Jim Marrs & Mike Baker: PROVE THE GRASSY KNOLL SHOT! Travel Channel: America Declassified

[Lauren Johnson]

I agree with Darrell. We should be forcing the government to admit the truth about the assassination.


Both Hoffman and Bowers saw rifles behind the fence. And Julia Mercer saw Ruby carrying an obvious rifle in a case up the Knoll.

Ok, well (puts on devil's advocate hat)...First, I have a lot of problems with Hoffman's story. Second, when did Bowers ever say he saw rifles behind the fence?
And whatever Mercer saw, it seems the height of absurdity to have Jack Ruby parking on Elm Street and take out a rifle case in plain view. Those cars that Bowers saw circling in the parking lot behind the picket fence would be a much safer way of delivering weapons to the area.

I don't have a PhD in "Julia Ann Mercer" studies, but one possibility is that the very absurdity of taking a rifle out in plain view could be an indicator of spookiness, just as Oswald handing out leaflets, getting in a fight, and the getting on TV. Why? Setting up another patsy? This would have required another narrative structure in case Oswald had ended up with an air tight alibi of some kind. Then go with "the mob did it."