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The Lunch Room Encounter
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Marvin Johnson's report also stated that Baker "started to search the man"- a further indication that Baker indeed had an interaction with the suspect.

At the end of the day, after 15+ years of their empty hypothesis, what the hoaxers have produced is another empty conclusion-  an episode that had a lot written about it and generated a lot of mistakes, hence a lot of ambiguous interpretations. As I noted on p. 86 of Death of the Lunchroom Hoax:

"Researchers need to remember that they weren't there on November 22nd. None of the witnesses had perfect recall of what they saw, or what they did, or what they were thinking, or what someone else said. And they did not relate it in the same way in each successive recollection. Nor were details perfectly transmitted each time another person was told second-hand about what some witnesses had seen, done, thought or said."

I would like to point out that this empty conclusion is the same empty conclusion reached by the hypothesis that the bus & taxi ride were a hoax. This hypothesis was eviscerated by John Armstrong in the last 3 pages of his 2017 essay Harvey and Lee Depart the TSBD. At the end of the day, the only thing the bus/taxi hoax hypothesis succeeded in telling us is that people don't have perfect memories.

Its proponents never produced "a single document or a single witness by which to prove the bus and taxi ride never happened. Nor did they offer an ounce of PROOF as to what they think COULD HAVE happened-  only speculation, fantasies and daydreams." And they never identified "the person or persons who came up with the idea to fabricate a story in which the bus and taxi rider never happened ." They never named "the person or persons who had the knowledge, presence and ability to fabricate such a hoax within hours of Oswald's arrest."

And there is an entirely analogous situation with the lunchroom hoax. Its proponents put forth a convoluted mini-conspiracy, as complex as the plot to kill the President, based on speculations, fantasies and daydreams-  whose raison d'etre is for protecting the "identity of PrayerMan." And to carry out this convoluted mini-conspiracy a nebulous PrayerMan coverup-crew thereby twisted the arms of Baker, Truly, Fritz, Bookhout and several others to help keep a lid on the PrayerMan ultra secret.

The saloon scholars make connections that don't exist outside of their own little saloon. Not once have they presented a voice-stress analysis of Marrion Baker's filmed interviews, or otherwise presented irrefutable proof of him lying about the whereabouts of his encounter with Oswald. They have never even consulted a professional detective, or one of Baker's children, or anyone who could make a difference. 

They prefer to remain in the safety of their saloon, a cult of make-believe criminologists that produces rotten fruit.
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The Lunch Room Encounter - by Brian Doyle - 25-03-2023, 09:47 PM
The Lunch Room Encounter - by Brian Doyle - 26-03-2023, 06:34 PM
RE: The Lunch Room Encounter - by Richard Gilbride - 01-04-2023, 07:43 PM
The Lunch Room Encounter - by Brian Doyle - 01-04-2023, 09:40 PM

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