Latest / The Lone Gunman Podcast : JFK Assassination / Ep. 252 ~ A Five Layer Cake
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- 1:29Lone Guming Podcast, episode number two hundred and fifty two. Folks, Today,
- 1:36we're gonna get into an article written back in the nineteen eighties by William
- 1:45Weston, but it contains a lot of good information that we may need to
- 1:49reflect upon to help us try to figure out what and the sam hell was
- 1:53going on inside that schoolbook depository on November twenty two, nineteen and sixty three.
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- 6:05sixtieth anniversary of the assassination of our president. It's a big deal. It's
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- 8:43get into the shizzo for today. Now. Had you been following me on
- 8:52YouTube and getting notified whenever I dropped something there, you would already know exactly
- 8:58what I'm going to talk about today, and that is the Fifth Floor Sniper
- 9:07by William Weston, one of my favorites. I guess you could call him
- 9:15a third generation researcher if you will, and he put together an article that
- 9:24appeared in the third decade, which came out in the eighties at some point.
- 9:31I don't know exactly when it did it or what issue it was in,
- 9:41but a little searching around on Mary farrell site, we'll get you there.
- 9:48Okay, just put in fifth Floor Sniper William Weston and you should find
- 9:52it no problem. Now. I wanted to go through this because this is
- 9:58one of the most confusing portions of the assassination, and that is what is
- 10:11going on inside the school book depository at the time of the assassination. You
- 10:16have all these stories from all these different people, and it's so hard to
- 10:20keep track of and it's so hard to you know, who do you believe?
- 10:28Whose story do you believe? Do you believe this person because they say
- 10:31something different than that person, So do you believe this person? And discount
- 10:35that person? And vice versa, and so on and so forth. And
- 10:39it is all very confusing. But hopefully going back and revisiting these things from
- 10:46time to time, like I want to do on this show, we'll give
- 10:52us a little bit better perspective on where people were and what they were doing
- 10:56at the time of the assassination inside the school book depository. And glad bless
- 11:03William Weston. You know, folks, this this this uh paper was written
- 11:09at a different time. So I'm going to leave out the adjective describing some
- 11:18of the workers in the little bit depository. I really don't think we need
- 11:24to classify them any further than their name. It doesn't matter if they were
- 11:31black, white, purple, green, pink. You know, they're they're
- 11:35people, Okay, So we don't need to call them as he classes them
- 11:41in here, blacks or negroes or colors or anything like that. So I'm
- 11:46gonna try to leave all that out. Hopefully nothing slips through the cracks,
- 11:52but I'm gonna try, all right, So it starts off Dusty. An
- 11:58appointment to serve on the Warning Commission was a golden opportunity the lawyers seeking to
- 12:03enhance the prestige of their resumes. Yet it surely was not an easy assignment.
- 12:11It was not the goal that was creating difficulties, for that was straightforwardly
- 12:15simple, proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that one and only one assassin
- 12:20murdered President Kennedy. The hard part was trying to sift through a mountain of
- 12:26confusing government documents and eyewitness accounts and make them fit together and a coherent framework.
- 12:33Among the more daunting challenges they faced was explaining the rapid sequence of hits
- 12:39as shown and there's a Prouter film, an indication that more than one assassin
- 12:43was involved. They also had to work with two widely different versions of Kennedy's
- 12:48wounds, had seen by a medical personnel in Dallas and by the autopsy doctors
- 12:54in Washington. And somehow they had to figure out how to handle dozens of
- 12:58eyewitness reports which asserted that the shots came from the area of the Grassy Knoll
- 13:03and not from the school book depository. They resolved these and other complex issues
- 13:09in a manner which more or less justified satisfied sorry the media and government establishments,
- 13:16if not the majority of the American public at the time. Yet there
- 13:20was one problem that gave them no end of trouble. And ultimately it defeated
- 13:24them. It was their inability to explain how the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald
- 13:31managed to escape from the book depository that was their formidable stumbling block. Important
- 13:39questions were glossed over by focusing on peripheral matters, such as devising elaborate tests
- 13:45which demonstrated that it was indeed feasible for Oswald to three down from the sixth
- 13:48floor the second within the tight parameters of the official chronology. The real issue
- 13:56was not how fast Oswald could move, but rather how he managed to slip
- 14:01by employees who could have seen him of the fifth floor. On the fifth
- 14:05floor, there were four witnesses occupying key areas which gave them the potential of
- 14:11proving or disproving the contention that Oswald was on the sixth floor. A critical
- 14:18examination of the testimonies of these witnesses reveals that they are distorted by numerous assertions.
- 14:24I believe that serious considerations should be given to the possibility that a sniper
- 14:30was shooting not from the sixth floor but from the fifth. Of course,
- 14:35this leads to the question of whether or not the fifth floor witnesses were cognizant
- 14:39of a plot against the president and of the gunman who was preparing to shoot
- 14:43at him. To answer this question is necessary to determine who these witnesses were
- 14:50and what they were doing when the assassination occurred. All right, So there's
- 14:54a big, bold claim, folks. William Weston is going to try to
- 14:58prove through all this testimony and YadA YadA, hearsay that the assassin was shooting
- 15:09from the fifth floor and not to six. Now, I do find it
- 15:16hard to believe and this is me, Bob talking to you here that had
- 15:22Lee Harvey Oswald been on the sixth floor and descended via the rear farewell,
- 15:31that he would not have been seen or heard by anyone on the fifth floor,
- 15:39which included three depositors, three of the and I said, I wasn't
- 15:46going to do this, three of the black co workers, and I only
- 15:50knew this to differentiate them from the other co worker of Lee Harvey Oswald's that
- 15:56was alleged to be on the fifth floor at the time of the shots,
- 16:00and that's Doherty, who was a whitey. So and then you run into
- 16:07the problem of the girls on the fourth floor. They didn't see Lee Harvey
- 16:11Oswald or here Lee Harvey Oswald coming down the stairs either and allegedly upon running
- 16:17into the building, the elevators were stuck on the fifth floor, so the
- 16:21sniper could not have, you know, hopped on the elevator and got down
- 16:26to the first floor and get out of the building. So here we go
- 16:36now. One of these workers on the fifth floor was Harold Hank Norman,
- 16:40twenty six year old, who worked at the book depository for two years as
- 16:42an order filler, the same kind of position that Oswald had at the company.
- 16:48The job entailed checking order forms, retrieving textbooks from the stock rooms,
- 16:53and bringing them to the shipping department, where they were wrapped and mailed out
- 16:56to the public schools that ordered them. A few weeks after the assassination,
- 17:03Norman got a new job at the Foxborough Company, which was in the business
- 17:07of engineer instrumentation. He had a friend named James Junior Jarman, a thirty
- 17:15four year old man. Between layoffs and rehires, Jarman had worked off and
- 17:19on the depository for about seven years. His duties were to check the work
- 17:25of the order fillers and help out in the shipping department on the first floor.
- 17:32When the day of the presidential motorcade was to pass through Dallas. Jarman
- 17:36and Norman were outside, standing near the curb of Elm Street, where they
- 17:41thought they could get a close look at the president. Growing crowds along the
- 17:47street were making it difficult for them to see, so at twelve fifteen or
- 17:52twelve twenty they decided to go back into the building and see the parade from
- 17:56the windows of the fifth floor. There were two elevators that could have taken
- 18:03them to that floor, and they were located side by side, occupying a
- 18:07single elevator shaft located along the north wall of the building. For the sake
- 18:15of clarity, the Warren Commission designated one of them as the West elevator and
- 18:21the other as the East. Jarman and Norman took the West elevator a moment
- 18:29or two after they arrived on the fifth floor. They were joined by a
- 18:33third man named Bonnie Ray Williams. His first job after graduating from high school
- 18:37in nineteen sixty two was washing dishes at the Marriott Hotel in Dallas. Six
- 18:45months later, he was working nights in the baggage department of the Union Terminal
- 18:49railroad station. But having a preference for daytime work. He had applied at
- 18:55the Texas School Book Depository and became an employee there incept Member of nineteen sixty
- 19:00three. Around the latter part of October, Williams was assigned to a crew
- 19:06that was working on a floor reinforcement project on the upper floors. New plywood
- 19:11was cut and nailed down on top of the narrow planks of the old floor.
- 19:17On the morning of the twenty second in November, the floor crew planned
- 19:22to watch the motorcade from the sixth floor. When lunch time came, the
- 19:26whole crew went down to the first floor to get their lunches, but only
- 19:32one of them, Williams, came back up. The rest of the crew
- 19:37neglected to tell him that they had decided to go outside to see the President.
- 19:42Williams found himself unexpectedly alone, for he neither saw nor heard anyone else
- 19:48on this floor. If there was a gumm And lurking in the shadows,
- 19:53Williams was not aware of him. Apparently, he was also unaware of the
- 19:57purpose of the stack of boxes forming a semicircle around the southeast corner window.
- 20:03This inclosure was soon to become known as the infamous sniper's nest. Only twenty
- 20:10feet from this circumvallation of textbooks cartons was a window where Williams looked out as
- 20:15he quietly ate his lunch. Hearing the sound of voices and footsteps emanating from
- 20:22the floor below, he left the remains of his lunch a lunch sacked two
- 20:26chicken bones and an empty bottle of doctor pepper on one of the box decks
- 20:30forming the enclosure, and went down by the east elevator to the fifth floor,
- 20:37where he met Jarman and Norman, and together the three men waited for
- 20:41the approach of the motorcade, each one at a different window. On every
- 20:47floor, there were seven pairs of windows facing Elm Street. According to their
- 20:52testimonies, Williams and Norman each took a window in the pair directly underneath the
- 20:57sniper's nest, and the next pair of windows to their right was Jarman.
- 21:03They had to crouch or kneel down in order to see through the open windows
- 21:08because they were built only one foot off the floor. At twelve to twenty
- 21:14nine, the President's limousine appeared to their immediate front as it turned right from
- 21:18Main Street onto Houston. They watched it as it passed under their window and
- 21:22disappeared behind the foliage of a large tree. It was precisely at this moment
- 21:29that they heard the first shot. Two more shots were fired as the limousine
- 21:33emerged from behind the tree. Norman cried out that the shots must be coming
- 21:37from overhead, for he could hear the shelves of a bolt action rifle hitting
- 21:41the floor. Jarman came over to their side and said, man, somebody
- 21:48is shooting it the president. Almost immediately after these remarks were made, all
- 21:52three began to run towards the far west window on the opposite side of the
- 21:57floor. As told by Williams, we all decided we would run down to
- 22:03the west side of the building. We saw the policemen and people running,
- 22:07scared running. There were some tracks on the west side of the building,
- 22:11railroad tracks. They were running towards that way, and we thought maybe,
- 22:15huh, well, you know, to ourselves, we know the shots practically
- 22:18came from over our head. But since everybody was running, you know,
- 22:22to the west side of the building towards the railroad tracks, we assumed maybe
- 22:26somebody was down there. And though we all ran that way, the way
- 22:30that the people was running and were looking out the window. Now, what
- 22:37these men were trying to see was the futile search for assassins by police and
- 22:40spectators behind the grassy knoll. The quest for a better view resulted in bringing
- 22:45Jarman, Norman and Williams to a location which has some very interesting implications.
- 22:52In the back corner of the building, at a distance of about thirty yards
- 22:56from where they were standing, was a stairway, And if Oswald had been
- 23:00on the sixth floor, was it possible for these three men to get an
- 23:08unimpeded glimpse of him as he was running down the stairs. If they did
- 23:14see him, then the case against Oswald would be proven beyond a shadow of
- 23:18a doubt. However, if that were true, then they had to be
- 23:22culpable for not immediately notifying their employer or the police. On the other hand,
- 23:27if they saw no one coming down from the stairs, then it would
- 23:32have been impossible for Oswald to have been present on the sixth floor during the
- 23:34shooting. An FBI report dated November twenty three, nineteen sixty three, indicates
- 23:41that the latter possibility is indeed the truth of the matter. Williams was interviewed
- 23:45by special agents will Griffin and Bardwell Odom, who recorded the following words.
- 23:52William stated that he and Hank and Junior were standing where they would have seen
- 23:56anyone coming down from the sixth floor via the stairs, and they did not
- 24:00see anyone coming down. An occupant of the sixth floor could either take the
- 24:07stairs or one of the two elevators to get down to the lower floors,
- 24:12but since both elevators were inaccessible at that time, that left the stairs as
- 24:17the only means of egress. The stairs had two entryways, one leading to
- 24:22a flight of steps going up and one leading to a flight going down.
- 24:26On every floor there was a landing and a second flight of steps which led
- 24:30through a passageway which opened out onto the next floor. To continue the ascent
- 24:34or descent, one would have to walk around to another entryway, which led
- 24:38to another flight of steps. He would have to repeat this procedure over and
- 24:44over with every floor until he reached the floor of his destination. If a
- 24:48fugitive was trying to come down the stairs, he would have been seen during
- 24:52those times when he was passing from one entryway to the next. The fifth
- 24:56floor was not subdivided into rooms or all like all the lower floors. It
- 25:03was an open storage area filled with boxes of school boats. Anyone on the
- 25:07fifth floor could have seen the stairway at almost any given point. Even if
- 25:11there was an intervening stack of boxes blocking the line of sight to the stairs,
- 25:15it would only take two or three steps in any direction to bring it
- 25:18back into view. With at least three people on the fifth floor, the
- 25:22potential for detecting it an absconder down the stairs becomes practically unavoidable. Since none
- 25:30of the witnesses saw Oswald fleeing down the stairs, the only possible conclusion that
- 25:34could be made is that Oswald did not shoot to present it from the sixth
- 25:37floor. William's statement to the FBI must have stunned investigators endeavoring to pin the
- 25:45assassination on Oswald, Yet their situation was not altogether helpless. One way or
- 25:51another, they had to find a way out of their dilemma. They began
- 25:55a series of interrogations which thoroughly examined the fifth floor witnesses. They also made
- 26:00a survey of the fifth floor, where they hoped to find more clues leading
- 26:03to a solution. Their inspection of the premises was not unfruitful, for it
- 26:10yielded a discovery which must have sent a thrill of joy into the hearts of
- 26:14those whose minds were single tracked on Oswald's guilt. Not far from the stairs
- 26:21were from wooden crates decked on their sides in such a way that they formed
- 26:25a makeshift storage shelf. It stood over six feet high and extended fifteen feet
- 26:32from the west wall, just far enough that it concealed the stairs from the
- 26:37southwest corner. According to Williams and Roy Trully, the superintendent in charge of
- 26:42the book depository, the shelf had existed at this location long before the assassination.
- 26:48Photographs were made of it, and the examination of these pictures reveals that
- 26:52it is true that the shelf prevented the three men from seeing Oswald. Law
- 26:59enforcement of was also learned from Williams that the two FBI agents erroneously recorded a
- 27:03statement that he never made. Williams declared that it was not true that they
- 27:10were in a position to see the stairs, for the story's shelf completely obstructed
- 27:17review. An elephant could walked by there and you could not see him.
- 27:22Williams would later tell the Warren Commission that shelf however, was only workable from
- 27:30the standpoint of the west side of the building, and only within a time
- 27:33span of just a minute and a half. That was their maximum available time
- 27:37to go from the southwest corner window all the way over to the west wall.
- 27:42If they lingered too long, they would have had an unambiguous line of
- 27:47sight to the stairs at a time when Oswald had had to use them.
- 27:53According to the Warren Commission calculations, Oswald had only ninety seconds or less to
- 27:59hide his rifle and descend from the sixth floor down to the second floor lunch
- 28:03room, where he was seen by two witnesses. The maximum time can be
- 28:08reduced even further if we consider that it would have taken him about thirty seconds
- 28:12to make his way down the stairs. This can be broken down to his
- 28:15speedy seven and a half seconds per floor. Oswald had to be on the
- 28:19fifth floor landing no later than sixty seconds after his last shot. Consequently,
- 28:26Jarman, Norman and Williams also had a sixty second time limit. If they
- 28:30took longer than a minute and moving over to the west wall, then they
- 28:33would have failed to reach the only place on the floor where they could have
- 28:37missed seeing Oswald. If Oswald was using the time to run across the sixth
- 28:41floor and hide his rifle near the northwest corner, what were the three men
- 28:48on the fifth floor doing. He's seen their accounts together, we find that
- 28:52this single minute of time is densely packed with activity. To recap what they
- 28:56were doing, we have Norman's declaration he just heard rifle shells landing on the
- 29:02floor above them, and Jarman's assertion that someone was shooting at the president.
- 29:07Then all three were distracted by the large number of people rushing the grassy knoll
- 29:14and telling them to make the headlong dash to the west end window. It
- 29:18is conceivable that all this could happen in a brief period of time, Yet
- 29:22a description of their actions would not be complete until one more detail is added.
- 29:26It was not included in the Warren Report, but it was mentioned several
- 29:30times during the hearings by various witnesses. One of these witnesses, Robert Bob
- 29:37Jackson, a photographer riding with other newsmen in an open top press bar,
- 29:41saw two men in a window on the fifth floor after the last shot.
- 29:47I guess all of us were just looking around all around, and I just
- 29:52looked straight up ahead of me, which could have been looking at school book
- 29:56depository, and I noticed two men in a window streaming to seed directly above
- 30:00them, and my eyes followed them right up to the window above them,
- 30:03and I saw a rifle. Jackson's attention was caught by the sight of two
- 30:10men leaning out the window with their faces turned upwards towards the floor where the
- 30:15shots supposedly came from. Such irrepressible curiosity was so conspicuous that other observers on
- 30:22the ground testified as seeing them. The two men turned out to be Williams
- 30:27and Norman, who readily acknowledged to the FBI in the days following the assassination
- 30:33that they were indeed trying to see the sixth floor window, but that was
- 30:37the last time they said anything about it. Four months later, during the
- 30:41hearings, Norman was asked about this visual searching for a gunman, and he
- 30:47denied he ever did it. Disaffirmation cannot be taken too seriously, for Jackson's
- 30:52observation was corroborated by three other witnesses. Seated in front of Jackson was an
- 31:00other news photographer named Tom Dillard. He was not quick enough to see the
- 31:03rifle that Jackson saw, but he did proceed to take two pictures of the
- 31:07window Jackson was pointing at. One if Dillard's pictures shows a substantial portion of
- 31:14the east side of the building, and the second picture is a closer view
- 31:18of the eastern corner windows of both the fifth and sixth floors. The faces
- 31:22of William and Norman are clearly seen in the fifth floor window. This picture
- 31:26must have been taken immediately after the two men had discontinued their attempt to see
- 31:32who was doing the shooting, for they were no longer looking up. Dillard's
- 31:37camera caught him at a unique instant of time, after their upward glance to
- 31:41the sixth floor, but before their pell mell rush to the west corner.
- 31:48Yet the more one examines the picture, the more questionable it looks. Is
- 31:52this really an image of two men on the verge of springing up from a
- 31:56kneeling or squatting position and running off down the aisle. They do not appear
- 32:00to be interested in the riveting scenes below them, but rather they seem to
- 32:05be gazing pensively towards the horizon, as if they are looking at nothing in
- 32:08particular. Their facial expressions do not give a hint that they have just seen
- 32:14an appalling murder. Instead, they have the appearance of two men waiting for
- 32:17something to happen. On March twentieth, nineteen sixty four, photographer went up
- 32:22to the fifth floor with Jarman and Norman and Williams in order to take pictures
- 32:27of them in the positions they had assumed when they were waiting for the motorcade.
- 32:31The pictures are printed in volume seventeen they just two o two and two
- 32:36oh three of the Warren Commission Hearings and Exhibbits. A comparison of these interior
- 32:40views of Norman and Williams shows that they are in poses strikingly similar to the
- 32:45postures they were in when the Dillard picture was taken. In fact, Dillard
- 32:51photo seems to be more in keeping with a waiting for the motorcade type of
- 32:55picture, rather than as a portrait of two men who have just heard a
- 33:00firing only eight feet above their heads. It is entirely possible that so called
- 33:05Dillard photos were not taken by Dillard on November twenty second, nineteen sixty three,
- 33:12or by someone else on March to twentieth nineteen sixty four m that's an
- 33:17interesting assumption. Doubts about the Dillard photos only deepened when an attempt is made
- 33:23to fit them into the context of the testimonies of the witnesses on the ground.
- 33:29After James Auctions took his historic pictures of the presidential limousine under fire,
- 33:34he saw two men leaning out of a pair of windows, not the one
- 33:37directly below the sniper's nest window, but the pair immediately to the west of
- 33:43it. For at Serels, a Secret Service agent riding in a car proceeding
- 33:47the limousine, saw two men not in the window below the sniper window,
- 33:52but in the area, in an area to the west of it. Sirels
- 33:58returned to Deily Plasma and talk with a man named Howard Brennan, who saw
- 34:01the two men after the shooting in the same area that Sorrel saw the men.
- 34:07Brennan repeated this observation to the Warren Commission and clearly marked on a photo
- 34:10of the book depository a pair of windows below and to the west of the
- 34:15sniper window. When Brennan was challenged with the evidence of the Dillard pictures,
- 34:21he became confused and admitted that he may have made a mistake. The only
- 34:24witness who positively stated that the men were in the corner window was Robert Bob
- 34:30Jackson. However, it is possible that the excitement of senior rifle in the
- 34:36sixth floor window may have led to an incorrect reception of which windows the two
- 34:39men were in. Nevertheless, Jackson's doubtful statement prevailed over the versions given by
- 34:46other street level witnesses because of the testimonies of Jarman, Norman, and Williams
- 34:52gave Jackson's version solid corroboration. The three men appeared before the Warren Commission in
- 34:58March twenty four, nine four to put on record their experiences of the assassination.
- 35:05In addition to giving their stories, they were also called upon to correct
- 35:08a lot of errors made by agents of the FBI, especially Williams. He
- 35:15did not tell them, for example, that he spent only three minutes on
- 35:17the sixth floor. It was more like ten or fifteen minutes. Neither did
- 35:22he say that he took the stairs down from the sixth floor to the fifth.
- 35:27He really took an elevator. Although the FBI managed to accurately report that
- 35:31he observed a policeman coming up the stairs. Williams did not tell them that
- 35:37the policeman searched the whole floor. He simply walked from the stairs to the
- 35:40elevator without stopping. He then took the elevator to an upper floor. And
- 35:45finally, Williams emphatically denied that he told anyone that it was not possible for
- 35:52someone like Oswald to come down the stairs without being seen. With these and
- 35:58other difficulties in the process of being cleared up, the Warren Commission was well
- 36:01on its way to wrapping up its case against Oswald. Yet there was one
- 36:07question that they could not answer him. In the end, they simply bypassed
- 36:10it entirely. The concerned a fourth witness on the fifth floor, Jack Doherty,
- 36:17And I think I thought him Charles was forn But yes, it's Jack
- 36:21Doherty. Sorry, was he in a position to see Oswald as he was
- 36:25coming down the stairs. Doherty was a thirty nine year old shipping clerk who
- 36:30worked at the book depository for over eleven years. He was a loyal,
- 36:37conscientious, hard working employee who enjoyed his work. He was never married,
- 36:42and he lived at home with his parents. Although he was described by his
- 36:45employer as he quote emotionally immature, having a childlike disposition. His intelligence was
- 36:53in no way impaired. When the presidential motorcade was during the city of Dallas,
- 37:00Doherty was not waiting for it. He had gone back to his work
- 37:02after his lunch break. While he was on the fifth floor and moving some
- 37:07stock, he heard a single shot, not three. More significant than the
- 37:13number of shots that he heard was the place where he was standing, ten
- 37:16feet west of the West elevator. The diagram on page twenty four shows where
- 37:22Doherty and the three men were one minute after the shots were fired. The
- 37:29spot where Doherty was located ten feet west of the west elevator would place him
- 37:32only five feet from the staircase. A fugitive coming down from the sixth floor
- 37:37would have had it passed almost within an arm's reach of Doherty. If someone
- 37:43had been using the stairs, then apparently he had plounced by unnoticed, for
- 37:47Doherty made no mention of him. But this is not the only problem connected
- 37:53with Doherty's close proximity to the stairs and elevators. About two minutes after the
- 37:59shooting, someone brought the west elevator down from the fifth floor to the first
- 38:05who was this person. In order to understand the crucial importance of the West
- 38:09elevator problem, it is necessary to examine the testimonies of two witnesses. You
- 38:15saw it from the first floor. One of them was Marian Baker, a
- 38:19motorcycle patrolman who was charged with the duty of escorting the presidential motorcade. When
- 38:24the shots were fired, Baker thought that a sniper was on the roof of
- 38:30the book depository, and after parking his motorcycle, he raced up the front
- 38:35steps and into the lobby, where he called out to the people inside that
- 38:37he wanted immediate access to an elevator. Roy Truly volunteered to show him the
- 38:43way. When they came to the elevators, they tried to bring one down,
- 38:46but a temporary power outage in the building prevented the elevators from operating.
- 38:52They looked up the elevator well and saw both elevators stuck on the fifth floor,
- 38:59so they just to take the stairs. They had gone up one floor
- 39:04when they found a Lee Harvey Oswald lurking in a lunch room. Baker thought
- 39:07he looked suspicious, but Truly reassured him that he was merely a company employee.
- 39:14They continued their climb up the stairs. When they reached the fifth floor,
- 39:16they decided to use an elevator to carry them the rest of the way
- 39:21up. The elevators were operating again because the electrical power to the building had
- 39:25been restored sometime during that half minute. When they were between the second and
- 39:31fifth floors, they did not take the West elevator, which would have been
- 39:36the one closest to them as they were coming off the stairs. Instead,
- 39:39they had to take the East elevator. Someone had already used the West elevator
- 39:45to go down from the fifth floor. We know that Oswald cannot have used
- 39:52it, for there was not enough time for him to ride the elevator from
- 39:53the fifth floor down to the second in the same time that it took Truly
- 39:58and Baker to go up from the first to the second. Jarman, Norman
- 40:01and Williams did not use it, for they took stairs down. Furthermore,
- 40:07Williams saw Baker as he was walking from the stairs to the elevator. This
- 40:12observation could only have taken place after someone had used the west elevator, and
- 40:16that leaves only Jack Doherty and the WARRNT Commission concluded that he was probably the
- 40:22one. Dorty's testimony confirmed this conclusion, for he himself said that after hearing
- 40:28a shot, which he described as a loud noise, he immediately took the
- 40:31elevator down to the first floor, where he ran into Eddie Piper and asked
- 40:37him as the President been shot. Piper's reply was in the affirmative. Putting
- 40:43together the data which the Warrant Commission has given us, we have the following
- 40:45sequence of events. Twelve thirty Dohorty hears a shot. He has ten feet
- 40:52west of the west elevator. Twelve thirty one. Owald comes down the stairs,
- 40:58passing within fifteen feet west of the west elevator. Twelve thirty two.
- 41:05Truliam Baker encounter Oswald on the second floor twelve thirty two. As well,
- 41:09Doherty used the west elevator to go down to the first floor. Twelve thirty
- 41:15three, Juliam Baker arrived on the fifth floor and get in the east elevator
- 41:21to go up to the seventh floor. The rapidity with which these occurrences were
- 41:25taking place give Doherty no time for random movements, which would put him beyond
- 41:30the reach of a clear view of Oswald fleeing down the stairs. No attempt
- 41:36was made by the Warning Commission to explain how Doherty could have miss seen him.
- 41:39Yet Oswald was not the only one Doherty would miss seen, for he
- 41:45also seemed to be completely unaware of the presence of Jarman, Norman and Williams,
- 41:50also on the same floor. From where he was standing, he should
- 41:54have been able to look past the storage shells near the stairs and see his
- 41:59fellow workers at the far west window. When Doherty was asked if he saw
- 42:05anyone else on the fifth floor, his reply was an emphatic no, sir,
- 42:08I didn't see nobody. There wasn't nobody on the fifth floor at all.
- 42:13It was just myself. Despite this unequivocal declaration, Doherty should have seen
- 42:20the three other men on the fifth floor. At least he should have heard
- 42:24them, especially as they were moving to the west side. Three men running
- 42:29on a wooden floor would have made a terrific clatter if Williams himself readily acknowledged,
- 42:35But Doughty was not the only one who seemed to be insensate to his
- 42:39surroundings. If the men at the west corner window miss seeing Oswald, because
- 42:45the storage shelf was blocking the view. At the very least, they should
- 42:47have been able to see Doherty, who was between the storage shelf and the
- 42:51elevator. Yet he was seen by none of them. The impercipance of these
- 42:57four witnesses beyond the realm of possibility, and it is at this point that
- 43:01the fractured edifice of the Warring report really breaks down, like a compass rotating
- 43:07wildly in a polar region. Our sense of direction on the fifth floor is
- 43:12radically impaired by some ominous force. Testimonies which should have been clearly understandable,
- 43:17become bewildering enigmas. Regain our bearings, we need to go outside the fifth
- 43:23floor and see it from the point of view of spectators on the ground on
- 43:30Houston Street waiting to see the president were two clerks, Ronald Fisher and Robert
- 43:34Edwards. According to their Affi Davids, they saw a suspicious looking man from
- 43:38the fifth floor about a minute before the appearance of the motorcade. The next
- 43:44witness to see this man with Carolyn Walter, and she noticed that he was
- 43:47armed with a rifle. Standing next to him was another man in a brown
- 43:52suit coat. Because investigators have concentrated their efforts on the sixth floor as a
- 43:58scene of the crime. It had assume that Edwards, Fisher and Walter had
- 44:01miscounted the floors of the building, incorrectly designating the sixth floor as the fifth
- 44:07floor. While it is true that these witnesses caught only brief glimpses of the
- 44:12suspicious men, hampering their ability to recall from memory what they had seen,
- 44:16experienced policemen, who had time to correct initial fast impressions, were also making
- 44:23the same error Throughout the afternoon. At twelve thirty six, a police sergeant
- 44:28radio headquarters that he had a witness who said shots came from the fifth floor.
- 44:34At twelve forty six, a dispatcher stated on the radio, but according
- 44:37to the information thus far received, the shots came from either the fifth or
- 44:42fourth floor. At one twelve, an inspector of the police reported that empty
- 44:45shells were found on the fifth floor, as well as evidence indicating that a
- 44:51man had been there for some time. A number of people came to the
- 44:55same inspector to tell him that they saw a rifle part of a rifle objecting
- 45:00from a window which the inspector thought was on the fifth floor. Newspaper reports
- 45:07indicated that the rifle was a mouser. Also a reporter was the discovery of
- 45:10the remains of a chicken lunch left by the assassin on the fifth floor.
- 45:16Reading the police radio transcripts alone, it would appear that the police were focusing
- 45:22their searches on the fifth floor, but a reading of the testimonies and police
- 45:25officers demonstrates that they were finding evidence on the sixth floor. Police authorities at
- 45:35their command post outside the building, we're directing their men to the fifth floor.
- 45:37How did the police inside the building manage to switch gears and begin an
- 45:43all out search on the sixth floor. We have no clear answer to that
- 45:47question. When Deputy Luke Mooney was asked if he had any reason to go
- 45:52to the sixth floor, his reply was no, sir, that is what
- 45:55I say. I don't know why I just stopped on particular floor. When
- 46:01Deputy Eugene Boone was asked if someone ordered him to go to the sixth floor,
- 46:05his reply was equally vague. Well, that is just where everybody was
- 46:09going. By the time Captain will Fritz arrived at round one, all investigative
- 46:15probes were channeled to the sixth floor, but the fifth floor reporter senior rifle
- 46:21and his sixth floor window was printed in the same news story that also reported
- 46:27that evidence of an assassin was found on the fifth floor. The accumulation of
- 46:31the above facts seems to indicate that Walter, Edwards, and Fisher were not
- 46:37incorrect in their observation of a gum and on the fifth floor for what had
- 46:42so what amountitude only brief glimpses. Their description of him was remarkably detailed.
- 46:47He was wearing a white shirt and had blonde or light brown hair. Carolyn
- 46:52Walter said that he was partially leaning out, just slightly, and he had
- 46:55his forearms on the window. And it was not a long rifle. It
- 47:00was a short gun, not a pistol. I had never seen one like
- 47:05it. She also said that the rifle had a short barrel and looked more
- 47:09like a machine gun. He did not have a telescopic site or a leather
- 47:14sling. Standing next to the man holding the gun was another man in a
- 47:19brown suit coat. His head was not visible because it was above the open
- 47:23portion of the window. The movements of the brown suit coat man after the
- 47:28assassination are carefully analyzed by Josiah Thompson in his book Six Seconds in Dallas.
- 47:35After the water reciting, he was seen again in a few minutes after the
- 47:38shooting by James Walrell, who saw him running out of the back door of
- 47:43the depository heading south on Houston. He was next seen by Richard Randolph Carr,
- 47:50a steel worker at the corner of Houston Commerce. He had previously observed
- 47:53this man around noon and a window on the seventh floor. The second time
- 47:59Car saw the man was after twelve thirty, walking very fast, proceeding south
- 48:02on Houston and then turning left on Commerce. In addition to his brown suit
- 48:08coat, we also learned from Car that he was wearing a hat and he
- 48:12had on horn rimmed glasses, and he stepped into a sixty one and sixty
- 48:16two grade Nash Rambler station wagon worked along the street. The driver was described
- 48:22as a young Negro. The brown suit coat man was last seen as a
- 48:29passenger of this car going north on Record Street. The Nash Rambler and the
- 48:35driver our next scene at twelve forty five by Marvin Robinson, who saw no
- 48:39passenger with him. The vehicle stopped on Elm Street and a white male came
- 48:45down the grassy incline and entered the station wagon. The car sped away towards
- 48:50the Oak Cliff section of Dallas and a deputy name Roger Craig also saw this
- 48:53incident and reported to his superior as what he saw. Later that afternoon he
- 48:59hadent a five lee Harvey Oswald, who was then in custody at City Hall,
- 49:04as the man who got in the nash rambler driven by the dark skinned
- 49:07man, the brown suitcoat man and the white shirt man with a gun had
- 49:13been on the fifth floor in the far east pair of windows. The two
- 49:17black men who were seen by several witnesses staring at the upper levels of the
- 49:21building were not in far east windows, but in the next pair over.
- 49:28This, of course, puts them within speaking distance of the sniper team.
- 49:32Possibly their upper glance to the sixth floor was part of a plan to deflect
- 49:37suspicion away from the fifth floor. The man on the sixth floor might have
- 49:42been flourishing a decoy gun for the benefit of the spectators on the ground.
- 49:47Only one shot was heard from the fifth floor, which was the shot that
- 49:52Doherty heard. Other shots were coming from other snipers posted around daily plasant.
- 49:58The fifth floor gunman was probably an employee of the book Depository who could afford
- 50:01to stay in the area and could easily blend in with other employees who were
- 50:07willing to confirm his alibi. The brown suit coat man was a stranger to
- 50:12the people of the book Depository, and therefore it was imperative that he leave
- 50:16the building as quickly as possible. The elevator was the only way he could
- 50:23have escaped, for if he came down via the stairs, he would have
- 50:27collided with Julian Baker as they were coming up. It was the man in
- 50:30the brown suit coat who took the west elevator at twelve thirty two. A
- 50:36cluster of boxes piled on the elevators could have provided concealment for him and someone,
- 50:42perhaps Doherty, could have served as his th court of the building.
- 50:46Where else. Sighting of him coming out the back door around twelve thirty three
- 50:51demonstrates the fact that the culprit was not wasting his time. The only way
- 50:55he could have departed from the building was the same way that he effected an
- 51:00entrance. Through the aid of trustworthy collaborators who were employed in the book Depository.
- 51:07He could not do it alone, for the risk of detection would be
- 51:09too great. Someone had to as court him in and out, making sure
- 51:14the access routes were clear of ordinary employees who might suspect something. Getting into
- 51:20the building would have been easy for most of the employees were out front waiting
- 51:22for the motorcade. Getting out was an entirely different matter and involves from tricky
- 51:28maneuvering in order to slip by people who had been alerted to the emergency situation.
- 51:35Near the elevator on the first floor were two men, Williams. Shelley
- 51:38and Billy Lovelady. If these two employees had taken this position prior to twelve
- 51:44thirty two, they could have seen the brown suit coat man as he was
- 51:46running out the back door, and therefore critical importance to establish when Shelley and
- 51:52love Lady had arrived at this location. According to their testimonies, they were
- 51:57standing on the front steps of the book deposit tory when the motorcade came by.
- 52:01Hearing shots which sounded like they came from the area of the grassy knoll,
- 52:07love Lady and Shelley ran to the divider that split Elm into two streets.
- 52:12They saw Truly and Baker. Going into the building, they saw police
- 52:15officers running towards the tracks where sniper was thought to be located. The two
- 52:21men decided to follow the police, walking over to the parking lot that had
- 52:25joined the railroad yard. After watching policemen searched the cars in the parking area,
- 52:30they went back to the book depository, and once inside they received an
- 52:35assignment from Truly to guard the elevators and the fairway, be barring anyone from
- 52:40using them. By the time they reached the elevators, the brown suitcoat man
- 52:45would certainly have been out of the building. However, their testimonies are not
- 52:50consistent with the affidavis they submitted on the day of the assassination, as Sylvia
- 52:55Marr and Yours Truly Big bab Bob has pointed out on pre via shows.
- 53:01There After, Davids said nothing about their circuitous routes around the west side of
- 53:07the building. It merely said that they merely said that after they saw the
- 53:12shooting, they went back into the building. Their testimonies are also not consistent
- 53:16with other eyewitness accounts. Victoria Adams, who was coming down the stairs with
- 53:21another employee, Sandrews Styles, remembered seeing them near the elevator About a minute
- 53:27after the shooting. She told Shelley and love Lady that she believed that the
- 53:30president had been shot. They made no reply. Soon after Adams and Styles
- 53:36ran out the back door, Truly and Baker came to the elevators. Although
- 53:40Baker did not know their names, he did remember seeing two white men sitting
- 53:45nearby. If Truly had given love Lady and Shelley their responsibility of guarding the
- 53:51elevators, this was the only time he could have done it. The next
- 53:55time Truly was down on the first floor. The whole book to Pastry was
- 54:00an a turbulent flux warming with law enforcement personnel and members of the news media.
- 54:07It would have been essentially pointless to have guards near the elevators during this
- 54:10time. It is clear that Shelley and love Lady were given their orders to
- 54:14watch the stairs and elevators at a time no later than twelve twelve thirty two.
- 54:21With Trulian Baker proceeding up the stairs, the brown suitcoat man was coming
- 54:24down via the elevator. When he stepped off the elevator and ran out the
- 54:29back door. He must have passed Shelley and love Lady, Yet no mention
- 54:32of the fleeing man was ever made by the two elevator guards. At twelve
- 54:37thirty one, Trulian Baker were compelled to use the stairs because of a power
- 54:42outage, but at twelve thirty two, the power somehow came back on,
- 54:47allowing the man and Brown to get away. If the power failure lasted a
- 54:55minute or two longer, the conspirator might have been captured by Officer Baker.
- 55:00The precise timing of this resurgence of electricity suggests that it was being deliberately controlled
- 55:06by someone endeavoring to help this man get out of the building. This would
- 55:10require some sort of remote communication device, such as a walkie talkie to coordinate
- 55:15this complex escape operation. When Trulian Baker reached the fifth floor, the restoration
- 55:22of the electrical power also allowed them to use an elevator, which they took
- 55:25to the very top floor, the seventh floor. From there, they claimed
- 55:31that they climbed a flight of stairs up to the roof. Baker made a
- 55:36sweeping search of the rooftop looking for clues indicating that a gunman had been there.
- 55:40He saw that the ledge on all sides of the roof was five feet
- 55:45high, too high for someone using a rifle. He also climbed the ladder
- 55:51on the Hurtz rent a car sign, but he soon realized that the sign
- 55:54had no suitable perch for a gunman. Truly, who was waiting patiently,
- 56:00to Baker, I think we're wasting our time here. I don't believe these
- 56:02shots came from this building. Baker agreed, and they both went back into
- 56:07the elevator and returned to the ground floor. Since Baker's original responsibility was to
- 56:13stay with the motorcade, he immediately left the building, got back on his
- 56:16motorcycle, and rode off in the direction of the hospital. As for Truly,
- 56:21he turned his attention to the surging multitudes of people who were transforming the
- 56:24book depository into what he described as a regular madhouse. Yet the police were
- 56:30not slow to restore order. They quickly sealed off the building, allowing no
- 56:36one to leave or enter without due authorization. They began a systematic floor floor
- 56:42search, questioning employees as they went and recording their statements in little notebooks.
- 56:46As they approached the upper floors, they had to proceed with caution, for
- 56:51they were not sure whether or not an armed suspect was still in the building.
- 56:54They thought that he might be holed up on the top floor, and
- 56:59sometimes around twelve forty or twelve forty five, the book depository was again plunged
- 57:05into the darkness by a second power shut off. What started as an orderly
- 57:10police investigation turned into mass confusion. All attempts to find an upper floor suspect
- 57:15were soon halted because it was too dark to see. Deputies were sent across
- 57:21the street to the Sheriff's office in order to bring as many floodlights as they
- 57:24could carry. Deputy Luke Mooney, who was on the first floor, vividly
- 57:29described how the power outage affected him. He says, I noticed there was
- 57:35a big elevator there, the west elevator, so I jumped on it,
- 57:38and at about that time two women were running and said we want to go
- 57:43to the second floor. I said, all right, get on, we're
- 57:45going. I got hold of the controls and it worked. We started up
- 57:51and got to the second I was going to let them off and go on
- 57:54up, and when we got there, the power undoubtedly cut off because we
- 57:59had no more power on the elevator. So I looked around their office there
- 58:02just a fort second or two, and then I went up the stairs myself.
- 58:09Shortly after Mooney left, two more officers got on the elevator, followed
- 58:14by Victoria Adams. She wanted to go back to her office on the fourth
- 58:17floor. Three of them soon realized that the elevator was not going anywhere.
- 58:22The power had been cut off, Adams told the warrant committed some months later.
- 58:28They stepped off the elevator and went up the stairs to their respective destinations.
- 58:32The power outage lasted about five or ten minutes, and speculating what purpose
- 58:37it could have served, it is possible that there really was a suspect on
- 58:43the roof or the top floor, and he might have overcome the five foot
- 58:45ledge problem by the simple expedient of bringing up a wooden box upon which he
- 58:52could stand. Literally after one o'clock a rifle was found by a policeman searching
- 58:59the roof. Baker must have somehow overlooked a hiding place when he was exploring
- 59:05that area. Unlike Oswald's man liquor carcando, the rooftop rifle lacked a sling
- 59:10and telescopic site. It also had a barrel approximately three inches longer. The
- 59:16suspect had been on the seventh floor, and the power shut off and the
- 59:20resultant breakdown of police efforts defined him, presented an opportunity to make a getaway.
- 59:28Just as the first power outage enabled the brown suitcoat man to get out
- 59:32of the building, so the second outage helped the rooftop man. Perhaps he
- 59:38had phony, FBI or secret service credentials to suspend any suspicion people might have
- 59:44had as he was leaving the building. As we come to an understanding of
- 59:49what people were doing in the book depository, we find unmistakable evidence that the
- 59:52assassination of President Kennedy was not carried out by one man. Correlating the eyewitness
- 59:59accounts those who were inside the building with those who were outside reveals that the
- 1:00:02testimonies of German Norman Williams and Doherty are replete with inconsistencies, contradictions, and
- 1:00:10attractions, and therefore should be considered unreliable. In the examination of just the
- 1:00:16street witnesses testimonies alone gives clear evidence that more than one gunment was involved.
- 1:00:23Although the fifth floor witnesses might have been privy to an assassination plot, it
- 1:00:28is possible that they did not have any malevolent designs against the president. Perhaps
- 1:00:34they were unwilling participants in a calamity that might have deeply shocked them, truly
- 1:00:39informed the Warrant Commission that quote. They have been rather, as the expression
- 1:00:44goes, took up about this thing, especially this tall one, Bonnie Williams.
- 1:00:51He is pretty superstitious. I would say the assassination of President Kennedy was
- 1:00:55a multi sniper operation which were a highly sophisticated level of organization and coordination.
- 1:01:05The plot was skillfully and boldfully and boldly executed by assassins who knew how to
- 1:01:10evade even the most vigorous pursuit of law enforcement agencies. The factual existence of
- 1:01:16such ruthless killers is one of the more frightening implications to emerge from the assassination
- 1:01:22record. And that is the end of the William Weston essay about the fifth
- 1:01:30floor shooter. So what do you guys think about that? I honestly don't
- 1:01:43know what to think. The fifth floor has always alluded me. I find
- 1:01:49it hard to believe that Norman Jarman and Williams didn't see Doherty and Doherty didn't
- 1:02:00see them, because you know, after the shots, you would think that
- 1:02:10Norman Jarman and Williams would be hollering each other, talking to each other,
- 1:02:16moving around, getting to the other window and generally making a commotion that Doherty
- 1:02:23would surely have seen. And you would think that they would have heard Doherty
- 1:02:29taking the elevator down from the fifth floor to the first floor. I mean,
- 1:02:32it's not like these elevators were silent. These are big, large freight
- 1:02:37elevators in nineteen sixty three, they were probably creaking and squeaking, and you
- 1:02:42know, the motors are running, making a hell of a racket. So
- 1:02:46it's all very very convoluted. And I don't know that we cleared up anything
- 1:02:51here today at all, but hell, at least we tried, you know,
- 1:02:58you know, and I do understand that people not familiar with the building
- 1:03:00as they're counting floors or you know, could easily mistake, you know,
- 1:03:07the fifth or sixth floor. They could, you know, mistake the fifth
- 1:03:10floor for the sixth floor, and so forth and so on. And you
- 1:03:15know, if you're inside a building, you're run up with stairwell you're not
- 1:03:17familiar with. Unless there's a sign at every floor is saying fifth floor sixth
- 1:03:24floor, seventh floor. You're not going to know either what even floor you're
- 1:03:30on if you're running up, you know, unless you are counting as you
- 1:03:32go up, which you know cops might do. I don't know. It's
- 1:03:39certainly a very interesting proposition and definitely lends credence to the supposition that actual assassin,
- 1:03:51if he were inside the building, could have gotten outside the building from
- 1:03:54the elevator on the fifth floor before any body came in the building and saw
- 1:04:00him. So take that for what you will, folks. It's all very
- 1:04:05interesting, you know, it's all very interesting. Like I said, if
- 1:04:12you'd like to learn more about that, head over to Mary Farrell and search
- 1:04:15up William weston fifth floor and it should pop up in one of these third
- 1:04:20decade deals over there. So that's it for your boy. Make sure you're
- 1:04:31following all the socials at the lone Gum and seven standard time, and also
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- 1:04:45miss the shorts. They give you a little heads up as to what's coming
- 1:04:48up on the show, and let's just say big things are coming sooner than
- 1:04:57later, so you I want to keep an eye over there, folks.
- 1:05:01That's all I'm saying. Just keep one eyeball over there. All right,
- 1:05:06this is your boy. I'm out peace. Enjoy the Hick Conspiracy by Shepherd
- 1:05:12of Fire. Listen to the words and rock out. Baby yeah wow three
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