Anyone want to discuss HARVEY & LEE?

[Jim Hargrove]

Tom...

I'll have more time for this tonight, but from your WC testimony excerpt, it sounds as if Craig is referring to Oswald as a "Negro," and not the driver. This is very misleading. Here's what Craig said just a few seconds earlier.

Mr. BELIN - Could you describe the man that you saw running down toward the station wagon?
Mr. CRAIG - Oh, he was a white male in his twenties, five nine, five eight, something like that; about 140 to 150; had kind of medium brown sandy hair--you know, it was like it'd been blown--you know, he'd been in the wind or something--it was all wild-looking; had on--uh--blue trousers--

From When They Kill a President, by Roger Craig:

I first saw my testimony in January of 1968 when I looked at the 26 volumes which belonged to Penn Jones. My alleged statement was included. The following are some of the changes in my testimony:

• Arnold Rowland told me that he saw two men on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository 15 minutes before the President arrived: one was a Negro, who was pacing back and forth by the southwestwindow. The other was a white man in the southeast corner, with a rifle equipped with a scope, and that a few minutes later he looked back and only the white man was there. In the Warren Commission: Both werewhite, both were pacing in front of the southwest corner and when Rowland looked back, both were gone;
  
  
  
• I said the Rambler station wagon was light green. The Warren Commission: Changed to a white station wagon;
  
  
  
• I said the driver of the Station Wagon had on a tan jacket. The Warren Commission: A white jacket;
  
  
  
• I said the license plates on the Rambler were not the same color as Texas plates. The Warren Commission: Omitted the notomitted but one word, an important one, so that it appeared that the license plates were the same color as Texas plates;
  
  
  
• I said that I got a good look at the driver of the Rambler. The Warren Commission: I did not get a good look at the Rambler. (In Captain Fritzs office) I had said that Fritz had said to Oswald, "This man saw you leave" (indicating me). Oswald said, "I told you people I did." Fritz then said, "Now take it easy, son, were just trying to find out what happened", and then (to Oswald), "What about the car?" to which Oswald replied, "That station wagon belongs to Mrs. Paine. Dont try to drag her into this." Fritz said carstation wagon was not mentioned by anyone but Oswald. (I had told Fritz over the telephone that I saw a man get into a station wagon, before I went to the Dallas Police Department and I had also described the man. This is when Fritz asked me to come there.) Oswald then said, "Everybody will know who I am now;" the Warren Commission: Stated that the last statement by Oswald was made in a dramatic tone. This was not so. The Warren Commission also printed, "NOW everybody will know who I am", transposing the now. Oswalds tone and attitude was one of disappointment. If someone were attempting to conceal his identity as Deputy and he was found out, exposedhis cover blown, his reaction would be dismay and disappointment. This was Oswalds tone and attitudedisappointment at being exposed!
  

Thanks for the detailed replies. I'll try to go through more of it tonight. -- Jim