17-02-2013, 09:42 PM
Peter Lemkin Wrote:Adele Edisen Wrote:In Europe and South America, our second floor level is their first floor, the land-level floor, is their lobby or atrium. Using that method of counting would make our sixth floor their fifth floor.
Adele, correct, but this wouldn't explain Dame Hoover's repeated use of 5th floor. It could just be a mistake, or it could be more sinister. We know, I believe, there WAS a shooter on the 6th floor - but NOT at the East side, but on the far WEST side - in fact, Boyd had that window and frame removed from the building to his home as a 'trophy'. It was later sold on ebay. Boyd was knowledgeable about the plot before the fact, and covered-up - certainly knew where in his building there were shooters....who were also elsewhere around the Plaza in a classic military style ambush.
Hi, Peter,
Orrin Bartlett, the FBI Special Liaison Agent, was introduced to me by Secret Service Agent John Rice, who also said that he (Bartlett) was from Washington. He was a liaison between the FBI and the Secret Service and the White House, high up in the FBI hierarchy. Years later he was selected by President Johnson to be his protector on Air Force One because Johnson did not trust the Secret Service (Cartha de Loach's oral history statement in LBJ Library, Austin, Texas).
The day before, Saturday, November 23, 1963, Orrin Bartlett had been at the White House garage, inspecting the Presidental limousine and then flew to New Orleans that evening or night. Why would Hoover send such an important man from Washington to New Orleans when New Orleans had its own staff of FBI agents? They knew "someone had called Oswald" as the New Orleans Times Picayune newspaper article headline of Saturday, November 23, 1963, stated, and as SS Agent Rice said, after I finished telling them of my experiences and of speaking with Oswald, "So that's how it happened." In Bartlett's report to Hoover, he would have said, repeating Rivera's words, "fifth floor". I am not sure that it had been clearly established at that time that they had evidence that Oswald had been on the sixth floor that day (or at the time of the shooting, which they never actually did).
Bartlett was highly trusted by Hoover at that time, please consider that.
Yes, Peter, I know about the shooter at the WEST window of the sixth floor, his photo and all, but this was not known about until years after the assassinatkion. He, it has been thought, fired the shot that hit Governor John Connally.
Adele