Dan, some time back I researched the chicken lunch issue. This was independent of Don Thomas. You would have noticed the snide remarks about my research from Richard the regurgitator and Bill the comic relief in this thread. The following officers described remnants on the lunch in the SN prior to the arrival of Fritz, Mooney, McCurley, Boone, Faulkner, Craig, Hill, Brewer, Haywood and Weatherford.
Jim Ewell, a news reporter who had travelled to the TSBD with Jerry Hill, later related in No More Silence that Hill held up the chicken bone and hollered to those below that the fried chicken was what the assassin had been eating.
Richard and Bill won’t engage in discussion of the evidence because they know where it leads.
Colin- I give you lots of credit for actually researching and trying to support your conclusions. That places you well beyond the average contrarian or CTer who posts here without ever doing so or suggesting that they don't have to prove anything as though they are Oswald's lawyer in a criminal trial. But it makes the conclusions that you reach no less outlandish. There is no mystery about the chicken sandwich or BRW. He explained his lunch and movements. His language and recollections are perhaps not scientifically precise about every event that took place that day (many of which would have been mundane at the time they occurred) but that is no basis to reach any outlandish conclusions about what was motivating BRW's actions. To suggest this individual saw the assassin (Oswald or otherwise), was allowed to leave the floor by this gunman, decided to say or do nothing about this notable event, and instead move down to the windows directly below where he had reason to believe someone was getting ready to shoot the President, and then forever remain silent just doesn't add up as a plausible narrative without even getting into the complete absence of any evidence of such. It does lead to one of my favorite question and answer sessions in the WC, though:
Mr. BALL. What did you have in your lunch?
Mr. WILLIAMS. I had a chicken sandwich.
Mr. BALL.
Describe the sandwich. What did it have in it besides chicken?
Mr. WILLIAMS.
Well, it just had chicken in it. Chicken on the bone.
Mr. BALL. Chicken on the bone?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Yes.
Mr. BALL.
The chicken was not boned?Mr. WILLIAMS. It was just chicken on the bone. Just plain old chicken.
Mr. BALL.
Did it have bread around it?Mr. WILLIAMS. Yes, it did.