Then went outside to watch P. parade ( Parts 1 & 2 )

[Alan Ford]

...... Mr. Oswald goes over near the mailboxes and lays out the banner on the sidewalk. It bears a pro-Castro legend. Mr. Oswald dumps the sack too and leaves the spot.

A woman who has noticed him do all this is mighty perturbed. She has just heard shots, and seen pandemonium break loose. And now she's seen a guy laying out a banner.

She runs over and picks up the banner before dropping it again. Then she picks up the paper sack. Then she draws loud attention to her shocking find. Here she is in Darnell, holding up the paper sack and, with her right hand, pointing at the banner on the ground:



Officer Marion Baker has seen her and is dashing over to her.

He speaks with the lady and looks at the banner. She tells him the man went into this building by the front door. He throws the banner down, runs into the building and encounters a man in the small storage room that's front of house. He challenges him-----------NOT because he thinks he's the shooter, but because he's chasing up the banner thing.

Mr. Roy Truly, who as building manger of the TSBD has been cooperating with the unofficial false-flag operation, vouches for Mr. Oswald. Officer Baker, believing the shots came from the top of this building, makes a judgement call and cuts the man loose. The banner thing is less of an immediate priority than apprehending the shooter himself.

Mr. Kent Biffle, of the Dallas Morning News, gets wind of this incident (though sans the crucial context) a little later today:

[Alan Ford]

But what happened to the banner that Officer Baker left behind?

Extraordinarily, it got left there for quite some time, unregarded in all the chaos and crumpled up such that its legend was not visible. At some point someone, making room for folks on the sidewalk, put the street repair objects over it:

[Alan Ford]

However.............

It finally WAS noticed and picked up, and its significance immediately understood by law enforcement.

I believe this may well be that selfsame banner being carried into the Depository building at a later point:

[Alan Ford]

Here's the most crucial point in all of this:

Had the White House-approved false-flag operation gone to plan----------------i.e. had Pres. Kennedy been subjected to no more than the indignity of missed shots as he rode through Dealey Plaza------------------the damning evidence of defector and FPCC agitator Mr. Lee Harvey Oswald's involvement in the outrageous incident would have been all DPD would have talked about. This evidence had been handed them on a plate--------------by Mr. Oswald himself. That was the original plan for how all this would play out!

But the false-flag operation was piggybacked by those with lethal intent against Pres. Kennedy.

Pres. Kennedy was assassinated-------------and Mr. Oswald was left hanging as the only named person who could be reliably linked to the event.

For reasons I have outlined at length in previous recent posts on this thread, everything about the circumstances leading up to Pres. Kennedy's assassination had to be covered up EXCEPT FOR the involvement of Mr. Oswald.

----------------->Exit stage left all the evidence of a pro-Castro conspiracy (incl. of course the banner and the place the paper sack had actually been found).
----------------->Enter stage right the outlandishly absurd Lone Nut theory.

[Alan Ford]

However.............

It finally WAS noticed and picked up, and its significance immediately understood by law enforcement.

Street works barriers-----------------banner gone

[Zeon Mason]

Wonder if there’s a black Nazi swastika on that white flag/sheet that Fritz is carrying?

After all,  Oswald was  supposedly a “Hunter of Fascists” and  had indirectly hinted that General Walker was another Hitler  according to Marina.

Maybe that large squarish white blob in the Towner film?.. is the banner  Fritz is carrying?

There’s not enough film to show the banner completely unfurled beyond  white squarish blob, so a symbol,  or word could be obscured by part of the banner itself.

Why didn’t Fritz enter this white flag/banner into evidence?

Simple answer is that it was too risky to do since it exonerates Oswald of being the TSBD  6th floor gunman.

[Alan Ford]

But why on earth---------------one might ask----------------did Officer Baker not draw anyone's attention to the banner out on the sidewalk when he came back downstairs with Mr. Truly?



I suspect the answer is that, after Mr. Truly vouched for Mr. Oswald at the small storage room on the first floor, Officer Baker simply failed to further pursue any necessary link between it and the shooting. Not knowing this Oswald fellow's background, he just assumed the banner to have been one of several politically hostile signs seen that day. He gave it no more thought afterwards than the 'Go Home Yankee' and 'You're A Traitor' signs at Love Field and along the parade route. The shots had come from up high in the building, and the deployment of a political banner down on the street was no more than a coincidence. So he forgot about it. (He didn't, however, forget about the man in the light brown jacket he had caught walking away from the rear stairway several floors up: THAT encounter was to be the focus of his affidavit a few hours later.)

Mr. Oswald, for his part, went into this stunt confident he was unlikely to be arrested on the scene for having a political banner. But he knew that what he had done with it would be remembered, and that his own background as a pro-Castro agitator would come to light in the hours after the assassination-----------------by which time he would be well out of Dallas.

Had the JFK-approved 'Conspiracy A' gone to plan, the American public would have been told all about it in breathless press reports. 'President Kennedy narrowly escaped assassination earlier today as his motorcade rode through downtown Dallas. Witnesses say three shots were fired from the upper window of a book warehouse located along the route. A banner bearing the words 'Viva Fidel!' was found on the scene, reportedly left there by an employee of the warehouse, an ex-Marine named Lee Harvey Oswald, who defected to the Soviet Union before returning to the United States, where he has since been active in pro-Castro circles. Oswald is known to have left the scene shortly after the incident, and is currently being sought by Dallas police.'