- Brewer didn’t see anybody enter the cinema. The doors weren’t visible from his position.
- Postal didn’t see anybody enter the cinema. She was out on the sidewalk looking west on Jefferson.
- Brewer didn’t immediately go talk to Postal. He went back into his store and talked to the IBM men first.
- Postal told both Brewer and the FBI that she wasn’t sure if she sold the man a ticket or not.
So Mr. Brewer sees a man acting suspiciously outside his shoe store. He then sees the man go down the street and turn into the recessed front entrance of the Texas Theatre. He then goes back to the shoe store and gets his two IBM buddies to lock up for him so he can check out the man. He then goes to the Texas Theatre and asks Ms. Postal did she just see a man enter without paying. She,
understanding him to mean someone other than anyone who might have entered earlier than within the last couple of minutes or so, says no.
OK. At this point, Mr. Brewer cannot know whether the man actually entered the cinema or not. As Mr. Brewer didn't have his eye on the entrance the whole time (return to shoe store), it's quite possible the man only ducked into the recessed entrance momentarily before going back out on the street (just as he did with the shoe store).
Dialogue with Ms. Postal and Mr. Burroughs only
increases the probability of this latter scenario. Neither saw this man whom Mr. Brewer is convinced entered the cinema.
But Mr. Brewer doesn't let up.
He gets Mr. Burroughs to help him check out the patrons in the balcony and out on the main floor.
Mr. Brewer fails to see the man, despite the fact that the cinema is only sparsely populated.
But Mr. Brewer doesn't let up.
He gets Ms. Postal to CALL THE COPS, and then gets Mr. Burroughs to help him guard the exits. He now has no good reason to believe that the suspicious man did actually enter the cinema beyond the recessed front entrance lobby, but he's convinced this man is connected to the shooting of an officer in Oak Cliff, and so he wants to be absolutely sure.
Why does he believe this? Because, just before seeing the man acting suspiciously outside his shoe store, he heard the officer's killer described on radio, and the suspicious man at the shoe store matched the description.
Only one problem:
Mr. Brewer almost certainly never heard any such radio broadcast.
And out of all this half-baked suspicioning on the part of Mr. Brewer, we get the Dallas police swarming on the Texas Theatre.
What must have run through the minds of Ms. Postal and Mr. Burroughs when they saw arrested-------
as the man who had ducked into the cinema just before the man from the shoe store turned up--------a man whom they both knew had entered the cinema many minutes earlier than that?
The names of the other patrons in the cinema were taken by police afterwards, but there was little or no follow up. We still don't know the names of most of these crucial eyewitnesses.
Thanks to Mr. Jack Davis, we know why: Mr. Oswald entered the cinema many minutes before the Brewer 'sighting', and sat beside one patron after another. He was there to meet a contact.
As for Mr. Brewer, this critically important witness whose heroic civic-minded super-vigilance led to Mr. Oswald's capture, his first official statement on the affair was not taken until
two weeks after the assassination.
And his two IBM buddies were never identified, let alone questioned.
LN-La-La-Land indeed
