Who was the "agent" patrolman Joe Smith encountered behind grassy knoll?

[Royell Storing]

Does that include the lone gunman theory?

    I do Not buy into the Lone Gunman story but there are Facts supporting it.  Therefore, it does merit serious discussion. What continues to be Nothing more than Conjecture and Speculation is the Echo Chamber Mantra supporting the SBT. THAT is pure 

[Susan Wilde]

Another very  important fact with respect to Dallas police patrolman Joe Smith smelling the distinctive smell of  gun smoke right before his  encounter 1 to 2 minutes after the shots ended with the fake impostor  "Secret Service" credentials flashing  "agent"  west of the TSBD near the  grassy knoll  picket fence and North Pergola,  is that the wind was documented by the weather service and documented in DP photos of witnesses clothes as blowing  northeastward ;  the wind during the shots was  blowing  FROM  the Triple Overpass,  TOWARDS  the TSBD

    Just for the record, what is your source for DPD Officer Joe Smith  "smelling the distinctive smell of Gun Smoke"? I do Not recall a Gun Smoke claim being attributed to Smith.

Dallas police patrolman Joe Marshall Smith stated directly to the very respected,  Pulitzer Prize  finalist, Anthony Summers, that he definitely smelled gun smoke after Smith had already run completely past the Depository and was located at the back (north) side of the grassy knoll's North Pergola in Summers excellent book,  "Not in Your Lifetime." (the warren commission - deliberately - never chose  (nor wanted)  to ask patrolman Smith about his smelling gun smoke close to the grassy knoll, against-the-wind, far away from and dozens of feet below the Depository 'snipers lair')

There are 2 very specific references to patrolman Smith smelling the gun smoke, available for everyone on pages 27 and 36. (Royell must have forgotten reading about patrolman Smith soon smelling gun smoke close to the grassy knoll, or, he has not yet read this outstanding book, that I strongly recommend for everyone)

[Royell Storing]

Dallas police patrolman Joe Marshall Smith stated directly to the very respected,  Pulizer Prize  finalist journalist Anthony Summers that he definitely smelled gun smoke after Smith had already run completely past the Depository and was located at the back (north) side of the grassy knoll's North Pergola in Summers excellent book,  "Not in Your Lifetime." (the warren commission - deliberately - never chose  (nor wanted)  to ask patrolman Smith about his smelling gun smoke close to the grassy knoll, against-the-wind, far away from and dozens of feet below the Depository 'snipers lair')

There are 2 very specific references to patrolman Smith smelling the gun smoke, available for everyone on pages 27 and 36. (Royell must have forgotten reading about patrolman Smith soon smelling gun smoke close to the grassy knoll, or, he has not yet read this outstanding book, that I strongly recommend for everyone)

    I have Not read the Summer's book. Why don't you post the Actual Officer Smith "gun smoke" quotes from pages 27 and 36 from that book? Thanks in advance for doing so.

[Tom Scully]

..... (the warren commission - deliberately - never chose  (nor wanted)  to ask patrolman Smith about his smelling gun smoke close to the grassy knoll, against-the-wind, far away from and dozens of feet below the Depository 'snipers lair')

There are 2 very specific references to patrolman Smith smelling the gun smoke, available for everyone on pages 27 and 36. (Royell must have forgotten reading about patrolman Smith soon smelling gun smoke close to the grassy knoll, or, he has not yet read this outstanding book, that I strongly recommend for everyone)[/b]

Susan, a suggestion to improve your presentation....do not make it more complicated than the record indicates.....or present a controversy where
there is no indication there is one. IOW, I don't know you, except from what you post. Is your posted opinion that the WC deprived DPD Officer Joe Smith
the opportunity to state his full case as reasonable as my well supported presentation that Smith was given every opportunity to attest to what he
smelled and did not, but then added much later that he observed/smelled gunsmoke, when his claim was REASONABLY of much less weight?

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/smith_j1.htm
.....
...Mr. LIEBELER. I don't think I have any more questions about the situation, unless you can think of something else that you might have seen or observed that day that I haven't asked you about, that you think the Commission should know.
Mr. SMITH. Sir, I just can't think of anything else.
Mr. LIEBELER. I want to thank you very much for coming over. I appreciate your cooperation.
Mr. SMITH. Yes, sir; thank you....

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/smith_j1.htm

....Mr. LIEBELER. While you were standing here and the motorcade went by, tell us what happened at that point.
Mr. SMITH. I heard the shots.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you turn to watch the motorcade? Did you turn to watch the President as the motorcade went by?
Mr. SMITH. Yes, sir; I glanced around and was watching the crowd to make sure they stayed back out of the way of the motorcade, and also to make sure none of the cars started up or anything. Then I heard the shots, and I immediately proceeded from this point.
Mr. LIEBELER. Point 4 on Commission Exhibit No. 354?
Mr. SMITH. I started up toward this Book Depository after I heard the shots, and I didn't know where the shots came from. I had no idea, because it was such a ricochet.
Mr. LIEBELER. An echo effect?
Mr. SMITH. Yes, sir.; and this woman came up to me and she was just in hysterics. She told me, "They are shooting the President from the bushes." So I immediately proceeded up here.
Mr. LIEBELER. You proceeded up to an area immediately behind the concrete structure here that is described by Elm Street and the street that runs immediately in front of the Texas School Book Depository, is that right?
Mr. SMITH. I was checking all the bushes and I checked all the cars in the parking lot.
Mr. LIEBELER. There is a parking lot in behind this grassy area back from Elm Street toward the railroad tracks, and you went down to the parking lot and looked around?
Mr. SMITH. Yes, sir; I checked all the cars. I looked into all the cars and checked around the bushes. Of course, I wasn't alone. There was some deputy sheriff with me, and I believe one Secret Service man when I got there.
I got to make this statement, too. I felt awfully silly, but after the shot and this woman, I pulled my pistol from my holster, and I thought, this is silly, I don't know who I am looking for, and I put it back. Just as I did, he showed me that he was a Secret Service agent.
........
.....Mr. LIEBELER. Did you have any basis for believing where the shots came from, or where to look for somebody, other than what the lady told you?
Mr. SMITH. No, sir; except that maybe it was a power of suggestion. But it sounded to me like they may have came from this vicinity here. .....

Contract on America: The Mafia Murder of President John F. Kennedy
By David E. Scheim

[Tom Scully]

   
     There is No direct source sighted for DPD Smith smelling gun smoke. There is a lotta hear-say.

    I have Not read the Summer's book. Why don't you post the Actual Officer Smith "gun smoke" quotes from pages 27 and 36 from that book? Thanks in advance for doing so.

Royell, I will go Susan, one better.... a more timely reference attributed to DPD Officer Joe Marshall Smith that he evidently could not summon
from memory during his actual WC testimony, seven months later.:

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=10672#relPageId=42

[Royell Storing]

Royell, I will go Susan, one better.... a more timely reference attributed to DPD Officer Joe Marshall Smith that he evidently could not summon
from memory during his actual WC testimony, seven months later.:

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=10672#relPageId=42

     Do you really believe the above should be taken seriously when it claims, (1) Four people working for the Dallas Morning News were standing next to Zapruder when the shots were fired, and (2) Officer Smith "distinguished the aroma of gunpowder Near the Underpass", vs (3) Officer Smith "did smell what he thought was gunpowder but stated this smell was in the parking lot by the TSBD Building and NOT by the Underpass".  The above is full of so many erroneous statements and contradictions that it smacks of the ever changing story told by Buell Wesley Frazier.

[Tom Scully]

     Do you really believe the above should be taken seriously when it claims, (1) Four people working for the Dallas Morning News were standing next to Zapruder when the shots were fired, and (2) Officer Smith "distinguished the aroma of gunpowder Near the Underpass", vs (3) Officer Smith "did smell what he thought was gunpowder but stated this smell was in the parking lot by the TSBD Building and NOT by the Underpass".  The above is full of so many erroneous statements and contradictions that it smacks of the ever changing story told by Buell Wesley Frazier.

You asked for an original source, I provided one. You shot it down and seem to be accusing (shooting) me, a mere messenger, in this instance, of gullibility.
Go get her, tiger. From the recent obit of the DMN reporter who was Barefoot Sanders' source, describing (according to
Sanders in the report I posted and you've quoted)
the nosing around of Officer Joe.:  (BTW, IMO, your objections are irrelevant, as far as the crux of the matter of what Joe M. Smith TIMELY claimed he smelled.)

https://www.dallasnews.com/obituaries/obituaries/2017/04/17/mary-pillsworth-ex-dmn-editor-witnessed-kennedy-assassination-dies-77
...Pillsworth accepted an entry-level position at The News, working on the copy desk, which handled wedding announcements and the food section. She also did some feature reporting....
...."That's something that I have regretted the rest of my life because every conspiracy theorist in the world has quoted that," she said in her Sixth Floor oral history. "And I'm convinced that I did not hear it correctly."

Conspiracy investigators hounded Pillsworth for years.

"That's one reason I've laid very low for 50 years ... because it makes me sick being involved with these conspiracy theorists," she said in her oral history...

Reporter says she was among last people Kennedys waved at | News ...
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/news/2015/11/07/reporter-says-she-was-among-last-people-kennedys-waved-at
Nov 7, 2015 - A former 'Dallas Morning News' reporter recounts the horror of witnessing ... 22, 1963, Mary Woodward Pillsworth and three friends went to Elm Street ...
...Pillsworth also wrote that the three shots had sounded as if they had come from behind her and to her right, the direction of the grassy knoll.

That statement set off conspiracy theorists and researchers. Pillsworth, who can be seen on Abraham Zapruder?s homemade film of the president?s assassination, was even called ?the first dissenting witness.?

She later said that she ?failed to take into account? a hearing disability that makes it impossible for her to tell the direction of sound and that officials told her the ?lay of the land? may have distorted the sound....
She said she agreed to be part of The Sixth Floor's Living History Series ...

Mary E. Woodward, The First Dissenting Witness
https://www.kenrahn.com/JFK/The_critics/Whitmey/Witness.html
Because the DMN was a morning paper, Mary's account was not circulated until ... appearing on page 3 of section 1 on the right-hand side below a large photo of .... to the simple mistake of a DALLAS MORNING NEWS reporter out for lunch with ... the knoll ? and when her friends saw the story, they rushed in to correct her.

And, on March 4, 1964 testimony of an attorney, Mark Lane, taken by the WC Counsel Rankin, under oath.:
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=38&relPageId=51&search=mary_woodward