02-01-2021, 07:26 PM
The voice from the grave that triggered the blog's phantasmal skein of events belonged to Doretha ("Dodie") B. Dean, who worked at Dean’s Dairy Way next to the Texaco station.
Information regarding two significant events were attributed to her by family survivors:
1. She saw a man who resembled LHO pass east to west from the second hand furniture store toward the service station, crossing the front of the dairy and disappearing in the parking lot to the rear.
2. She "claimed that she was the one who recovered Oswald’s jacket" after "he had flung the jacket onto a tire rack of the Texaco station next door." She then "picked it up and came back into the store," and "when the police arrived, turned the jacket over to them telling them she had found it on the tire rack.”
The first is entirely possible, but how do we know she was not looking at Reynolds? According to Myers, he fooled Kinsley into thinking he was LHO. Why didn't the protean apparition of Reynolds produce the same effect on Mrs. Dean?
The second is rejected by Myers: "Despite the belated claim, it is difficult to believe that Mrs. Dean retrieved the jacket and turned it over to police given the considerable contemporary record to the contrary."
Myers goes to great length to defeat this claim, but fails to answer a simple question. If the jacket on the tire rack was a hallucination, what prevented the Dean family's collective memory from likewise hallucinating an LHO lookalike on the sidewalk in front of the store?
If belatedness is a problem for claim #2 it is likewise a problem for equally belated claim #1.
More on the throwdown jacket next post.
Information regarding two significant events were attributed to her by family survivors:
1. She saw a man who resembled LHO pass east to west from the second hand furniture store toward the service station, crossing the front of the dairy and disappearing in the parking lot to the rear.
2. She "claimed that she was the one who recovered Oswald’s jacket" after "he had flung the jacket onto a tire rack of the Texaco station next door." She then "picked it up and came back into the store," and "when the police arrived, turned the jacket over to them telling them she had found it on the tire rack.”
The first is entirely possible, but how do we know she was not looking at Reynolds? According to Myers, he fooled Kinsley into thinking he was LHO. Why didn't the protean apparition of Reynolds produce the same effect on Mrs. Dean?
The second is rejected by Myers: "Despite the belated claim, it is difficult to believe that Mrs. Dean retrieved the jacket and turned it over to police given the considerable contemporary record to the contrary."
Myers goes to great length to defeat this claim, but fails to answer a simple question. If the jacket on the tire rack was a hallucination, what prevented the Dean family's collective memory from likewise hallucinating an LHO lookalike on the sidewalk in front of the store?
If belatedness is a problem for claim #2 it is likewise a problem for equally belated claim #1.
More on the throwdown jacket next post.