29-07-2017, 10:56 PM
5) p. 262) [After Baker recounts the tail-end of his time in the Depository, Belin shifts gears and asks about Oswald's clothing while at DPD HQ]
BELIN: In this time sequence you mentioned you were on the roof more than 5 minutes, that could be 25 or 30 or 10 or 15 or what?
BAKER: This, to my recollection, it seemed like I shouldn't have stayed up there over 10 minutes anyway, if that long.
BELIN: So you would say somewhere between 5 and 10 minutes?
BAKER: I just ran around up there looking for something; I didn't find it and then we came on down.
BELIN: Mr. Dulles, are there any more questions that you have?
DULLES: I have no more questions. Have you any questions?
BELIN: Off the record.
(Discussion off the record)
BELIN: Officer Baker, I believe you testified that you later saw Lee Harvey Oswald at the police station of the homicide office, is that correct?
BAKER: That is correct, sir.
BELIN: Was this later on that same day?
BAKER: Yes, it was.
BELIN: Would you state whether or not the man who was shown to you in the police station as Lee Harvey Oswald was or was not the same man that you saw and encountered on the second floor lunchroom of the Texas School Book Depository Building on that day?
BAKER: He was the same man.
BELIN: Is there anything about his clothes that you can remember or his dress that you haven't talked about here?
BAKER: No, sir; I can't.
DULLES: Do you recall whether or not he was wearing the same clothes, did he appear to you the same when you saw him in the police station as when you saw him in the lunchroom?
BAKER: Actually just looking at him, he looked like he didn't have the same thing on.
[This 5th break in Baker's testimony does not take one iota away from the lunchroom incident's reality. Oswald had admitted that he changed clothes at his 1st interrogation.]
[When all is said and done, Baker's testimony going off the record 5 times is just another fun fact. Nothing substantive can be concluded from this. It may or may not have been innocent, but we don't even have one firm foot for our understanding to stand on. All we do is bring our own suspicions to the reading, and these slip away like a handful of sand.
What a nothing-burger these 5 interruptions are.]
BELIN: In this time sequence you mentioned you were on the roof more than 5 minutes, that could be 25 or 30 or 10 or 15 or what?
BAKER: This, to my recollection, it seemed like I shouldn't have stayed up there over 10 minutes anyway, if that long.
BELIN: So you would say somewhere between 5 and 10 minutes?
BAKER: I just ran around up there looking for something; I didn't find it and then we came on down.
BELIN: Mr. Dulles, are there any more questions that you have?
DULLES: I have no more questions. Have you any questions?
BELIN: Off the record.
(Discussion off the record)
BELIN: Officer Baker, I believe you testified that you later saw Lee Harvey Oswald at the police station of the homicide office, is that correct?
BAKER: That is correct, sir.
BELIN: Was this later on that same day?
BAKER: Yes, it was.
BELIN: Would you state whether or not the man who was shown to you in the police station as Lee Harvey Oswald was or was not the same man that you saw and encountered on the second floor lunchroom of the Texas School Book Depository Building on that day?
BAKER: He was the same man.
BELIN: Is there anything about his clothes that you can remember or his dress that you haven't talked about here?
BAKER: No, sir; I can't.
DULLES: Do you recall whether or not he was wearing the same clothes, did he appear to you the same when you saw him in the police station as when you saw him in the lunchroom?
BAKER: Actually just looking at him, he looked like he didn't have the same thing on.
[This 5th break in Baker's testimony does not take one iota away from the lunchroom incident's reality. Oswald had admitted that he changed clothes at his 1st interrogation.]
[When all is said and done, Baker's testimony going off the record 5 times is just another fun fact. Nothing substantive can be concluded from this. It may or may not have been innocent, but we don't even have one firm foot for our understanding to stand on. All we do is bring our own suspicions to the reading, and these slip away like a handful of sand.
What a nothing-burger these 5 interruptions are.]