CTKA's Review of the Girl on the Stairs

[Jim DiEugenio]

http://www.ctka.net/reviews/accidental_history.html

This is the first full length review of Barry Ernest's book which you can buy as an E book.

There is a lot of interesting material in it, which not many people have discussed.

THe stuff on the Tippit shooting is quite interesting. He found a second witness who looked at some kind of clock and said it happened at 1 :06. Cannot be Oswald.

I have some disagreements with Barry, his depiction of Groden, Stone's film, and taking Gary mack at face value, but overall, its a valuable work.

[Magda Hassan]

Thanks Jim. I look forward to reading Barry's book.

[Dawn Meredith]

Good review. One more indictment of the liars on the WC.

[Albert Doyle]

There's clear evidence here of criminal malfeasance on the behalf of the Warren Commission as well as betrayal of public trust to the degree of breach of government.


Miss Garner could not have seen Baker and Truly ascending the stairs unless the women had left exactly when Victoria Adams said they did. The timing here makes it impossible for them to have missed Oswald on the stairs according to the official story.

[Gordon Gray]

Clearly from the evidence of the "girl on the stairs" and other witnesses, Oswald was on the 1st floor during the shooting. But also as clearly, someone was on the 6th floor firing from the eastern most window. My question is how did he get up there with a rifle without being seen by B.R.Williams and others, and how did he get down without encountering Baker and Truly?

[Magda Hassan]

The rifle could have been there anytime, for days or weeks even. They really only had to get their man up there at the right time. ANd that might not have been too hard given all the renovations happening at the time.

[Jim DiEugenio]

From what I have seen of the building, there was more than one entrance to it.

Plus there were three elevators.

[Charles Drago]

The book also is available in "traditional" form.

There's still hope for civilization.

[Gordon Gray]

The rifle could have been there anytime, for days or weeks even. They really only had to get their man up there at the right time. ANd that might not have been too hard given all the renovations happening at the time.

I would think it would be difficult to smuggle a rifle in, no matter how long prior to the assination. Indeed the 6th floor was a maze of stacked boxes and one could easily conceal themselves and a rifle once up. As to the floor renovations, I thought the work was being done by TSBD workers. Were there outside contractors as well?. Also getting down afterwards poses a problem I think because the elevators were stuck on the 5th floor according to Truly, and the only stairs that led all the way down were the stairs Truly and Baker were ascending. Why didn't they ecounter a shooter?

[Albert Doyle]

Also getting down afterwards poses a problem I think because the elevators were stuck on the 5th floor according to Truly, and the only stairs that led all the way down were the stairs Truly and Baker were ascending. Why didn't they ecounter a shooter?

Maybe Baker and Truly witnessed 'Oswald' a second time walking away from the fourth floor landing? Maybe this bizarre witnessing was ordered into silence later on.

The Depository was easy to smuggle rifles into. The place was rife with guns like the hunting guns days earlier.

The man Ralph Yates let-off at the Depository proceeded to walk to the entrance with an object that looked like a rifle wrapped in brown wrapping paper.