Time for Truth

[Alan Ford]

Mr. Mcdonald: Well, after seeing him, I noticed the other people in the theater--there was approximately 10 or 15 other people seated throughout the theater. There were two men sitting in the center, about 10 rows from the front.
I walked up the left center aisle into the row behind these two men, and Officer C. T. Walker was behind me. When I got to these two men, I told them to get on their feet. They got up. I searched them for a weapon.
I looked over my shoulder and the suspect that had been pointed out to me. He remained seated without moving, just looking at me.
Mr. Ball: Why did you frisk these two men in the center of the theater?
Mr. McDONALD, I wanted to make sure that I didn't pass anything or miss anybody. I wanted to make sure I didn't overlook anybody or anything.
Mr. Ball: And you still kept your eye on the suspect?
Mr. Mcdonald: Yes, sir. He was to my back. I was looking over my shoulder at him.
Mr, BALL. Was he sitting nearest the right or the left aisle as you came in?
Mr. Mcdonald: The right center aisle. He was in the second seat.
Mr. Ball: What did you do then?
Mr. Mcdonald: After I was satisfied that these two men were not armed or had a weapon on them, I walked out of this row, up to the right center aisle toward the suspect...

Lol, a feeble post hoc justification from Officer McDonald for the witnessed fact that he didn't know which man to approach.

Mr. Brewer, in his testimony, makes no mention of this shaking down of the two men. Instead he gives the impression of the simple sequence:
1. I pointed out the man
2. The officer approached that man.
Why does Mr. Brewer give this false impression? Because he never pointed out any man.

[Alan Ford]

Brewer - I walked up to the theatre, to the box office and asked Mrs. Postal if she sold a ticket to a man who was wearing a brown shirt, and she said no, she hadn't.

Again, what Mr. Brewer is leaving out is the fact that, BEFORE walking up to the cinema and speaking with Ms. Postal, he returned to his shoe store and spoke with his two IBM pals in there-----------------the same two guys with whom he had shortly before this heard, on a transistor radio, the non-existent radio broadcast of the Tippit killer.

And here's the most important point: If Mr. Brewer's grimly determined pursuit of 'Oswald' seems too good to be true, that's as nothing compared to the Dallas police's amazing intuition that this fellow's half-suspicion justifies the descent by a squadron of cops on the Texas Theatre in response to the radio dispatch "Have information a suspect just went in the Texas Theater . . . Supposed to be hiding in the balcony".

[John Iacoletti]

The suspicious looking guy enters the Texas Theatre. Does Brewer need to see this guy actually enter the door to know he has entered the building?

Yes.

Even though Postal doesn't see Oswald enter the theatre, she does provide us with the information that Oswald never passed her position as she was looking west, up Jefferson.

Walking past Postal isn’t the only other option. The man could have done an about face. He could have crossed the street. He could have gone down the alley separating the theater from the furniture store.

Postal was stood on the sidewalk just in front of the Box Office, checking out the police cars blaring by. She actually sees Oswald approaching from the east but then she turns to look west and doesn't see him ducking into the theatre:

That’s what she claimed, but when Brewer asked her if she sold a ticket to “that man” she said “what man?”. By the way, she never said anything about it being Oswald.

Also, if Brewer really “knew” that man entered the theater without buying a ticket then why ask Postal at all if she sold him a ticket? And why would she say she wasn’t sure? None of this fits together.

Brewer's account of following Oswald into the Texas Theater is confirmed by both Postal and Burroughs

Bull. How does not seeing someone enter confirm when somebody entered?

"I don't know if this is the man they want," I said, "in there, but he is running from them for some reason,"

Postal saw nothing that would suggest that anybody in the theater was “running” from the police.

Brewer's account of what happened seems completely credible and is corroborated by multiple witnesses

Brewer’s account of when and how Oswald entered the theater is corroborated by nothing and nobody. And it is contradicted by Burroughs and Davis.

and there is no doubt in Brewer's mind that the man he saw outside his shop and who ducked into the Texas Theater was the man he pointed out to police and who was subsequently arrested in the cinema - Lee Harvey Oswald.

When did Brewer ever say there was no doubt in his mind?

[Alan Ford]

Mrs. POSTAL. - So, well, I called the police, and he wanted to know why I thought it was their man, and I said, "Well, I didn't know," and he said, "Well, it fits the description," and I have not---I said I hadn't heard the description. All I know is, "This man is running from them for some reason." And he wanted to know why, and told him because everytime the sirens go by he would duck and he wanted to know----well, if he fits the description is what he says. I said, "Let me tell you what he looks like and you take it from there." And explained that he had on this brown sports shirt and I couldn't tell you what design it was, and medium height, ruddy looking to me, and he said, "Thank you"

The police officer who took the call had heard this description of the suspect:



"Thank you", indeed...................

[Alan Ford]

Dallas Assistant District Attorney Jim Bowie confirmed Mrs. Postal's call when asked by researcher Mr. Leo Sauvage, but added that it was just one of "half a dozen calls” to the police concerning a suspicious man sneaking into the theater.

Mrs. Postal's call, based on Mr. Brewer's half-suspicion, was not the one that drew DPD en masse to the Texas Theatre.

Either that or what she actually described, in her call to police, and what Mr. Brewer actually described to her, was a man wearing a white shirt.

No wonder it took the 'investigating' authorities a couple of weeks to put Mr. Brewer and Mrs. Postal on the record!

[Alan Ford]

Note----------------by the way---------------the words "Have a description on the suspect on Jefferson. Last seen about the three hundred block of East Jefferson".

This description will have come from Mr. Warren Reynolds.

Two days after being interviewed by FBI and failing to make a positive identification of the man as Mr. Oswald, Mr. Reynolds was shot in the head. The bullet evidently entered at an angle such as to concentrate his mind: thereafter, Mr. Reynolds positively identified Mr. Oswald as the man.

[Richard Smith]

Mrs. POSTAL. - So, well, I called the police, and he wanted to know why I thought it was their man, and I said, "Well, I didn't know," and he said, "Well, it fits the description," and I have not---I said I hadn't heard the description. All I know is, "This man is running from them for some reason." And he wanted to know why, and told him because everytime the sirens go by he would duck and he wanted to know----well, if he fits the description is what he says. I said, "Let me tell you what he looks like and you take it from there." And explained that he had on this brown sports shirt and I couldn't tell you what design it was, and medium height, ruddy looking to me, and he said, "Thank you"

The police officer who took the call had heard this description of the suspect:



"Thank you", indeed...................

Oswald does fit that basic description.