• James Worrell and the Magic Affidavit

    From Donald Willis@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 21 21:43:35 2023
    James Worrell and the Magic Affidavit

    "An unidentified individual told Insp. J.H. Sawyer that he had seen an individual run from the TSBD building shortly after the shooting of Pres. Kennedy and that this individual was an unknown white male, approximately 30, slender build, 5'10", 165
    pounds, carrying what looked to be a 30:30, or some type of Winchester rifle. Insp. Sawyer then contacted Dallas Police Sgt. G.D. Henslee, radio dispatcher, and this description was broadcast to all Dallas squad cars." -- dispatch to "Director, FBI",
    from Dallas FBI office. (courtesy of SkyThrone, alt.conspiracy.jfk, 9/3/23)

    Of course, the Dallas Police Dept. could never admit that their actual Dealey star witness--who provided them with the 12:44 suspect description--was someone who stated that he had seen Oswald BEHIND THE DEPOSITORY, WITH A RIFLE, AFTER 12:30, on 11/22/63.
    His observations were broadcast and re-broadcast, live, and could not be taken back. DPD did the next best thing and attached the suspect description, none too credibly, to witness Howard Brennan: The latter thought that the suspect was "standing" as
    he shot from the "sniper's nest" (Warren Commission hearings v3p144), hence the cockamamie (at least from his vantage point) height and weight specs. But Brennan did see a rifle, and that's all that was needed.

    Downplaying of back-of-the-depository activity began that same day, with TSBD employee Mrs. R.A. Reid, who wrote, in an affidavit, that Oswald came through her office shortly after the shooting. At the Commission hearings, Counsel David Belin asked her,
    "How would he have gotten out of the office?" Mrs. Reid: "Right straight out this door down this stairway and out the front door." (v3p278) (Note that she is more than helpful--she has Oswald all the way out the building, not just the office.) She
    told Belin that Oswald was wearing "a white T-shirt and some kind of wash trousers" (p276). However, Patrolman M.L. Baker--who had just encountered Oswald in the next room--wrote in his same-day affidavit that he was "wearing a light brown jacket". Mrs.
    Reid may have been thinking of Oswald's usual office attire. (As per James Jarman: "Oswald usually worked in a white tee-shirt". [12/5/63 FBI interview])

    Who to believe? TSBD secretary Geneva Hine, when asked by Counsel Joseph Ball, "When you came back in [to the same office, after 12:30] did you see Mrs. Reid?" Hine: "No, sir, I don't believe there was a soul in the office when I came back in right
    then." (v6p396) Ball asks her, "Were you facing the door [Oswald] is supposed to have left by?" Hine: "Yes, sir." Ball: "Do you recall seeing him?" "No, sir." (p397) Mrs. Reid--supposed witness to Oswald leaving by the front door--caught out by
    Baker and Hine.

    Further references, the next few days, to an Oswald front-door departure can be found in written accounts of the Oswald interviews (Warren Report pp619, 636). The interviews were not recorded. And if Mrs. Reid's testimony is any indication, the
    interview accounts of Oswald's exit route must be deemed, at best, unreliable, too.

    However, all sources agree: Three minutes after the shooting, Oswald was downstairs, on the first floor, then out the front or back door. "Out the front door by 12:33"--Warren Report (p155). "Three minutes from the last shot to dialing the telephone
    inside the TSBD", after "his encounter with Oswald... inside the TSBD"--Pierce Allman (JFK Facts). Behind the building, it was "approximately three minutes before I saw this man come out the back door here."--James Worrell (v2p195).

    On the 23rd, the downplaying of elements in the 12:44 suspect description continued. In his affidavit, witness James Worrell, stated that, from Pacific Street, just north of the TSBD, he saw a man "come out of the building and run in the opposite
    direction from me... didn't have anything in hands." So, for Worrell here, no rifle apparent on the runner.

    But, in between the taking of the affidavit and its final form--in the Commission Exhibits--a funny thing happened. Taking Worrell's affidavit, "at about 5pm", on the 23rd, Det. R.L. Anderton wrote that, from the "north side of the TSBD... [Worrell] saw
    "a man run out of the building in a southerly direction. He said when he got home and saw pictures of Lee Harvey Oswald in the newspapers and on television, he recognized him as the man he saw run from the building." (CE 2003 p185)

    Now, take a look at Worrell's affidavit--Commission Exhibit No. 2003, page 69. The name of the man that he recognized, that he "saw run from the building"... not there. In fact, there's no name at all. We know that Anderton took it down. But it's not
    there in CE 2003. There is just an impersonal reference to a "w/m". "Oswald" expunged. The Long Arm of the Law, Rewrite Dept.

    This is just the beginning of the weaning of Oswald from Worrell's narrative. On 11/30/63, Worrell told the FBI that he got a "profile view" of the man behind the TSBD and that he "felt [Oswald] was the person he had seen." But the next year he told
    the Commission that he "didn't see his face. I just saw the back of his head." It hardly seems likely that Worrell didn't get a glimpse of the running man's face, first running north out of the building, then turning south down Houston, "along the side
    of the depository building" (v2p196). Worrell changed his mind? No--the altered affidavit confirms that Worrell's mind was being changed for him.

    First, the rifle disappears, then "Oswald" disappears, twice. Actually, the first disappearance would have been the identification of Sawyer's unidentified witness. But, based on the subsequent disappearances, it seems safe to assume that that "
    unidentified" witness was... Worrell. Safer than to assume that there were TWO witnesses to Oswald rushing out the rear of the building--and that Worrell somehow didn't see the other, unidentified witness. So, the sequence of disappearing names: "
    Worrell" from Sawyer's report... "Oswald" from Worrell's affidavit... and "Oswald" from Worrell's testimony.


    In and of themselves, these disappearing acts may or may not be that significant. To put the best light on it, they may just have been a case of DPD personnel trying to save face, after invoking the specter of a man with a rifle running out the back
    door of the depository at 12:33. Exposed, they could have sputtered, "Well, no one saw him inside the building with a rifle at 12:33--ask Allman", etc., till the cows came home. But the cows, or horses, would already have long been out of the barn by
    that time... So the DPD simply suppressed the story. Obviously, they did not want to deal with the complication of having Oswald connected with the back-door rifle, fictitious or not. But the pesky Worrell kept bringing him up.

    The simple fact of the altered affidavit, however, is quite significant, in one way--an illustrative way. It shows, clearly and concisely, both the before and the after of how the DPD could suppress information. It shows, in short, the DPD M.O. It's a
    little skeleton key to the JFK assassination.

    dcw

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  • From NoTrueFlags Here@21:1/5 to Donald Willis on Thu Sep 21 22:06:17 2023
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:43:37 AM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    James Worrell and the Magic Affidavit

    "An unidentified individual told Insp. J.H. Sawyer that he had seen an individual run from the TSBD building shortly after the shooting of Pres. Kennedy and that this individual was an unknown white male, approximately 30, slender build, 5'10", 165
    pounds, carrying what looked to be a 30:30, or some type of Winchester rifle. Insp. Sawyer then contacted Dallas Police Sgt. G.D. Henslee, radio dispatcher, and this description was broadcast to all Dallas squad cars." -- dispatch to "Director, FBI",
    from Dallas FBI office. (courtesy of SkyThrone, alt.conspiracy.jfk, 9/3/23)

    Of course, the Dallas Police Dept. could never admit that their actual Dealey star witness--who provided them with the 12:44 suspect description--was someone who stated that he had seen Oswald BEHIND THE DEPOSITORY, WITH A RIFLE, AFTER 12:30, on 11/22/
    63. His observations were broadcast and re-broadcast, live, and could not be taken back. DPD did the next best thing and attached the suspect description, none too credibly, to witness Howard Brennan: The latter thought that the suspect was "standing" as
    he shot from the "sniper's nest" (Warren Commission hearings v3p144), hence the cockamamie (at least from his vantage point) height and weight specs. But Brennan did see a rifle, and that's all that was needed.

    Downplaying of back-of-the-depository activity began that same day, with TSBD employee Mrs. R.A. Reid, who wrote, in an affidavit, that Oswald came through her office shortly after the shooting. At the Commission hearings, Counsel David Belin asked her,
    "How would he have gotten out of the office?" Mrs. Reid: "Right straight out this door down this stairway and out the front door." (v3p278) (Note that she is more than helpful--she has Oswald all the way out the building, not just the office.) She told
    Belin that Oswald was wearing "a white T-shirt and some kind of wash trousers" (p276). However, Patrolman M.L. Baker--who had just encountered Oswald in the next room--wrote in his same-day affidavit that he was "wearing a light brown jacket". Mrs. Reid
    may have been thinking of Oswald's usual office attire. (As per James Jarman: "Oswald usually worked in a white tee-shirt". [12/5/63 FBI interview])

    Who to believe? TSBD secretary Geneva Hine, when asked by Counsel Joseph Ball, "When you came back in [to the same office, after 12:30] did you see Mrs. Reid?" Hine: "No, sir, I don't believe there was a soul in the office when I came back in right
    then." (v6p396) Ball asks her, "Were you facing the door [Oswald] is supposed to have left by?" Hine: "Yes, sir." Ball: "Do you recall seeing him?" "No, sir." (p397) Mrs. Reid--supposed witness to Oswald leaving by the front door--caught out by Baker and
    Hine.

    Further references, the next few days, to an Oswald front-door departure can be found in written accounts of the Oswald interviews (Warren Report pp619, 636). The interviews were not recorded. And if Mrs. Reid's testimony is any indication, the
    interview accounts of Oswald's exit route must be deemed, at best, unreliable, too.

    However, all sources agree: Three minutes after the shooting, Oswald was downstairs, on the first floor, then out the front or back door. "Out the front door by 12:33"--Warren Report (p155). "Three minutes from the last shot to dialing the telephone
    inside the TSBD", after "his encounter with Oswald... inside the TSBD"--Pierce Allman (JFK Facts). Behind the building, it was "approximately three minutes before I saw this man come out the back door here."--James Worrell (v2p195).

    On the 23rd, the downplaying of elements in the 12:44 suspect description continued. In his affidavit, witness James Worrell, stated that, from Pacific Street, just north of the TSBD, he saw a man "come out of the building and run in the opposite
    direction from me... didn't have anything in hands." So, for Worrell here, no rifle apparent on the runner.

    But, in between the taking of the affidavit and its final form--in the Commission Exhibits--a funny thing happened. Taking Worrell's affidavit, "at about 5pm", on the 23rd, Det. R.L. Anderton wrote that, from the "north side of the TSBD... [Worrell]
    saw "a man run out of the building in a southerly direction. He said when he got home and saw pictures of Lee Harvey Oswald in the newspapers and on television, he recognized him as the man he saw run from the building." (CE 2003 p185)

    Now, take a look at Worrell's affidavit--Commission Exhibit No. 2003, page 69. The name of the man that he recognized, that he "saw run from the building"... not there. In fact, there's no name at all. We know that Anderton took it down. But it's not
    there in CE 2003. There is just an impersonal reference to a "w/m". "Oswald" expunged. The Long Arm of the Law, Rewrite Dept.

    This is just the beginning of the weaning of Oswald from Worrell's narrative. On 11/30/63, Worrell told the FBI that he got a "profile view" of the man behind the TSBD and that he "felt [Oswald] was the person he had seen." But the next year he told
    the Commission that he "didn't see his face. I just saw the back of his head." It hardly seems likely that Worrell didn't get a glimpse of the running man's face, first running north out of the building, then turning south down Houston, "along the side
    of the depository building" (v2p196). Worrell changed his mind? No--the altered affidavit confirms that Worrell's mind was being changed for him.

    First, the rifle disappears, then "Oswald" disappears, twice. Actually, the first disappearance would have been the identification of Sawyer's unidentified witness. But, based on the subsequent disappearances, it seems safe to assume that that "
    unidentified" witness was... Worrell. Safer than to assume that there were TWO witnesses to Oswald rushing out the rear of the building--and that Worrell somehow didn't see the other, unidentified witness. So, the sequence of disappearing names: "Worrell"
    from Sawyer's report... "Oswald" from Worrell's affidavit... and "Oswald" from Worrell's testimony.


    In and of themselves, these disappearing acts may or may not be that significant. To put the best light on it, they may just have been a case of DPD personnel trying to save face, after invoking the specter of a man with a rifle running out the back
    door of the depository at 12:33. Exposed, they could have sputtered, "Well, no one saw him inside the building with a rifle at 12:33--ask Allman", etc., till the cows came home. But the cows, or horses, would already have long been out of the barn by
    that time... So the DPD simply suppressed the story. Obviously, they did not want to deal with the complication of having Oswald connected with the back-door rifle, fictitious or not. But the pesky Worrell kept bringing him up.

    The simple fact of the altered affidavit, however, is quite significant, in one way--an illustrative way. It shows, clearly and concisely, both the before and the after of how the DPD could suppress information. It shows, in short, the DPD M.O. It's a
    little skeleton key to the JFK assassination.

    dcw

    That's very good. Reid deserves her own video, I think. She was also used to defend Jackie's hat action at the turn from Main onto Houston. She was a multipurpose witness. R.L. Anderton? I'll have to look into that. You seem to be insisting that Worrell
    was actually there on the day of the assassination, but I can overlook that.

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  • From NoTrueFlags Here@21:1/5 to NoTrueFlags Here on Thu Sep 21 22:31:44 2023
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 1:19:47 AM UTC-4, NoTrueFlags Here wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:43:37 AM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    James Worrell and the Magic Affidavit

    "An unidentified individual told Insp. J.H. Sawyer that he had seen an individual run from the TSBD building shortly after the shooting of Pres. Kennedy and that this individual was an unknown white male, approximately 30, slender build, 5'10", 165
    pounds, carrying what looked to be a 30:30, or some type of Winchester rifle. Insp. Sawyer then contacted Dallas Police Sgt. G.D. Henslee, radio dispatcher, and this description was broadcast to all Dallas squad cars." -- dispatch to "Director, FBI",
    from Dallas FBI office. (courtesy of SkyThrone, alt.conspiracy.jfk, 9/3/23)

    Of course, the Dallas Police Dept. could never admit that their actual Dealey star witness--who provided them with the 12:44 suspect description--was someone who stated that he had seen Oswald BEHIND THE DEPOSITORY, WITH A RIFLE, AFTER 12:30, on 11/
    22/63. His observations were broadcast and re-broadcast, live, and could not be taken back. DPD did the next best thing and attached the suspect description, none too credibly, to witness Howard Brennan: The latter thought that the suspect was "standing"
    as he shot from the "sniper's nest" (Warren Commission hearings v3p144), hence the cockamamie (at least from his vantage point) height and weight specs. But Brennan did see a rifle, and that's all that was needed.

    Downplaying of back-of-the-depository activity began that same day, with TSBD employee Mrs. R.A. Reid, who wrote, in an affidavit, that Oswald came through her office shortly after the shooting. At the Commission hearings, Counsel David Belin asked
    her, "How would he have gotten out of the office?" Mrs. Reid: "Right straight out this door down this stairway and out the front door." (v3p278) (Note that she is more than helpful--she has Oswald all the way out the building, not just the office.) She
    told Belin that Oswald was wearing "a white T-shirt and some kind of wash trousers" (p276). However, Patrolman M.L. Baker--who had just encountered Oswald in the next room--wrote in his same-day affidavit that he was "wearing a light brown jacket". Mrs.
    Reid may have been thinking of Oswald's usual office attire. (As per James Jarman: "Oswald usually worked in a white tee-shirt". [12/5/63 FBI interview])

    Who to believe? TSBD secretary Geneva Hine, when asked by Counsel Joseph Ball, "When you came back in [to the same office, after 12:30] did you see Mrs. Reid?" Hine: "No, sir, I don't believe there was a soul in the office when I came back in right
    then." (v6p396) Ball asks her, "Were you facing the door [Oswald] is supposed to have left by?" Hine: "Yes, sir." Ball: "Do you recall seeing him?" "No, sir." (p397) Mrs. Reid--supposed witness to Oswald leaving by the front door--caught out by Baker and
    Hine.

    Further references, the next few days, to an Oswald front-door departure can be found in written accounts of the Oswald interviews (Warren Report pp619, 636). The interviews were not recorded. And if Mrs. Reid's testimony is any indication, the
    interview accounts of Oswald's exit route must be deemed, at best, unreliable, too.

    However, all sources agree: Three minutes after the shooting, Oswald was downstairs, on the first floor, then out the front or back door. "Out the front door by 12:33"--Warren Report (p155). "Three minutes from the last shot to dialing the telephone
    inside the TSBD", after "his encounter with Oswald... inside the TSBD"--Pierce Allman (JFK Facts). Behind the building, it was "approximately three minutes before I saw this man come out the back door here."--James Worrell (v2p195).

    On the 23rd, the downplaying of elements in the 12:44 suspect description continued. In his affidavit, witness James Worrell, stated that, from Pacific Street, just north of the TSBD, he saw a man "come out of the building and run in the opposite
    direction from me... didn't have anything in hands." So, for Worrell here, no rifle apparent on the runner.

    But, in between the taking of the affidavit and its final form--in the Commission Exhibits--a funny thing happened. Taking Worrell's affidavit, "at about 5pm", on the 23rd, Det. R.L. Anderton wrote
    I see no "Anderton" on the DPD roster. A couple of Andersons are there, but they are patrolman. The DPD report states who took most of the affidavits, but not Worrell's. Where do you get your Anderton information?
    K.L. Anderton is one of the officers who wrote up the 1974 theft report on Marina at the 7-11. That's as close as I can get to a DPD Anderton.

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  • From NoTrueFlags Here@21:1/5 to Donald Willis on Thu Sep 21 22:19:45 2023
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:43:37 AM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    James Worrell and the Magic Affidavit

    "An unidentified individual told Insp. J.H. Sawyer that he had seen an individual run from the TSBD building shortly after the shooting of Pres. Kennedy and that this individual was an unknown white male, approximately 30, slender build, 5'10", 165
    pounds, carrying what looked to be a 30:30, or some type of Winchester rifle. Insp. Sawyer then contacted Dallas Police Sgt. G.D. Henslee, radio dispatcher, and this description was broadcast to all Dallas squad cars." -- dispatch to "Director, FBI",
    from Dallas FBI office. (courtesy of SkyThrone, alt.conspiracy.jfk, 9/3/23)

    Of course, the Dallas Police Dept. could never admit that their actual Dealey star witness--who provided them with the 12:44 suspect description--was someone who stated that he had seen Oswald BEHIND THE DEPOSITORY, WITH A RIFLE, AFTER 12:30, on 11/22/
    63. His observations were broadcast and re-broadcast, live, and could not be taken back. DPD did the next best thing and attached the suspect description, none too credibly, to witness Howard Brennan: The latter thought that the suspect was "standing" as
    he shot from the "sniper's nest" (Warren Commission hearings v3p144), hence the cockamamie (at least from his vantage point) height and weight specs. But Brennan did see a rifle, and that's all that was needed.

    Downplaying of back-of-the-depository activity began that same day, with TSBD employee Mrs. R.A. Reid, who wrote, in an affidavit, that Oswald came through her office shortly after the shooting. At the Commission hearings, Counsel David Belin asked her,
    "How would he have gotten out of the office?" Mrs. Reid: "Right straight out this door down this stairway and out the front door." (v3p278) (Note that she is more than helpful--she has Oswald all the way out the building, not just the office.) She told
    Belin that Oswald was wearing "a white T-shirt and some kind of wash trousers" (p276). However, Patrolman M.L. Baker--who had just encountered Oswald in the next room--wrote in his same-day affidavit that he was "wearing a light brown jacket". Mrs. Reid
    may have been thinking of Oswald's usual office attire. (As per James Jarman: "Oswald usually worked in a white tee-shirt". [12/5/63 FBI interview])

    Who to believe? TSBD secretary Geneva Hine, when asked by Counsel Joseph Ball, "When you came back in [to the same office, after 12:30] did you see Mrs. Reid?" Hine: "No, sir, I don't believe there was a soul in the office when I came back in right
    then." (v6p396) Ball asks her, "Were you facing the door [Oswald] is supposed to have left by?" Hine: "Yes, sir." Ball: "Do you recall seeing him?" "No, sir." (p397) Mrs. Reid--supposed witness to Oswald leaving by the front door--caught out by Baker and
    Hine.

    Further references, the next few days, to an Oswald front-door departure can be found in written accounts of the Oswald interviews (Warren Report pp619, 636). The interviews were not recorded. And if Mrs. Reid's testimony is any indication, the
    interview accounts of Oswald's exit route must be deemed, at best, unreliable, too.

    However, all sources agree: Three minutes after the shooting, Oswald was downstairs, on the first floor, then out the front or back door. "Out the front door by 12:33"--Warren Report (p155). "Three minutes from the last shot to dialing the telephone
    inside the TSBD", after "his encounter with Oswald... inside the TSBD"--Pierce Allman (JFK Facts). Behind the building, it was "approximately three minutes before I saw this man come out the back door here."--James Worrell (v2p195).

    On the 23rd, the downplaying of elements in the 12:44 suspect description continued. In his affidavit, witness James Worrell, stated that, from Pacific Street, just north of the TSBD, he saw a man "come out of the building and run in the opposite
    direction from me... didn't have anything in hands." So, for Worrell here, no rifle apparent on the runner.

    But, in between the taking of the affidavit and its final form--in the Commission Exhibits--a funny thing happened. Taking Worrell's affidavit, "at about 5pm", on the 23rd, Det. R.L. Anderton wrote
    I see no "Anderton" on the DPD roster. A couple of Andersons are there, but they are patrolman. The DPD report states who took most of the affidavits, but not Worrell's. Where do you get your Anderton information?

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  • From Donald Willis@21:1/5 to NoTrueFlags Here on Fri Sep 22 09:32:16 2023
    On Thursday, September 21, 2023 at 10:19:47 PM UTC-7, NoTrueFlags Here wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:43:37 AM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    James Worrell and the Magic Affidavit

    "An unidentified individual told Insp. J.H. Sawyer that he had seen an individual run from the TSBD building shortly after the shooting of Pres. Kennedy and that this individual was an unknown white male, approximately 30, slender build, 5'10", 165
    pounds, carrying what looked to be a 30:30, or some type of Winchester rifle. Insp. Sawyer then contacted Dallas Police Sgt. G.D. Henslee, radio dispatcher, and this description was broadcast to all Dallas squad cars." -- dispatch to "Director, FBI",
    from Dallas FBI office. (courtesy of SkyThrone, alt.conspiracy.jfk, 9/3/23)

    Of course, the Dallas Police Dept. could never admit that their actual Dealey star witness--who provided them with the 12:44 suspect description--was someone who stated that he had seen Oswald BEHIND THE DEPOSITORY, WITH A RIFLE, AFTER 12:30, on 11/
    22/63. His observations were broadcast and re-broadcast, live, and could not be taken back. DPD did the next best thing and attached the suspect description, none too credibly, to witness Howard Brennan: The latter thought that the suspect was "standing"
    as he shot from the "sniper's nest" (Warren Commission hearings v3p144), hence the cockamamie (at least from his vantage point) height and weight specs. But Brennan did see a rifle, and that's all that was needed.

    Downplaying of back-of-the-depository activity began that same day, with TSBD employee Mrs. R.A. Reid, who wrote, in an affidavit, that Oswald came through her office shortly after the shooting. At the Commission hearings, Counsel David Belin asked
    her, "How would he have gotten out of the office?" Mrs. Reid: "Right straight out this door down this stairway and out the front door." (v3p278) (Note that she is more than helpful--she has Oswald all the way out the building, not just the office.) She
    told Belin that Oswald was wearing "a white T-shirt and some kind of wash trousers" (p276). However, Patrolman M.L. Baker--who had just encountered Oswald in the next room--wrote in his same-day affidavit that he was "wearing a light brown jacket". Mrs.
    Reid may have been thinking of Oswald's usual office attire. (As per James Jarman: "Oswald usually worked in a white tee-shirt". [12/5/63 FBI interview])

    Who to believe? TSBD secretary Geneva Hine, when asked by Counsel Joseph Ball, "When you came back in [to the same office, after 12:30] did you see Mrs. Reid?" Hine: "No, sir, I don't believe there was a soul in the office when I came back in right
    then." (v6p396) Ball asks her, "Were you facing the door [Oswald] is supposed to have left by?" Hine: "Yes, sir." Ball: "Do you recall seeing him?" "No, sir." (p397) Mrs. Reid--supposed witness to Oswald leaving by the front door--caught out by Baker and
    Hine.

    Further references, the next few days, to an Oswald front-door departure can be found in written accounts of the Oswald interviews (Warren Report pp619, 636). The interviews were not recorded. And if Mrs. Reid's testimony is any indication, the
    interview accounts of Oswald's exit route must be deemed, at best, unreliable, too.

    However, all sources agree: Three minutes after the shooting, Oswald was downstairs, on the first floor, then out the front or back door. "Out the front door by 12:33"--Warren Report (p155). "Three minutes from the last shot to dialing the telephone
    inside the TSBD", after "his encounter with Oswald... inside the TSBD"--Pierce Allman (JFK Facts). Behind the building, it was "approximately three minutes before I saw this man come out the back door here."--James Worrell (v2p195).

    On the 23rd, the downplaying of elements in the 12:44 suspect description continued. In his affidavit, witness James Worrell, stated that, from Pacific Street, just north of the TSBD, he saw a man "come out of the building and run in the opposite
    direction from me... didn't have anything in hands." So, for Worrell here, no rifle apparent on the runner.

    But, in between the taking of the affidavit and its final form--in the Commission Exhibits--a funny thing happened. Taking Worrell's affidavit, "at about 5pm", on the 23rd, Det. R.L. Anderton wrote
    I see no "Anderton" on the DPD roster. A couple of Andersons are there, but they are patrolman. The DPD report states who took most of the affidavits, but not Worrell's. Where do you get your Anderton information?

    Like I noted, CE 2003 p184. Easier access online may be by using the Hearings volume number: v24 p294. A fuzzy repro. I work from an old but clear photocopy. Not sure why I copied it. Never looked at Worrell's affidavit or testimony much, except
    for his "5 or 6 stories up", for obvious reasons.

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  • From Donald Willis@21:1/5 to NoTrueFlags Here on Fri Sep 22 09:38:59 2023
    On Thursday, September 21, 2023 at 10:06:19 PM UTC-7, NoTrueFlags Here wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:43:37 AM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    James Worrell and the Magic Affidavit

    "An unidentified individual told Insp. J.H. Sawyer that he had seen an individual run from the TSBD building shortly after the shooting of Pres. Kennedy and that this individual was an unknown white male, approximately 30, slender build, 5'10", 165
    pounds, carrying what looked to be a 30:30, or some type of Winchester rifle. Insp. Sawyer then contacted Dallas Police Sgt. G.D. Henslee, radio dispatcher, and this description was broadcast to all Dallas squad cars." -- dispatch to "Director, FBI",
    from Dallas FBI office. (courtesy of SkyThrone, alt.conspiracy.jfk, 9/3/23)

    Of course, the Dallas Police Dept. could never admit that their actual Dealey star witness--who provided them with the 12:44 suspect description--was someone who stated that he had seen Oswald BEHIND THE DEPOSITORY, WITH A RIFLE, AFTER 12:30, on 11/
    22/63. His observations were broadcast and re-broadcast, live, and could not be taken back. DPD did the next best thing and attached the suspect description, none too credibly, to witness Howard Brennan: The latter thought that the suspect was "standing"
    as he shot from the "sniper's nest" (Warren Commission hearings v3p144), hence the cockamamie (at least from his vantage point) height and weight specs. But Brennan did see a rifle, and that's all that was needed.

    Downplaying of back-of-the-depository activity began that same day, with TSBD employee Mrs. R.A. Reid, who wrote, in an affidavit, that Oswald came through her office shortly after the shooting. At the Commission hearings, Counsel David Belin asked
    her, "How would he have gotten out of the office?" Mrs. Reid: "Right straight out this door down this stairway and out the front door." (v3p278) (Note that she is more than helpful--she has Oswald all the way out the building, not just the office.) She
    told Belin that Oswald was wearing "a white T-shirt and some kind of wash trousers" (p276). However, Patrolman M.L. Baker--who had just encountered Oswald in the next room--wrote in his same-day affidavit that he was "wearing a light brown jacket". Mrs.
    Reid may have been thinking of Oswald's usual office attire. (As per James Jarman: "Oswald usually worked in a white tee-shirt". [12/5/63 FBI interview])

    Who to believe? TSBD secretary Geneva Hine, when asked by Counsel Joseph Ball, "When you came back in [to the same office, after 12:30] did you see Mrs. Reid?" Hine: "No, sir, I don't believe there was a soul in the office when I came back in right
    then." (v6p396) Ball asks her, "Were you facing the door [Oswald] is supposed to have left by?" Hine: "Yes, sir." Ball: "Do you recall seeing him?" "No, sir." (p397) Mrs. Reid--supposed witness to Oswald leaving by the front door--caught out by Baker and
    Hine.

    Further references, the next few days, to an Oswald front-door departure can be found in written accounts of the Oswald interviews (Warren Report pp619, 636). The interviews were not recorded. And if Mrs. Reid's testimony is any indication, the
    interview accounts of Oswald's exit route must be deemed, at best, unreliable, too.

    However, all sources agree: Three minutes after the shooting, Oswald was downstairs, on the first floor, then out the front or back door. "Out the front door by 12:33"--Warren Report (p155). "Three minutes from the last shot to dialing the telephone
    inside the TSBD", after "his encounter with Oswald... inside the TSBD"--Pierce Allman (JFK Facts). Behind the building, it was "approximately three minutes before I saw this man come out the back door here."--James Worrell (v2p195).

    On the 23rd, the downplaying of elements in the 12:44 suspect description continued. In his affidavit, witness James Worrell, stated that, from Pacific Street, just north of the TSBD, he saw a man "come out of the building and run in the opposite
    direction from me... didn't have anything in hands." So, for Worrell here, no rifle apparent on the runner.

    But, in between the taking of the affidavit and its final form--in the Commission Exhibits--a funny thing happened. Taking Worrell's affidavit, "at about 5pm", on the 23rd, Det. R.L. Anderton wrote that, from the "north side of the TSBD... [Worrell]
    saw "a man run out of the building in a southerly direction. He said when he got home and saw pictures of Lee Harvey Oswald in the newspapers and on television, he recognized him as the man he saw run from the building." (CE 2003 p185)

    Now, take a look at Worrell's affidavit--Commission Exhibit No. 2003, page 69. The name of the man that he recognized, that he "saw run from the building"... not there. In fact, there's no name at all. We know that Anderton took it down. But it's not
    there in CE 2003. There is just an impersonal reference to a "w/m". "Oswald" expunged. The Long Arm of the Law, Rewrite Dept.

    This is just the beginning of the weaning of Oswald from Worrell's narrative. On 11/30/63, Worrell told the FBI that he got a "profile view" of the man behind the TSBD and that he "felt [Oswald] was the person he had seen." But the next year he told
    the Commission that he "didn't see his face. I just saw the back of his head." It hardly seems likely that Worrell didn't get a glimpse of the running man's face, first running north out of the building, then turning south down Houston, "along the side
    of the depository building" (v2p196). Worrell changed his mind? No--the altered affidavit confirms that Worrell's mind was being changed for him.

    First, the rifle disappears, then "Oswald" disappears, twice. Actually, the first disappearance would have been the identification of Sawyer's unidentified witness. But, based on the subsequent disappearances, it seems safe to assume that that "
    unidentified" witness was... Worrell. Safer than to assume that there were TWO witnesses to Oswald rushing out the rear of the building--and that Worrell somehow didn't see the other, unidentified witness. So, the sequence of disappearing names: "Worrell"
    from Sawyer's report... "Oswald" from Worrell's affidavit... and "Oswald" from Worrell's testimony.


    In and of themselves, these disappearing acts may or may not be that significant. To put the best light on it, they may just have been a case of DPD personnel trying to save face, after invoking the specter of a man with a rifle running out the back
    door of the depository at 12:33. Exposed, they could have sputtered, "Well, no one saw him inside the building with a rifle at 12:33--ask Allman", etc., till the cows came home. But the cows, or horses, would already have long been out of the barn by
    that time... So the DPD simply suppressed the story. Obviously, they did not want to deal with the complication of having Oswald connected with the back-door rifle, fictitious or not. But the pesky Worrell kept bringing him up.

    The simple fact of the altered affidavit, however, is quite significant, in one way--an illustrative way. It shows, clearly and concisely, both the before and the after of how the DPD could suppress information. It shows, in short, the DPD M.O. It's
    a little skeleton key to the JFK assassination.

    dcw
    That's very good. Reid deserves her own video, I think. She was also used to defend Jackie's hat action at the turn from Main onto Houston. She was a multipurpose witness. R.L. Anderton? I'll have to look into that. You seem to be insisting that
    Worrell was actually there on the day of the assassination, but I can overlook that.

    Well, somebody using Worrell's name was actually there--5'8" to 5'10", 155-165, late 20s early 30s. 12:44pm picks up the high number from those estimates.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From NoTrueFlags Here@21:1/5 to Donald Willis on Fri Sep 22 10:19:37 2023
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:32:18 PM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    On Thursday, September 21, 2023 at 10:19:47 PM UTC-7, NoTrueFlags Here wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:43:37 AM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    James Worrell and the Magic Affidavit

    "An unidentified individual told Insp. J.H. Sawyer that he had seen an individual run from the TSBD building shortly after the shooting of Pres. Kennedy and that this individual was an unknown white male, approximately 30, slender build, 5'10", 165
    pounds, carrying what looked to be a 30:30, or some type of Winchester rifle. Insp. Sawyer then contacted Dallas Police Sgt. G.D. Henslee, radio dispatcher, and this description was broadcast to all Dallas squad cars." -- dispatch to "Director, FBI",
    from Dallas FBI office. (courtesy of SkyThrone, alt.conspiracy.jfk, 9/3/23)

    Of course, the Dallas Police Dept. could never admit that their actual Dealey star witness--who provided them with the 12:44 suspect description--was someone who stated that he had seen Oswald BEHIND THE DEPOSITORY, WITH A RIFLE, AFTER 12:30, on 11/
    22/63. His observations were broadcast and re-broadcast, live, and could not be taken back. DPD did the next best thing and attached the suspect description, none too credibly, to witness Howard Brennan: The latter thought that the suspect was "standing"
    as he shot from the "sniper's nest" (Warren Commission hearings v3p144), hence the cockamamie (at least from his vantage point) height and weight specs. But Brennan did see a rifle, and that's all that was needed.

    Downplaying of back-of-the-depository activity began that same day, with TSBD employee Mrs. R.A. Reid, who wrote, in an affidavit, that Oswald came through her office shortly after the shooting. At the Commission hearings, Counsel David Belin asked
    her, "How would he have gotten out of the office?" Mrs. Reid: "Right straight out this door down this stairway and out the front door." (v3p278) (Note that she is more than helpful--she has Oswald all the way out the building, not just the office.) She
    told Belin that Oswald was wearing "a white T-shirt and some kind of wash trousers" (p276). However, Patrolman M.L. Baker--who had just encountered Oswald in the next room--wrote in his same-day affidavit that he was "wearing a light brown jacket". Mrs.
    Reid may have been thinking of Oswald's usual office attire. (As per James Jarman: "Oswald usually worked in a white tee-shirt". [12/5/63 FBI interview])

    Who to believe? TSBD secretary Geneva Hine, when asked by Counsel Joseph Ball, "When you came back in [to the same office, after 12:30] did you see Mrs. Reid?" Hine: "No, sir, I don't believe there was a soul in the office when I came back in right
    then." (v6p396) Ball asks her, "Were you facing the door [Oswald] is supposed to have left by?" Hine: "Yes, sir." Ball: "Do you recall seeing him?" "No, sir." (p397) Mrs. Reid--supposed witness to Oswald leaving by the front door--caught out by Baker and
    Hine.

    Further references, the next few days, to an Oswald front-door departure can be found in written accounts of the Oswald interviews (Warren Report pp619, 636). The interviews were not recorded. And if Mrs. Reid's testimony is any indication, the
    interview accounts of Oswald's exit route must be deemed, at best, unreliable, too.

    However, all sources agree: Three minutes after the shooting, Oswald was downstairs, on the first floor, then out the front or back door. "Out the front door by 12:33"--Warren Report (p155). "Three minutes from the last shot to dialing the
    telephone inside the TSBD", after "his encounter with Oswald... inside the TSBD"--Pierce Allman (JFK Facts). Behind the building, it was "approximately three minutes before I saw this man come out the back door here."--James Worrell (v2p195).

    On the 23rd, the downplaying of elements in the 12:44 suspect description continued. In his affidavit, witness James Worrell, stated that, from Pacific Street, just north of the TSBD, he saw a man "come out of the building and run in the opposite
    direction from me... didn't have anything in hands." So, for Worrell here, no rifle apparent on the runner.

    But, in between the taking of the affidavit and its final form--in the Commission Exhibits--a funny thing happened. Taking Worrell's affidavit, "at about 5pm", on the 23rd, Det. R.L. Anderton wrote
    I see no "Anderton" on the DPD roster. A couple of Andersons are there, but they are patrolman. The DPD report states who took most of the affidavits, but not Worrell's. Where do you get your Anderton information?
    Like I noted, CE 2003 p184. Easier access online may be by using the Hearings volume number: v24 p294. A fuzzy repro. I work from an old but clear photocopy. Not sure why I copied it. Never looked at Worrell's affidavit or testimony much, except for
    his "5 or 6 stories up", for obvious reasons.

    He is on the roster as a patrolman, but my search function misses his name. Adamcik, apparently his partner, is also listed as a patrolman. Okay.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From NoTrueFlags Here@21:1/5 to Donald Willis on Fri Sep 22 10:20:52 2023
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:39:00 PM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    On Thursday, September 21, 2023 at 10:06:19 PM UTC-7, NoTrueFlags Here wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:43:37 AM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    James Worrell and the Magic Affidavit

    "An unidentified individual told Insp. J.H. Sawyer that he had seen an individual run from the TSBD building shortly after the shooting of Pres. Kennedy and that this individual was an unknown white male, approximately 30, slender build, 5'10", 165
    pounds, carrying what looked to be a 30:30, or some type of Winchester rifle. Insp. Sawyer then contacted Dallas Police Sgt. G.D. Henslee, radio dispatcher, and this description was broadcast to all Dallas squad cars." -- dispatch to "Director, FBI",
    from Dallas FBI office. (courtesy of SkyThrone, alt.conspiracy.jfk, 9/3/23)

    Of course, the Dallas Police Dept. could never admit that their actual Dealey star witness--who provided them with the 12:44 suspect description--was someone who stated that he had seen Oswald BEHIND THE DEPOSITORY, WITH A RIFLE, AFTER 12:30, on 11/
    22/63. His observations were broadcast and re-broadcast, live, and could not be taken back. DPD did the next best thing and attached the suspect description, none too credibly, to witness Howard Brennan: The latter thought that the suspect was "standing"
    as he shot from the "sniper's nest" (Warren Commission hearings v3p144), hence the cockamamie (at least from his vantage point) height and weight specs. But Brennan did see a rifle, and that's all that was needed.

    Downplaying of back-of-the-depository activity began that same day, with TSBD employee Mrs. R.A. Reid, who wrote, in an affidavit, that Oswald came through her office shortly after the shooting. At the Commission hearings, Counsel David Belin asked
    her, "How would he have gotten out of the office?" Mrs. Reid: "Right straight out this door down this stairway and out the front door." (v3p278) (Note that she is more than helpful--she has Oswald all the way out the building, not just the office.) She
    told Belin that Oswald was wearing "a white T-shirt and some kind of wash trousers" (p276). However, Patrolman M.L. Baker--who had just encountered Oswald in the next room--wrote in his same-day affidavit that he was "wearing a light brown jacket". Mrs.
    Reid may have been thinking of Oswald's usual office attire. (As per James Jarman: "Oswald usually worked in a white tee-shirt". [12/5/63 FBI interview])

    Who to believe? TSBD secretary Geneva Hine, when asked by Counsel Joseph Ball, "When you came back in [to the same office, after 12:30] did you see Mrs. Reid?" Hine: "No, sir, I don't believe there was a soul in the office when I came back in right
    then." (v6p396) Ball asks her, "Were you facing the door [Oswald] is supposed to have left by?" Hine: "Yes, sir." Ball: "Do you recall seeing him?" "No, sir." (p397) Mrs. Reid--supposed witness to Oswald leaving by the front door--caught out by Baker and
    Hine.

    Further references, the next few days, to an Oswald front-door departure can be found in written accounts of the Oswald interviews (Warren Report pp619, 636). The interviews were not recorded. And if Mrs. Reid's testimony is any indication, the
    interview accounts of Oswald's exit route must be deemed, at best, unreliable, too.

    However, all sources agree: Three minutes after the shooting, Oswald was downstairs, on the first floor, then out the front or back door. "Out the front door by 12:33"--Warren Report (p155). "Three minutes from the last shot to dialing the
    telephone inside the TSBD", after "his encounter with Oswald... inside the TSBD"--Pierce Allman (JFK Facts). Behind the building, it was "approximately three minutes before I saw this man come out the back door here."--James Worrell (v2p195).

    On the 23rd, the downplaying of elements in the 12:44 suspect description continued. In his affidavit, witness James Worrell, stated that, from Pacific Street, just north of the TSBD, he saw a man "come out of the building and run in the opposite
    direction from me... didn't have anything in hands." So, for Worrell here, no rifle apparent on the runner.

    But, in between the taking of the affidavit and its final form--in the Commission Exhibits--a funny thing happened. Taking Worrell's affidavit, "at about 5pm", on the 23rd, Det. R.L. Anderton wrote that, from the "north side of the TSBD... [Worrell]
    saw "a man run out of the building in a southerly direction. He said when he got home and saw pictures of Lee Harvey Oswald in the newspapers and on television, he recognized him as the man he saw run from the building." (CE 2003 p185)

    Now, take a look at Worrell's affidavit--Commission Exhibit No. 2003, page 69. The name of the man that he recognized, that he "saw run from the building"... not there. In fact, there's no name at all. We know that Anderton took it down. But it's
    not there in CE 2003. There is just an impersonal reference to a "w/m". "Oswald" expunged. The Long Arm of the Law, Rewrite Dept.

    This is just the beginning of the weaning of Oswald from Worrell's narrative. On 11/30/63, Worrell told the FBI that he got a "profile view" of the man behind the TSBD and that he "felt [Oswald] was the person he had seen." But the next year he
    told the Commission that he "didn't see his face. I just saw the back of his head." It hardly seems likely that Worrell didn't get a glimpse of the running man's face, first running north out of the building, then turning south down Houston, "along the
    side of the depository building" (v2p196). Worrell changed his mind? No--the altered affidavit confirms that Worrell's mind was being changed for him.

    First, the rifle disappears, then "Oswald" disappears, twice. Actually, the first disappearance would have been the identification of Sawyer's unidentified witness. But, based on the subsequent disappearances, it seems safe to assume that that "
    unidentified" witness was... Worrell. Safer than to assume that there were TWO witnesses to Oswald rushing out the rear of the building--and that Worrell somehow didn't see the other, unidentified witness. So, the sequence of disappearing names: "Worrell"
    from Sawyer's report... "Oswald" from Worrell's affidavit... and "Oswald" from Worrell's testimony.


    In and of themselves, these disappearing acts may or may not be that significant. To put the best light on it, they may just have been a case of DPD personnel trying to save face, after invoking the specter of a man with a rifle running out the
    back door of the depository at 12:33. Exposed, they could have sputtered, "Well, no one saw him inside the building with a rifle at 12:33--ask Allman", etc., till the cows came home. But the cows, or horses, would already have long been out of the barn
    by that time... So the DPD simply suppressed the story. Obviously, they did not want to deal with the complication of having Oswald connected with the back-door rifle, fictitious or not. But the pesky Worrell kept bringing him up.

    The simple fact of the altered affidavit, however, is quite significant, in one way--an illustrative way. It shows, clearly and concisely, both the before and the after of how the DPD could suppress information. It shows, in short, the DPD M.O. It'
    s a little skeleton key to the JFK assassination.

    dcw
    That's very good. Reid deserves her own video, I think. She was also used to defend Jackie's hat action at the turn from Main onto Houston. She was a multipurpose witness. R.L. Anderton? I'll have to look into that. You seem to be insisting that
    Worrell was actually there on the day of the assassination, but I can overlook that.
    Well, somebody using Worrell's name was actually there--5'8" to 5'10", 155-165, late 20s early 30s. 12:44pm picks up the high number from those estimates.
    But Sawyer did not get a name, so we don't know that anybody was using Worrell's name on November 22. Yes, by November 23 somebody was using his name.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Donald Willis@21:1/5 to NoTrueFlags Here on Fri Sep 22 12:37:56 2023
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 10:20:54 AM UTC-7, NoTrueFlags Here wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:39:00 PM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    On Thursday, September 21, 2023 at 10:06:19 PM UTC-7, NoTrueFlags Here wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:43:37 AM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    James Worrell and the Magic Affidavit

    "An unidentified individual told Insp. J.H. Sawyer that he had seen an individual run from the TSBD building shortly after the shooting of Pres. Kennedy and that this individual was an unknown white male, approximately 30, slender build, 5'10",
    165 pounds, carrying what looked to be a 30:30, or some type of Winchester rifle. Insp. Sawyer then contacted Dallas Police Sgt. G.D. Henslee, radio dispatcher, and this description was broadcast to all Dallas squad cars." -- dispatch to "Director, FBI",
    from Dallas FBI office. (courtesy of SkyThrone, alt.conspiracy.jfk, 9/3/23)

    Of course, the Dallas Police Dept. could never admit that their actual Dealey star witness--who provided them with the 12:44 suspect description--was someone who stated that he had seen Oswald BEHIND THE DEPOSITORY, WITH A RIFLE, AFTER 12:30, on
    11/22/63. His observations were broadcast and re-broadcast, live, and could not be taken back. DPD did the next best thing and attached the suspect description, none too credibly, to witness Howard Brennan: The latter thought that the suspect was "
    standing" as he shot from the "sniper's nest" (Warren Commission hearings v3p144), hence the cockamamie (at least from his vantage point) height and weight specs. But Brennan did see a rifle, and that's all that was needed.

    Downplaying of back-of-the-depository activity began that same day, with TSBD employee Mrs. R.A. Reid, who wrote, in an affidavit, that Oswald came through her office shortly after the shooting. At the Commission hearings, Counsel David Belin
    asked her, "How would he have gotten out of the office?" Mrs. Reid: "Right straight out this door down this stairway and out the front door." (v3p278) (Note that she is more than helpful--she has Oswald all the way out the building, not just the office.)
    She told Belin that Oswald was wearing "a white T-shirt and some kind of wash trousers" (p276). However, Patrolman M.L. Baker--who had just encountered Oswald in the next room--wrote in his same-day affidavit that he was "wearing a light brown jacket".
    Mrs. Reid may have been thinking of Oswald's usual office attire. (As per James Jarman: "Oswald usually worked in a white tee-shirt". [12/5/63 FBI interview])

    Who to believe? TSBD secretary Geneva Hine, when asked by Counsel Joseph Ball, "When you came back in [to the same office, after 12:30] did you see Mrs. Reid?" Hine: "No, sir, I don't believe there was a soul in the office when I came back in
    right then." (v6p396) Ball asks her, "Were you facing the door [Oswald] is supposed to have left by?" Hine: "Yes, sir." Ball: "Do you recall seeing him?" "No, sir." (p397) Mrs. Reid--supposed witness to Oswald leaving by the front door--caught out by
    Baker and Hine.

    Further references, the next few days, to an Oswald front-door departure can be found in written accounts of the Oswald interviews (Warren Report pp619, 636). The interviews were not recorded. And if Mrs. Reid's testimony is any indication, the
    interview accounts of Oswald's exit route must be deemed, at best, unreliable, too.

    However, all sources agree: Three minutes after the shooting, Oswald was downstairs, on the first floor, then out the front or back door. "Out the front door by 12:33"--Warren Report (p155). "Three minutes from the last shot to dialing the
    telephone inside the TSBD", after "his encounter with Oswald... inside the TSBD"--Pierce Allman (JFK Facts). Behind the building, it was "approximately three minutes before I saw this man come out the back door here."--James Worrell (v2p195).

    On the 23rd, the downplaying of elements in the 12:44 suspect description continued. In his affidavit, witness James Worrell, stated that, from Pacific Street, just north of the TSBD, he saw a man "come out of the building and run in the opposite
    direction from me... didn't have anything in hands." So, for Worrell here, no rifle apparent on the runner.

    But, in between the taking of the affidavit and its final form--in the Commission Exhibits--a funny thing happened. Taking Worrell's affidavit, "at about 5pm", on the 23rd, Det. R.L. Anderton wrote that, from the "north side of the TSBD... [
    Worrell] saw "a man run out of the building in a southerly direction. He said when he got home and saw pictures of Lee Harvey Oswald in the newspapers and on television, he recognized him as the man he saw run from the building." (CE 2003 p185)

    Now, take a look at Worrell's affidavit--Commission Exhibit No. 2003, page 69. The name of the man that he recognized, that he "saw run from the building"... not there. In fact, there's no name at all. We know that Anderton took it down. But it's
    not there in CE 2003. There is just an impersonal reference to a "w/m". "Oswald" expunged. The Long Arm of the Law, Rewrite Dept.

    This is just the beginning of the weaning of Oswald from Worrell's narrative. On 11/30/63, Worrell told the FBI that he got a "profile view" of the man behind the TSBD and that he "felt [Oswald] was the person he had seen." But the next year he
    told the Commission that he "didn't see his face. I just saw the back of his head." It hardly seems likely that Worrell didn't get a glimpse of the running man's face, first running north out of the building, then turning south down Houston, "along the
    side of the depository building" (v2p196). Worrell changed his mind? No--the altered affidavit confirms that Worrell's mind was being changed for him.

    First, the rifle disappears, then "Oswald" disappears, twice. Actually, the first disappearance would have been the identification of Sawyer's unidentified witness. But, based on the subsequent disappearances, it seems safe to assume that that "
    unidentified" witness was... Worrell. Safer than to assume that there were TWO witnesses to Oswald rushing out the rear of the building--and that Worrell somehow didn't see the other, unidentified witness. So, the sequence of disappearing names: "Worrell"
    from Sawyer's report... "Oswald" from Worrell's affidavit... and "Oswald" from Worrell's testimony.


    In and of themselves, these disappearing acts may or may not be that significant. To put the best light on it, they may just have been a case of DPD personnel trying to save face, after invoking the specter of a man with a rifle running out the
    back door of the depository at 12:33. Exposed, they could have sputtered, "Well, no one saw him inside the building with a rifle at 12:33--ask Allman", etc., till the cows came home. But the cows, or horses, would already have long been out of the barn
    by that time... So the DPD simply suppressed the story. Obviously, they did not want to deal with the complication of having Oswald connected with the back-door rifle, fictitious or not. But the pesky Worrell kept bringing him up.

    The simple fact of the altered affidavit, however, is quite significant, in one way--an illustrative way. It shows, clearly and concisely, both the before and the after of how the DPD could suppress information. It shows, in short, the DPD M.O.
    It's a little skeleton key to the JFK assassination.

    dcw
    That's very good. Reid deserves her own video, I think. She was also used to defend Jackie's hat action at the turn from Main onto Houston. She was a multipurpose witness. R.L. Anderton? I'll have to look into that. You seem to be insisting that
    Worrell was actually there on the day of the assassination, but I can overlook that.
    Well, somebody using Worrell's name was actually there--5'8" to 5'10", 155-165, late 20s early 30s. 12:44pm picks up the high number from those estimates.
    But Sawyer did not get a name

    Let's be precise--Sawyer did not SAY that he got a name. I'm sure he did. I bet Fritz was upset with him that day--putting Oswald with a rifle behind the building AND, earlier, on the 5th/3rd floor. Could he have CAUSED Fritz any more headaches? (in
    my best Chandler impression)

    dcw


    so we don't know that anybody was using Worrell's name on November 22. Yes, by November 23 somebody was using his name. And giving good specs, at least as good as Baker.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Donald Willis@21:1/5 to NoTrueFlags Here on Fri Sep 22 12:28:57 2023
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 10:19:39 AM UTC-7, NoTrueFlags Here wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:32:18 PM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    On Thursday, September 21, 2023 at 10:19:47 PM UTC-7, NoTrueFlags Here wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:43:37 AM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    James Worrell and the Magic Affidavit

    "An unidentified individual told Insp. J.H. Sawyer that he had seen an individual run from the TSBD building shortly after the shooting of Pres. Kennedy and that this individual was an unknown white male, approximately 30, slender build, 5'10",
    165 pounds, carrying what looked to be a 30:30, or some type of Winchester rifle. Insp. Sawyer then contacted Dallas Police Sgt. G.D. Henslee, radio dispatcher, and this description was broadcast to all Dallas squad cars." -- dispatch to "Director, FBI",
    from Dallas FBI office. (courtesy of SkyThrone, alt.conspiracy.jfk, 9/3/23)

    Of course, the Dallas Police Dept. could never admit that their actual Dealey star witness--who provided them with the 12:44 suspect description--was someone who stated that he had seen Oswald BEHIND THE DEPOSITORY, WITH A RIFLE, AFTER 12:30, on
    11/22/63. His observations were broadcast and re-broadcast, live, and could not be taken back. DPD did the next best thing and attached the suspect description, none too credibly, to witness Howard Brennan: The latter thought that the suspect was "
    standing" as he shot from the "sniper's nest" (Warren Commission hearings v3p144), hence the cockamamie (at least from his vantage point) height and weight specs. But Brennan did see a rifle, and that's all that was needed.

    Downplaying of back-of-the-depository activity began that same day, with TSBD employee Mrs. R.A. Reid, who wrote, in an affidavit, that Oswald came through her office shortly after the shooting. At the Commission hearings, Counsel David Belin
    asked her, "How would he have gotten out of the office?" Mrs. Reid: "Right straight out this door down this stairway and out the front door." (v3p278) (Note that she is more than helpful--she has Oswald all the way out the building, not just the office.)
    She told Belin that Oswald was wearing "a white T-shirt and some kind of wash trousers" (p276). However, Patrolman M.L. Baker--who had just encountered Oswald in the next room--wrote in his same-day affidavit that he was "wearing a light brown jacket".
    Mrs. Reid may have been thinking of Oswald's usual office attire. (As per James Jarman: "Oswald usually worked in a white tee-shirt". [12/5/63 FBI interview])

    Who to believe? TSBD secretary Geneva Hine, when asked by Counsel Joseph Ball, "When you came back in [to the same office, after 12:30] did you see Mrs. Reid?" Hine: "No, sir, I don't believe there was a soul in the office when I came back in
    right then." (v6p396) Ball asks her, "Were you facing the door [Oswald] is supposed to have left by?" Hine: "Yes, sir." Ball: "Do you recall seeing him?" "No, sir." (p397) Mrs. Reid--supposed witness to Oswald leaving by the front door--caught out by
    Baker and Hine.

    Further references, the next few days, to an Oswald front-door departure can be found in written accounts of the Oswald interviews (Warren Report pp619, 636). The interviews were not recorded. And if Mrs. Reid's testimony is any indication, the
    interview accounts of Oswald's exit route must be deemed, at best, unreliable, too.

    However, all sources agree: Three minutes after the shooting, Oswald was downstairs, on the first floor, then out the front or back door. "Out the front door by 12:33"--Warren Report (p155). "Three minutes from the last shot to dialing the
    telephone inside the TSBD", after "his encounter with Oswald... inside the TSBD"--Pierce Allman (JFK Facts). Behind the building, it was "approximately three minutes before I saw this man come out the back door here."--James Worrell (v2p195).

    On the 23rd, the downplaying of elements in the 12:44 suspect description continued. In his affidavit, witness James Worrell, stated that, from Pacific Street, just north of the TSBD, he saw a man "come out of the building and run in the opposite
    direction from me... didn't have anything in hands." So, for Worrell here, no rifle apparent on the runner.

    But, in between the taking of the affidavit and its final form--in the Commission Exhibits--a funny thing happened. Taking Worrell's affidavit, "at about 5pm", on the 23rd, Det. R.L. Anderton wrote
    I see no "Anderton" on the DPD roster. A couple of Andersons are there, but they are patrolman. The DPD report states who took most of the affidavits, but not Worrell's. Where do you get your Anderton information?
    Like I noted, CE 2003 p184. Easier access online may be by using the Hearings volume number: v24 p294. A fuzzy repro. I work from an old but clear photocopy. Not sure why I copied it. Never looked at Worrell's affidavit or testimony much, except for
    his "5 or 6 stories up", for obvious reasons.
    He is on the roster as a patrolman, but my search function misses his name. Adamcik, apparently his partner, is also listed as a patrolman. Okay.

    Yes. I happen to have a copy of DPD Second Platoon staff. Why? Because Leonard L. (2nd window from the end) Hill is one of its patrolmen. Also in the platoon: Joe Poe and James W. (5th or 6th floor) Valentine! And Kenneth L. Anderton, listed just
    below Adamcik. (Did they do partnering alphabetically?) Well, I worked from not THAT clear a copy I guess--I thought his initial initial was an "R", not a "K", which looking closely I now see that it's a "K". I also see that William G. (Bob Jackson
    saw everything) Jennings was one of their sergeants. An excellent platoon...

    dcw

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  • From Donald Willis@21:1/5 to Donald Willis on Fri Sep 22 12:39:01 2023
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:37:57 PM UTC-7, Donald Willis wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 10:20:54 AM UTC-7, NoTrueFlags Here wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:39:00 PM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    On Thursday, September 21, 2023 at 10:06:19 PM UTC-7, NoTrueFlags Here wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:43:37 AM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    James Worrell and the Magic Affidavit

    "An unidentified individual told Insp. J.H. Sawyer that he had seen an individual run from the TSBD building shortly after the shooting of Pres. Kennedy and that this individual was an unknown white male, approximately 30, slender build, 5'10",
    165 pounds, carrying what looked to be a 30:30, or some type of Winchester rifle. Insp. Sawyer then contacted Dallas Police Sgt. G.D. Henslee, radio dispatcher, and this description was broadcast to all Dallas squad cars." -- dispatch to "Director, FBI",
    from Dallas FBI office. (courtesy of SkyThrone, alt.conspiracy.jfk, 9/3/23)

    Of course, the Dallas Police Dept. could never admit that their actual Dealey star witness--who provided them with the 12:44 suspect description--was someone who stated that he had seen Oswald BEHIND THE DEPOSITORY, WITH A RIFLE, AFTER 12:30,
    on 11/22/63. His observations were broadcast and re-broadcast, live, and could not be taken back. DPD did the next best thing and attached the suspect description, none too credibly, to witness Howard Brennan: The latter thought that the suspect was "
    standing" as he shot from the "sniper's nest" (Warren Commission hearings v3p144), hence the cockamamie (at least from his vantage point) height and weight specs. But Brennan did see a rifle, and that's all that was needed.

    Downplaying of back-of-the-depository activity began that same day, with TSBD employee Mrs. R.A. Reid, who wrote, in an affidavit, that Oswald came through her office shortly after the shooting. At the Commission hearings, Counsel David Belin
    asked her, "How would he have gotten out of the office?" Mrs. Reid: "Right straight out this door down this stairway and out the front door." (v3p278) (Note that she is more than helpful--she has Oswald all the way out the building, not just the office.)
    She told Belin that Oswald was wearing "a white T-shirt and some kind of wash trousers" (p276). However, Patrolman M.L. Baker--who had just encountered Oswald in the next room--wrote in his same-day affidavit that he was "wearing a light brown jacket".
    Mrs. Reid may have been thinking of Oswald's usual office attire. (As per James Jarman: "Oswald usually worked in a white tee-shirt". [12/5/63 FBI interview])

    Who to believe? TSBD secretary Geneva Hine, when asked by Counsel Joseph Ball, "When you came back in [to the same office, after 12:30] did you see Mrs. Reid?" Hine: "No, sir, I don't believe there was a soul in the office when I came back in
    right then." (v6p396) Ball asks her, "Were you facing the door [Oswald] is supposed to have left by?" Hine: "Yes, sir." Ball: "Do you recall seeing him?" "No, sir." (p397) Mrs. Reid--supposed witness to Oswald leaving by the front door--caught out by
    Baker and Hine.

    Further references, the next few days, to an Oswald front-door departure can be found in written accounts of the Oswald interviews (Warren Report pp619, 636). The interviews were not recorded. And if Mrs. Reid's testimony is any indication, the
    interview accounts of Oswald's exit route must be deemed, at best, unreliable, too.

    However, all sources agree: Three minutes after the shooting, Oswald was downstairs, on the first floor, then out the front or back door. "Out the front door by 12:33"--Warren Report (p155). "Three minutes from the last shot to dialing the
    telephone inside the TSBD", after "his encounter with Oswald... inside the TSBD"--Pierce Allman (JFK Facts). Behind the building, it was "approximately three minutes before I saw this man come out the back door here."--James Worrell (v2p195).

    On the 23rd, the downplaying of elements in the 12:44 suspect description continued. In his affidavit, witness James Worrell, stated that, from Pacific Street, just north of the TSBD, he saw a man "come out of the building and run in the
    opposite direction from me... didn't have anything in hands." So, for Worrell here, no rifle apparent on the runner.

    But, in between the taking of the affidavit and its final form--in the Commission Exhibits--a funny thing happened. Taking Worrell's affidavit, "at about 5pm", on the 23rd, Det. R.L. Anderton wrote that, from the "north side of the TSBD... [
    Worrell] saw "a man run out of the building in a southerly direction. He said when he got home and saw pictures of Lee Harvey Oswald in the newspapers and on television, he recognized him as the man he saw run from the building." (CE 2003 p185)

    Now, take a look at Worrell's affidavit--Commission Exhibit No. 2003, page 69. The name of the man that he recognized, that he "saw run from the building"... not there. In fact, there's no name at all. We know that Anderton took it down. But it'
    s not there in CE 2003. There is just an impersonal reference to a "w/m". "Oswald" expunged. The Long Arm of the Law, Rewrite Dept.

    This is just the beginning of the weaning of Oswald from Worrell's narrative. On 11/30/63, Worrell told the FBI that he got a "profile view" of the man behind the TSBD and that he "felt [Oswald] was the person he had seen." But the next year he
    told the Commission that he "didn't see his face. I just saw the back of his head." It hardly seems likely that Worrell didn't get a glimpse of the running man's face, first running north out of the building, then turning south down Houston, "along the
    side of the depository building" (v2p196). Worrell changed his mind? No--the altered affidavit confirms that Worrell's mind was being changed for him.

    First, the rifle disappears, then "Oswald" disappears, twice. Actually, the first disappearance would have been the identification of Sawyer's unidentified witness. But, based on the subsequent disappearances, it seems safe to assume that that "
    unidentified" witness was... Worrell. Safer than to assume that there were TWO witnesses to Oswald rushing out the rear of the building--and that Worrell somehow didn't see the other, unidentified witness. So, the sequence of disappearing names: "Worrell"
    from Sawyer's report... "Oswald" from Worrell's affidavit... and "Oswald" from Worrell's testimony.


    In and of themselves, these disappearing acts may or may not be that significant. To put the best light on it, they may just have been a case of DPD personnel trying to save face, after invoking the specter of a man with a rifle running out the
    back door of the depository at 12:33. Exposed, they could have sputtered, "Well, no one saw him inside the building with a rifle at 12:33--ask Allman", etc., till the cows came home. But the cows, or horses, would already have long been out of the barn
    by that time... So the DPD simply suppressed the story. Obviously, they did not want to deal with the complication of having Oswald connected with the back-door rifle, fictitious or not. But the pesky Worrell kept bringing him up.

    The simple fact of the altered affidavit, however, is quite significant, in one way--an illustrative way. It shows, clearly and concisely, both the before and the after of how the DPD could suppress information. It shows, in short, the DPD M.O.
    It's a little skeleton key to the JFK assassination.

    dcw
    That's very good. Reid deserves her own video, I think. She was also used to defend Jackie's hat action at the turn from Main onto Houston. She was a multipurpose witness. R.L. Anderton? I'll have to look into that. You seem to be insisting that
    Worrell was actually there on the day of the assassination, but I can overlook that.
    Well, somebody using Worrell's name was actually there--5'8" to 5'10", 155-165, late 20s early 30s. 12:44pm picks up the high number from those estimates.
    But Sawyer did not get a name
    Let's be precise--Sawyer did not SAY that he got a name. I'm sure he did. I bet Fritz was upset with him that day--putting Oswald with a rifle behind the building AND, earlier, on the 5th/3rd floor. Could he have CAUSED Fritz any more headaches? (in my
    best Chandler impression)

    dcw


    so we don't know that anybody was using Worrell's name on November 22. Yes, by November 23 somebody was using his name.

    (there should have been a new paragraph here)
    And giving good specs, at least as good as Baker.

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  • From NoTrueFlags Here@21:1/5 to Donald Willis on Fri Sep 22 12:42:42 2023
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 3:39:03 PM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:37:57 PM UTC-7, Donald Willis wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 10:20:54 AM UTC-7, NoTrueFlags Here wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:39:00 PM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    On Thursday, September 21, 2023 at 10:06:19 PM UTC-7, NoTrueFlags Here wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:43:37 AM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    James Worrell and the Magic Affidavit

    "An unidentified individual told Insp. J.H. Sawyer that he had seen an individual run from the TSBD building shortly after the shooting of Pres. Kennedy and that this individual was an unknown white male, approximately 30, slender build, 5'10"
    , 165 pounds, carrying what looked to be a 30:30, or some type of Winchester rifle. Insp. Sawyer then contacted Dallas Police Sgt. G.D. Henslee, radio dispatcher, and this description was broadcast to all Dallas squad cars." -- dispatch to "Director, FBI"
    , from Dallas FBI office. (courtesy of SkyThrone, alt.conspiracy.jfk, 9/3/23)

    Of course, the Dallas Police Dept. could never admit that their actual Dealey star witness--who provided them with the 12:44 suspect description--was someone who stated that he had seen Oswald BEHIND THE DEPOSITORY, WITH A RIFLE, AFTER 12:30,
    on 11/22/63. His observations were broadcast and re-broadcast, live, and could not be taken back. DPD did the next best thing and attached the suspect description, none too credibly, to witness Howard Brennan: The latter thought that the suspect was "
    standing" as he shot from the "sniper's nest" (Warren Commission hearings v3p144), hence the cockamamie (at least from his vantage point) height and weight specs. But Brennan did see a rifle, and that's all that was needed.

    Downplaying of back-of-the-depository activity began that same day, with TSBD employee Mrs. R.A. Reid, who wrote, in an affidavit, that Oswald came through her office shortly after the shooting. At the Commission hearings, Counsel David Belin
    asked her, "How would he have gotten out of the office?" Mrs. Reid: "Right straight out this door down this stairway and out the front door." (v3p278) (Note that she is more than helpful--she has Oswald all the way out the building, not just the office.)
    She told Belin that Oswald was wearing "a white T-shirt and some kind of wash trousers" (p276). However, Patrolman M.L. Baker--who had just encountered Oswald in the next room--wrote in his same-day affidavit that he was "wearing a light brown jacket".
    Mrs. Reid may have been thinking of Oswald's usual office attire. (As per James Jarman: "Oswald usually worked in a white tee-shirt". [12/5/63 FBI interview])

    Who to believe? TSBD secretary Geneva Hine, when asked by Counsel Joseph Ball, "When you came back in [to the same office, after 12:30] did you see Mrs. Reid?" Hine: "No, sir, I don't believe there was a soul in the office when I came back in
    right then." (v6p396) Ball asks her, "Were you facing the door [Oswald] is supposed to have left by?" Hine: "Yes, sir." Ball: "Do you recall seeing him?" "No, sir." (p397) Mrs. Reid--supposed witness to Oswald leaving by the front door--caught out by
    Baker and Hine.

    Further references, the next few days, to an Oswald front-door departure can be found in written accounts of the Oswald interviews (Warren Report pp619, 636). The interviews were not recorded. And if Mrs. Reid's testimony is any indication,
    the interview accounts of Oswald's exit route must be deemed, at best, unreliable, too.

    However, all sources agree: Three minutes after the shooting, Oswald was downstairs, on the first floor, then out the front or back door. "Out the front door by 12:33"--Warren Report (p155). "Three minutes from the last shot to dialing the
    telephone inside the TSBD", after "his encounter with Oswald... inside the TSBD"--Pierce Allman (JFK Facts). Behind the building, it was "approximately three minutes before I saw this man come out the back door here."--James Worrell (v2p195).

    On the 23rd, the downplaying of elements in the 12:44 suspect description continued. In his affidavit, witness James Worrell, stated that, from Pacific Street, just north of the TSBD, he saw a man "come out of the building and run in the
    opposite direction from me... didn't have anything in hands." So, for Worrell here, no rifle apparent on the runner.

    But, in between the taking of the affidavit and its final form--in the Commission Exhibits--a funny thing happened. Taking Worrell's affidavit, "at about 5pm", on the 23rd, Det. R.L. Anderton wrote that, from the "north side of the TSBD... [
    Worrell] saw "a man run out of the building in a southerly direction. He said when he got home and saw pictures of Lee Harvey Oswald in the newspapers and on television, he recognized him as the man he saw run from the building." (CE 2003 p185)

    Now, take a look at Worrell's affidavit--Commission Exhibit No. 2003, page 69. The name of the man that he recognized, that he "saw run from the building"... not there. In fact, there's no name at all. We know that Anderton took it down. But
    it's not there in CE 2003. There is just an impersonal reference to a "w/m". "Oswald" expunged. The Long Arm of the Law, Rewrite Dept.

    This is just the beginning of the weaning of Oswald from Worrell's narrative. On 11/30/63, Worrell told the FBI that he got a "profile view" of the man behind the TSBD and that he "felt [Oswald] was the person he had seen." But the next year
    he told the Commission that he "didn't see his face. I just saw the back of his head." It hardly seems likely that Worrell didn't get a glimpse of the running man's face, first running north out of the building, then turning south down Houston, "along
    the side of the depository building" (v2p196). Worrell changed his mind? No--the altered affidavit confirms that Worrell's mind was being changed for him.

    First, the rifle disappears, then "Oswald" disappears, twice. Actually, the first disappearance would have been the identification of Sawyer's unidentified witness. But, based on the subsequent disappearances, it seems safe to assume that
    that "unidentified" witness was... Worrell. Safer than to assume that there were TWO witnesses to Oswald rushing out the rear of the building--and that Worrell somehow didn't see the other, unidentified witness. So, the sequence of disappearing names: "
    Worrell" from Sawyer's report... "Oswald" from Worrell's affidavit... and "Oswald" from Worrell's testimony.


    In and of themselves, these disappearing acts may or may not be that significant. To put the best light on it, they may just have been a case of DPD personnel trying to save face, after invoking the specter of a man with a rifle running out
    the back door of the depository at 12:33. Exposed, they could have sputtered, "Well, no one saw him inside the building with a rifle at 12:33--ask Allman", etc., till the cows came home. But the cows, or horses, would already have long been out of the
    barn by that time... So the DPD simply suppressed the story. Obviously, they did not want to deal with the complication of having Oswald connected with the back-door rifle, fictitious or not. But the pesky Worrell kept bringing him up.

    The simple fact of the altered affidavit, however, is quite significant, in one way--an illustrative way. It shows, clearly and concisely, both the before and the after of how the DPD could suppress information. It shows, in short, the DPD M.
    O. It's a little skeleton key to the JFK assassination.

    dcw
    That's very good. Reid deserves her own video, I think. She was also used to defend Jackie's hat action at the turn from Main onto Houston. She was a multipurpose witness. R.L. Anderton? I'll have to look into that. You seem to be insisting
    that Worrell was actually there on the day of the assassination, but I can overlook that.
    Well, somebody using Worrell's name was actually there--5'8" to 5'10", 155-165, late 20s early 30s. 12:44pm picks up the high number from those estimates.
    But Sawyer did not get a name
    Let's be precise--Sawyer did not SAY that he got a name. I'm sure he did. I bet Fritz was upset with him that day--putting Oswald with a rifle behind the building AND, earlier, on the 5th/3rd floor. Could he have CAUSED Fritz any more headaches? (in
    my best Chandler impression)

    dcw


    so we don't know that anybody was using Worrell's name on November 22. Yes, by November 23 somebody was using his name.
    (there should have been a new paragraph here)
    And giving good specs, at least as good as Baker.

    I see you're tearing off their heads on the Ed Forum! Very exciting reading!

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  • From Donald Willis@21:1/5 to NoTrueFlags Here on Fri Sep 22 13:49:47 2023
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:42:43 PM UTC-7, NoTrueFlags Here wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 3:39:03 PM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:37:57 PM UTC-7, Donald Willis wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 10:20:54 AM UTC-7, NoTrueFlags Here wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:39:00 PM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    On Thursday, September 21, 2023 at 10:06:19 PM UTC-7, NoTrueFlags Here wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:43:37 AM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    James Worrell and the Magic Affidavit

    "An unidentified individual told Insp. J.H. Sawyer that he had seen an individual run from the TSBD building shortly after the shooting of Pres. Kennedy and that this individual was an unknown white male, approximately 30, slender build, 5'
    10", 165 pounds, carrying what looked to be a 30:30, or some type of Winchester rifle. Insp. Sawyer then contacted Dallas Police Sgt. G.D. Henslee, radio dispatcher, and this description was broadcast to all Dallas squad cars." -- dispatch to "Director,
    FBI", from Dallas FBI office. (courtesy of SkyThrone, alt.conspiracy.jfk, 9/3/23)

    Of course, the Dallas Police Dept. could never admit that their actual Dealey star witness--who provided them with the 12:44 suspect description--was someone who stated that he had seen Oswald BEHIND THE DEPOSITORY, WITH A RIFLE, AFTER 12:
    30, on 11/22/63. His observations were broadcast and re-broadcast, live, and could not be taken back. DPD did the next best thing and attached the suspect description, none too credibly, to witness Howard Brennan: The latter thought that the suspect was "
    standing" as he shot from the "sniper's nest" (Warren Commission hearings v3p144), hence the cockamamie (at least from his vantage point) height and weight specs. But Brennan did see a rifle, and that's all that was needed.

    Downplaying of back-of-the-depository activity began that same day, with TSBD employee Mrs. R.A. Reid, who wrote, in an affidavit, that Oswald came through her office shortly after the shooting. At the Commission hearings, Counsel David
    Belin asked her, "How would he have gotten out of the office?" Mrs. Reid: "Right straight out this door down this stairway and out the front door." (v3p278) (Note that she is more than helpful--she has Oswald all the way out the building, not just the
    office.) She told Belin that Oswald was wearing "a white T-shirt and some kind of wash trousers" (p276). However, Patrolman M.L. Baker--who had just encountered Oswald in the next room--wrote in his same-day affidavit that he was "wearing a light brown
    jacket". Mrs. Reid may have been thinking of Oswald's usual office attire. (As per James Jarman: "Oswald usually worked in a white tee-shirt". [12/5/63 FBI interview])

    Who to believe? TSBD secretary Geneva Hine, when asked by Counsel Joseph Ball, "When you came back in [to the same office, after 12:30] did you see Mrs. Reid?" Hine: "No, sir, I don't believe there was a soul in the office when I came back
    in right then." (v6p396) Ball asks her, "Were you facing the door [Oswald] is supposed to have left by?" Hine: "Yes, sir." Ball: "Do you recall seeing him?" "No, sir." (p397) Mrs. Reid--supposed witness to Oswald leaving by the front door--caught out by
    Baker and Hine.

    Further references, the next few days, to an Oswald front-door departure can be found in written accounts of the Oswald interviews (Warren Report pp619, 636). The interviews were not recorded. And if Mrs. Reid's testimony is any indication,
    the interview accounts of Oswald's exit route must be deemed, at best, unreliable, too.

    However, all sources agree: Three minutes after the shooting, Oswald was downstairs, on the first floor, then out the front or back door. "Out the front door by 12:33"--Warren Report (p155). "Three minutes from the last shot to dialing the
    telephone inside the TSBD", after "his encounter with Oswald... inside the TSBD"--Pierce Allman (JFK Facts). Behind the building, it was "approximately three minutes before I saw this man come out the back door here."--James Worrell (v2p195).

    On the 23rd, the downplaying of elements in the 12:44 suspect description continued. In his affidavit, witness James Worrell, stated that, from Pacific Street, just north of the TSBD, he saw a man "come out of the building and run in the
    opposite direction from me... didn't have anything in hands." So, for Worrell here, no rifle apparent on the runner.

    But, in between the taking of the affidavit and its final form--in the Commission Exhibits--a funny thing happened. Taking Worrell's affidavit, "at about 5pm", on the 23rd, Det. R.L. Anderton wrote that, from the "north side of the TSBD... [
    Worrell] saw "a man run out of the building in a southerly direction. He said when he got home and saw pictures of Lee Harvey Oswald in the newspapers and on television, he recognized him as the man he saw run from the building." (CE 2003 p185)

    Now, take a look at Worrell's affidavit--Commission Exhibit No. 2003, page 69. The name of the man that he recognized, that he "saw run from the building"... not there. In fact, there's no name at all. We know that Anderton took it down.
    But it's not there in CE 2003. There is just an impersonal reference to a "w/m". "Oswald" expunged. The Long Arm of the Law, Rewrite Dept.

    This is just the beginning of the weaning of Oswald from Worrell's narrative. On 11/30/63, Worrell told the FBI that he got a "profile view" of the man behind the TSBD and that he "felt [Oswald] was the person he had seen." But the next
    year he told the Commission that he "didn't see his face. I just saw the back of his head." It hardly seems likely that Worrell didn't get a glimpse of the running man's face, first running north out of the building, then turning south down Houston, "
    along the side of the depository building" (v2p196). Worrell changed his mind? No--the altered affidavit confirms that Worrell's mind was being changed for him.

    First, the rifle disappears, then "Oswald" disappears, twice. Actually, the first disappearance would have been the identification of Sawyer's unidentified witness. But, based on the subsequent disappearances, it seems safe to assume that
    that "unidentified" witness was... Worrell. Safer than to assume that there were TWO witnesses to Oswald rushing out the rear of the building--and that Worrell somehow didn't see the other, unidentified witness. So, the sequence of disappearing names: "
    Worrell" from Sawyer's report... "Oswald" from Worrell's affidavit... and "Oswald" from Worrell's testimony.


    In and of themselves, these disappearing acts may or may not be that significant. To put the best light on it, they may just have been a case of DPD personnel trying to save face, after invoking the specter of a man with a rifle running out
    the back door of the depository at 12:33. Exposed, they could have sputtered, "Well, no one saw him inside the building with a rifle at 12:33--ask Allman", etc., till the cows came home. But the cows, or horses, would already have long been out of the
    barn by that time... So the DPD simply suppressed the story. Obviously, they did not want to deal with the complication of having Oswald connected with the back-door rifle, fictitious or not. But the pesky Worrell kept bringing him up.

    The simple fact of the altered affidavit, however, is quite significant, in one way--an illustrative way. It shows, clearly and concisely, both the before and the after of how the DPD could suppress information. It shows, in short, the DPD
    M.O. It's a little skeleton key to the JFK assassination.

    dcw
    That's very good. Reid deserves her own video, I think. She was also used to defend Jackie's hat action at the turn from Main onto Houston. She was a multipurpose witness. R.L. Anderton? I'll have to look into that. You seem to be insisting
    that Worrell was actually there on the day of the assassination, but I can overlook that.
    Well, somebody using Worrell's name was actually there--5'8" to 5'10", 155-165, late 20s early 30s. 12:44pm picks up the high number from those estimates.
    But Sawyer did not get a name
    Let's be precise--Sawyer did not SAY that he got a name. I'm sure he did. I bet Fritz was upset with him that day--putting Oswald with a rifle behind the building AND, earlier, on the 5th/3rd floor. Could he have CAUSED Fritz any more headaches? (
    in my best Chandler impression)

    dcw


    so we don't know that anybody was using Worrell's name on November 22. Yes, by November 23 somebody was using his name.
    (there should have been a new paragraph here)
    And giving good specs, at least as good as Baker.
    I see you're tearing off their heads on the Ed Forum! Very exciting reading!

    I guess I had been referred there a few times for a specific article. But a week or two ago, someone here suggested I begin actually posting there. Had to finish the Worrell thing first...

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From John Corbett@21:1/5 to Donald Willis on Sat Sep 23 04:49:32 2023
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 4:49:49 PM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:42:43 PM UTC-7, NoTrueFlags Here wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 3:39:03 PM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:37:57 PM UTC-7, Donald Willis wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 10:20:54 AM UTC-7, NoTrueFlags Here wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:39:00 PM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    On Thursday, September 21, 2023 at 10:06:19 PM UTC-7, NoTrueFlags Here wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:43:37 AM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    James Worrell and the Magic Affidavit

    "An unidentified individual told Insp. J.H. Sawyer that he had seen an individual run from the TSBD building shortly after the shooting of Pres. Kennedy and that this individual was an unknown white male, approximately 30, slender build,
    5'10", 165 pounds, carrying what looked to be a 30:30, or some type of Winchester rifle. Insp. Sawyer then contacted Dallas Police Sgt. G.D. Henslee, radio dispatcher, and this description was broadcast to all Dallas squad cars." -- dispatch to "Director,
    FBI", from Dallas FBI office. (courtesy of SkyThrone, alt.conspiracy.jfk, 9/3/23)

    Of course, the Dallas Police Dept. could never admit that their actual Dealey star witness--who provided them with the 12:44 suspect description--was someone who stated that he had seen Oswald BEHIND THE DEPOSITORY, WITH A RIFLE, AFTER 12:
    30, on 11/22/63. His observations were broadcast and re-broadcast, live, and could not be taken back. DPD did the next best thing and attached the suspect description, none too credibly, to witness Howard Brennan: The latter thought that the suspect was "
    standing" as he shot from the "sniper's nest" (Warren Commission hearings v3p144), hence the cockamamie (at least from his vantage point) height and weight specs. But Brennan did see a rifle, and that's all that was needed.

    Downplaying of back-of-the-depository activity began that same day, with TSBD employee Mrs. R.A. Reid, who wrote, in an affidavit, that Oswald came through her office shortly after the shooting. At the Commission hearings, Counsel David
    Belin asked her, "How would he have gotten out of the office?" Mrs. Reid: "Right straight out this door down this stairway and out the front door." (v3p278) (Note that she is more than helpful--she has Oswald all the way out the building, not just the
    office.) She told Belin that Oswald was wearing "a white T-shirt and some kind of wash trousers" (p276). However, Patrolman M.L. Baker--who had just encountered Oswald in the next room--wrote in his same-day affidavit that he was "wearing a light brown
    jacket". Mrs. Reid may have been thinking of Oswald's usual office attire. (As per James Jarman: "Oswald usually worked in a white tee-shirt". [12/5/63 FBI interview])

    Who to believe? TSBD secretary Geneva Hine, when asked by Counsel Joseph Ball, "When you came back in [to the same office, after 12:30] did you see Mrs. Reid?" Hine: "No, sir, I don't believe there was a soul in the office when I came
    back in right then." (v6p396) Ball asks her, "Were you facing the door [Oswald] is supposed to have left by?" Hine: "Yes, sir." Ball: "Do you recall seeing him?" "No, sir." (p397) Mrs. Reid--supposed witness to Oswald leaving by the front door--caught
    out by Baker and Hine.

    Further references, the next few days, to an Oswald front-door departure can be found in written accounts of the Oswald interviews (Warren Report pp619, 636). The interviews were not recorded. And if Mrs. Reid's testimony is any
    indication, the interview accounts of Oswald's exit route must be deemed, at best, unreliable, too.

    However, all sources agree: Three minutes after the shooting, Oswald was downstairs, on the first floor, then out the front or back door. "Out the front door by 12:33"--Warren Report (p155). "Three minutes from the last shot to dialing
    the telephone inside the TSBD", after "his encounter with Oswald... inside the TSBD"--Pierce Allman (JFK Facts). Behind the building, it was "approximately three minutes before I saw this man come out the back door here."--James Worrell (v2p195).

    On the 23rd, the downplaying of elements in the 12:44 suspect description continued. In his affidavit, witness James Worrell, stated that, from Pacific Street, just north of the TSBD, he saw a man "come out of the building and run in the
    opposite direction from me... didn't have anything in hands." So, for Worrell here, no rifle apparent on the runner.

    But, in between the taking of the affidavit and its final form--in the Commission Exhibits--a funny thing happened. Taking Worrell's affidavit, "at about 5pm", on the 23rd, Det. R.L. Anderton wrote that, from the "north side of the TSBD...
    [Worrell] saw "a man run out of the building in a southerly direction. He said when he got home and saw pictures of Lee Harvey Oswald in the newspapers and on television, he recognized him as the man he saw run from the building." (CE 2003 p185)

    Now, take a look at Worrell's affidavit--Commission Exhibit No. 2003, page 69. The name of the man that he recognized, that he "saw run from the building"... not there. In fact, there's no name at all. We know that Anderton took it down.
    But it's not there in CE 2003. There is just an impersonal reference to a "w/m". "Oswald" expunged. The Long Arm of the Law, Rewrite Dept.

    This is just the beginning of the weaning of Oswald from Worrell's narrative. On 11/30/63, Worrell told the FBI that he got a "profile view" of the man behind the TSBD and that he "felt [Oswald] was the person he had seen." But the next
    year he told the Commission that he "didn't see his face. I just saw the back of his head." It hardly seems likely that Worrell didn't get a glimpse of the running man's face, first running north out of the building, then turning south down Houston, "
    along the side of the depository building" (v2p196). Worrell changed his mind? No--the altered affidavit confirms that Worrell's mind was being changed for him.

    First, the rifle disappears, then "Oswald" disappears, twice. Actually, the first disappearance would have been the identification of Sawyer's unidentified witness. But, based on the subsequent disappearances, it seems safe to assume that
    that "unidentified" witness was... Worrell. Safer than to assume that there were TWO witnesses to Oswald rushing out the rear of the building--and that Worrell somehow didn't see the other, unidentified witness. So, the sequence of disappearing names: "
    Worrell" from Sawyer's report... "Oswald" from Worrell's affidavit... and "Oswald" from Worrell's testimony.


    In and of themselves, these disappearing acts may or may not be that significant. To put the best light on it, they may just have been a case of DPD personnel trying to save face, after invoking the specter of a man with a rifle running
    out the back door of the depository at 12:33. Exposed, they could have sputtered, "Well, no one saw him inside the building with a rifle at 12:33--ask Allman", etc., till the cows came home. But the cows, or horses, would already have long been out of
    the barn by that time... So the DPD simply suppressed the story. Obviously, they did not want to deal with the complication of having Oswald connected with the back-door rifle, fictitious or not. But the pesky Worrell kept bringing him up.

    The simple fact of the altered affidavit, however, is quite significant, in one way--an illustrative way. It shows, clearly and concisely, both the before and the after of how the DPD could suppress information. It shows, in short, the
    DPD M.O. It's a little skeleton key to the JFK assassination.

    dcw
    That's very good. Reid deserves her own video, I think. She was also used to defend Jackie's hat action at the turn from Main onto Houston. She was a multipurpose witness. R.L. Anderton? I'll have to look into that. You seem to be insisting
    that Worrell was actually there on the day of the assassination, but I can overlook that.
    Well, somebody using Worrell's name was actually there--5'8" to 5'10", 155-165, late 20s early 30s. 12:44pm picks up the high number from those estimates.
    But Sawyer did not get a name
    Let's be precise--Sawyer did not SAY that he got a name. I'm sure he did. I bet Fritz was upset with him that day--putting Oswald with a rifle behind the building AND, earlier, on the 5th/3rd floor. Could he have CAUSED Fritz any more headaches? (
    in my best Chandler impression)

    dcw


    so we don't know that anybody was using Worrell's name on November 22. Yes, by November 23 somebody was using his name.
    (there should have been a new paragraph here)
    And giving good specs, at least as good as Baker.
    I see you're tearing off their heads on the Ed Forum! Very exciting reading!
    I guess I had been referred there a few times for a specific article. But a week or two ago, someone here suggested I begin actually posting there. Had to finish the Worrell thing first...

    Thanks from a grateful nation. <chuckle>

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Donald Willis@21:1/5 to John Corbett on Sat Sep 23 09:03:36 2023
    On Saturday, September 23, 2023 at 4:49:34 AM UTC-7, John Corbett wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 4:49:49 PM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:42:43 PM UTC-7, NoTrueFlags Here wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 3:39:03 PM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:37:57 PM UTC-7, Donald Willis wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 10:20:54 AM UTC-7, NoTrueFlags Here wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:39:00 PM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    On Thursday, September 21, 2023 at 10:06:19 PM UTC-7, NoTrueFlags Here wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:43:37 AM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    James Worrell and the Magic Affidavit

    "An unidentified individual told Insp. J.H. Sawyer that he had seen an individual run from the TSBD building shortly after the shooting of Pres. Kennedy and that this individual was an unknown white male, approximately 30, slender build,
    5'10", 165 pounds, carrying what looked to be a 30:30, or some type of Winchester rifle. Insp. Sawyer then contacted Dallas Police Sgt. G.D. Henslee, radio dispatcher, and this description was broadcast to all Dallas squad cars." -- dispatch to "
    Director, FBI", from Dallas FBI office. (courtesy of SkyThrone, alt.conspiracy.jfk, 9/3/23)

    Of course, the Dallas Police Dept. could never admit that their actual Dealey star witness--who provided them with the 12:44 suspect description--was someone who stated that he had seen Oswald BEHIND THE DEPOSITORY, WITH A RIFLE, AFTER
    12:30, on 11/22/63. His observations were broadcast and re-broadcast, live, and could not be taken back. DPD did the next best thing and attached the suspect description, none too credibly, to witness Howard Brennan: The latter thought that the suspect
    was "standing" as he shot from the "sniper's nest" (Warren Commission hearings v3p144), hence the cockamamie (at least from his vantage point) height and weight specs. But Brennan did see a rifle, and that's all that was needed.

    Downplaying of back-of-the-depository activity began that same day, with TSBD employee Mrs. R.A. Reid, who wrote, in an affidavit, that Oswald came through her office shortly after the shooting. At the Commission hearings, Counsel David
    Belin asked her, "How would he have gotten out of the office?" Mrs. Reid: "Right straight out this door down this stairway and out the front door." (v3p278) (Note that she is more than helpful--she has Oswald all the way out the building, not just the
    office.) She told Belin that Oswald was wearing "a white T-shirt and some kind of wash trousers" (p276). However, Patrolman M.L. Baker--who had just encountered Oswald in the next room--wrote in his same-day affidavit that he was "wearing a light brown
    jacket". Mrs. Reid may have been thinking of Oswald's usual office attire. (As per James Jarman: "Oswald usually worked in a white tee-shirt". [12/5/63 FBI interview])

    Who to believe? TSBD secretary Geneva Hine, when asked by Counsel Joseph Ball, "When you came back in [to the same office, after 12:30] did you see Mrs. Reid?" Hine: "No, sir, I don't believe there was a soul in the office when I came
    back in right then." (v6p396) Ball asks her, "Were you facing the door [Oswald] is supposed to have left by?" Hine: "Yes, sir." Ball: "Do you recall seeing him?" "No, sir." (p397) Mrs. Reid--supposed witness to Oswald leaving by the front door--caught
    out by Baker and Hine.

    Further references, the next few days, to an Oswald front-door departure can be found in written accounts of the Oswald interviews (Warren Report pp619, 636). The interviews were not recorded. And if Mrs. Reid's testimony is any
    indication, the interview accounts of Oswald's exit route must be deemed, at best, unreliable, too.

    However, all sources agree: Three minutes after the shooting, Oswald was downstairs, on the first floor, then out the front or back door. "Out the front door by 12:33"--Warren Report (p155). "Three minutes from the last shot to dialing
    the telephone inside the TSBD", after "his encounter with Oswald... inside the TSBD"--Pierce Allman (JFK Facts). Behind the building, it was "approximately three minutes before I saw this man come out the back door here."--James Worrell (v2p195).

    On the 23rd, the downplaying of elements in the 12:44 suspect description continued. In his affidavit, witness James Worrell, stated that, from Pacific Street, just north of the TSBD, he saw a man "come out of the building and run in
    the opposite direction from me... didn't have anything in hands." So, for Worrell here, no rifle apparent on the runner.

    But, in between the taking of the affidavit and its final form--in the Commission Exhibits--a funny thing happened. Taking Worrell's affidavit, "at about 5pm", on the 23rd, Det. R.L. Anderton wrote that, from the "north side of the TSBD.
    .. [Worrell] saw "a man run out of the building in a southerly direction. He said when he got home and saw pictures of Lee Harvey Oswald in the newspapers and on television, he recognized him as the man he saw run from the building." (CE 2003 p185)

    Now, take a look at Worrell's affidavit--Commission Exhibit No. 2003, page 69. The name of the man that he recognized, that he "saw run from the building"... not there. In fact, there's no name at all. We know that Anderton took it down.
    But it's not there in CE 2003. There is just an impersonal reference to a "w/m". "Oswald" expunged. The Long Arm of the Law, Rewrite Dept.

    This is just the beginning of the weaning of Oswald from Worrell's narrative. On 11/30/63, Worrell told the FBI that he got a "profile view" of the man behind the TSBD and that he "felt [Oswald] was the person he had seen." But the next
    year he told the Commission that he "didn't see his face. I just saw the back of his head." It hardly seems likely that Worrell didn't get a glimpse of the running man's face, first running north out of the building, then turning south down Houston, "
    along the side of the depository building" (v2p196). Worrell changed his mind? No--the altered affidavit confirms that Worrell's mind was being changed for him.

    First, the rifle disappears, then "Oswald" disappears, twice. Actually, the first disappearance would have been the identification of Sawyer's unidentified witness. But, based on the subsequent disappearances, it seems safe to assume
    that that "unidentified" witness was... Worrell. Safer than to assume that there were TWO witnesses to Oswald rushing out the rear of the building--and that Worrell somehow didn't see the other, unidentified witness. So, the sequence of disappearing
    names: "Worrell" from Sawyer's report... "Oswald" from Worrell's affidavit... and "Oswald" from Worrell's testimony.


    In and of themselves, these disappearing acts may or may not be that significant. To put the best light on it, they may just have been a case of DPD personnel trying to save face, after invoking the specter of a man with a rifle running
    out the back door of the depository at 12:33. Exposed, they could have sputtered, "Well, no one saw him inside the building with a rifle at 12:33--ask Allman", etc., till the cows came home. But the cows, or horses, would already have long been out of
    the barn by that time... So the DPD simply suppressed the story. Obviously, they did not want to deal with the complication of having Oswald connected with the back-door rifle, fictitious or not. But the pesky Worrell kept bringing him up.

    The simple fact of the altered affidavit, however, is quite significant, in one way--an illustrative way. It shows, clearly and concisely, both the before and the after of how the DPD could suppress information. It shows, in short, the
    DPD M.O. It's a little skeleton key to the JFK assassination.

    dcw
    That's very good. Reid deserves her own video, I think. She was also used to defend Jackie's hat action at the turn from Main onto Houston. She was a multipurpose witness. R.L. Anderton? I'll have to look into that. You seem to be
    insisting that Worrell was actually there on the day of the assassination, but I can overlook that.
    Well, somebody using Worrell's name was actually there--5'8" to 5'10", 155-165, late 20s early 30s. 12:44pm picks up the high number from those estimates.
    But Sawyer did not get a name
    Let's be precise--Sawyer did not SAY that he got a name. I'm sure he did. I bet Fritz was upset with him that day--putting Oswald with a rifle behind the building AND, earlier, on the 5th/3rd floor. Could he have CAUSED Fritz any more headaches?
    (in my best Chandler impression)

    dcw


    so we don't know that anybody was using Worrell's name on November 22. Yes, by November 23 somebody was using his name.
    (there should have been a new paragraph here)
    And giving good specs, at least as good as Baker.
    I see you're tearing off their heads on the Ed Forum! Very exciting reading!
    I guess I had been referred there a few times for a specific article. But a week or two ago, someone here suggested I begin actually posting there. Had to finish the Worrell thing first...
    Thanks from a grateful nation. <chuckle>

    Chuckles but not a whit of substance from John Robot.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From John Corbett@21:1/5 to Donald Willis on Sat Sep 23 12:26:15 2023
    On Saturday, September 23, 2023 at 12:03:38 PM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    On Saturday, September 23, 2023 at 4:49:34 AM UTC-7, John Corbett wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 4:49:49 PM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:42:43 PM UTC-7, NoTrueFlags Here wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 3:39:03 PM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:37:57 PM UTC-7, Donald Willis wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 10:20:54 AM UTC-7, NoTrueFlags Here wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:39:00 PM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    On Thursday, September 21, 2023 at 10:06:19 PM UTC-7, NoTrueFlags Here wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:43:37 AM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    James Worrell and the Magic Affidavit

    "An unidentified individual told Insp. J.H. Sawyer that he had seen an individual run from the TSBD building shortly after the shooting of Pres. Kennedy and that this individual was an unknown white male, approximately 30, slender
    build, 5'10", 165 pounds, carrying what looked to be a 30:30, or some type of Winchester rifle. Insp. Sawyer then contacted Dallas Police Sgt. G.D. Henslee, radio dispatcher, and this description was broadcast to all Dallas squad cars." -- dispatch to "
    Director, FBI", from Dallas FBI office. (courtesy of SkyThrone, alt.conspiracy.jfk, 9/3/23)

    Of course, the Dallas Police Dept. could never admit that their actual Dealey star witness--who provided them with the 12:44 suspect description--was someone who stated that he had seen Oswald BEHIND THE DEPOSITORY, WITH A RIFLE,
    AFTER 12:30, on 11/22/63. His observations were broadcast and re-broadcast, live, and could not be taken back. DPD did the next best thing and attached the suspect description, none too credibly, to witness Howard Brennan: The latter thought that the
    suspect was "standing" as he shot from the "sniper's nest" (Warren Commission hearings v3p144), hence the cockamamie (at least from his vantage point) height and weight specs. But Brennan did see a rifle, and that's all that was needed.

    Downplaying of back-of-the-depository activity began that same day, with TSBD employee Mrs. R.A. Reid, who wrote, in an affidavit, that Oswald came through her office shortly after the shooting. At the Commission hearings, Counsel
    David Belin asked her, "How would he have gotten out of the office?" Mrs. Reid: "Right straight out this door down this stairway and out the front door." (v3p278) (Note that she is more than helpful--she has Oswald all the way out the building, not just
    the office.) She told Belin that Oswald was wearing "a white T-shirt and some kind of wash trousers" (p276). However, Patrolman M.L. Baker--who had just encountered Oswald in the next room--wrote in his same-day affidavit that he was "wearing a light
    brown jacket". Mrs. Reid may have been thinking of Oswald's usual office attire. (As per James Jarman: "Oswald usually worked in a white tee-shirt". [12/5/63 FBI interview])

    Who to believe? TSBD secretary Geneva Hine, when asked by Counsel Joseph Ball, "When you came back in [to the same office, after 12:30] did you see Mrs. Reid?" Hine: "No, sir, I don't believe there was a soul in the office when I came
    back in right then." (v6p396) Ball asks her, "Were you facing the door [Oswald] is supposed to have left by?" Hine: "Yes, sir." Ball: "Do you recall seeing him?" "No, sir." (p397) Mrs. Reid--supposed witness to Oswald leaving by the front door--caught
    out by Baker and Hine.

    Further references, the next few days, to an Oswald front-door departure can be found in written accounts of the Oswald interviews (Warren Report pp619, 636). The interviews were not recorded. And if Mrs. Reid's testimony is any
    indication, the interview accounts of Oswald's exit route must be deemed, at best, unreliable, too.

    However, all sources agree: Three minutes after the shooting, Oswald was downstairs, on the first floor, then out the front or back door. "Out the front door by 12:33"--Warren Report (p155). "Three minutes from the last shot to
    dialing the telephone inside the TSBD", after "his encounter with Oswald... inside the TSBD"--Pierce Allman (JFK Facts). Behind the building, it was "approximately three minutes before I saw this man come out the back door here."--James Worrell (v2p195).

    On the 23rd, the downplaying of elements in the 12:44 suspect description continued. In his affidavit, witness James Worrell, stated that, from Pacific Street, just north of the TSBD, he saw a man "come out of the building and run in
    the opposite direction from me... didn't have anything in hands." So, for Worrell here, no rifle apparent on the runner.

    But, in between the taking of the affidavit and its final form--in the Commission Exhibits--a funny thing happened. Taking Worrell's affidavit, "at about 5pm", on the 23rd, Det. R.L. Anderton wrote that, from the "north side of the
    TSBD... [Worrell] saw "a man run out of the building in a southerly direction. He said when he got home and saw pictures of Lee Harvey Oswald in the newspapers and on television, he recognized him as the man he saw run from the building." (CE 2003 p185)

    Now, take a look at Worrell's affidavit--Commission Exhibit No. 2003, page 69. The name of the man that he recognized, that he "saw run from the building"... not there. In fact, there's no name at all. We know that Anderton took it
    down. But it's not there in CE 2003. There is just an impersonal reference to a "w/m". "Oswald" expunged. The Long Arm of the Law, Rewrite Dept.

    This is just the beginning of the weaning of Oswald from Worrell's narrative. On 11/30/63, Worrell told the FBI that he got a "profile view" of the man behind the TSBD and that he "felt [Oswald] was the person he had seen." But the
    next year he told the Commission that he "didn't see his face. I just saw the back of his head." It hardly seems likely that Worrell didn't get a glimpse of the running man's face, first running north out of the building, then turning south down Houston,
    "along the side of the depository building" (v2p196). Worrell changed his mind? No--the altered affidavit confirms that Worrell's mind was being changed for him.

    First, the rifle disappears, then "Oswald" disappears, twice. Actually, the first disappearance would have been the identification of Sawyer's unidentified witness. But, based on the subsequent disappearances, it seems safe to assume
    that that "unidentified" witness was... Worrell. Safer than to assume that there were TWO witnesses to Oswald rushing out the rear of the building--and that Worrell somehow didn't see the other, unidentified witness. So, the sequence of disappearing
    names: "Worrell" from Sawyer's report... "Oswald" from Worrell's affidavit... and "Oswald" from Worrell's testimony.


    In and of themselves, these disappearing acts may or may not be that significant. To put the best light on it, they may just have been a case of DPD personnel trying to save face, after invoking the specter of a man with a rifle
    running out the back door of the depository at 12:33. Exposed, they could have sputtered, "Well, no one saw him inside the building with a rifle at 12:33--ask Allman", etc., till the cows came home. But the cows, or horses, would already have long been
    out of the barn by that time... So the DPD simply suppressed the story. Obviously, they did not want to deal with the complication of having Oswald connected with the back-door rifle, fictitious or not. But the pesky Worrell kept bringing him up.

    The simple fact of the altered affidavit, however, is quite significant, in one way--an illustrative way. It shows, clearly and concisely, both the before and the after of how the DPD could suppress information. It shows, in short,
    the DPD M.O. It's a little skeleton key to the JFK assassination.

    dcw
    That's very good. Reid deserves her own video, I think. She was also used to defend Jackie's hat action at the turn from Main onto Houston. She was a multipurpose witness. R.L. Anderton? I'll have to look into that. You seem to be
    insisting that Worrell was actually there on the day of the assassination, but I can overlook that.
    Well, somebody using Worrell's name was actually there--5'8" to 5'10", 155-165, late 20s early 30s. 12:44pm picks up the high number from those estimates.
    But Sawyer did not get a name
    Let's be precise--Sawyer did not SAY that he got a name. I'm sure he did. I bet Fritz was upset with him that day--putting Oswald with a rifle behind the building AND, earlier, on the 5th/3rd floor. Could he have CAUSED Fritz any more
    headaches? (in my best Chandler impression)

    dcw


    so we don't know that anybody was using Worrell's name on November 22. Yes, by November 23 somebody was using his name.
    (there should have been a new paragraph here)
    And giving good specs, at least as good as Baker.
    I see you're tearing off their heads on the Ed Forum! Very exciting reading!
    I guess I had been referred there a few times for a specific article. But a week or two ago, someone here suggested I begin actually posting there. Had to finish the Worrell thing first...
    Thanks from a grateful nation. <chuckle>
    Chuckles but not a whit of substance from John Robot.

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  • From Donald Willis@21:1/5 to John Corbett on Sat Sep 23 18:49:53 2023
    On Saturday, September 23, 2023 at 12:26:16 PM UTC-7, John Corbett wrote:
    On Saturday, September 23, 2023 at 12:03:38 PM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    On Saturday, September 23, 2023 at 4:49:34 AM UTC-7, John Corbett wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 4:49:49 PM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:42:43 PM UTC-7, NoTrueFlags Here wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 3:39:03 PM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:37:57 PM UTC-7, Donald Willis wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 10:20:54 AM UTC-7, NoTrueFlags Here wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:39:00 PM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    On Thursday, September 21, 2023 at 10:06:19 PM UTC-7, NoTrueFlags Here wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:43:37 AM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    James Worrell and the Magic Affidavit

    "An unidentified individual told Insp. J.H. Sawyer that he had seen an individual run from the TSBD building shortly after the shooting of Pres. Kennedy and that this individual was an unknown white male, approximately 30, slender
    build, 5'10", 165 pounds, carrying what looked to be a 30:30, or some type of Winchester rifle. Insp. Sawyer then contacted Dallas Police Sgt. G.D. Henslee, radio dispatcher, and this description was broadcast to all Dallas squad cars." -- dispatch to "
    Director, FBI", from Dallas FBI office. (courtesy of SkyThrone, alt.conspiracy.jfk, 9/3/23)

    Of course, the Dallas Police Dept. could never admit that their actual Dealey star witness--who provided them with the 12:44 suspect description--was someone who stated that he had seen Oswald BEHIND THE DEPOSITORY, WITH A RIFLE,
    AFTER 12:30, on 11/22/63. His observations were broadcast and re-broadcast, live, and could not be taken back. DPD did the next best thing and attached the suspect description, none too credibly, to witness Howard Brennan: The latter thought that the
    suspect was "standing" as he shot from the "sniper's nest" (Warren Commission hearings v3p144), hence the cockamamie (at least from his vantage point) height and weight specs. But Brennan did see a rifle, and that's all that was needed.

    Downplaying of back-of-the-depository activity began that same day, with TSBD employee Mrs. R.A. Reid, who wrote, in an affidavit, that Oswald came through her office shortly after the shooting. At the Commission hearings, Counsel
    David Belin asked her, "How would he have gotten out of the office?" Mrs. Reid: "Right straight out this door down this stairway and out the front door." (v3p278) (Note that she is more than helpful--she has Oswald all the way out the building, not just
    the office.) She told Belin that Oswald was wearing "a white T-shirt and some kind of wash trousers" (p276). However, Patrolman M.L. Baker--who had just encountered Oswald in the next room--wrote in his same-day affidavit that he was "wearing a light
    brown jacket". Mrs. Reid may have been thinking of Oswald's usual office attire. (As per James Jarman: "Oswald usually worked in a white tee-shirt". [12/5/63 FBI interview])

    Who to believe? TSBD secretary Geneva Hine, when asked by Counsel Joseph Ball, "When you came back in [to the same office, after 12:30] did you see Mrs. Reid?" Hine: "No, sir, I don't believe there was a soul in the office when I
    came back in right then." (v6p396) Ball asks her, "Were you facing the door [Oswald] is supposed to have left by?" Hine: "Yes, sir." Ball: "Do you recall seeing him?" "No, sir." (p397) Mrs. Reid--supposed witness to Oswald leaving by the front door--
    caught out by Baker and Hine.

    Further references, the next few days, to an Oswald front-door departure can be found in written accounts of the Oswald interviews (Warren Report pp619, 636). The interviews were not recorded. And if Mrs. Reid's testimony is any
    indication, the interview accounts of Oswald's exit route must be deemed, at best, unreliable, too.

    However, all sources agree: Three minutes after the shooting, Oswald was downstairs, on the first floor, then out the front or back door. "Out the front door by 12:33"--Warren Report (p155). "Three minutes from the last shot to
    dialing the telephone inside the TSBD", after "his encounter with Oswald... inside the TSBD"--Pierce Allman (JFK Facts). Behind the building, it was "approximately three minutes before I saw this man come out the back door here."--James Worrell (v2p195).

    On the 23rd, the downplaying of elements in the 12:44 suspect description continued. In his affidavit, witness James Worrell, stated that, from Pacific Street, just north of the TSBD, he saw a man "come out of the building and run
    in the opposite direction from me... didn't have anything in hands." So, for Worrell here, no rifle apparent on the runner.

    But, in between the taking of the affidavit and its final form--in the Commission Exhibits--a funny thing happened. Taking Worrell's affidavit, "at about 5pm", on the 23rd, Det. R.L. Anderton wrote that, from the "north side of the
    TSBD... [Worrell] saw "a man run out of the building in a southerly direction. He said when he got home and saw pictures of Lee Harvey Oswald in the newspapers and on television, he recognized him as the man he saw run from the building." (CE 2003 p185)

    Now, take a look at Worrell's affidavit--Commission Exhibit No. 2003, page 69. The name of the man that he recognized, that he "saw run from the building"... not there. In fact, there's no name at all. We know that Anderton took it
    down. But it's not there in CE 2003. There is just an impersonal reference to a "w/m". "Oswald" expunged. The Long Arm of the Law, Rewrite Dept.

    This is just the beginning of the weaning of Oswald from Worrell's narrative. On 11/30/63, Worrell told the FBI that he got a "profile view" of the man behind the TSBD and that he "felt [Oswald] was the person he had seen." But the
    next year he told the Commission that he "didn't see his face. I just saw the back of his head." It hardly seems likely that Worrell didn't get a glimpse of the running man's face, first running north out of the building, then turning south down Houston,
    "along the side of the depository building" (v2p196). Worrell changed his mind? No--the altered affidavit confirms that Worrell's mind was being changed for him.

    First, the rifle disappears, then "Oswald" disappears, twice. Actually, the first disappearance would have been the identification of Sawyer's unidentified witness. But, based on the subsequent disappearances, it seems safe to
    assume that that "unidentified" witness was... Worrell. Safer than to assume that there were TWO witnesses to Oswald rushing out the rear of the building--and that Worrell somehow didn't see the other, unidentified witness. So, the sequence of
    disappearing names: "Worrell" from Sawyer's report... "Oswald" from Worrell's affidavit... and "Oswald" from Worrell's testimony.


    In and of themselves, these disappearing acts may or may not be that significant. To put the best light on it, they may just have been a case of DPD personnel trying to save face, after invoking the specter of a man with a rifle
    running out the back door of the depository at 12:33. Exposed, they could have sputtered, "Well, no one saw him inside the building with a rifle at 12:33--ask Allman", etc., till the cows came home. But the cows, or horses, would already have long been
    out of the barn by that time... So the DPD simply suppressed the story. Obviously, they did not want to deal with the complication of having Oswald connected with the back-door rifle, fictitious or not. But the pesky Worrell kept bringing him up.

    The simple fact of the altered affidavit, however, is quite significant, in one way--an illustrative way. It shows, clearly and concisely, both the before and the after of how the DPD could suppress information. It shows, in short,
    the DPD M.O. It's a little skeleton key to the JFK assassination.

    dcw
    That's very good. Reid deserves her own video, I think. She was also used to defend Jackie's hat action at the turn from Main onto Houston. She was a multipurpose witness. R.L. Anderton? I'll have to look into that. You seem to be
    insisting that Worrell was actually there on the day of the assassination, but I can overlook that.
    Well, somebody using Worrell's name was actually there--5'8" to 5'10", 155-165, late 20s early 30s. 12:44pm picks up the high number from those estimates.
    But Sawyer did not get a name
    Let's be precise--Sawyer did not SAY that he got a name. I'm sure he did. I bet Fritz was upset with him that day--putting Oswald with a rifle behind the building AND, earlier, on the 5th/3rd floor. Could he have CAUSED Fritz any more
    headaches? (in my best Chandler impression)

    dcw


    so we don't know that anybody was using Worrell's name on November 22. Yes, by November 23 somebody was using his name.
    (there should have been a new paragraph here)
    And giving good specs, at least as good as Baker.
    I see you're tearing off their heads on the Ed Forum! Very exciting reading!
    I guess I had been referred there a few times for a specific article. But a week or two ago, someone here suggested I begin actually posting there. Had to finish the Worrell thing first...
    Thanks from a grateful nation. <chuckle>
    Chuckles but not a whit of substance from John Robot.
    Do you think your fingerpainting contains substance?

    Substance is Kryptonite to John Robot.

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  • From NoTrueFlags Here@21:1/5 to John Corbett on Sat Sep 23 21:15:25 2023
    On Saturday, September 23, 2023 at 3:26:16 PM UTC-4, John Corbett wrote:
    On Saturday, September 23, 2023 at 12:03:38 PM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    On Saturday, September 23, 2023 at 4:49:34 AM UTC-7, John Corbett wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 4:49:49 PM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:42:43 PM UTC-7, NoTrueFlags Here wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 3:39:03 PM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:37:57 PM UTC-7, Donald Willis wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 10:20:54 AM UTC-7, NoTrueFlags Here wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:39:00 PM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    On Thursday, September 21, 2023 at 10:06:19 PM UTC-7, NoTrueFlags Here wrote:
    On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:43:37 AM UTC-4, Donald Willis wrote:
    James Worrell and the Magic Affidavit

    "An unidentified individual told Insp. J.H. Sawyer that he had seen an individual run from the TSBD building shortly after the shooting of Pres. Kennedy and that this individual was an unknown white male, approximately 30, slender
    build, 5'10", 165 pounds, carrying what looked to be a 30:30, or some type of Winchester rifle. Insp. Sawyer then contacted Dallas Police Sgt. G.D. Henslee, radio dispatcher, and this description was broadcast to all Dallas squad cars." -- dispatch to "
    Director, FBI", from Dallas FBI office. (courtesy of SkyThrone, alt.conspiracy.jfk, 9/3/23)

    Of course, the Dallas Police Dept. could never admit that their actual Dealey star witness--who provided them with the 12:44 suspect description--was someone who stated that he had seen Oswald BEHIND THE DEPOSITORY, WITH A RIFLE,
    AFTER 12:30, on 11/22/63. His observations were broadcast and re-broadcast, live, and could not be taken back. DPD did the next best thing and attached the suspect description, none too credibly, to witness Howard Brennan: The latter thought that the
    suspect was "standing" as he shot from the "sniper's nest" (Warren Commission hearings v3p144), hence the cockamamie (at least from his vantage point) height and weight specs. But Brennan did see a rifle, and that's all that was needed.

    Downplaying of back-of-the-depository activity began that same day, with TSBD employee Mrs. R.A. Reid, who wrote, in an affidavit, that Oswald came through her office shortly after the shooting. At the Commission hearings, Counsel
    David Belin asked her, "How would he have gotten out of the office?" Mrs. Reid: "Right straight out this door down this stairway and out the front door." (v3p278) (Note that she is more than helpful--she has Oswald all the way out the building, not just
    the office.) She told Belin that Oswald was wearing "a white T-shirt and some kind of wash trousers" (p276). However, Patrolman M.L. Baker--who had just encountered Oswald in the next room--wrote in his same-day affidavit that he was "wearing a light
    brown jacket". Mrs. Reid may have been thinking of Oswald's usual office attire. (As per James Jarman: "Oswald usually worked in a white tee-shirt". [12/5/63 FBI interview])

    Who to believe? TSBD secretary Geneva Hine, when asked by Counsel Joseph Ball, "When you came back in [to the same office, after 12:30] did you see Mrs. Reid?" Hine: "No, sir, I don't believe there was a soul in the office when I
    came back in right then." (v6p396) Ball asks her, "Were you facing the door [Oswald] is supposed to have left by?" Hine: "Yes, sir." Ball: "Do you recall seeing him?" "No, sir." (p397) Mrs. Reid--supposed witness to Oswald leaving by the front door--
    caught out by Baker and Hine.

    Further references, the next few days, to an Oswald front-door departure can be found in written accounts of the Oswald interviews (Warren Report pp619, 636). The interviews were not recorded. And if Mrs. Reid's testimony is any
    indication, the interview accounts of Oswald's exit route must be deemed, at best, unreliable, too.

    However, all sources agree: Three minutes after the shooting, Oswald was downstairs, on the first floor, then out the front or back door. "Out the front door by 12:33"--Warren Report (p155). "Three minutes from the last shot to
    dialing the telephone inside the TSBD", after "his encounter with Oswald... inside the TSBD"--Pierce Allman (JFK Facts). Behind the building, it was "approximately three minutes before I saw this man come out the back door here."--James Worrell (v2p195).

    On the 23rd, the downplaying of elements in the 12:44 suspect description continued. In his affidavit, witness James Worrell, stated that, from Pacific Street, just north of the TSBD, he saw a man "come out of the building and run
    in the opposite direction from me... didn't have anything in hands." So, for Worrell here, no rifle apparent on the runner.

    But, in between the taking of the affidavit and its final form--in the Commission Exhibits--a funny thing happened. Taking Worrell's affidavit, "at about 5pm", on the 23rd, Det. R.L. Anderton wrote that, from the "north side of the
    TSBD... [Worrell] saw "a man run out of the building in a southerly direction. He said when he got home and saw pictures of Lee Harvey Oswald in the newspapers and on television, he recognized him as the man he saw run from the building." (CE 2003 p185)

    Now, take a look at Worrell's affidavit--Commission Exhibit No. 2003, page 69. The name of the man that he recognized, that he "saw run from the building"... not there. In fact, there's no name at all. We know that Anderton took it
    down. But it's not there in CE 2003. There is just an impersonal reference to a "w/m". "Oswald" expunged. The Long Arm of the Law, Rewrite Dept.

    This is just the beginning of the weaning of Oswald from Worrell's narrative. On 11/30/63, Worrell told the FBI that he got a "profile view" of the man behind the TSBD and that he "felt [Oswald] was the person he had seen." But the
    next year he told the Commission that he "didn't see his face. I just saw the back of his head." It hardly seems likely that Worrell didn't get a glimpse of the running man's face, first running north out of the building, then turning south down Houston,
    "along the side of the depository building" (v2p196). Worrell changed his mind? No--the altered affidavit confirms that Worrell's mind was being changed for him.

    First, the rifle disappears, then "Oswald" disappears, twice. Actually, the first disappearance would have been the identification of Sawyer's unidentified witness. But, based on the subsequent disappearances, it seems safe to
    assume that that "unidentified" witness was... Worrell. Safer than to assume that there were TWO witnesses to Oswald rushing out the rear of the building--and that Worrell somehow didn't see the other, unidentified witness. So, the sequence of
    disappearing names: "Worrell" from Sawyer's report... "Oswald" from Worrell's affidavit... and "Oswald" from Worrell's testimony.


    In and of themselves, these disappearing acts may or may not be that significant. To put the best light on it, they may just have been a case of DPD personnel trying to save face, after invoking the specter of a man with a rifle
    running out the back door of the depository at 12:33. Exposed, they could have sputtered, "Well, no one saw him inside the building with a rifle at 12:33--ask Allman", etc., till the cows came home. But the cows, or horses, would already have long been
    out of the barn by that time... So the DPD simply suppressed the story. Obviously, they did not want to deal with the complication of having Oswald connected with the back-door rifle, fictitious or not. But the pesky Worrell kept bringing him up.

    The simple fact of the altered affidavit, however, is quite significant, in one way--an illustrative way. It shows, clearly and concisely, both the before and the after of how the DPD could suppress information. It shows, in short,
    the DPD M.O. It's a little skeleton key to the JFK assassination.

    dcw
    That's very good. Reid deserves her own video, I think. She was also used to defend Jackie's hat action at the turn from Main onto Houston. She was a multipurpose witness. R.L. Anderton? I'll have to look into that. You seem to be
    insisting that Worrell was actually there on the day of the assassination, but I can overlook that.
    Well, somebody using Worrell's name was actually there--5'8" to 5'10", 155-165, late 20s early 30s. 12:44pm picks up the high number from those estimates.
    But Sawyer did not get a name
    Let's be precise--Sawyer did not SAY that he got a name. I'm sure he did. I bet Fritz was upset with him that day--putting Oswald with a rifle behind the building AND, earlier, on the 5th/3rd floor. Could he have CAUSED Fritz any more
    headaches? (in my best Chandler impression)

    dcw


    so we don't know that anybody was using Worrell's name on November 22. Yes, by November 23 somebody was using his name.
    (there should have been a new paragraph here)
    And giving good specs, at least as good as Baker.
    I see you're tearing off their heads on the Ed Forum! Very exciting reading!
    I guess I had been referred there a few times for a specific article. But a week or two ago, someone here suggested I begin actually posting there. Had to finish the Worrell thing first...
    Thanks from a grateful nation. <chuckle>
    Chuckles but not a whit of substance from John Robot.
    Do you think your fingerpainting contains substance?

    Corbett, a troll till the day he gets out of this place.

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  • From Ben Holmes@21:1/5 to geowright1963@gmail.com on Mon Sep 25 08:04:42 2023
    On Sat, 23 Sep 2023 12:26:15 -0700 (PDT), John Corbett <geowright1963@gmail.com> wrote:

    Do you think your fingerpainting contains substance?

    Do you think people aren't laughing at you?

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