If Oswald Was The Assassin, Did He Plan His Escape From The TSBD Very Well?

[Charles Collins]

Here is the transcribed article.

Dallas Morning News Saturday Nov 23, 1964 ---- The Assassin Crouched And Took Deadly Aim by Kent Biffle
"After the first shot, I looked up and saw him. The gun was sticking out of the window. I saw him fire a second time. He was a slender guy, a nice looking guy. He didn’t seem to be in no hurry.”  said Brennan.




I don't seem to be able to copy and paste the actual newspaper article.

Thank you Jack! Is that the entire article? Or just 5- sentences from the article? Do you have a link (web page address) that you can post?

[Bill Chapman]

Nobody has “avoided” anything. That’s a Chapman delusion.

You OAKer-deluded 'researchers' continue to avoid posting the Ce399 profile as seen in my avatar. You OAKer-deluded 'researchers' continue to avoid telling us why FMJ ammo was designed (and even mandated) to remain as intact as possible, and over-penetrate, when striking a human body.

[Jack Nessan]

Thank you Jack! Is that the entire article? Or just 5- sentences from the article? Do you have a link (web page address) that you can post?

No,  it is just the part about Brennan. The article was written by Kent Biffle and that is maybe how I came by it. I really just don't remember how I came by it but later I can see if I can't copy it and post it somehow. My interest in it was the fact Brennan stated he saw him fire the rifle and that there was only two shots. Reading Michael Griffith's post on him looking up at Z207 that would coincide with when the eye witnesses place the first shot.

[Bill Chapman]

"The silence is deafening"? So if you don't get a reply within a certain timeframe, you assume your question is being dodged?

Anyway, Brennan's 11/22/63 interview with reporters is discussed in Mark Lane's book Rush to Judgment (p. 92). Does anyone take seriously Brennan's belated claim that he failed to positively ID Oswald in the police lineup because he feared for his life? Does anyone here believe that?

Given the disgraceful manner in which the police rigged the lineups, it is quite significant that Brennan declined to make a positive ID. It was only after he was browbeaten for weeks by the FBI that Brennan finally agreed to ID Oswald as the man he had seen in the window. Brennan's foreman, Sandy Speaker, said Brennan was "a nervous wreck" after his FBI "interviews," and that "they made him say what they wanted him to say."

By the way, Brennan was 120 feet away from the TSBD, and the man he saw was behind a window. I seriously doubt that anyone could have seen the man well enough, clearly enough, from that distance and under those conditions, to later make a reliable identification.

"But Brennan was farsighted," some WC apologists will note. So what? Being farsighted does not mean that you have unusually good vision from a distance; it just means that you can see normally from a distance but cannot see normally from short range without glasses or contacts. I'm farsighted and I could not see someone clearly enough from 120 feet away through a window to make a reliable identification.

To get some idea of the unlikelihood of Brennan's belated ID of Oswald, go to a football field, stand on the goal line, close your eyes, and have a random stranger whom you've never seen before stand on the 40 yard line. 40 yards equals 120 feet, or nearly half a football field. And have the stranger stand behind a plate of glass. Look at him for no more than a few minutes, and then come back and tell me that you believe you could recognize him, with a reasonable degree of certainty, hours later among several other people.

And a correction to one of my earlier statements: I said that Bonnie Ray Williams said he heard no movement above him after the shots were fired. James Jarman said this, not Williams, although Williams apparently agreed since he did not mention hearing movement above him after the shots either.

Was anyone in the lineup wearing a jacket? Did Oswald ask for a jacket?

[Charles Collins]

No,  it is just the part about Brennan. The article was written by Kent Biffle and that is maybe how I came by it. I really just don't remember how I came by it but later I can see if I can't copy it and post it somehow. My interest in it was the fact Brennan stated he saw him fire the rifle and that there was only two shots. Reading Michael Griffith's post on him looking up at Z207 that would coincide with when the eye witnesses place the first shot.

Okay, thanks again. I don’t see anything in those sentences that indicates explicitly that Brennan identified himself. But I can imagine that Mark Lane assumed that...

[John Iacoletti]

You OAKer-deluded 'researchers' continue to avoid posting the Ce399 profile as seen in my avatar.

“Avoid” posting it for what reason?

[John Iacoletti]

Here is the transcribed article.

Dallas Morning News Saturday Nov 23, 1964 ---- The Assassin Crouched And Took Deadly Aim by Kent Biffle
"After the first shot, I looked up and saw him. The gun was sticking out of the window. I saw him fire a second time. He was a slender guy, a nice looking guy. He didn’t seem to be in no hurry.”  said Brennan.

I don't seem to be able to copy and paste the actual newspaper article.

Note that both this and Brennan’s testimony contradict Aynesworth’s claim about Brennan seeing somebody firing twice.