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Pierce Allman's encounter with Oswald - Tracy Riddle - 31-05-2016
I missed this story when it came out in 2013, and I don't see a thread about it here. It sounds like he encountered Oswald within a very short time of the shooting. Obviously too short for the official story (running from the 6th floor, encountering Baker & Truly, etc).
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-reporters-chance-encounter-with-jfks-assassin/
DALLAS - Fifty years ago this Thursday, President Kennedy and his wife Jackie flew to Texas in Air Force One. The president was shot the next day in Dallas. We met a man who ran into the assassin as Lee Harvey Oswald fled the scene.
"I will never forget that first look," said Pierce Allman.
On that fateful day in Dallas, Allman, a young newsman, came to a corner of Elm Street directly across from the Texas School Book Depository, to see the young first couple.
"They turned the corner and (closes his eyes) boom!" he recalled.
Allman looked up at the red brick building."There were three guys in the fifth floor window," he said. "And they were literally hanging out of the window and looking up and pointing up. And I thought, 'I need to get to a phone and call.' So I ran down the sidewalk and up the steps and into the doorway of the depository building."
It was there he had a chance encounter.
"There was a guy standing in the doorway," remembered Allman, "and I said, Where's the phone?' And he jerked his thumb and said, In there!' And I said, Thank you.'"
Moments later, Allman filed a live report, unaware that he'd just come face to face with the president's assassin.
"This is Pierce Allman from the Texas School Book Depository building..." he reported at the time.
Allman would not learn the man's identity until three weeks later, when the Secret Service paid him a visit.
"They said, Are you familiar with the testimony of Lee Oswald after his arrest?' And I said, No.' And they said, He states as he was leaving the depository building, a young man with a crew cut rushed up, identified himself as a newsman, and asked where a phone was. So this was very obviously you.'"It must have come as something of a shock when Allman realized the guy he asked for directions was the person who just shot the president.
"It did," said Allman. "He didn't appear stressed in any way."
Just minutes earlier, Oswald shot the president from the sixth floor corner window of the building.
To Allman, it's as if it happened yesterday.
"If I go to the site, it's forever 1963," he said. "I can hear it. I can see it. It's a memory that stays with you forever."
Fifty years later, a day still frozen in time.
Pierce Allman's encounter with Oswald - Bob Prudhomme - 01-06-2016
Tracy Riddle Wrote:I missed this story when it came out in 2013, and I don't see a thread about it here. It sounds like he encountered Oswald within a very short time of the shooting. Obviously too short for the official story (running from the 6th floor, encountering Baker & Truly, etc).
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-reporters-chance-encounter-with-jfks-assassin/
DALLAS - Fifty years ago this Thursday, President Kennedy and his wife Jackie flew to Texas in Air Force One. The president was shot the next day in Dallas. We met a man who ran into the assassin as Lee Harvey Oswald fled the scene.
"I will never forget that first look," said Pierce Allman.
On that fateful day in Dallas, Allman, a young newsman, came to a corner of Elm Street directly across from the Texas School Book Depository, to see the young first couple.
"They turned the corner and (closes his eyes) boom!" he recalled.
Allman looked up at the red brick building."There were three guys in the fifth floor window," he said. "And they were literally hanging out of the window and looking up and pointing up. And I thought, 'I need to get to a phone and call.' So I ran down the sidewalk and up the steps and into the doorway of the depository building."
It was there he had a chance encounter.
"There was a guy standing in the doorway," remembered Allman, "and I said, Where's the phone?' And he jerked his thumb and said, In there!' And I said, Thank you.'"
Moments later, Allman filed a live report, unaware that he'd just come face to face with the president's assassin.
"This is Pierce Allman from the Texas School Book Depository building..." he reported at the time.
Allman would not learn the man's identity until three weeks later, when the Secret Service paid him a visit.
"They said, Are you familiar with the testimony of Lee Oswald after his arrest?' And I said, No.' And they said, He states as he was leaving the depository building, a young man with a crew cut rushed up, identified himself as a newsman, and asked where a phone was. So this was very obviously you.'"It must have come as something of a shock when Allman realized the guy he asked for directions was the person who just shot the president.
"It did," said Allman. "He didn't appear stressed in any way."
Just minutes earlier, Oswald shot the president from the sixth floor corner window of the building.
To Allman, it's as if it happened yesterday.
"If I go to the site, it's forever 1963," he said. "I can hear it. I can see it. It's a memory that stays with you forever."
Fifty years later, a day still frozen in time.
From the Warren Commission testimony of Harold Norman:
"Mr. BALL. I have one question.
On the 26th of November, an FBI agent named Kreutzer advises us in a report that he talked to you. Do you remember that?
Mr. NORMAN. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. You remember?
Mr. NORMAN. Yes; I remember talking to him. I don't know his name.
Mr. BALL. He reports that you told him that you heard a shot and that you stuck your head from the window and looked upward toward the roof but could see nothing because small particles of dirt were falling from above you. Did you tell him that?
Mr. NORMAN. I don't recall telling him that.
Mr. BALL. Did you ever put your head out the window?
Mr. NORMAN. No, sir; I don't remember ever putting my head out the window.
Mr. BALL. And he reports that you stated that two additional shots were fired after you pulled your head back in from the window. Do you remember telling him that?
Mr. NORMAN. No, sir; I don't.
Mr. BALL. I have no further questions. "
I find it extremely odd that certain members of the news media, including Allman, observed the three Negro gentlemen on the 5th floor sticking their heads out the window, looking up to and pointing at the roof, when Harold Norman seems to have no recollection of this; despite the FBI's attempt to include this in his statement.