Looks like it's all over, folks. The newly uncovered James Hosty note----------written on the back of a DPD affidavit paper----------confirms exactly what the LHO=PrayerMan people have been saying all along:
O[swald] stated he was present for work at TBD on the morning of 11/22 and at noon went to lunch. He went to 2nd floor to get Coca Cola to eat with lunch and returned to 1st floor to eat lunch. Then went outside to watch P[residential] Parade.
Mr Oswald is Prayer Man.
That's a false interpretation of what Hosty's notes are saying...Hosty is observing an interview of Oswald by Fritz...If you look at the Bookhout report and Fritz's notes both of those recordings are of the same event Hosty is covering...Both Bookhout and Fritz give identical descriptions of Baker's confrontation of Oswald in the 2nd floor lunch room as their opening item...What this does is establish that the description's chronological order starts at the lunch room encounter...Because both Bookhout and Fritz describe a Coke and the location being the 2nd floor lunch room this proves that Hosty covers this same event by saying "He went to 2nd floor to get a Coca Cola to eat with lunch"...Remember, Hosty is describing the same interview as Bookhout and Fritz...
Next, both Bookhout and Fritz describe Oswald going down to the 1st floor after the encounter...Bookhout writes "Oswald stated that he took this Coke down to the first floor and stood around and had lunch in the employees lunch room"...Fritz covers it by saying "To 1st floor had lunch""...And Hosty says "And returned to 1st floor to eat lunch"...
Finally Bookhout finishes by saying "He thereafter went outside and stood around for five or ten minutes with foreman Bill Shelley"...Fritz writes: "Out with Bill Shelley in front"...And Hosty changes it to "Then went outside to watch presidential parade"...
It is clear that these men are describing the same things not only because they obviously match up so well but also because all three are observing the same event...Any researcher worth his salt who isn't trying to force Prayer Man to be Oswald would agree that all three descriptions have the lunch room encounter as their starting point...What that means is we have a chronological marker that establishes the timing of the events to have started at the lunch room encounter 90 seconds after the last shot...
We can therefore assume that the mention of Oswald going from there to the 1st floor happens after the lunch room encounter...
And we can equally assume that Oswald's going out with Shelley on the front steps happens after the visit to the Domino Room...
So what we have established here is that by Oswald's descriptions in his interrogation by Fritz we can safely assume any departure from the Depository happened at least 3 minutes or more after the scene in which Prayer Man can be seen in the Darnell film...
It is clear that Hosty, probably for reasons of concealing Shelley's Intel status and facility to Oswald's departure out the rear exit, decided not to include the clearly spelled-out detail of Shelley being outside with Oswald that was told of by both Bookhout and Fritz...
The Prayer Man people hope people don't notice that the man who they are deliberately misquoting failed to mention Shelley being out front like Bookhout and Fritz...They urge us to believe a clearly misrepresented, out of context quote from Hosty but then ignore that Hosty fails to mention their previous claim to fame that Oswald went "out with Shelley in front"...Pretty strange considering all three men were witnessing the same event and two of them managed to include this mention...
The Prayer Man group wants you to ignore Carolyn Arnold who saw Oswald in that same 2nd floor lunch room at 12:25...For Hosty to be correct, according to their version, Oswald would have to go from Carolyn Arnold's sighting in the 2nd floor lunch room down to the Domino Room, and then back up to the 2nd floor lunch room to get the Coke, and then back down to the 1st floor, and then back up to the 2nd floor lunch room for the encounter with Baker... Sarah Stanton saw Oswald with a Coke so that is the first Coke...If Oswald went back from the Domino Room to the 2nd floor lunch room after that then that would be the second Coke in 5 minutes...
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