04-01-2016, 11:21 PM
You are certainly onto something here, Mr. Prudhomme, as it wouldn't be unusual for at least a few others to recall his presence (either directly or indirectly via hearing Mrs. Sanders sharing her unique experience with her fellow coworkers). Given the crowded, close quarters upon those stairs, it does seem rather odd that others didn't recall being ushered aside in his haste to gain way into the building. Of course, like so much in this case, others may have actually recalled his presence in their initial statements, but simply signed off on something, or verbally agreed to a watered down "officialdom-scale" of the unfolding events, which would help preserve the next floor up as the place where Officer Baker encounters the wrongfully accused, rather than someone recalling otherwise.
Of course, given that the FBI manufactured, err, went with her version that he indeed went up those steps, lest we forget these are the same people who demanded that a Minox spy camera be scaled back to a mere light meter. Given the Hoover-henchmen's propensity for fake money orders, dual discoveries of CE399's, choose a stretcher location & shape of the bullet, etc., it's difficult to keep up with what they say happened as oppose to what really happened.
For instance, Here we have Buell Wesley Frazier trying to get as far away from the figure to his right as possible by lying about his precise whereabouts:
Mr. BALL - Were you near the steps?
Mr. FRAZIER - Yes, sir; I was, I was standing about, I believe, one step down from the top there."
Yet in actuality he is standing well above his stated position...lots of CYA dynamics going on here with officialdom rendering controlled "evidence" to arrive at a desired outcome, while both the aforementioned Mr. Frazier and Bill "I'm no Honest Abe" Shelley desperately either getting as far away from we know who or insinuating he is LV.
Of course, if Officer Baker didn't go up those stairs, the FBI's timeline would have to contend with him running towards the Dal-Tex and then down the side of the TSBD to a rear entrance before climbing two floors to encounter the wrongfully accused in the 2nd floor break room (a world class Olympic gold medalist sprinter couldn't pull that off in 90 seconds, given the throng of people he/she would have to contend with amid the ensuing chaos) thus...we are back to Pauline Sanders...
Of course, given that the FBI manufactured, err, went with her version that he indeed went up those steps, lest we forget these are the same people who demanded that a Minox spy camera be scaled back to a mere light meter. Given the Hoover-henchmen's propensity for fake money orders, dual discoveries of CE399's, choose a stretcher location & shape of the bullet, etc., it's difficult to keep up with what they say happened as oppose to what really happened.
For instance, Here we have Buell Wesley Frazier trying to get as far away from the figure to his right as possible by lying about his precise whereabouts:
Mr. BALL - Were you near the steps?
Mr. FRAZIER - Yes, sir; I was, I was standing about, I believe, one step down from the top there."
Yet in actuality he is standing well above his stated position...lots of CYA dynamics going on here with officialdom rendering controlled "evidence" to arrive at a desired outcome, while both the aforementioned Mr. Frazier and Bill "I'm no Honest Abe" Shelley desperately either getting as far away from we know who or insinuating he is LV.
Of course, if Officer Baker didn't go up those stairs, the FBI's timeline would have to contend with him running towards the Dal-Tex and then down the side of the TSBD to a rear entrance before climbing two floors to encounter the wrongfully accused in the 2nd floor break room (a world class Olympic gold medalist sprinter couldn't pull that off in 90 seconds, given the throng of people he/she would have to contend with amid the ensuing chaos) thus...we are back to Pauline Sanders...