Everyone overthinks that part of the notes.
The section of interest is not, as assumed, a free-flowing word salad where the absent punctuation can be inserted wherever it gives the meaning that best fits any preconception or bias.
What it actually constitutes are three dot points on an alibi timeline. Each line is a separate entry on that timeline.
This then, is what we are looking at:
-Claims (getting a) 2nd floor coke when off[icer] came in, THEN
-(Went) to 1st floor (and) had lunch, THEN
-(Went) out (and stood) with Bill Shelley in front
These notes were not made during the interrogation, but sometime after Oswald was murdered.
Compare to Hosty's notes as they pertain to the same alibi timeline.
-"O[swald] stated he was present for work [at the] T[exas] B[ook] D[epository] on the morning of 11/22 and at noon, went to lunch.
-He went to 2nd floor to get coca cola to eat [sic] with lunch and
-returned to 1st floor to eat lunch, then went outside to watch P[resident's] parade."
It should be immediately obvious that both contain THE EXACT SAME ELEMENTS, IN THE EXACT SAME ORDER.
Oswald goes to the 2nd floor to get a coke, then goes to the first floor to have lunch and then goes outside to watch.
The one difference - Fritz has Officer Baker encountering Oswald when Oswald is on the 2nd floor to get his coke. This is a crucial difference and makes them chalk and cheese because one is exculpatory, the other supports the prosecution - despite theclaims of some. This is because the timing issue they cite as exculpatory in getting from the 6th to the 2nd floor was made a non-issue after investigators accomplishing the feat in reconstructions.
The insertion of Baker by Fritz means
Either
-Baker raced into the building BEFORE the assassination, OR
-Oswald decided to grab a coke and have lunch AFTER the assassination and then go out to watch a parade that was now over, while standing near a person who by that person's account, was no longer there, OR
-Fritz was "verballing"* Oswald with the intent of both obscuring Oswald's real alibi,
and having him agree with a scenario that would have, according to reconstructions, allowed him to get down from the 6th to the 2nd floor within the timeframe set by the authorities.
* Verballing is the term used when police put words into the mouth of a suspect in order to incriminate them.
In other words, Oswald's absurd and crazy chronology was all just one big fat lie...
Oswald had no real alibi.
GREG DOUDNA SAID:Bookhout, has Oswald going outside only after the "Coke" and the "Lunch on 1st floor".
Do you seriously believe Oswald, whose lunch break started at 12:00, would claim in interrogation that he ate his lunch *after* the assassination which occurred at 12:30? Do you seriously believe Oswald claimed that?
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Yes, I do think that Oswald claimed during his police interrogation that he ate his lunch after the assassination. And that's because this chronology....
1. Coke/Lunchroom Encounter with Officer Baker.
2. Then down to 1st floor to have lunch.
3. Then outside with Bill Shelley.
....is confirmed (or at least it is present and exists) in THREE different places within the reports or notes written by the various officials:
1. Captain Fritz' notes.
2. James Bookhout's solo 11/22/63 FBI report.
3. James Hosty's recently-discovered notes.
In Hosty's notes, however, he doesn't say anything about "Shelley". He, instead, says Oswald went outside to watch the "P. Parade". But, IMO, Hosty is, in effect, conflating "Shelley" and "P. Parade". But in any event, Hosty, just like Fritz and
And Hosty, in his notes, doesn't mention the encounter Oswald had with Baker either. But there's no indication in the existing records and reports that Oswald ever said anything about going to the second floor TWO times to get a Coke on Nov. 22. So,IMO, Hosty's "went to 2nd floor to get Coca-Cola" is essentially the same thing as also referring to the encounter between LHO and Baker.
And as "absurd" as it might be to think that anyone would want to go and eat his lunch after having such an encounter with a police officer (at gunpoint) and after discovering that the President had just been shot right outside the front door of yourworkplace, we also have to realize that such a chronology was being provided by the person to whom all of the evidence in the assassination leads --- Lee H. Oswald.
In other words, Oswald's absurd and crazy chronology was all just one big fat lie being told by the actual assassin of President Kennedy (except for the Lunchroom Encounter with Officer Baker, of course, which actually did occur and wasn't just one ofOswald's made-up tall tales).
The key point isn't really the specific "lunch" aspect of any of Oswald's lies. (And maybe Oswald himself was having a hard time keeping his "lunch" lies straight after he was arrested.)three men (Bookhout, Fritz, & Hosty) *did* write things down in their notes and/or reports that definitely give the impression that OSWALD HIMSELF said he followed this chronology at around 12:30 on Nov. 22:
But the most important point, IMO, is the chronology of the "Coke/Lunchroom Encounter" and "Out front with Shelley" aspects of Oswald's attempted alibi. And whether you choose to believe Bookhout, Fritz, and Hosty or not, the fact remains that those
1. Coke/Lunchroom Encounter with Officer Baker.of JFK being shot out on Elm Street in front of the building?
2. Then down to 1st floor to have lunch.
3. Then outside with Bill Shelley.
Plus: Can anyone who believes that Oswald is the "Prayer Man" figure really and truly also believe that Oswald then decided he wanted to immediately go back into the TSBD Building and dash up to the second-floor lunchroom to buy a Coke within seconds
That scenario of Oswald being Prayer Man and then immediately having a burning desire to go get a Coca-Cola on the second floor is a very loony scenario. But for the conspiracy theorists who wholly endorse the "Oswald Is Prayer Man" theory, then theyreally have no choice but to believe such an absurd scenario. Because we know for a fact that Lee Harvey Oswald was in that 2nd-floor lunchroom with Officer Baker just a few minutes after the assassination took place.*
* Notwithstanding the many CTers who now belong to the INHAA club ---- http://jfk-archives.blogspot.com/2015/07/jfk-assassination-arguments-part-973.html#The-INHAA-ClubWTF is wrong with you? You keep replying with what others have claimed. WTF has anything Greg D said got to do with what you are supposedly replying to?
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WTF is wrong with you? You keep replying with what others have claimed. WTF has anything Greg D said got to do with what you are supposedly replying to?
On Monday, October 16, 2023 at 6:39:04 PM UTC-4, Greg Parker wrote:
WTF is wrong with you? You keep replying with what others have claimed. WTF has anything Greg D said got to do with what you are supposedly replying to?It's the exact same "Chronology" topic being discussed, you idiot. That's why I posted it. What's hard to understand about that?
On Tuesday, October 17, 2023 at 10:30:28 AM UTC+11, David Von Pein wrote:
On Monday, October 16, 2023 at 6:39:04 PM UTC-4, Greg Parker wrote:What don't you understand about me not giving a flying fuck what anyone else has posted on another forum? Reply by all means. But reply using your own words with your own brain in direct response to what I wrote. If you can manage it. Sheesh.
WTF is wrong with you? You keep replying with what others have claimed. WTF has anything Greg D said got to do with what you are supposedly replying to?It's the exact same "Chronology" topic being discussed, you idiot. That's why I posted it. What's hard to understand about that?
On Monday, October 16, 2023 at 9:35:27 PM UTC-4, Greg Parker wrote:
On Tuesday, October 17, 2023 at 10:30:28 AM UTC+11, David Von Pein wrote:I'll post in any manner I desire, Mr. Prick. You're about to pass up Benji Holmes as THE biggest prick on this forum. Congrats.
On Monday, October 16, 2023 at 6:39:04 PM UTC-4, Greg Parker wrote:What don't you understand about me not giving a flying fuck what anyone else has posted on another forum? Reply by all means. But reply using your own words with your own brain in direct response to what I wrote. If you can manage it. Sheesh.
WTF is wrong with you? You keep replying with what others have claimed. WTF has anything Greg D said got to do with what you are supposedly replying to?It's the exact same "Chronology" topic being discussed, you idiot. That's why I posted it. What's hard to understand about that?
On Tuesday, October 17, 2023 at 10:30:28 AM UTC+11, David Von Pein wrote:
On Monday, October 16, 2023 at 6:39:04 PM UTC-4, Greg Parker wrote:What don't you understand about me not giving a flying fuck what anyone else has posted on another forum? Reply by all means. But reply using your own words with your own brain in direct response to what I wrote. If you can manage it. Sheesh.
WTF is wrong with you? You keep replying with what others have claimed. WTF has anything Greg D said got to do with what you are supposedly replying to?It's the exact same "Chronology" topic being discussed, you idiot. That's why I posted it. What's hard to understand about that?
-"O[swald] stated he was present for work [at the] T[exas] B[ook] D[epository] on the morning of 11/22 and at noon, went to lunch.
-He went to 2nd floor to get coca cola to eat [sic] with lunch and
-returned to 1st floor to eat lunch, then went outside to watch P[resident's] parade."
It should be immediately obvious that both contain THE EXACT SAME ELEMENTS, IN THE EXACT SAME ORDER.
-Fritz was "verballing"* Oswald with the intent of both obscuring Oswald's real alibi, and having him agree with a scenario that would have, according to reconstructions, allowed him to get down from the 6th to the 2nd floor within the timeframe set bythe authorities.
* Verballing is the term used when police put words into the mouth of a suspect in order to incriminate them.
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