Then went outside to watch P. parade ( Parts 1 & 2 )

[Alan Ford]

Give it a try within the timeframe.  Oswald has no bottle when he reaches the bus only minutes later.

And so Mr Smith casually goes from talking about "moments" to talking about "minutes" 

[Walt Cakebread]

Who actually saw Oswald get on the bus minutes (plus a fraction) later?

Who actually saw Oswald get on the bus minutes (plus a fraction) later?

Cecil Mc Watters said that he saw Lee climb aboard the bus.....And Lee said that he had boarded a bus....

[Alan Ford]

Cecil Mc Watters said that he saw Lee climb aboard the bus.....

No, Mr McWatters said he saw a man who might have been Mr Oswald climb aboard the bus

And Lee said that he had boarded a bus....

No, we don't know that Mr Oswald said this

[Jerry Freeman]

Psssst Mr. "Smith".....   The old Coca Cola bottles were rather small ( 8 oz  ?)   It was very easy to empty the bottle in just a couple of gulps....

I saw the Fat Lady show at the State Fair when I was a kid...For her performance every half hour, she would drink a case [24] of Coke. Actually, the small Coke was 6 1/2 ozs. She would glug one down and then tell jokes in between

Original Coke bottle size
 By 1955, Coca-Cola started to offer different sizes in addition to the standard 6.5-ounce bottles. They offered 10-, 12-, and 16-ounce bottles. They also introduced the very first king-size bottle at 26 ounces.

https://soyummy.com/coke-bottle-history/

Who actually saw Oswald get on the bus minutes (plus a fraction) later?

Who would walk up 6 blocks of obviously snarled one way traffic just to get on a bus and then expect that bus to move along normally?

And Lee said that he had boarded a bus....

No, we don't know that Mr Oswald said this

No...we actually don't.

 

[Walt Cakebread]

No, Mr McWatters said he saw a man who might have been Mr Oswald climb aboard the bus

No, we don't know that Mr Oswald said this

Oh yes we do know, that Lee told Fritz that he boarded a bus....Read Thomas Kelley's report on page 626 of the Warren Report.

[Jerry Freeman]

This affidavit is nothing but a cheap lawyer's trick......They knew that it had been firmly established that Baker had encountered Lee In the lunchroom DRINKING A COKE, and in the first days following the murder of John Kennedy they used the "Drinking a coke " issue as a way of showing what a monster and inhuman fiend [Oswald] was.

The story that initially went out across the planet [even years later] is that Oswald was drinking a coke and eating  fried chicken in his sniper's nest while waiting for the parade to come by.   

[Alan Ford]

Oh yes we do know, that Lee told Fritz that he boarded a bus....Read Thomas Kelley's report on page 626 of the Warren Report.

No, all we know is that Inspector Kelley's report makes this claim about what Mr Oswald told Captain Fritz

[Jerry Freeman]

Oh yes we do know, that Lee told Fritz that he boarded a bus....Read Thomas Kelley's report on page 626 of the Warren Report.

Oswald was giving the Feds a song and dance....

On November 23 at 10:25 a. m. Oswald was brought from the jail for an interview. Present at this time was FBI agent Jim Bookhout, Forrest Sorrells, special agent and in charge of Secret Service, United States Marshal Robert Nash, and Homicide officers. During this interview I talked to Oswald about his leaving the building, and he told me he left by bus and rode to a stop near home and walked on to his house. At the time of Oswald's arrest he had a bus transfer in his pocket. He admitted this was given to him by the bus driver when he rode the bus after leaving the building.

Oswald stated he then went home by bus and changed his clothes and went to a movie.

In response to questions put by Captain Fritz, Oswald said that immediately after having left the building where he worked, he went by bus to the theater where he was arrested;

https://australianpolitics.com/warren/app11.shtml

Oswald's story kept changing---
Neither Fritz nor Kelley ever saw Oswald get on a bus so ...How do we really know?