Why are Warren Report Defenders Trusting of testimony RE: TSBD to Texas Theatre?

[Walt Cakebread]

Walt, sorry, I was lurking...

Well let's flesh this reply out a bit...

Whaley's records precludes Oswald from being his passenger.

Whaley's trip manifest indicates that picked up the man who was wearing a Blue jacket and trousers at 12:30 and delivered that man to 500 N. Beckley at 12:45.   

The WC investigators determined that Lee was at the TSBD at 12:33 and ten walked east on Elm street and boarded a bus, but the bus became stuck in traffic and Lee got off the bus at 12:44. He then walked to the Greyhound bus station taxi stand and hired a taxi ( time 12:48 ) to take him to the rooming house.

So Lee was just beginning his taxi ride three minutes after Whaley discharged the man who was dressed entirely differently than Lee Oswald.

So even if Whaley made the entries after the trip and merely separated the trips into 15 minute intervals Lee wasn't even in a taxi at 12:33 when Whaley estimated his passenger climbed into his cab..... And Whaley had already discharged his passenger at the time that Lee was just getting into a taxi.

[Mark A. Oblazney]

An "information hoarder"? Whaley himself and the 1910, 1920, 1930, and 1940 U.S. Census records and these examples provided by Whaley himself, as well as his family's bible were remarkably consistent supporting what is inarguably Whaley's true birth year, 1940. Something happened after 1940, and history has a right to know, or at least reflect a change from 1908 to 1905 that took place.

His mom outlived him by eighteen months. She and the Whaley family bible were available, vs the
post 1940 process of creating a new birth year.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/53993969/lona-haynes-whaley

Published 1935 LINK, Phillips Family History, pg. 127


IOW, there was no documentation to support such a change, but Whaley's SS record, death certificate, and presumably the Texas driver's license he was carrying when he was suddenly killed all reflect the revised birth year.

It is important because his testimony, as was that of Earline Roberts and Mary Bledsoe, was uncorroborated.

Whaley's parents married in 1907. His mother was 19 in 1908. One CT zealot reacted to these facts years ago by making up a scenario in which Whaley "switched" to 1908 to shield his family from embarrassment over his actual "out of wedlock" 1905 birth, when his conception would have to have been when his mother was just 15 years old.

But that wasn't what happened, Whaley was born in 1908 at least until 1940, them switched to 1905.
That requires some effort since a consistent record supporting 1908 already existed and no evidence supporting 1905.

1908 to 1931 = 23 years....

Why do your sourced discrepancies with these issues elecit such consternation among the faithful readers, Tom?  Suspicious bloodlines shall be your redemption ten years from now.  I, for one, find them fascinating.  Difficult to follow, but aren't most 'treasure hunts'?

[Walt Cakebread]

Why do your sourced discrepancies with these issues elecit such consternation among the faithful readers, Tom?  Suspicious bloodlines shall be your redemption ten years from now.  I, for one, find them fascinating.  Difficult to follow, but aren't most 'treasure hunts'?

I fail to see the relevance of Whaley changing his birth date.....   How is that related to the tale about how he had transported Lee Oswald to Oakcliff that afternoon.....   The changing of his birth date certainly does seem to establish that Whaley was a bold and blatant liar, so in that aspect it serves to cast serious doubt on his statements about transporting Lee Oswald to  Oakcliff that afternoon.