Back to the movies with Julia Postal

[Walt Cakebread]

I would guess that it was an after-the-fact constructed memory to justify why he followed and then had Julia Postal call the cops on a guy who he didn't see do anything wrong.

You may be right.... Perhaps Brewer was simply playing Dick Tracy that day.......  But here's what bothers me....  He had just bought a New Ford Fairlane and he had it parked in front of the shoe store. He told Griggs hat he really didn't want to be there at the store that day, because he wanted to go riding in his new car.   But his associate called in and said the baby was sick so he wouldn't be at the store that day, which forced Brewer to be there.  Brewer could easily have hung an "out to lunch" sign on the door of the shop and took a lunchtime drive in his new car.....   

There's something that don't quite mesh with Johnny Brewer tale.....   And I doubt that anybody will argue that his tale is full of inconsistencies   

[Walt Cakebread]

Go and punch a cop in the face and let's see what happens.

An officer approached him and he hit the officer and knocked him back.
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/brewer1.htm

JohnM

The reason I noticed the man in front of the store was because he acted so nervous, and I thought at the time he might be the man that had shot the policeman.....  John Brewer

The problem with Brewers statement is:...... There is no way that Brewer could have known that a policeman had been shot at the time he claims that he saw the nervous acting man who was window shopping at his shoe store.

[Richard Smith]

You may be right.... Perhaps Brewer was simply playing Dick Tracy that day.......  But here's what bothers me....  He had just bought a New Ford Fairlane and he had it parked in front of the shoe store. He told Griggs hat he really didn't want to be there at the store that day, because he wanted to go riding in his new car.   But his associate called in and said the baby was sick so he wouldn't be at the store that day, which forced Brewer to be there.  Brewer could easily have hung an "out to lunch" sign on the door of the shop and took a lunchtime drive in his new car.....   

There's something that don't quite mesh with Johnny Brewer tale.....   And I doubt that anybody will argue that his tale is full of inconsistencies

I think you are the one who should hang an "out to lunch" sign.  Why does any of this nonsense make any difference? If you are not alleging that Brewer decided to follow Oswald as part of a plot, then it seemingly doesn't matter why he did so.  If you want to believe Brewer was just a paranoid busybody, what difference does it make?  The bottom line is that Oswald entered the TT without buying a ticket.  He was arrested there after hitting a police officer.  He had the pistol that he used to kill Tippit.  He is stone cold guilty regardless of any real or imagined minor ambiguities in the memories of witnesses.

[Walt Cakebread]

I think you are the one who should hang an "out to lunch" sign.  Why does any of this nonsense make any difference? If you are not alleging that Brewer decided to follow Oswald as part of a plot, then it seemingly doesn't matter why he did so.  If you want to believe Brewer was just a paranoid busybody, what difference does it make?  The bottom line is that Oswald entered the TT without buying a ticket.  He was arrested there after hitting a police officer.  He had the pistol that he used to kill Tippit.  He is stone cold guilty regardless of any real or imagined minor ambiguities in the memories of witnesses.

 If you are not alleging that Brewer decided to follow Oswald as part of a plot, then it seemingly doesn't matter why he did so.  If you want to believe Brewer was just a paranoid busybody, what difference does it make?  The bottom line is that Oswald entered the TT without buying a ticket.  He was arrested there after hitting a police officer.  He had the pistol that he used to kill Tippit.  He is stone cold guilty regardless of any real or imagined minor ambiguities in the memories of witnesses.


If you want to believe Brewer was just a paranoid busybody,

I'll let Brewer answer that question....

  So you asked Julie ( Julia Postal) to contact the police ?....And tell them what?

Johnny Brewer...  "Just that there was a suspicious person in there. I still had no reason to have somebody call the police. I'm not sure what the hell I was doing here to start with.  "

[Richard Smith]

If you are not alleging that Brewer decided to follow Oswald as part of a plot, then it seemingly doesn't matter why he did so.  If you want to believe Brewer was just a paranoid busybody, what difference does it make?  The bottom line is that Oswald entered the TT without buying a ticket.  He was arrested there after hitting a police officer.  He had the pistol that he used to kill Tippit.  He is stone cold guilty regardless of any real or imagined minor ambiguities in the memories of witnesses.


If you want to believe Brewer was just a paranoid busybody,

I'll let Brewer answer that question....

  So you asked Julie ( Julia Postal) to contact the police ?....And tell them what?

Johnny Brewer...  "Just that there was a suspicious person in there. I still had no reason to have somebody call the police. I'm not sure what the hell I was doing here to start with.  "

Again, what difference does it make why Brewer decided to follow Oswald if you are not alleging he was acting as part of a plot?  Let's say for the sake of discussion that Brewer had no reasonable basis whatsoever to find Oswald suspicious.  For some inexplicable reason, however, he decided to follow him and believed he had entered the TT without buying a ticket.  So what?  All that matters is that Oswald entered the theatre, when the police came in response to a call, Oswald decided to hit one of them and was arrested.  They discovered a pistol on him and given the proximity to the Tippit murder he becomes an obvious suspect for further investigation.  Minor ambiguities in the testimony or statements of Brewer and Postal make little difference in that context. 

[Walt Cakebread]

Again, what difference does it make why Brewer decided to follow Oswald if you are not alleging he was acting as part of a plot?  Let's say for the sake of discussion that Brewer had no reasonable basis whatsoever to find Oswald suspicious.  For some inexplicable reason, however, he decided to follow him and believed he had entered the TT without buying a ticket.  So what?  All that matters is that Oswald entered the theatre, when the police came in response to a call, Oswald decided to hit one of them and was arrested.  They discovered a pistol on him and given the proximity to the Tippit murder he becomes an obvious suspect for further investigation.  Minor ambiguities in the testimony or statements of Brewer and Postal make little difference in that context.

We know that Lee Oswald was in the theater....  We know that all of the people who encountered him said that he was just calm and normal acting.   EXCEPT Johnny Brewer who did not know Lee Oswald said that the man that he saw was acting "scared" and "nervous" 

Question:    Can you explain why Lee would suddenly become scared ?..... He showed no signs of being frightened when Marrion Baker encountered him drinking a coke in the second floor lunchroom which was just seconds after the murder of JFK.   Do you suppose that maybe the guy that Brewer saw was not Lee Oswald? 

[Richard Smith]

We know that Lee Oswald was in the theater....  We know that all of the people who encountered him said that he was just calm and normal acting.   EXCEPT Johnny Brewer who did not know Lee Oswald said that the man that he saw was acting "scared" and "nervous" 

Question:    Can you explain why Lee would suddenly become scared ?..... He showed no signs of being frightened when Marrion Baker encountered him drinking a coke in the second floor lunchroom which was just seconds after the murder of JFK.   Do you suppose that maybe the guy that Brewer saw was not Lee Oswald?

Who encountered Oswald in the theatre and said he was calm and normal acting?  Oswald was sitting in the dark while other patrons were watching a movie and had little cause to notice him.  Why did he suddenly become scared and attack the police?  Are you kidding'?  That is a question you should ask yourself since you think he is innocent.  His actions are entirely consistent with those of a guilty person who realizes the jig is up.  He just murdered a cop and the president.  He knows that the police are there for him and he still has the murder weapon on him.  His goose is cooked.  So you think Brewer followed a guy who wasn't Oswald, turns out unlucky Oswald was in that theater, and for some inexplicable reason Brewer identified Oswald as the person he saw.  Wow.  Poor Lee.  Always in the wrong place at the wrong time.