Et tu, Bonnie?

[Colin Crow]

How do we know that?

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Because no officer who arrived about the time Fritz arrived described them in the way the first to the scene did. Jim Ewell said that Jerry Hill held the chicken up. This was before Fritz arrived. Studebaker's description is the final resting place and the bones and chicken in the bag.

[Gerry Down]

If Messrs Norman and Jarman

What does "messrs" mean?

[Colin Crow]

What does "messrs" mean?

Plural of Mr

[Gerry Down]

Plural of Mr

Really? I thought it was messers, as in they were "messing about".

[Alan Ford]

Mr Tom Alyea, from Ms Connie Kritzberg's Secrets from the Sixth Floor Window------------------

"I [followed] the search team that was on its way to the rear elevator, to start the floor by floor search. We searched every floor, all the way to the roof. The gunman could have still been in the building. Finding nothing, they started back down. After approximately 18 minutes, they were joined by Captain Fritz, who had first gone to Parkland Hospital
[...]
Captain Fritz joined us on the 5th floor and aided in the search
[...]
I filmed Captain Fritz talking with associates in this dismantled area (the "sniper's nest"), along with Studebaker, who was dusting the Dr. Pepper bottle which had been brought up to him from the 5th floor."

Leaving aside for the moment the sheer absurdity of several witnesses pointing officers to the correct window and yet not a single officer thinking to check out that window, let us note a key fact here: Mr Alyea was present for the first search of the sixth floor before Captain Fritz's arrival on the scene.

I believe the only thing 'found' on that FIRST sweep was lunch remains on the fifth floor-----by the window ERRONEOUSLY identified at first as the window witnesses had seen the shooter fire from

[Alan Ford]

Mr Tom Alyea:

"All right, on the fifth floor - I'm going to get questions on this - I was walking with this officer, plainclothesman, and we see a sack on the floor. And a Dr. Pepper bottle. I said fifth floor. He hit it with his toe. Some chicken bones came out of it."
(Laura Hlavach and Darwin (eds.) Reporting the Kennedy Assassination, p. 39)

Again: FIFTH floor was the initial focus of the search for the sniper's window. All they found there by way of evidence of an assassin was some chicken bones and a Dr. Pepper bottle. Stupidly, they made a song and dance about it. When shells were (much) later found a floor above, they moved these items up in order to save face.

The chicken bones & Dr. Pepper bottle have nothing whatsoever to do with the 'elderly negro' seen in the sixth-floor window @12:15 by Mr Arnold Rowland. And neither does Mr Bonnie Ray Williams!

It is possible that Mr Williams did indeed go up to six around 12 but stayed there for a very few minutes-----------being told to leave when the floor was commandeered by fake security men. He went to five, and was joined there by Messrs Norman & Jarman just before the arrival of the motorcade

The decision of Messrs Norman & Jarman to watch the motorcade from five rather than six was not a fluke for whoever was up on six. To suggest otherwise is to believe that those on six had trusted to blind luck that the floor would be theirs for the P. Parade. No such thing!

[Alan Ford]

Mr. DOUGHERTY - I took it (the elevator, A.F.) up to the sixth floor.
Mr. BALL - Then what did you do?
Mr. DOUGHERTY - Well, when I got through getting stock off of the sixth floor, I came back down to the fifth floor.
Mr. BALL - What did you do on the fifth floor?
Mr. DOUGHERTY - Well, I got some stock.
Mr. BALL - Then what happened then?
Mr. DOUGHERTY - Well, then immediately I heard a loud noise

Change "when I got through getting stock off the sixth floor" to "when I was told the floor was off limits until after the parade" and you have the likely true picture

Mr. BALL - You told me that just before you heard the shots, you had been on the sixth floor?
Mr. DOUGHERTY - Yes.
Mr. BALL - And then you went down to the fifth floor?
Mr. DOUGHERTY - That's right.
Mr. BALL - Did you see anybody on the sixth floor when you were there, before you went to the fifth floor?
Mr. DOUGHERTY - Oh, yes; I did.
Mr. BALL - Who?
Mr. DOUGHERTY - Well, there was Bill Shelley, Billy Lovelady---
Mr. BALL - That was in the morning, wasn't it?
Mr. DOUGHERTY - Yes.
Mr. BALL - That wasn't after lunch, was it?
Mr. DOUGHERTY - No, sir.

Well played, Mr Dougherty!