02-05-2015, 03:58 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-05-2015, 04:26 AM by Albert Doyle.)
Drew Phipps Wrote:I'd merely like to point out that Burroughs apparently (since it seems many "corrections" were made to the WC transcript) described his whereabouts in a very different way to the Warren Commission. He did not testify at the HSCA. In addition, he waited until 2007 (45 years?), when Douglass interviewed him, to tell this version of events to anyone.
I wouldn't doubt he was either discouraged from telling this story, convinced it was a mistake, or simply had his testimony altered by the Commission. It's not like it didn't happen to many other witnesses and Burroughs' story was something they would definitely not want known. If you read Douglass' description of Burroughs he was not a man who volunteered anything. His not testifying at HSCA is similar to other things HSCA ignored. Waiting 45 years is sometimes an indication of dangerous information rather than untruth.
As Douglass points out, I doubt the Dallas police had trouble distinguishing between the balcony and ground floor seats in the Texas Theater. Plus you have the arrest record and Haire.
Another thing Douglass mentioned was that Julia Postal kept breaking down and running away when she was asked if she sold a ticket to Oswald. She had obviously been coerced into not answering this but couldn't tell a lie so she started crying and ran away each time she was asked. The suggestion is that, yes, she had sold the 1 o'clock Oswald a ticket but couldn't answer it and didn't want to lie.
Tippit might have to die if he tried to arrest the wrong Oswald.
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