..... (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
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...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.
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.....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. KennedyBy David E. Scheim
