SS Inspector Thomas J. Kelley writes this in his report on Mr. Oswald's interrogation on the Saturday morning:
Seems clearcut, right?
Yet FBI Agent Bookhout writes this in HIS report on the same interrogation:
Only TWO denials instead of Insp. Kelley's tally of THREE:
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I didn't view the motorcade-I didn't shoot Pres. Kennedy
-I didn't shoot Gov. Connally
Remarkable that Agent Bookhout wouldn't see fit to mention this eyebrow-raising admission from Mr. Oswald...........
But there is more that is remarkable here. One would think that the accused assassin's specific claimed whereabouts at the time of the assassination would be the single most important thing an interrogation report would need to cover. But no. Neither Insp. Kelley nor Agent Bookhout go there.
Nor does anyone else.In fact, the ONLY time in ANY of the official interrogation reports that we get ANY idea of where exactly Mr. Oswald said he was at the time of the assassination is in the joint interrogation report written by Agents Bookhout and Hosty on the Sunday: "on the first floor". Did Mr. Oswald really give such a vague response?
Nope. Since 2019 we know what Mr. Oswald had really said in his very first interrogation: "went outside to watch P. Parade". Agent Hosty puts this in his draft interrogation report, but it is absorbed by the weaselly formula "on the first floor" in the Bookhout/Hosty joint report. (Remember: we're talking about the identical same interrogation session here.) The only place that could conceivably be both "outside" and "on the first floor" is up in the front entrance. The Bookhout/Hosty report is resorting to creative semantics to take Mr. Oswald off the front steps.
Other than that, NONE of the official interrogation reports wants to talk about where exactly Mr. Oswald
said he was.
Quite bizarre-------------and explicable only if Mr. Oswald's answer to that question was too dangerous to be officially memorialized.
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But back to Insp. Kelley VS Agent Bookhout on what Mr. Oswald said in the Sat morning interrogation. Did he or did he not deny having viewed the motorcade?
Did Agent Bookhout really miss Mr. Oswald's admission that he didn't view the parade? Or did he consider it of insufficient importance to mention in his report? Hardly!
Either Mr. Oswald really said this, or Insp. Kelley misremembered/invented it.
It's probably the latter, but let's take a little time to explore the former scenario: Mr. Oswald told Insp. Kelley he didn't view the parade.
Seems damning, right?
Well, put yourself in Mr. Oswald's shoes. He is being asked by an SS man if he viewed the parade. He has assumed all along that the SS (or some of them at least) were in on the false-flag operation. So he thinks he is being tested:
Are you going to keep your cover, or are you going to talk about what you did in that front entrance?And so he is much more guarded in his response to any question about his parade-time whereabouts. In the first interrogation, he freely told Capt. Fritz he "went outside to watch P. Parade". But here, he is mindful of who's asking. And so he gives a response that telegraphs the message: 'Look, I'm being a good boy. I haven't told them anything about what I did in that front entrance'.
So at odds is his answer with his earlier "went outside to watch P. Parade" line, that Agent Bookhout is taken aback. He senses that Mr. Oswald is playing a game. So, in his interrogation report, he decides to just not go there.
