Oswald never said he saw "Norman and Jarman entered the back of the building"
Did I say he did?
"And pray tell, how did Oswald guess, that both men, after leaving the
front of the building would stay together, walk down Houston and enter
the back of the building?"
Well, I guess you didn't say Oswald mouthed it, but you somehow know he guessed it. Or you really don't know. And your question was to do with me having to come up with some rationale for "how did Oswald guess, that both men, after leaving the front of the building would stay together, walk down Houston and enter the back of the building?"
The fact is that we don't know what he said exactly as there is no verbatim record of what he said and the reports contradict eachother.
So your interpretation is no better than anyone else's.
The only constant is that Oswald told his interrogators that, while he was in the Domino room, he saw "Junior" and another man, just prior to the shots being fired.
Where does Oswald say words to the effect "just prior to the shots being fired"? And where does he say words to the effect that he saw Norman and Jarman take the elevator?
Low and behold, Jarman (known as Junior) and Norman did enter the back of the TSBD about five minutes prior to the assassination and Oswald could have seen them (and in my opinion did) from the Domino room.
Sure. But it's all a house of cards based entirely on your reading between the lines.
Oswald's in the SN waiting for the President to arrive and later -- having survived arrest -- he pulls out of the hat the names of the two men who were together and were beneath his window? Also he knows Williams wasn't originally with Norman and Jarman (how did Oswald know that?).
I noticed you failed to answer my question.
What question was that?
Very telling indeed! And where did you get from the Oswald knew Williams wasn't with Norman and Jarman? Are you making this stuff up?
Maybe I'm getting it from the same place you got Oswald knowing (since he never uttered it) this ...
- "that both men, after leaving the front of the building would stay together, walk down Houston and enter the back of the building."
- "Norman and Jarman entered the back of the building"
Oswald never said any of that.
Your are right. Oswald never said ...
- "that both men, after leaving the front of the building would stay together, walk down Houston and enter the back of the building."
- "Norman and Jarman entered the back of the building"
All he basically said was that he saw Junior and another man while he was eating his lunch.
Oswald only needed to know that most of his coworkers said they were having their lunch early so they could out to see the President. When he concocting his alibi after being arrested, that became a good basis for assuming the Domino Room would be empty. Oswald recalls seeing or hearing Norman and Jarman together, either on the street or under the SN window. Just to add a touch of authenticity, Oswald claimed (although he had brought no lunch to work that day) to have eaten lunch with the two ...
"In talking with him further about his location at the time the President was killed,
he said he ate lunch with some of the colored boys who worked with him. One
of them was called "Junior" and the other one was a little short man whose name
he did not know. He said he had a cheese sandwich and some fruit and that was
the only package he had brought with him to work and denied that he had brought
the long package described by Mr. Frazier and his sister."
"He said he ate his lunch with the colored boys who worked with him. He described
one of them as "Junior," a colored boy, and the other was little short negro boy.
He said his lunch consisted of cheese, fruit, and apples, and was the only package
he had with him when he went to work."
— Thomas J. Kelly
This doesn't sound like Oswald was anywhere near a lower floor ...
"You see, I assumed that obvious questions like that had been asked in previous interrogation.
So I didn't interrupt too much, but he [Lee Oswald] said, "Send the elevator back up to me."
Then he said when all this commotion started, "I just went on downstairs." And he didn't say
whether he took the elevator or not. He said, "I went down, and as I started to go out and see
what it was all about, a police officer stopped me just before I got to the front door, and started
to ask me some questions, and my superintendent of the place stepped up and told the officers
that I am one of the employees of the building, so he told me to step aside for a little bit and we
will get to you later. Then I just went on out in the crowd to see what it was all about." And he
wouldn't tell what happened then."
— Harry D. Holmes; April 2, 1964
The available evidence tells us that if Oswald was in the Domino room, to eat his lunch, he could have seen Jarman and Norman entering the building from the back and walking towards the elevator. How does the evidence tell us this? Simply because both Jarman and Norman confirmed they were there at exactly that time that Oswald claimed he was in the Domino room. I don't believe in coincidence, do you?
So now you have Oswald collaborating some "exact time". The fact is that Oswald's "icing" in the form of him "eating lunch" with Norman and Jarman proves that he didn't see them when they were on the first floor prior to going to the fifth. Knowing Norman and Jarman had done so would have been a useful thing for Oswald to state as clearly and precisely as he could, and repeatedly so.
