The Danger Of The Fetzer Assassination School

[Greg Burnham]

Cinque is getting away with a strawman to avoid dealing with the Fritz notes. Before the subject was changed to Elbow Man Cinque was trying to say the suggestion that Oswald ate lunch after the Baker encounter dismisses all interpretations of the Fritz notes. It doesn't. Since Oswald was said to have left the Depository around 12:33 that means the post-Baker lunch issue is already dismissed by the facts. So therefore Cinque doesn't have the right to use the post-Baker lunch issue as an overly-long strawman to get around answering the point. If Baker encountered Oswald at 12:31 and 30 seconds then it isn't possible he went to the 1st floor to eat lunch. Besides, Carolyn Arnold said Oswald was eating lunch when she saw him at 12:25 on the 2nd floor. The Coke was obviously used to wash it down and Oswald obviously followed his usual routine by going to Geneva Hine for change before buying it.


So this still leaves us with the question of why Fritz wrote about the encounter with Baker two lines above this alleged visit to the front steps? And so far Cinque hasn't answered it.


The obvious interpretation of Fritz's notes is that Oswald was confronted by Baker on the 2nd floor. He then went down to the 1st floor in the act of leaving according to the known timeline. We know it was in the course of exiting the building because a secretary saw Oswald walk across the 2nd floor holding a Coke. It was then that Fritz noted "had lunch" because Oswald had probably told him that he had finished having lunch and left to go out front with Shelley on the front steps. The timeline prevents any interpretation of Oswald having lunch after the Baker encounter. It is Cinque who suggests this only because he needs to use it as a strawman. However once we realize it can't be used as such then an answer is due for the remaining questions. So far Cinque hasn't answered them.

Albert,

As a point of logic:

A straw man fallacy occurs when one participant in a debate exaggerates the argument of his opponent in order to more easily defeat that argument. I don't believe that you have demonstrated a straw man on Cinque's part in this instance.