Arnold Rowland

[Dan O'meara]

i agree logically it was williams hanging or leaning out of the snipers nest window at 12.15 or so . if he had arranged to meet jarmin and norman up there it might explain why he was leaning out the window , perhaps trying to catch sight of his friends .and as you correctly said about 5 minutes (give or take the odd minute ) before the shooting he took the elevator down one floor to the 5th floor and joined his pals who had only arrived shortly before him . given his lunch was where it was i have to believe he was in the snipers nest area for the bulk of his time on the 6th floor , which is problematic in terms of getting oswald in there .not impossible but difficult time wise .

I don't know why the WC narrative doesn't have Oswald as the man with the rifle seen by Rowland. He was going to take the shots from the wide open windows on the south-west end of the 6th floor [possibly a better position than the SN]. Williams was completely unaware of his presence. Williams decides to go down to the fifth floor so Oswald changes his mind and decides to take the shots from the SN.

This would explain what Rowland witnessed.
It would explain why BRW's lunch remains were found on the SN boxes.
There would be no need to have BRW sat behind a dirty, closed window for half an hour, with Oswald cowering silently in the SN.

[Fergus O'Brien]

yes that makes sense .the commission decided on a narrative , even if they could not prove it or even if witnesses disputed it . i mean they tried to get williams off the 6th floor if memory serves me by about 12.10 . he himself disputed that .but they were banking on no one checking their work , as dulles said the american people dont read , but as he found out some did read . that was when the problems arose .when people did check .

but if carolyn arnold really did see oswald on the 2nd floor eating lunch he cant have been the man rowland saw on the 6th floor at 12.16 .

[Dan O'meara]

yes that makes sense .the commission decided on a narrative , even if they could not prove it or even if witnesses disputed it . i mean they tried to get williams off the 6th floor if memory serves me by about 12.10 . he himself disputed that .but they were banking on no one checking their work , as dulles said the american people dont read , but as he found out some did read . that was when the problems arose .when people did check .

but if carolyn arnold really did see oswald on the 2nd floor eating lunch he cant have been the man rowland saw on the 6th floor at 12.16 .

Another thing is that Rowland and 3 other witnesses describe the man on the 6th floor wearing a off white, open-necked shirt. This is an item of clothing Oswald wasn't wearing that day and didn't have in his possessions. This alone would appear to exclude Oswald as the shooter.
Another thing is that Oswald reportedly saw Junior Jarman and Hank Norman in the building during lunch.
The only time this could have been was when the two men entered the rear door around 12:25pm on their way up to the 5th floor. This would place Oswald on the first floor around this time. This would explain why Dorothy Garner never saw him rushing down the stairs - because he didn't come down the stairs, because he wasn't on the 6th floor.