My Re-Evaluation of Johnny Brewer’s Initial Report of December 6, 1963

[Bill Chapman]

And yet we have Brewer telling Eddie Barker of CBS this in 1964....

"Just a few minutes before he [Oswald] walked into the lobby, on the radio they had a bulletin that an officer had been shot here in Oak Cliff."

Go figure.


That certainly doesn't mean no such bulletin existed. Go find the KBOX-Radio coverage from 1:15 PM to 1:35 PM. If you can find it, I'll bet you'd find the bulletin in question. But since it evidently wasn't preserved, all we can do is guess (and all the conspiracy theorists can do, therefore, is to pretend no such broadcast ever existed).

'Just a few minutes before he [Oswald] walked into the lobby, on the radio they had a bulletin that an officer had been shot here in Oak Cliff'

I understand from the Griggs interview that by the time Oswald showed up, Brewer had only heard about a shooting in Oak Cliff, not that an officer had been the victim.

[John Iacoletti]

No pinch hitter, huh
You lot keep striking out

Thanks again for your always useful advancement of knowledge regarding the evidence in this case.

[John Iacoletti]

Nonsense. Brewer didn't "fabricate" anything.

I think Brewer was probably listening to KBOX Radio on 11/22/63.

The only, and I mean ONLY reason to think this is "probably" true is that KBOX is the only station for which there is no extant audio for the time period in question.  Which is as circular an argument as there can be.

[John Tonkovich]

And yet we have Brewer telling Eddie Barker of CBS this in 1964....

"Just a few minutes before he [Oswald] walked into the lobby, on the radio they had a bulletin that an officer had been shot here in Oak Cliff."

Go figure.


That certainly doesn't mean no such bulletin existed. Go find the KBOX-Radio coverage from 1:15 PM to 1:35 PM. If you can find it, I'll bet you'd find the bulletin in question. But since it evidently wasn't preserved, all we can do is guess (and all the conspiracy theorists can do, therefore, is to pretend no such broadcast ever existed).

"all we can do is guess"

Precisely.

[John Iacoletti]

The National Archives supposedly has the original KBOX tapes, but "cannot locate them".

The commonly heard Sam Pate recording ("something has happened in the motorcade route") was a re-creation done for the "Four Days That Shocked the World" LP record.

[Bill Chapman]

Thanks again for your always useful advancement of knowledge regarding the evidence in this case.

I'm just telling the tell. Batting clean-up.
Using my artistic-license privileges.

You lot can't even manage a Texas-leaguer, ffs.
Seems you 'knowledge-advancers' are going to need a walk-off homer.

[Jerry Freeman]

The National Archives supposedly has the original KBOX tapes, but "cannot locate them".

The Sixth Floor Museum has all the radio tapes that have been linked. After reading reply #81 [which pretty well defines the event] why is any further searching even needed?