Exhibit A: from Mr Bill Shelley's #2 affidavit, 11/22/63:
This says that Mr Shelley saw Mr Oswald periodically before noon, but never saw him after that. Right? NOPE. It only creates that impression by saying
nothing at all about whether Mr Shelley saw Mr Oswald at the time of the actual shooting. The word "after" (the President's accident) does the crucial work of time-leaping misdirection here.
Exhibit B: from Mr Jack Dougherty's affidavit 11/22/63:
This says that the last time Mr Dougherty saw Mr Oswald was on the sixth floor shortly before noon. Right? NOPE. It only creates that impression via the phrase "after lunch". What's being left out here? Thanks to Mr Jack Dougherty's interview with Mr Gill Toff a few years after the assassination, we know the answer: Mr Dougherty's sighting of Mr Oswald in the second-floor lunchroom shortly before the motorcade (i.e. DURING lunch).
Exhibit C: from Mr Billy Lovelady's FBI interview report 11/22/63:
This says that the last time Mr Lovelady saw Mr Oswald was around 11:50am. Right? NOPE. It only creates that impression via the weasel word "contact". Then it uses that same word we see in the Shelley & Dougherty affidavits: "after". The phrase "After the shooting" allows the statement to leap from 11:50am to after the assassination. Not a peep about whether or not Mr Lovelady saw Mr Oswald at or around the time of the assassination itself. (This, recall, is the same Mr Billy Lovelady who has already told Mr James Jarman about his witnessing of a front entrance encounter between Mr Oswald, an officer and Mr Truly!)
Three massive facts are being artfully buried in these early witness statements:
1. Mr Shelley saw Mr Oswald out on the front steps at the time of the assassination
2. Mr Dougherty saw Mr Oswald in the second-floor lunchroom before the motorcade
3. Mr Lovelady saw Mr Oswald out on the front steps at the time of the assassination (and/or very shortly thereafter)
