Yes, I know, Mr Ford....And you'll notice that Hosty says NOTHING about a coke in those notes which he scribbled DURING the initial interrogation session which started at about 3:15 pm that afternoon. But in the other notes he says that Lee said that he went to the second floor lunchroom to get a coke and then he went down to the first floor and ate his lunch before going out to watch the P. parade ....
Exactly----the draft report which he wrote out by hand on the back of a blank DPD affidavit sheet (and we only have one sheet here, not the full document) contained high-priority information, including naturally Mr Oswald's bombshell alibi claim about visiting the second floor lunchroom before the P. Parade, then going down to one, then going out to watch the P. Parade. This draft report never made it into the official record. Instead, we get a) a fudged account of Mr Oswald's words in the Bookhout/Hosty joint report, then b) a completely distorted version of Mr Oswald's true claim in the Bookhout-only report.
We know that the coke issue surfaced later that afternoon AFTER officer Baker returned to headquarters and he told Fritz that he had encountered Lee in the second floor lunch room just seconds after the shots were fired and he was calmly drinking a coke.
No. We know only that
a) Officer Baker gave an affidavit that early afternoon in which he recalled encountering a man "walking away from the stairway" on the "third or fourth floor" (no lunchroom incident)
b) DPD were telling press that day that Mr Oswald was challenged by an officer at the
front entrance to the building just after the shooting
Whether Lee was actually drinking the coke or merely had it in his hands isn't important....( Baker or Fritz, probably embroidered that tidbit about Lee "calmly drinking a coke" to make Lee appear to be a cold unemotional killer) ...The point is Hosty couldn't have wrote about the coke until after 5:00pm ....
Of course he could have---because he had heard Mr Oswald tell Captain Fritz all about it in that first interrogation (the only interrogation which Agent Hosty attended).
And the salient point is:.....If Lee took the coke downstairs to consume with his lunch BEFORE going outside then there was NO DAMNED P. PARADE for Lee to Watch.....because the parade had long since broken up and disbursed..
Exactly----that's why Mr Oswald's actual claim (as recorded in Agent Hosty's draft report) had to be twisted into the absurd claim we find in the Bookhout-Hosty joint report. They buried the man's alibi claim---------and his alibi.