all floors in the TSBD. BRW was also a wrapper so one could surmise that he could have had access to the wrapping paper in the TSBD. That is something to keep in mind.
Another interesting point is that he didn’t start working at the TSBD until September 1963.
Mr. BALL. Then where did you go?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Then I found this job at the Texas School Book Depository.
Mr. BALL. When did you get that job?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Around about September 8th.
Mr. BALL. What year?
Mr. WILLIAMS. 1963.
Mr. BALL. Well, did anybody tell you you might get a job at the Texas School Book Depository before you went down there?
Mr. WILLIAMS. No, sir.
Mr. BALL. You were just looking for a job?
Mr. WILLIAMS. I just put in applications everywhere.
His testimony paints the following picture. He was working an overnight job, his wife was pregnant so he wanted a daytime job, he put in applications everywhere, and then with no one telling him he finds the TSBD and is hired on the same day he first visits it. Given his struggle to get a job don’t you think he would remember the day he was hired?
Why does he say that he was hired “around September 8” instead of the exact date? Why didn’t the WC ask him for the exact date? We then see this interesting comment.
Mr. BALL. When you went to work there, did you work at the building on the corner of Houston and Elm?
Mr. WILLIAMS. No, sir. The first time I went there I was hired on at the other warehouse, the lower part of Houston Street.
Mr. BALL. By lower part, do you mean north of the main building?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Yes, sir. Down further, the big white building.
Mr. BALL. That is sort of a warehouse?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. You went to work there. That is about a block, a block and a half north?
Mr. WILLIAMS. A block and a half.
Mr. BALL. North of the corner of Houston and Elm?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. And how long did you work at that place?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Well, I worked there until business began to get slow. I think that was—it was before November. I think it was some time during October. I am not sure.
This shows us that BRW wasn’t hired for the TSBD building on Houston and Elm Streets, the location of the alleged SN per the WC, but rather for the warehouse a block and a half away. He wasn’t moved to the Houston and Elm Streets location until October, but once again his memory failed him in terms of an exact date. And once again the WC showed no interest in trying to pin it down. Why? Perhaps because it was either in conjunction with, or very close to, the hiring of LHO. Why should this cause concern for the WC? I don’t know, but the fact of the matter is that they allowed BRW to be very vague about the dates on which he was hired by the TSBD and the date that he transferred to the location on Houston and Elm Streets.
The WC would claim that no prints were found on the cartons that they processed, but this is odd since BRW said that he moved cartons before the work on the sixth floor started.
Mr. BALL. Before you started to lay the floor, did you have to move any cartons?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Yes; we did.
Mr. BALL. From what part of the sixth floor did you move the cartons?
Mr. WILLIAMS. We moved cartons from, I believe, the west side of the sixth floor to the east side of the sixth floor, because I think there was a vacancy in there.
Mr. BALL. Clear over to the east side?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Yes, sir.
This shows us that BRW moved boxes from the west side of the sixth floor to the east side, and so did others as he said “we did” in answer to the question. So why were none of their prints found on these boxes supposedly?
Notice what BRW says about LHO’s normal behavior for lunch.
Mr. BALL. Did you ever have lunch with him?
Mr. WILLIAMS. No. The only time he would come into the lunchroom sometimes and eat a sandwich maybe, and then he would go for a walk, and he would go out. And I assume he would come back. But the only other time he would come in and read a paper or nothing, and laugh and leave again.
Here BRW tells us that LHO was prone to “go for a walk” and “go out” during lunch time from what he knew, but of course on November 22 all that changed according to the WC. We are told by them that LHO, BRW, and others, just ambled upstairs that day after noon when the former head of the Secret Service (SS), U.E. Baughman (1948-1961), said that the SS and Dallas Police Department (DPD) should have made the TSBD superintendent Roy Truly keep everyone off the upper floors (third floor and up) as the motorcade time approached. Why didn’t this happen?
As an order filler LHO had access to every floor and the WC made a point of this in their report.
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Lee Harvey Oswald was hired on October 15, 1963, by the Texas School Book Depository as an ”order filler”. He worked principally on the first and sixth floors of the building, gathering books listed on orders and delivering them to the shipping room on the first floor. He had ready access to the sixth floor, from the southeast corner window of which the shots were fired. (WCR, p. 137)
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Here they state that LHO worked “principally on the first and sixth floor” and had “ready access to the sixth floor”. As we have seen previously in this series LHO’s immediate supervisor, William Shelley, said that LHO could work on the fifth, sixth and seventh floors to get stock, but it was never shown that he spent a good bit of his day on the sixth floor on most days.
There is evidence in BRW’s testimony that shows LHO wasn’t up on the sixth floor during the whole morning of November 22.
Mr. BALL. Now, this morning, did you see Oswald on the floor at any time?
Mr. WILLIAMS. This morning of November 22d?
Mr. BALL. 22d.
Mr. WILLIAMS. The morning of November 22d Oswald was on the floor. The only time I saw him that morning was a little after eight, after I had started working. As usual, he was walking around with a clipboard in his hands, I believe he was.
Mr. BALL. That is on the first floor?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Yes. He had a clipboard in his hand.
Mr. BALL. That is the only time you saw him that morning?
Mr. WILLIAMS. That is the only time I saw him that morning. I saw him again between 11:30 and maybe 10 until 12:00.
Mr. BALL. We will come to that in a moment. Where did you work that morning?
Mr. WILLIAMS. That morning I worked on the sixth floor. I think we went directly up to the sixth floor and I got there.
So we see from this that BRW worked on the sixth floor laying a new floor all morning and never saw LHO at all. This means that on the morning of the assassination LHO never found a reason to go to the floor he supposedly fired from. So how did he get the rifle up there then? When did he spend time at the window to study the angles of the path of the motorcade? These are important questions that the WC never answered for us.
BRW also mentions how Harold Norman came up to help because he had nothing to do. This begs the question – why were LHO and BRW hired when there wasn’t enough work to keep everyone busy? According to BRW Norman had been employed by the TSBD for two years too.
BRW also revises his earlier statement about seeing LHO on the sixth floor that morning since the WC obviously was not happy with him saying that he didn’t see him. He changes it to seeing him once on the east side, but not near the SN area. He is not asked why he changed his testimony.
Then he was not sure again.
Mr. BALL. This morning, when you think you saw Oswald on the sixth floor, can you tell us about where he was?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Well, as I said before, I am not sure that he was really on the sixth floor But he was always around that way. In the place I think I saw him was as the east elevator come up to the sixth floor, he was on that side of the elevator.
So he is not sure again. Can you imagine how this would have played out in court with the defense attorney? We now come to the famous chicken lunch that BRW brought with him on the morning of November 22.
Mr. BALL. What did you have in your lunch?
Mr. WILLIAMS. I had a chicken sandwich.
Why was the chicken sandwich famous? Because initially it was claimed that it was the lunch of the assassin of JFK. The book Four Days contained the following comment about the lunch. “A lunch bag and a pop bottle held here by a Dallas police technician, and three spent shell casings were found by the sixth floor window. The sniper had dined on fried chicken and pop while waiting patiently to shoot the President.”
This made LHO look even more vicious as he supposedly calmly ate his lunch while waiting for JFK to arrive. This is all nonsense, but the point is that DPD Chief Curry and District Attached Wade pushed this claim to the media. The key point is that BRW never came forward to set the record straight. Why?
BRW would eat his lunch on the sixth floor and he said that there was no one else there.
Mr. DULLES. You ate your lunch on the sixth floor?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Yes, sir.
Mr. DULLES. And you were all alone?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Yes, sir.
How could LHO be a mere 30 feet away moving boxes and assembling his alleged rifle and BRW not hear or see him? It’s impossible. In addition to this we have already seen in this series that there is no evidence showing that LHO was ever at that window at 12:30 p.m. on November 22, 1963.
Keep in mind he said he thought that he heard someone on the fifth floor and that is why he went down there as he was looking for people to watch the motorcade with.
Mr. BALL. Did you know there was anyone there before you started down?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Well, I thought I heard somebody walking, the windows moving or something. I said maybe someone is down there, I said to myself. And I just went on down.
Mr. BALL. Did you find anybody there?
Mr. WILLIAMS. As I remember, when I was walking up, I think Harold Norman and James Jarman as I remember, they was down facing the Elm Street on the fifth floor, as I remember.
This illustrates my point as he heard someone on the fifth floor, but heard no one on the sixth floor. Again, how could LHO be doing what was attributed to him and BRW not hear or see him?
BRW said that he stayed on the sixth floor until 12 or 15 minutes past 12:00 p.m , and LHO supposedly fired the three shots by 12:30 p.m. This may sound like enough time to move boxes (keep in mind that at least one, and perhaps two, of the boxes weighed 55lbs and would had to have been carried from the southwest corner to the southeast corner window which is anywhere from eighty to hundred feet away), reassemble his rifle, load it, and sight it, shown himself at the window several times (Robert Edwards, Ronald Fisher, Howard Brennan & Arnold Rowland), and stare off in the distance towards the Triple Underpass (Ronald Fisher), but JFK was actually scheduled to pass the TSBD at 12:25 p.m. How would LHO know that this time had changed, and how could he accomplish all this in the small window of time that would have been available to him?
If he really wanted to assassinate JFK he could have went to the seventh floor much earlier and had much more privacy. Why would he pick a floor with so much activity on it? None of this makes any sense. This is why the early accounts made it seem as though the sixth floor was vacant for the most part.
Here is what TSBD president Jack Cason told the press on the evening of November 22, 1963.
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President Kennedy’s killer could have been holed up in that six-story hideaway for as long as four days without anybody bothering him, the president of the Texas School Book Depository said Friday night…Jack C. Cason, president of the Depository, said the sixth floor was used solely, as a “dead storage” area…Cason, who left the scene about 30 minutes before the President’s caravan rode down Main Street, a block away, said the firm often had had difficulty in finding employees who had fallen asleep amidst the stack of books. ”Sometimes it will be three or four days without anyone going up to the sixth floor to get anything,” Cason said… (Dallas Morning News, November 23, 1963, edition)
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Statements like this by Jack Cason should explain to the WC defenders why so many people do not believe the official conclusion. This is but one example of outright lies being trumpeted right after the assassination. The sixth floor was not deserted as claimed, in fact, next to the first floor it may have had the most activity on it. If LHO was actually guilty falsehoods like this would not have been necessary.
Since this left little time for LHO to do what the WC was claiming he did the FBI went to work.
Mr. BALL. Well, now, when you talked to the FBI on the 23d day of November, you said that you went up to the sixth floor about 12 noon with your lunch, and you stayed only about 3 minutes, and seeing no one you came down to the fifth floor, using the stairs at the west end of the building. Now, do you think you stayed longer than 3 minutes up there?
Mr. WILLIAMS. I am sure I stayed longer than 3 minutes.
Mr. BALL. Do you remember telling the FBI you only stayed 3 minutes up there?
Mr. WILLIAMS. I do not remember telling them I only stayed 3 minutes.
This was yet another example of the FBI altering what someone said in order to make the WC conclusion seem possible.
Now, let’s look at what he said regarding the shots that he would have heard while on the fifth floor at the time of the assassination.
Mr. BALL. Did you notice where did you think the shots came from?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Well, the first shot-I really did not pay any attention to it, because I did not know what was happening. The second shot, it sounded like it was right in the building, the second and third shot. And it sounded-it even shook the building, the side we were on cement fell on my head.
Mr. BALL. You say cement fell on your head?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Cement, gravel, dirt, or something from the old building, because it shook the windows and everything. Harold was sitting next to me, and he said it came right from over our head. If you want to know my exact words, I could tell you.
This is important testimony. He said that he did not hear the first shot because he wasn’t paying attention and didn’t know what had happened, but that he couldn’t ignore the second and third shots because they shook the building to the point of causing dirt, gravel and cement to shake loose and fall on his head.
How could the first shot have been fired from the TSBD when it did not cause the noticeable reverberations that the other two shots did? Based on his testimony if the first shot had been fired from the TSBD he surely would have been aware of it, but he wasn’t, thus, it had to have been fired from another location.
We see some interesting things in this post like BRW joining the TSBD just months before the assassination, and that he started out as a wrapper. He also failed to come forward and tell the authorities that the chicken lunch was actually his. These are things to remember and put into place in the overall picture.
We again see evidence that sinks the WC’s conclusion.
Here is Bonnie Ray Williams' affidavit (CE 2003, p. 65):
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