Last one.
This is nothing more than a point of curiosity for a very bored, housebound me. Yes, if I dive into an issue I do approach it like an appellate lawyer, not a jump-to-my-preferred-conclusion, agenda-driven, spittle-spewing fanatic like Some People I Could Mention.
Tom may well be correct in his identification. I'm not convinced, but he may be. He seems driven by an agenda to make Shelley and Lovelady into liars and the FBI and WC into evidence-fabricating fiends, which I find improbable. If Tartan Skirted Woman can be established as Calvery without all of the supposed (and, I believe, insane) "ramifications" - well, that's fine with me.
Westbrook's 50-year-old recollections are not about some obscure detail. They are about where
she was standing, who
she was with, and what
SHE HERSELF looked like. She is looking at photos, front and back, and saying "That's me."
The person she thinks is her just happens to be standing in the photos with someone who looks a great deal like Calvery - who is precisely whom she recalls standing with her.
She is adamant about all this. She was honest enough to say she wasn't sure who the dark-haired woman next to Calvery is. In those circumstances, I'm not prepared to say she is wrong and Tom is right. If she is wrong, she's
very, astoundingly wrong.
She's alive. Did anyone ever show her Duncan's clip? Maybe she'd say, "I'm not sure who those three are, but that's still me in the blue scarf with Gloria in the other photos." Or maybe she'd say, "Yeah, that's us. The dark woman is ______." Or maybe she'd still say, "I don't know who the dark woman is."
I have no idea what point Dan is making. I think Shelley was on the TSBD landing, where he said he was, then quickly left and headed down the Elm extension with Lovelady. I think he either left the steps and crossed the street before encountering Calvery, as he said the day of the JFKA, or left in response to seeing and hearing her as he suggested at the WC. If there is some great contradiction here, I guess I don't see it. The point of his affidavit was what he saw and heard at the time of the assassination, not a detailed itinerary of all his subsequent movements.
If Dan is still in fakery mode, suggesting that isn't Shelley and Lovelady in Couch, he's a lost cause even for a CTer.
Dan is clearly not familiar with the totality of Andrej Stancak's work, which is extensive and impressive even if he is a Prayer Man enthusiast. (Never mind, of course, that this is precisely where Shelley testified he was standing. Never mind, either, that numerous people have pointed out for years that Dan's "Shelley" simply doesn't have Shelley's build.) I don't know where Dan got the photo he has labelled Shelley and attributed to Andrej, but Shelley's suit and tie seem reasonably clear in Andrej's April 10, 2023 piece "The timing of Wiegman film and Altgens6 photograph questions the continuity of frames in Zapruder film,"
https://thejfktruthmatters.wordpress.com/2023/04/10/the-timing-of-wiegman-film-and-altgens6-photograph-questions-the-continuity-of-frames-in-zapruder-film/.
Yes, I have seen all the photos that Westbrook herself donated to the Sixth Floor Museum. I mentioned them above. Yes, I would say the dark woman in the trio is not Hicks or Reed. I don't see that this settles anything. Send the clip or photo to Westbrook - her address is public - and see what she says.
Well, it's been fun. Despite its amusement value, whatever issues are being hashed out here are truly not that big of a deal to me because I believe the entire underlying premise of LYING! FABRICATING! and INTIMIDATING!, all to DEFEAT OSWALD'S IRONCLAD ALIBI!, is simply insane.
Dang me, I need to paste inside my hat the old aphorism about wrestling with a pig ...
Carry on, oinkers.
