Why the second floor lunch room encounter could not have happened

[Drew Phipps]

If you were willing to ignore what Truly/Baker said about their route, you could get a much more plausible story, miss Adams/Styles on the stairs, and preserve a lunchroom encounter:

"(Hypothetical) Baker, believing the shots came from the roof, runs into the building and summons the first elevator he sees: the front door elevator, not knowing it doesn't go to the top. (Styles and Adams head to the stairs) In the few seconds it takes for the elevator to arrive, Truly, who came in from Elm Street behind Baker, joins him in (or at) the elevator, takes Baker as high as the elevator goes (the second floor), where (Baker in front, like all cops would do) they run down the hallway, take a right at the corner, and head toward the vestibule. (At this point, Styles and Adams are crossing the second floor landing and heading down the stairs.)

Baker, standing in the vestibule, (who has no real idea what floor he is on at the moment, except that the elevator didn't go any higher) alertly notices something through just the lunchroom door, and barges in to confront Oswald. Truly, knowing that Baker has swerved aside from the path to the roof, opens and stands in the vestibule door, and is able to recognize Oswald. After that, Baker charges past Truly again and they head up the stairs."

Like I said, this involves ignoring their testimony and reports; but, if you are suggesting that they lied under oath about the rest of it, you have no reason to suppose they told the truth about their actual route either. Heck, maybe Baker wanted the Coke. After breathing motorcycle and limo fumes for an hour, who could blame him? Maybe Baker decides later he doesn't want people to know he waited for the elevator. For some strange reason, though (as it seems this story favors Oswald), the folks creating this particular narrative chose these details to preserve.