• Vincent Bugliosi's 53 Reasons - #52 - Refuted

    From Ben Holmes@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 3 08:16:04 2023
    (52) Oswald lied about having lunch on the first floor with two other employees.

    This is, indeed, a lie on Bugliosi's part. He cannot be unaware of the
    evidence for this. The Warren Commission relied on J.W. Fritz's
    testimony that Oswald stated he'd had lunch with two other employees. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?absPageId=13421

    The Warren Commission, as well as Bugliosi, then cite the two
    employees, Junior Jarman and Harold Norman, as denying that they'd
    eaten lunch with Oswald.

    But thirty years later... Fritz' brief handwritten notes appeared, and
    all it said was:
    "say two negr. came in, one Jr.- + short negro-." http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?absPageId=433843

    So Fritz's own notes fail to say what he testified to... and Bugliosi
    surely knew this. But even more importantly, there were two FBI agents
    also present, who had filed a written report on this, and stated that
    what was actually said was:

    "On November 22, 1963, he had eaten lunch in the lunch room alone, but
    recalled possibly two Negro employees walking through the room during
    this period. He stated possibly one of these employees was called
    "Junior" and the other was a short individual whose name he could not
    recall but whom he would be able to recognize." http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?absPageId=74046

    Notice that this statement is completely in accord with Fritz' hand
    written note, and completely contradicted by his testimony.

    So the truth is quite clear - Oswald never said he was having lunch on
    the first floor with two other employees - and Bugliosi could not
    possibly have been unaware of this fact.

    Yet he uses this lie as evidence that Oswald was guilty of murder.

    This isn't the only time that Bugliosi has been caught lying about the
    evidence – but it's particularly despicable that no Warren Commission
    Believer has disavowed this lie on Bugliosi's part.

    David Von Pein, the only believer other than John McAdams who has the
    knowledge to defend Bugliosi here, won't. John McAdams can't - he
    learned the hard way what happens when he tries to debate a
    knowledgeable critic - and refuses all debate in public forums... and
    all other believers simply don't know the evidence well enough to
    defend Bugliosi. (This was written before McAdams learned the truth)

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