donald willis
2020-06-27 23:16:26 UTC
Postal Inspector Holmes testified that Oswald said that a policeman had
stopped him at the front door of the depository, in the vestibule.
Holmes' report on this matter has been dismissed, in part because the
timing would be wrong for someone rushing down from the sixth floor.
But Holmes is the only one of the participants in the Oswald
interrogations who, at least credibly, described the Baker-Oswald
encounter, in a report (on the Sunday interview) and in testimony. (Yes,
Fritz and Bookhout reported, separately, that Oswald said, in the first
interview, that he was stopped on the second floor, but Bookhout had
already negated that factoid when he joined, in a report earlier, with
Hosty in detailing a trip upstairs to the second floor by Oswald to get a
soda--and did NOT mention running into a policeman. Sorry, no do-overs
even for the FBI.)
And the timing might be right for a front-vestibule encounter if Oswald
was rushing down from the FIFTH floor. But Fritz & co. certainly did not
want to entertain THAT idea....
dcw
stopped him at the front door of the depository, in the vestibule.
Holmes' report on this matter has been dismissed, in part because the
timing would be wrong for someone rushing down from the sixth floor.
But Holmes is the only one of the participants in the Oswald
interrogations who, at least credibly, described the Baker-Oswald
encounter, in a report (on the Sunday interview) and in testimony. (Yes,
Fritz and Bookhout reported, separately, that Oswald said, in the first
interview, that he was stopped on the second floor, but Bookhout had
already negated that factoid when he joined, in a report earlier, with
Hosty in detailing a trip upstairs to the second floor by Oswald to get a
soda--and did NOT mention running into a policeman. Sorry, no do-overs
even for the FBI.)
And the timing might be right for a front-vestibule encounter if Oswald
was rushing down from the FIFTH floor. But Fritz & co. certainly did not
want to entertain THAT idea....
dcw