The "smirk"

[Charles Collins]

Kennedy was shot in the temple? I thought he was shot in Dealey Plaza.

Budda-boom, budda-bing.

Well, you know that there was a sound of a bell on the DPD recording allegedly about the same time as the “shots.” Did the temple have a bell? wink, wink...

[Charles Collins]

This gives us some insight on how the police manipulated the witnesses.

This gives us some insight on how the police manipulated the witnesses.

I think it was more of a miscommunication than a manipulation. McWatters was not easy to communicate with, that is apparent in his WC testimony. They sometimes had to ask him the same question several different ways to get an answer that made any sense. McWatters was probably shocked and befuddled when they whisked him off the bus to question him on the evening of 11/22/63. And he had hardly any time to contemplate what had happened before he was taken to the lineup. Our memories are not like snapshots, they are reconstructions based on associations. In all the confusion, McWatters mistakenly associated his conversation with the teenager to the bus transfer. (This type of thing happens to the best of us every once in a while.) He was thinking about the teenager when he saw the lineup, hence the hesitancy to say for sure. I can only guess that, sometime that evening, McWatters must have related the story of the teenager's words to someone at the Dallas Police Department and they assumed it was the same person who got the bus transfer. The two facts (who said the President was shot in the temple then grinned; and where LHO got on the bus) in error in the affidavit are not as important as the fact that is correct: "The transfer #004459 is a transfer from my bus with my punch mark."

[John Iacoletti]

The two facts (who said the President was shot in the temple then grinned; and where LHO got on the bus) in error in the affidavit are not as important as the fact that is correct: "The transfer #004459 is a transfer from my bus with my punch mark."

I’m not sure I understand the importance of whether or not Oswald was on McWatters’ bus.

[Charles Collins]

I’m not sure I understand the importance of whether or not Oswald was on McWatters’ bus.

It is hard evidence of his whereabouts at that point in time.

[John Iacoletti]

It is hard evidence of his whereabouts at that point in time.

No, it’s hard evidence that the police claimed to “find” a bus transfer in his pocket a couple of hours after his arrest in a shirt that he may or may not have been wearing at the point in time of the bus ride.

But either way, it tells us nothing about who shot JFK.

[Jack Trojan]

Sorry, but a smirk is meaningless, however, a wink is worth a thousand words.

When LBJ wanted to get sworn in by Sarah Hughes aboard AF1, she said to him, "Sorry but I don't have the Oath of Office on me." LBJ pulled a copy of the Oath from his pocket and handed it to her then turned to the small crowd aboard AF1 and said jokingly, "If any of you speak of this, I'll deny it."  He did all this right in front of Jackie who still had blood on her clothes. Then he turned to his long-time friend, Texas congressman Brian Thomas who winked at him. Johnson returned a smile.

[Charles Collins]

Sorry, but a smirk is meaningless, however, a wink is worth a thousand words.

It never ceases to amaze me how easily y’all accept such nonsense and dismiss hard evidence.