You see Officer Baker there [in Darnell]? Baker's timeline is that he was inside the TSBD 30 seconds after the kill shot. This means what we are seeing on this Couch still frame is happening roughly 20 seconds after the kill shot. 20 seconds is simply not enough time for Calvery to move down [sic] the Elm St sidewalk, talk with Shelley and Lovelady, and then for Shelley and Lovelady to begin walking down the Elm Street Extension. Now, if you want to change the 62+ yr old time stamping of DPD Officer Baker, I would be interested in hearing that.
Dear Royell,
I refer you to the Warren Commission testimony of Marrion L. Baker
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Mr. BELIN. After you parked your motorcycle, did you notice anything that was going on in the area?
Mr. BAKER. Yes, sir. As I parked here ---
Mr. BEIJN. You are pointing on Exhibit 361 to the place that you have marked with “B.”
Mr. BAKER. And I was looking westward which would be in this direction.
Mr. BELIN. By that, you are pointing down the entrance to the freeway and kind of what I will call the peninsula of the park there?
Mr. BAKER. Yes, sir.
Mr. BELIN. Toward the triple underpass.
Representative Boggs. Where is the underpass?
Mr. BAKER. The underpass is down here. This is really Elm Street, and this would be Main and Commerce and they all come together here, and there is a triple overpass.
Representative Boggs. Right.
Mr. BAKER. At this point, I looked down here as I was parking my motorcycle and these people on this ground here, on the sidewalk, there were several of them falling, and they were rolling around down there, and all these people were rushing back, a lot of them were grabbing their children, and I noticed one, I didn’t know who he was, but there was a man who ran out into the crowd and back.
Mr. BELIN. Did you notice anything else?
Mr. BAKER. Except there was a woman standing --- well, all these people were running, and there was a woman [Gloria Calvery?] screaming, “Oh, they have shot that man, they have shot that man.” Mr. BELIN. All right. Now, you are on Exhibit 361, and you are pointing to people along the area or bordering the entrance to that expressway and that bit of land lying to the west and north, as to where you describe these people, is that correct?
Mr. BAKER. That is correct, sir.
Mr. DULLES. Would you mark where the overpass would be, right at the end of those lines, just so we get oriented on it.
Mr. BELIN. I am trying to see down here.
Mr. DULLES. I just wanted to get a general idea.
Mr. BELIN. On Exhibit 361, sir, it wouldn’t show but it basically would be off in this direction coming down this way. The entrance to the freeway would go down here and the overpass would roughly be down here.
Mr. DULLES. As far as that?
Mr. BELIN. Yes, sir; I think Mr. Redlich is going to get a picture that will better describe it.
Mr. DULLES. All right.
Mr. BELIN. All right. Is there anything else you saw there, Officer Baker, before you ran to the building?
Mr. BAKER. No, sir; not at that time.
Mr. BELIN. All right. Then what did you do after surveying the situation?
Mr. BAKER. I had it in mind that the shots came from the top of this building here.
Mr. BELIN. By this building, you are referring to what?
Mr. BAKER. The Book Depository Building.
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Mr. Baker. And then I ran, kind of running walk, and went all the way around [the TSBD roof]. First, I glanced over this side here, because the last thing I heard here on the radio was the Chief saying, “Get some men up on that railroad track.”
Mr. BELIN. Did you hear that on your police radio?
Mr. BAKER. Yes, sir; that was the last thing I heard.
Mr. BELIN. As you were getting off your motorcycle?
Mr. BAKER. Yes, sir.
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Mr. BELIN. All right. Did any other officer say anything to you about what he saw or thought what happened?
Mr. BAKER. I talked to several of them, but I can’t remember exactly, you know, just what their story was.
Mr. BELIN. Was there anyone you talked to who thought the shots came from the front?
Mr. BAKER. No, sir; not except that the Chief of Police, that is the only one. Now, that, like I say, that is the last thing I heard over that radio is, “Get some men up on that railroad [sic].” Now, that could mean they either came from the side, which is due north, or right across in front of him. You know-
Mr. BELIN. Well, apart from the statement you testified to that the Chief of Police made over the radio about the underpass, was there any policeman or patrolman who was in the motorcade who in any way indicated to you that the shots came from the front?
Mr. BAKER. No, sir. . . . . . . .
My comments:
About 35 seconds after the final shot (i.e., about the time Baker was entering the TSBD according to Mark Tyler), Chief of Police Curry said over the radio, “Get men on top of that over . . . underpass. See what happened up there. Go up to the overpass.”. . . . . .
Of course, having Officer Baker enter the TSBD at a later point in time, also then changes when Baker confronts Oswald inside the TSBD 2nd floor lunchroom. And the later you put Baker on the stairwell inside the TSBD, the better the chance that Sandra Styles & Vicki Adams had completed coming down that same stairwell before Baker's even reached it.
Not if Baker entered the TSBD about 35 seconds after the final shot, and not if Adams underestimated by about thirty seconds the length of time she and Styles spent on the fourth floor before starting down. That way, Oswald, Baker and Truly could have been inside the lunchroom or its "vestibule" when Adams and Styles were transiting the North-West corner of the second floor.
This would then bolster the Adams/Styles claim of not hearing Oswald coming down that same stairwell from the 6th floor sniper's nest.
Correct.
-- Tom
