Re: Mark Lane #101

[Bud]

On Oct 2, 9:59 am, Ben Holmes <ad...@burningknife.com> wrote:
> In the previous paragraphs, Mark Lane showed that Brennan's testimony conflicted
> with Secret Service Agent Forrest V. Sorrels, he continues:
>
> "Did Brennan give his description to someone other than Sorrels perhaps to the
> uniformed officer to whom he spoke a few minutes after the assassination? That
> is a possibility; but the following, according to the transcript of the Dallas
> police radio log, is the description broadcast to police headquarters by
> Inspector J. Herbert Sawyer just prior to 12.45 p.m.

> Sawyer: The wanted person in this is a slender white male about thirty, five
> feet ten, one sixty five, carrying what looked to be a 30-30 or some type of
> Winchester ...
>
> Headquarters: Any clothing description?
> Sawyer: Current witness can't remember that.

I wonder where Lane got that from, I don`t see any dialog like that
in this source....

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/dpdtapes/


> Between 12.49 and 12.51 p.m. it is noted again in the log that there was 'no
> clothing description'. Who was the 'current witness'? Sawyer was asked by
> Commission counsel:
>
> Q. Do you know this person's name?
>
> Sawyer: I do not.
>
> Q. Do you know anything about him, what he was wearing?
>
> Let us note here that Brennan was conspicuously dressed: he was wearing a
> construction worker's metal helmet.
>
> Sawyer: Except that he was I don't remember what he was wearing. I remember
> that he was a white man and that he
> wasn't young and he wasn't old. He was there. That is the only two things that I
> can remember about him ...
>
> Q. Do you remember if he was tall or short, or can't you remember anything about
> him ?
>
> Sawyer: I can't remember that much about him. I was real hazy about that ...
>
> Q. Inspector, do you remember anything else about this person who you say gave
> you the primary description?
>
> Sawyer: No, I do not ...
>
> Q. Did you ever see him again?
>
> Sawyer: Not to my knowledge."
>
> Mark Lane is still showing that Brennan simply cannot be the source of the 12:45
> radio broadcast.

Thats simply not true. Brennan could have expressed unsurety about the
clothing at one point, but later offered some impressions about what the
man he saw was wearing.

> Interestingly, Billy Clarke is refusing to even *attempt* to
> refute any of these Mark Lane quotes... and Johnny is too cowardly to respond to
> any of these in an open forum...
>
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