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If Oswald Was The Assassin, Did He Plan His Escape From The TSBD Very Well?
Alan Ford:
--- Quote from: Colin Crow on August 06, 2020, 11:29:10 AM ---I wonder why Williams did not just tell the cops this the afternoon he was making his statement when he saw Oswald brought into custody. Would have saved us much anguish. Oswald, the guy who was gunned down in police protection less than two days later....that guy.
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Mr Crow, it's obvious to any fairminded analyst of the case that the reason why Mr Williams did not just tell the cops this the afternoon he was making his statement was that Mr Mytton needs Mr Oswald up there, logic be damned! Thumb1:
Alan Ford:
--- Quote from: Gerry Down on August 06, 2020, 11:31:14 AM ---Prob not deemed relevant. Just like the clipboard.
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(Not wishing to take this excellent thread off-topic, but...) I suspect the clipboard was made relevant (months later) because of the discovery around that time of two curtain rods in the Depository.
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Alan Ford:
--- Quote from: Colin Crow on August 06, 2020, 01:56:17 PM ---Michael these are the facts. The lunch was deemed to be associated with the assassin for days. Why were the items not sent to the FBI for analysis that evening?
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It seems obvious, doesn't it?--------------Lt Day did here what he would do several months later with the curtain rods: check them for Mr Oswald's prints. When a negative result was given, the bones/bottle were deemed suddenly irrelevant and so not sent on to the FBI. It's not like the 'investigating' authorities had the slightest desire to discover that someone other than Mr Oswald had been at the SN! I mean, just imagine if the prints turned out not to belong to any Depository employee... Why, it would only confuse the already traumatized public terribly, and who would want that?
Alan Ford:
--- Quote from: Dan O'meara on August 06, 2020, 02:03:26 PM ---The only real problem with Rowland's description of the black male in the SN is his age.
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Exactly------------Mr Williams had little or no hair, and was wearing a bright plaid shirt that day! And besides, who cares about a 20-year-old man being mistaken for a wrinkled man in his fifties? Happens all the time! Thumb1:
Dan O'meara:
--- Quote from: Alan Ford on August 06, 2020, 07:58:12 PM ---Exactly------------Mr Williams had little or no hair, and was wearing a bright plaid shirt that day! And besides, who cares about a 20-year-old man being mistaken for a wrinkled man in his fifties? Happens all the time! Thumb1:
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Rowland makes it clear he didn't pay much attention to the man in the SN and his description must be viewed in that light.
He describes a black male who is very thin which comfortably describes BRW
He describes him as " bald or practically bald, very thin hair if he wasn't bald". BRW had a very high forehead and quite close cropped hair. Viewed from a distance, looking upwards with a dark background I think it's not beyond the realms of possibility BRW could appear 'practically bald':
He describes him as wearing "a plaid shirt. I think it was red and green, very bright color". This is a reach but as we know he was wearing a green shirt and was also eating a bag of Fritos, a very bright red colour. I can see him holding the bag up in front of himself as he eats them and we know he finished them off (I believe Studebaker mentions Frito crumbs in the sack but I don't know what happened to the bag). Rowland, not paying much attention sees the bright colours held up in front of BRW and thinks it's part of the shirt.
As for his age, Rowland seems pretty sure he's quite elderly but he does say this:" Seemed like his face was either--I can't recall detail but it was either very wrinkled or marked in some way." It was marked in some way - BRW had a moustache!
He also notes, when asked about the age of the man with the rifle, that his estimation "could be obscured because of the distance," which he estimates as 150 to 175 feet.
Finally, he describes the man in the SN as being "fairly dark, not real dark compared to some Negroes, but fairly dark".
Rowland's observations have to be taken in the context of the distance, the elevation and, as he says himself, he wasn't really paying that much attention to the man in the SN. His description shouldn't be held as 100% accurate.
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