Anyone want to discuss HARVEY & LEE?

[Jim Hargrove]

Hi, D.J....

No doubt there is wriggle room on the IDs (or lack thereof) by McWatters and Roy Milton Jones, just as you would expect during a brief encounter on a public bus. And, of course, you can argue that Mary Bledsoe was a co-conspirator. The bus transfer requires more co-conspirators, though, including several Dallas policemen (Boyd and Sims at a minimum), and it requires them on the job within a few hours of the assassination. As John notes in his article, Who at Dallas PD was in a position to put together a conspiracy like this in just an hour or two after the hit? And Whaley's ID of "Oswald" is clearly much stronger than that of McWatters, just as you would expect considering Whaley had a single passenger.

According to Fritz's notes, Oswald said he took the bus, and in a subsequent interview Oswald said he took the bus and taxi--and he even stated that the ride cost 85 cents, confirmed by Whaley himself. There were many witnesses to those interrogations, some of whom repeated the bus and taxi remarks by Oswald in sworn testimony. Over the years not one of them came forward to question those statements.

Very few men wear bracelets with their name printed on them. The fact that Whaley correctly saw one on Oswald's left wrist seems more significant to me than the fact that he MAY have gotten some details about it wrong.




John is almost finished with his piece, so if you don't mind I'd hate to argue it all out here before it is posted. Should be just another couple of days. Considering how good the evidence is for the Nash Rambler station wagon, this is REALLY fascinating....

Jim