04-06-2011, 08:56 PM
The Von Pein troll handle on Amazon "SV Anderson" said:
I think SV is trying to assert that Westbrook saw a wallet laying next to Tippit at the murder scene but never looked into it to examine its contents. You can see the shameless level of dishonesty deniers will stoop to in this obviously contrived excuse-making to get around the obvious. SV is kind of a sloppy dummy because if he was smart he'd realize his contention that Westbrook asked FBI officer Barrett if he ever heard of "Alek Hidell" at the Tippit murder scene was impossible according to the information they had at that time. The knowledge of "Alek Hidell" is something that could have only come from looking in Oswald's wallet and seeing his fake ID's. It's fun seeing a lying denier get caught in his own sticky spiderweb of denial.
Quote:The truth behind the "multiple wallets" red herring.
1. The allegation that Oswald's wallet was found at the Tippit murder scene first appeared in Assignment Oswald (Arcade Publishing, 1997), a book by former Dallas FBI agent James P. Hosty, Jr. Film footage taken at the Tippit scene on the afternoon of November 22nd showed officers handling a wallet.
2. FBI agent Robert M. Barrett observed Dallas police handling a wallet at the Tippit murder scene shortly before Oswald's arrest at the Texas Theater six blocks away. Television news footage shot at the scene supports this basic fact.
3. Fifteen years later, while having dinner with fellow agent James Hosty, Barrett recalled that Dallas police Captain W.R. Westbrook asked him at the Tippit scene whether he knew a "Lee Harvey Oswald" or an "Alek Hidell?" While Barrett ASSUMED the names were taken from identification in the wallet, he NEVER saw the identification or handled the wallet (did you get this part Arguile?)
4. Despite Barrett's credibility on a wide variety of assassination related details, his recollection about what Westbrook asked him at the scene runs counter to the official (and well-documented) version of events which reveals that Oswald's wallet was removed from his own pant's pocket immediately AFTER his arrest at the Texas Theater. Identification cards with the names "Oswald" and "Hidell" were subsequently found in Oswald's arrest wallet.
5. A comparison of the wallet filmed at the Tippit murder scene by WFAA-TV cameraman Ron Reiland and the wallet removed from Oswald's pocket after his arrest, shows the two wallets to be similar in style, but not identical. When you boil it all down, the only thing connecting Oswald to the wallet filmed at the Tippit shooting scene is Barrett's RECOLLECTION that Captain Westbrook asked him about the names "Oswald" and "Hidell" WHILE Barrett was at the scene.
6. It is much more likely that Barrett was asked the questions about the names Oswald and Hidell BACK at City Hall AFTER Oswald's arrest, and NOT at the scene of Tippit's murder. Conspiracy critics have since taken the facts and spun them into a series of distortions and half-truths that have transformed the wallet filmed by WFAA-TV as a "plant," left behind at the murder scene by Tippit's "real killer" in order to frame Oswald.
7. As I have previously written many times, the suggestion of an Oswald frame-up is preposterous and flies in the face of an avalanche of indisputable facts that prove beyond any reasonable doubt that Oswald murdered Tippit. One of the principle reasons that the frame-up theory defies belief, is the fact that not one word - I repeat, not one single word - about Oswald's wallet being found at the Tippit murder scene was ever published in the newspapers or broadcast on radio or television at the time of the killing even though there were several radio and television reporters at the scene that afternoon. What about that omission Arguile? Were the television and radio reporters IN on the conspiracy also and they intentionally kept quiet on this little tidbit?
8. Does any sane person seriously believe that the discovery of Oswald's wallet at the Tippit shooting scene would NOT have been front page news, broadcast around the world by late Friday afternoon, had his wallet actually been found there? In fact the only reason this story is worth one second of any serious attention is the reputation of the man making the allegation - former FBI agent Robert M. Barrett.
9. It is relatively easy to see how the chaotic circumstances surrounding this episode might have led to the creation of a FALSE memory. For instance, consider these four facts:
a. There was a wallet in police hands at the shooting scene; the television news film is proof of that much. But whose wallet was it? More than likely it was Tippit's wallet. Television news cameraman Ron Reiland, who filmed the wallet, reported it as Tippit's wallet on the day of the shooting. NO reporter stated that it belonged to Lee Harvey Oswald. Not one. Even though conspiracy nuts would LOVE to believe that a second wallet had been planted there.
b. Barrett acknowledged that he NEVER handled the wallet and NEVER held or saw the identification in it. His belief that the wallet at the scene contained identification in the names "Lee Harvey Oswald" and "Alek Hidell" is based entirely on his recollection that Captain Westbrook asked him about those names while at the scene.
c. Barrett did come into contact with Westbrook at Dallas Police Headquarters following Oswald's arrest. By then, Oswald's wallet had been removed from his pocket and the identification cards in the names "Lee Harvey Oswald" and "Alek Hidell" discovered by police. Westbrook was known to have seen the identification before running into Barrett in the hallway.
d. Barrett, who had a reputation for writing highly detailed after-action reports, containing details other FBI agents wouldn't bother to have included, didn't mention anything about police finding Oswald's wallet at the Tippit shooting scene in the report he filed that day, and again failed to mention it when he had the opportunity a decade later while testifying about his activities on November 22.
I think SV is trying to assert that Westbrook saw a wallet laying next to Tippit at the murder scene but never looked into it to examine its contents. You can see the shameless level of dishonesty deniers will stoop to in this obviously contrived excuse-making to get around the obvious. SV is kind of a sloppy dummy because if he was smart he'd realize his contention that Westbrook asked FBI officer Barrett if he ever heard of "Alek Hidell" at the Tippit murder scene was impossible according to the information they had at that time. The knowledge of "Alek Hidell" is something that could have only come from looking in Oswald's wallet and seeing his fake ID's. It's fun seeing a lying denier get caught in his own sticky spiderweb of denial.