Colin....Surely you're aware that Dougherty's testimony about his whereabouts between 12:00 and 1:00 is useless. He was so scared that he couldn't respond to simple questions ..... Like if he served outside of the US during his enlistment in the Army. You should simply ignore his nonsense.... and ask yourself WHY was Jack Dougherty so terrified?? If anybody had reason to be petrified into babbling nonsense it would have been Lee Oswald. ( and particularly so if he had been guilty.
So Lee answers accusing questions put to him in a calm and rational manner....But Dougherty can't even answer innocuous questions in a rational manner.
Was not the Eisenberg memo prior to his appearance before the WC? His WC testimony is not as bad as it is made out to be. Some of his answers appear to be rehearsed but to the wrong question. Some appear to be an answer to a misheard one. One wonders if some of his mental issues might actually be due to hearing loss. (eg. only heard one shot, didn't hear Truly call for the elevator). My recollection of his WC testimony is that Ball made a complete hash of it. At times it was hard to understand either of them. At any rate he was an important witness, he afforded the lone gunman theory an innocuous movement of the west elevator after its use by Jarman and Norman. They had left it on the 5th floor but closed the gates, allowing it to be called from any floor. After the shots it was claimed to be stuck on an upper floor with gates open. This has to be because Dougherty went back to work for the WC version. He supposedly left the gates open, preventing Truly from calling it. By the time Truly and Baker reached the fifth floor it had gone. This was either via Dougherty or by unknown persons.
The question is, if Dougherty went back to work just before 12.30......where was he working just before lunch? Was it the 5th floor or the 6th? I do not think he was part of the elevator race and so it seems doubtful he was working on the 6th at that time. So, why would he go back to work on the 6th for a few moments then descend to the 5th? Both times leaving the only elevator available "locked". All he had to do was close the gates on the west elevator and work on the 5th, then take the east elevator down manually when he needed.
Walt, do not play the LN game and dismiss the guy......that's what they want. Looks like a note from dad and a word from the boss was sufficient......really?
