I’ve been pondering the issue of the white object in PM’s hand and the bottle (large white label) left at the step virtually where PM would have stepped down one step ( thus 5’2” height discrepancy explained).
And I’ve thought what reason did Oswald have to return into the TSBD at all?
If it’s probable that the jacket was left in the Domino room, and curtain rods/bag left behind, and the white label bottle not taken up to the 2nd floor lunchroom, then what’s the reason for Oswald not just to take off immediately after he finds out (from Mr.Shelley?) that work has been canceled for the rest of day?
Perhaps to go up the 2nd floor coke machine to get another soda pop?
Why not take the bottle Oswald had been previously drinking when captured in the Weigman film?
The answer may be that this 1st bottle of soda was NOT bought from any machine inside the TSBD but was actually a bottle that Oswald had gone OUT of TSBD to buy approx 12:01 pm.
This would explain no sighting of Oswald after his 12:00 pm brief statement to Eddie Piper until the sighting by Carolyn Arnold approx 12:15 pm allegedly In the 2nd floor lunchroom.
Piper wasn’t sure whether Oswald had said he was “going out” or “going back up
So now the Mrs Reid encounter is back in the realm of probability if Oswald was going back up to simply buy a coke AFTER an encounter with Baker/Truly on the ground floor just inside the lobby when Oswald still had on his brown shirt.
After this encounter, Baker/Truly continue on their way to the rear elevators and then up the rear staircases heading for the roof top.
Oswald stops into the storage room
and takes off his brown shirt expecting to go back to work? He goes up to the 2nd floor lunchroom following about 15 secs AFTER Baker/Truly, via going thru the same route past Truly’s office, since Truly probable left the countertop open after unlocking it.( He presuming other DPD officers likely would be following Baker )
Oswald arrives into the 2nd floor lunchroom probably not seen since Mr.Piper probably returned to the south side of the ground floor to look out a south facing window.
It’s about 15 secs AFTER B/T have already ascended to the 3rd floor. The time is approx 1min 45 sec post shots.
Oswald in just his T -shirt goes to the machine and buys a coke and then decides to return to ground floor front lobby via taking a shortcut thru the 2nd floor office.
Hence, Oswald enters approx 2min post shots into the office as Mrs Reid enters from the front door. He has on a T-shirt and has “ full” coke in his hand.
Oswald exits therefore from the front door of the office approx 2:20 sec post shots if walking slightly slow at 4ft per sec.
Oswald thus has time to either go down the front steps or (even faster), use the passenger elevator which allows Oswald to have met Peirce Allman reporter by 2min 30 sec post shots possibly just secs after Oswald gets his brown shirt from the storage room and is putting it on. Such activity might explain Allmans inability to remember exactly what Oswald was wearing.
Oswald can then get out the front door by approx 2 min 45 sec to be seen by Buell W.Frazier just secs before BWF returns into the TSBD before DPD officer Barnett locks the front door around 3min post shots .
