Anyone want to discuss HARVEY & LEE?

[Drew Phipps]

As usual, John's work is meticulous and thorough in details. His review of the bus/cab ride witnesses and their stories is a far better summation of that portion of Oswald's day than even the Warren Commission bothered to make.

That makes his lack of such scrutiny of, and attention to, the other half of the Harvey/Lee scenario, the Roger Craig story, all the more puzzling. As we all know, at the start of these events, Craig is a decorated rising star at the DCSO; and yet, by the end of his life, Roger Craig was emotionally and physically troubled, and in constant pain. According to his daughter, Craig probably was bi-polar. (According to her, his emotional problems existed before the assassination.)

As John merely alluded to, Craig was deemed to have taken his own life. But the circumstances are not so mysterious as you might believe, if you just read John's article. The rifle he used to shoot himself was his father's rifle. His place of death was his father's house. According to his daughter, Craig had threatened to take his own life on a number of occasions, and it was such threats that ended his marriage and sundered his family.

Given those facts, it is unfortunate that John chooses to direct his laser reasoning at the "naysayers" of the bus/cab story, which I might remind everyone, is and always has been, the official finding of the government. Craig, who escapes John's searing analysis in this article, unfortunately, is one of the few evidentiary supports of the "multiple Oswalds at the scene," which, as far as I can tell, is a key foundational element to the Harvey/Lee scenario (though not the only such key foundational element).

I also note that John mentions Oswald's arrival at the Texas Theater in support of his argument. Somehow, though, (and in contrast to the Rambler and bus/cab portion of the article), John has neglected to mention the countervailing evidence: the witnesses' discrepancies about Oswald's arrival time at the theater, the "on-foot" discarding of a white jacket similar to one worn by Oswald, the fact that Tippet's murder, and the discarding of the pistol shells used to kill him, was accomplished by someone who was a pedestrian, etc. Such might be beyond the original scope of his article, and yet, John is the one citing this event in support.

It is the unseen other half of the official story, a complete analysis of the "the Rambler ride", and the uncertainties and ambiguities of that evidence, which truly merits the attention and scrutiny of a researcher like John Armstrong.