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

[Jerry Freeman]

Are you grasping at straws?

J T ...don't you see by now?---They are the straw   

[John Iacoletti]

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.

More incoherent and irrelevant babbling.

[John Tonkovich]

More incoherent and irrelevant babbling.

Correct, Mr I.
Oddly, his language reminds me of Mr. Storing.
As the Bard spake: " sound and fury, signifying nothing".

[John Iacoletti]

So, was Officer E. G. Sabastian correct that the death of an officer was reported by the media? We have no reason to believe he was not correct.

He was incorrect. NBC News made no such report. You can hope that he heard it somewhere and you can hope that Brewer heard it somewhere, but that doesn’t make it a fact.

Do people think that Officer E. G. Sabastian was hearing voices?

Do you think that Brewer hallucinated two IBM men?

P. S.

But even the 1:36 report is early enough that Mr. Brewer could have heard this just before Oswald walked up to his store.

That would imply that you know what time it was when Brewer saw the man in front of his store.

[John Iacoletti]

Not true. There are several other Dallas-area radio stations that Brewer could have been listening to for which there is no extant audio at all (as of this date in August 2020) -- e.g., WRR, KVIL, KIXL, and KSKY (and perhaps some others too).

Fair enough. I should have said “major radio stations with live news departments”.

But my point remains the same. There’s no reason to think that Brewer was “probably” listening to KBOX, or that he heard an announcement of a policeman being shot in Oak Cliff, prior to the man appearing in front of his shop.

[John Mytton]

Do you think that Brewer hallucinated two IBM men?

Mr. BELIN - I want to take you back to November 22, 1963. This was the day that President Kennedy was assassinated. How did you find out about the assassination, Mr. Brewer?
Mr. BREWER - We were listening to a transistor radio there in the store, just listening to a regular radio program, and they broke in with the bulletin that the President had been shot. And from then, that is all there was. We listened to all of the events.

JohnM

[John Iacoletti]

WBAP managed to start recording by 12:50 CST. They were setup to do this, since they were recording the President’s arrival at Love Field just an hour before. WFAA, which was not recording this event, took longer to hook up the recorder. KBOX is another station that comes to mind as starting its recording well after the assassination.

Where did you get the idea that KBOX didn’t record any earlier broadcasts? Just because they are not commonly available now?