Prayer Woman

[Alan Ford]

Now! Most of the attention these past few days has for obvious reasons focused on the bit about Mr Oswald going "outside to watch P. Parade".

But! The bit before that-------"He went to 2nd floor to get Coca Cola to eat with lunch and returned to 1st floor to eat lunch"-------is in its own way just as significant. Why, oh why, I hear you ask!

Simple----------it kills dead the notion that Mr Oswald himself confirmed the 2nd floor lunchroom encounter with Officer Baker.

Think about it, friends! The Hosty note makes it plainer than plainest day that Mr Oswald's claim per the Bookhout solo-run report------------

Oswald stated that on November 22, 1963, at the time of the search of the Texas School Book Depository building by Dallas police officers, he was on the second floor of said building, having just purchased a Coca-cola form the soft-drink machine, at which time a police officer came into the room with pistol drawn and asked him if he worked there.

------------is a claim that Mr Oswald never made!

Think about it! For Mr Oswald to have said this would amount to the following piece of gibberish:

OSWALD: "At the time of the search of the building by police officers I was on the second floor, having just purchased a Coca Cola from the machine. A police officer came in but my boss told him I was alright. Then I brought the coke back down to the first floor to eat my lunch."
FRITZ: "OK, what did you do next?"
OSWALD: "Then I went outside to watch the Presidential parade."

Went outside to watch the Presidential Parade------Parade!! not 'excitement' or 'commotion', but Parade!!--------after being challenged by a police officer with pistol drawn???

 

[Tim Nickerson]

Friends, I've been reading back through the momentous "Oswald Leaving TSBD?" thread at the Education Forum!

On 21 August 2013, Mr Sean Murphy wrote the following:

Carolyn Arnold insisted--to Anthony Summers, Earl Golz, Gary Mack and others--that she spotted Oswald in the second-floor lunchroom several minutes before the assassination.

Murphy nailed it

About a quarter of an hour before the assassination, she said in 1978, "I went into the lunchroom on the second floor for a moment..."--Not In Your Lifetime, By Anthony Summers, pg 92.

Murphy nailed it, did he? 

[Alan Ford]

The sudden frequency with which Mr Nickerson has been posting on this thread over the last few days tells us how completely unconcerned he is about this latest development.

We look forward with breathless excitement to Chapter 67 of Gullible's Travels. Should be up within the next few minutes, folks!

[Tim Nickerson]

The sudden frequency with which Mr Nickerson has been posting on this thread over the last few days tells us how completely unconcerned he is about this latest development.

We look forward with breathless excitement to Chapter 67 of Gullible's Travels. Should be up within the next few minutes, folks!

Yes, it's been keeping awake at night.    Whatever shall I do? Maybe I should start drinking again. Do you think that'll help?

[Alan Ford]

Friends, the fact that the alleged Arnold & Stanton sighting of Mr Oswald in the second-floor lunchroom before the P. Parade tells the same story that the Hosty note has Mr Oswald tell is of no moment. It was either one of those super-lucky guesses that happen all the time to sociopathic fantasists, or the two ladies simply got the necessary information directly from Mr Oswald's ghost by attending a local seance. Nothing to see here!

[Alan Ford]

Yes, it's been keeping awake at night.    Whatever shall I do? Maybe I should start drinking again. Do you think that'll help?

Congratulations on your sobriety, Mr Nickerson! 

[Alan Ford]

Friends, what makes Mr Kamp's discovery of the Hosty note so historic is that it allows Mr Oswald to tell us his side of the story for the first time.

Shouldn't we at least listen carefully to what he's saying?

He tells a very straightforward story:
----------------I went downstairs to the 1st floor for lunch
----------------I went up to the 2nd floor and bought a coke
----------------I returned to the 1st floor to finish lunch
----------------I then went outside to watch the Presidential parade.

Let's forget Prayer Man for a moment. I simply put three questions to all those good, sincere, truth-seeking people following this discussion who
----------------do not believe Mr Oswald shot President Kennedy
----------------do believe he encountered Officer Baker in the 2nd floor lunchroom after the shooting
----------------do not believe he went out front to watch the Presidential parade.

1. Why do you not want to believe what Mr Oswald is claiming?
2. What grounds do you think he has for pretending to have been out front when he knows his claim will be contradicted by everyone who was there?
3. What grounds do you think he has for pretending that a not-in-itself-incriminating incident in the 2nd floor lunchroom that he knows his boss and a DPD officer are going to vouch for anyway never happened?