Lest we forget, only one single person claims he saw Roy Truly near the backstairs in the same WC timing sequence as the phony dash up the backstairs to embellish a phantom encounter with the wrongly accused. Only one single person.
The problem here is that that lone single person does not put Baker w/Roy Truly during that timing sequence ---->
Mr. BALL. You mentioned you saw Truly?
Mr. PIPER. I don’t know whether it was a policeman or FBI or who it was,
but another fellow was with him.
Mr. PIPER. He ran in and yelled, “Where is the elevator?” And I said, “I
don’t know, sir, Mr. Truly.”
They taken off and went on up the stairway and that’s all I know about
that.
IF Baker was with Roy Truly he would have not been mistaken for a mere policeman instead of a unmistakable motorcycle policeman in white helmet with long black boots, nor mistaken as an agent with the FBI or "another fellow". I will only concede that at some point that yes, Baker & Truly were together at some point, but certainly not in the timing sequence of the horse manure hastily contrived to invent a phantom encounter w/the wrongly accused.
Eddie Piper was a product of the segregated South.... He would never talk back to a white man in authority.
If Eddie thought that the White man wanted him to say the man with Mr Truly looked like Elmer Fudd that's what Eddie Piper would have said.
I believe that Piper was rehearsed before his WC testimony, and he was referring to the "re-enactment " of Baker and Truly ....and Baker was in civilian clothes for the re-enactment ( not his motorcycle uniform) thus Eddie didn't recognize Baker as being a Dallas cop.
