Mrs Reid and Truly gave affidavits to the Dallas PD the afternoon of the assassination. So it is possible the Coca Cola was inserted into Oswald's hands by the FBI agent who assumed the Coke Oswald had in his hand during the Mrs Reid encounter was also in his hand during the Baker encounter. That report was written September 23rd 1964. So Baker could have confronted Oswald in the lunch room without any Coca Cola and after Baker left Oswald could have bought the Coke and walked over to the Mrs Reid encounter. This would remove sinister intent and simply be a presumption on the dictating FBI agent's behalf.
If you step back and think about this it is still just as interesting either way. For your version to be true would put Oswald closer to the 6th floor and have Baker and Truly making an alibi for him. It would also exclude Oswald from being Prayer Man since the man was coming down the stairs.
I contend that it doesn't make sense for Baker and Truly to conspire to put Oswald further away from the 6th floor. That goes against the grain of the set-up. It also doesn't make sense that FBI would help them exonerate Oswald by putting him further away from the 6th floor. They would be much more likely to accent Oswald being caught descending the steps at the 4th floor. It makes sense to me that the difficultly here was caused by Baker running across two Oswalds two floors apart. The true hiding here is the figure at the 4th floor and not the lunch room encounter. Baker's omission could then be explained as a blown attempt to place Oswald closer to the 6th floor while hiding the double. Remember, Bernard Haire's backdoor Oswald was similarly omitted (Mr Parker ignores this while demanding evidence of doubles).
The Fritz document linked below specifies Lee Harvey Oswald was the man seen on the 3rd or 4th floor landing. Truly told of the lunch room encounter that day.
The two Oswalds theory still stands, all considered.
Oswald told Fritz he went up to the second floor lunchroom to buy a coke. Maybe these clever FBI guys are adding details to reports that matches stuff Oswald said.
PS Fritz may not have taken notes, but Hosty claims he took notes while Fritz interviewed. Would make sense that Hosty might pass tidbits to his co-workers straight from Oswald's mouth. I wouldn't trust Hosty too far, though.
"All that is necessary for tyranny to succeed is for good men to do nothing." (unknown)
James Tracy: "There is sometimes an undue amount of paranoia among some conspiracy researchers that can contribute to flawed observations and analysis."
Gary Cornwell (Dept. Chief Counsel HSCA): "A fact merely marks the point at which we have agreed to let investigation cease."
Alan Ford: "Just because you believe it, that doesn't make it so."
In a way the delay of the Fritz notes is a similar burp to Baker's delay.
The short-hand of the Fritz notes could possibly allow Oswald to have purchased the Coca Cola after the Baker encounter. The long-hand could have been "Claims was on the 2nd floor getting a Coke when officer came in".
Can Oswald go to the 1st floor from Mrs Reid's desk?
Here is another discrepancy in the pictures that Life prints. Tina Towner was standing across the street from the TSBD doorway when she took xxx color movies of the President as his car drove between her and the doorway. Her movie evidently includes numerous frames that depict all of the TSBD doorway as it passed from left to right across her films. The ftame of Towner's movie that Life publishes on page 91 (07) shows only a portion of the doorway; aga the right side of the doorway has been cut from the picture. Even the sprocket holes of the insignificant left side are shown. Moreover, althouglwe know from other photographs and from the testimon of witnesses that several people were standing in the doorway when Towner took her pictures, none of those people are evident in the photo that Life published. We know that a man resembling Ozwald ( and wearing a shirt that is identical in every respect to the shirt that Ozwald was wearing) was standing on the west side of the doorway when the motorcade passed. Where is he in Towner's picture? Where are the others who are clearly depicted in the Altgens photograph? Towner must have photographed that man and the others; she could not have failed. to photograph them. If her pictures do not show the man's facial features, they must clearly show the color of his shirt, a vital niece of information. (The shirt apnears reddish in Houghes' film, but the whole of that picture by Houghes has a reddish tint, and it leas tal7en et a great distance) I suspect that a clear eicture of Ozwald and Lovelady together was erased from thd,X6ture that Life presents on page 91. You can test that suspicion by seeing all the frames of Tina Towner's film, or by finding another photo of the TL;ED doorway.
You see this is the problem with Prayer Man. Bernabei is simply speculating that LIFE has doctored the Towner film. Meanwhile it could be due to perfectly reasonable explanations of Towner's camera not picking up the faint image of Prayer Man in the shadows. Speculation that LIFE doctored the image is similar to Fetzer's claims. Nor have I ever seen any image that is sharp enough to claim Prayer Man's shirt is similar to Oswald's.
In the image presented you can clearly see Lovelady.
Bart Kamp Wrote:You are missing the point.
"I suspect that a clear eicture of Ozwald and Lovelady together"
And it's page 4 of the PDF
That's just Bernabei saying he suspects a clear picture of Oswald (Prayer Man) and Lovelady was altered. Meanwhile there are photo analysis processes that could determine that the dark shadow Prayer Man is in matches the other dark shadows in the same picture and is therefore perfectly explainable.
Not sure what point I'm missing? It could be Bernabei's lack of photography knowledge that is to blame.
"That's just Bernabei saying he suspects a clear picture of Oswald (Prayer Man) and Lovelady was altered" You mention it and still are missing the point.
The only claim I have made in that post is that the mention of Oswald and Lovelady together on the front steps of the TSBD was already made in 1967, nothing more.
