22-01-2019, 01:15 PM
Secret Service SAs Warner & Moore made an early attempt (12/1/63) to sequence LHO's movements with timings based on witness accounts & radio tapes. Attached document is one of many included in sprawling file CO-2-34,030, barely legible, hoping to find a better copy. It contains this curious statement:
What makes it curious is not one of the "WITNESSES TO THE SHOOTING" listed immediately thereafter (Virginia Davis, Markham, Scoggins, Callaway, McWatters & Barbara Jeanette Davis) claimed to have seen a fugitive running in the alley. The inclusion of bus driver McWatters may be a mistake, not so the absence of Benavides, who was not there. His promotion from spear carrier to main supporting cast would come later.
The intelligence regarding the witnesses who observed the shoooter "running into an alley" was derived from the report filed by Poe & Jez (11/22/63):
The FBI supplied some names (Cimino & Burt) who might have been among them, but they represent the last vestige of truth as to what happened. Some LN scriptwriter woke up to the fact that two fugitives from the murder scene were one too many, consigned Cimino & Burt to oblivion, and the eastern front was shut down. Gone too was the pedestrian LHO seen by W. L. Smith, nothing left but the mendacity of W. A. Smith's WC testimony.
After crossing the front yard of E. 10th Street, Oswald was observed by witnesses running into an alley and continue west between Jefferson and 10th Streets. Oswald was subsequently traced to the Texas Theater where he was arrested.
(p.3)
What makes it curious is not one of the "WITNESSES TO THE SHOOTING" listed immediately thereafter (Virginia Davis, Markham, Scoggins, Callaway, McWatters & Barbara Jeanette Davis) claimed to have seen a fugitive running in the alley. The inclusion of bus driver McWatters may be a mistake, not so the absence of Benavides, who was not there. His promotion from spear carrier to main supporting cast would come later.
The intelligence regarding the witnesses who observed the shoooter "running into an alley" was derived from the report filed by Poe & Jez (11/22/63):
There were approximately six to eight witnesses, all telling officers that the subject was running west in the alley between Tenth and Jefferson Streets.
The FBI supplied some names (Cimino & Burt) who might have been among them, but they represent the last vestige of truth as to what happened. Some LN scriptwriter woke up to the fact that two fugitives from the murder scene were one too many, consigned Cimino & Burt to oblivion, and the eastern front was shut down. Gone too was the pedestrian LHO seen by W. L. Smith, nothing left but the mendacity of W. A. Smith's WC testimony.