donald willis
2018-06-17 01:01:30 UTC
Bonnie Ray Williams, and the Best Evidence against a Lunchroom Encounter
On November 23rd, 1963, witness Bonnie Ray Williams told the FBI of a
"police officer [who] came up on the elevator and looked all around the
fifth floor".
In his Commission testimony the next year, he amended this to: "A
motorcycle policeman... came up.... He just came around, and around to the
elevator" (v3p180).
This policeman was Patrolman Marrion Baker: "I... went on... up the
stairways... either one or two floors.... I was looking around the
building at the time [depository manager Roy Truly] said, 'Let's take the
elevator', and I just followed him on around."
Besides the "to the elevator" amendment, Williams, before the Commission,
made two other significant changes to his FBI interview:
1) "[Williams] descended to the fifth floor, using the stairs...." (FBI"I
took the east elevator down [to the fifth floor]" (v3p171)
2) "Williams stated he and Hank and Junior were standing where they would
have seen anyone coming down from the sixth floor via the stairs...."
(FBI) "You cannot see anything coming down [the stairs] from that
position" (v3p1= 80)
Curiously, all three changes would move both a sixth-floor suspect and
Baker to the stairs.
Even more curiously, it would seem that no changes in Williams' FBI
interview had to be made, at all, in order to bring a sixth-floor shooter
and Truly together within the time-frame necessary to allow the former to
have been our shooter. The latter could have traveled down in the
elevator which Williams left behind. On the first floor, Baker and Truly
could have seen and heard said elevator coming and waited patiently for
it. Then, after an awkward moment,Truly vouches for the man, and that's
that. Right?
However, the ease with which Williams transformed the details of his story
suggests that NEITHER version of that story was true, that there was
actually no sixth-floor shooter, that there was no Stair Man, no Elevator
Man. The stair story need never have been invented, though it was well
and thoroughly "documented". If Williams did see Baker come up on the
elevator, well, that fortuitously fit the A story, the Elevator Man story.
But, for some reason, the Bright Boys behind the cover-up couldn't accept
the unexpected gift of serendipity.
They should have: The Williams changes to the story--beginning with his
11/22 affidavit and his 11/23 FBI interview and ending with his Commission
testimony--were too obvious, too obviously geared to the B story, the
Stair Man story. They were not haphazard changes. In fact, the Bright
Boys were going a little crazy stamping out elevator fires: Even in
Williams' 11/22/63 affidavit, the word "elevator" in "We took the elevator
[down] to the 4th floor" had to be changed, by Williams--at the
hearings--to "stairs" (v3p182). You know, just in case....
One wonders, in fact, why the Bright Boys thought it necessary, in the
first place--before the introduction of Baker into the mix--to have
Williams chart their shooter's escape route. Of course, yes, that did
make it look like Someone must have been up there, rather than No One....
Why they did not stick with the Elevator Man story is hard to fathom.
Perhaps the notion of an encounter between Oswald, Truly, and Baker at the
elevator, on the first floor, sounded a tad close for comfort to the
reports of an encounter in a room on the first floor (Kent Biffle, Dallas
Morning News 11/23/63) or in the vestibule at the first-floor entrance
(Harry Holmes [as per Oswald] v7p306).
At any rate, poor Williams was stuck with--at first--the story of Elevator
Man--then, at the hearings--with the story of Stair Man. And with the
spectacle of Patrolman Baker going in two different directions at the same
time: from/to the elevator.
dcw
On November 23rd, 1963, witness Bonnie Ray Williams told the FBI of a
"police officer [who] came up on the elevator and looked all around the
fifth floor".
In his Commission testimony the next year, he amended this to: "A
motorcycle policeman... came up.... He just came around, and around to the
elevator" (v3p180).
This policeman was Patrolman Marrion Baker: "I... went on... up the
stairways... either one or two floors.... I was looking around the
building at the time [depository manager Roy Truly] said, 'Let's take the
elevator', and I just followed him on around."
Besides the "to the elevator" amendment, Williams, before the Commission,
made two other significant changes to his FBI interview:
1) "[Williams] descended to the fifth floor, using the stairs...." (FBI"I
took the east elevator down [to the fifth floor]" (v3p171)
2) "Williams stated he and Hank and Junior were standing where they would
have seen anyone coming down from the sixth floor via the stairs...."
(FBI) "You cannot see anything coming down [the stairs] from that
position" (v3p1= 80)
Curiously, all three changes would move both a sixth-floor suspect and
Baker to the stairs.
Even more curiously, it would seem that no changes in Williams' FBI
interview had to be made, at all, in order to bring a sixth-floor shooter
and Truly together within the time-frame necessary to allow the former to
have been our shooter. The latter could have traveled down in the
elevator which Williams left behind. On the first floor, Baker and Truly
could have seen and heard said elevator coming and waited patiently for
it. Then, after an awkward moment,Truly vouches for the man, and that's
that. Right?
However, the ease with which Williams transformed the details of his story
suggests that NEITHER version of that story was true, that there was
actually no sixth-floor shooter, that there was no Stair Man, no Elevator
Man. The stair story need never have been invented, though it was well
and thoroughly "documented". If Williams did see Baker come up on the
elevator, well, that fortuitously fit the A story, the Elevator Man story.
But, for some reason, the Bright Boys behind the cover-up couldn't accept
the unexpected gift of serendipity.
They should have: The Williams changes to the story--beginning with his
11/22 affidavit and his 11/23 FBI interview and ending with his Commission
testimony--were too obvious, too obviously geared to the B story, the
Stair Man story. They were not haphazard changes. In fact, the Bright
Boys were going a little crazy stamping out elevator fires: Even in
Williams' 11/22/63 affidavit, the word "elevator" in "We took the elevator
[down] to the 4th floor" had to be changed, by Williams--at the
hearings--to "stairs" (v3p182). You know, just in case....
One wonders, in fact, why the Bright Boys thought it necessary, in the
first place--before the introduction of Baker into the mix--to have
Williams chart their shooter's escape route. Of course, yes, that did
make it look like Someone must have been up there, rather than No One....
Why they did not stick with the Elevator Man story is hard to fathom.
Perhaps the notion of an encounter between Oswald, Truly, and Baker at the
elevator, on the first floor, sounded a tad close for comfort to the
reports of an encounter in a room on the first floor (Kent Biffle, Dallas
Morning News 11/23/63) or in the vestibule at the first-floor entrance
(Harry Holmes [as per Oswald] v7p306).
At any rate, poor Williams was stuck with--at first--the story of Elevator
Man--then, at the hearings--with the story of Stair Man. And with the
spectacle of Patrolman Baker going in two different directions at the same
time: from/to the elevator.
dcw