17-07-2013, 09:00 PM
Gordon Gray Wrote:Just eyeballing it without actual measurements, it would seem that the distance covered by a shooter from the 6th floor window down 4 flights of stars, is greater than the distance Baker covered from were he parked his motor cycle, up one flight of stairs, to the second floor lunch room. And we know from film clips that Baker was sprinting to the TSBD door. Hard to believe it took him all of 90 seconds to get to the second floor. More like 60 -70 IMO.
There is some discussion, mentioned by Roffman in his book, that the Malcom Couch film includes Baker and his parked motorcycle, which when coordinated with other films, indicates Baker either took fifteen-forty five seconds outside the TSBD (Todd, Mack, et al), or a shorter amount of time, as Roffman concludes. My analysis is based on the facts established by the Warren Commission, and it does not matter how long it would take Oswald or Baker or Truly to get there, but assumes that Truly did not see Oswald when he got to the top of the second floor landing, as he should have if Oswald went through the door he had to see in front of him at the top of the stairs, while Baker did see him moments later through the window of the closed door.
To me, that proves that Oswald did not go through that door just before Baker saw him through the window, but instead, he entered the lunchroom vestibule through the other door.
Now, if you discard the Warren Commission's facts, and extend the amount of time it took Baker and Truly to get to the top of the Second Floor steps landing, and lessen the time it would take for Oswald to get there from the Sixth Floor, he would have had to get behind that closed door BEFORE Truly arrived, and possibly could have done so. But that's not what the Warren Commission says happened.
For photo of the door as Truly and Baker saw it when they arrived at the top of the stairs:
JFKcountercoup: THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION - WHY OSWALD IS NOT GUILTY w/notes
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