The Sawyer Memo and a Winchester

[Tom Graves]

Larry Hancock thinks SAVAK may have been involved in the RFKA, manipulating Palestinian activists.

I'm guessing Hancock doesn't believe in the Single Bullet Hypothesis.

Pity that.

The IRGC has targeted Trump a few times.

How dare they do that to The Traitorous Orange Turd!!!

[Lance Payette]

The phrase "Occam's razor" is a bit trite, but in this case...

Inspector Sawyer, evidently a man promoted through the ranks of the DPD, a department that used civil service exams, age 47 and thus not likely senile etc., testified under oath to Belin this:



Sawyer testified the witness said a white male was seen "carrying" a rifle, post JFKA. No clothing description. Sawyer called in the description. Seems clear enough.

The witness may have been unreliable, and the witness evidently then decided to not get further involved.

The word "carrying" does not describe what witnesses saw in the TSBD6 sniper window, which was a figure pointing a rifle towards the motorcade.

If I had seen figure in the TSBD6 window shooting in the direction of the motorcade, I would not say "the figure was 'carrying' a rifle."

I am not sure why, but many witnesses in Dallas back then seemed fearful of getting involved in the JFKA in any fashion. Other people are fearful of publicity or police, and dismissive of official forms and falderal. The witness may have thought, "I have discharged my civic duty, and the rest is up to them."

The most reasonable deduction is a contemporary 11.22 witness told the DPD they saw a white man, approx. 5' 10" 165 lbs, "carrying" a rifle in the aftermath of the JFKA, near or around the TSBD. 

That is likely what happened.

Was the 11.22 witness accurate in his observations? Who knows?

My simple answer to that is: Brennan said he saw a rifle. I don't think a DPD officer is going to assume the assassin left the building unarmed. That would be an assumption that could get his fellow officers killed. So because Oswald was seen with a rifle, Sawyer added "carrying a rifle." Pretty much the equivalent of the common "the suspect may be armed."

Sawyer said he relied "mainly on one witness" - and that was clearly Brennan. If he had relied on a second witness who said he saw someone running out the rear of the TSBD with a rifle, that surely would have been the primary witness. The omission of this witness would have been inexplicable.

Sawyer was 47 when he testified to the WC and thus only 61 when he spoke to the HSCA. I couldn't find an obituary. Once again we have one of these CT "smoking guns" that Sawyer apparently never said anything about at the time or ever again and none of the legions of CT "researchers" ever bothered to follow up on.