On Wednesday, June 8, 2022 at 12:43:04 AM UTC-4, donald willis wrote:
> On Tuesday, June 7, 2022 at 7:03:27 PM UTC-7, Hank Sienzant wrote:
> > On Tuesday, June 7, 2022 at 7:56:07 PM UTC-4, donald willis wrote:
> > > On Tuesday, June 7, 2022 at 2:52:32 PM UTC-7, Hank Sienzant wrote:
> > > > On Thursday, June 2, 2022 at 10:48:03 PM UTC-4, donald willis wrote:
> > > > > FBI interview.
> > > > >
> > > > > The one thing which Cecil McWatters' "impressions" of Oswald/Jones could not retrospectively explain away in his 11/22/63 affidavit were virtually his first words on the subject: "I picked up a man on the lower end of town on Elm around Houston." When confronted by Counsel Ball, all he could say was, "No, no sir. I didn't pick up. I made a statement here I picked up--. No, I didn't. I picked-- "I picked a man up at the lower end of town at Elm.... No, sir, I didn't picked up no man. No, I was tied up in traffic there. Market Street is the--I must not have read that very good when I signed that because I sure didn't. No, I didn't."
> > > > So McWatters lied to frame a innocent man is what you are saying.
> > > He was guilty in Dealey. And I don't think that McW knew what his re-writing was all about.
> > So they didn't frame an innocent man. They framed a guilty one? Is that really your argument?
> He was guilty, I think, "in Dealey", innocent in Oak Cliff.
What does framing him for yet another murder do? Does it strengthen the case against him for assassinating the President one iota? No, it doesn't.
> > > > >
> > > > > Methinks he doth protest too much.
> > > > Methinks you do.
> > > "No, no sir. I didn't pick up. here I picked up. No, I didn't. I picked... No, sir, I didn't pick up no man.... I sure didn't. No, I didn't." Keep being a smart ass and simply ignore problems with your scenario.
> > The Commission conceded that McWatters himself withdrew his identification of Oswald. I previously quoted that for you. Here it is again:
> > == quote ==
> > At about 6:30 p.m. on the day of the assassination, McWatters viewed four men in a police lineup. He picked Oswald from the lineup as the man who had boarded the bus at the "lower end of town on Elm around Houston,"
> The problem is he tries to "withdraw" his designation of the Oswald pickup spot and--unlike all the other withdrawn statements from his 11/22 affidavit--he can't say that it was Jones there. Doesn't work. Don't you even have a drop of curiosity as to why McW was so adamant about the Elm & Houston stop? He's over the top, like Ball found his sore spot, his weak spot.
I have yet to see this 11/22/63 affidavit you reference. Despite repeated requests, you have yet to link to it. You're asking me to comment on something I don't even know exists. You previously quoted language that put it "around" that area. Now you're saying it was at that specific location. But Mcwatters himself said he couldn't pick up passengers at that intersection because he is making a left turn at that corner and he has to be in the left lane to make that turn:
== unquote ==
Mr. McWATTERS - In other words, my last stop, in other words at this comer right here on Record Street, all buses turning to the left have to stop at this corner right here.
Mr. BALL - At Record and Elm?
Mr. McWATTERS - At Record and Elm.
Mr. BALL - Do you have a bus stop at Houston and Elm?
Mr. McWATTERS - Yes, sir; there is a bus stop there for the buses that go on under the underpass.
Mr. BALL - Is there a bus stop for the buses that go south on Houston?
Mr. McWATTERS - No, sir; all the buses, we have to get in, this is a one-way street and you have to get over in this lane here.
Mr. BALL - By the lane you mean the extreme left lane?
Mr. McWATTERS - The extreme left lane to make--
Mr. BALL - To make the left turn south on Houston Street?
Mr. McWATTERS - Yes.
== unquote ==
> and who, during the ride south on Marsalis, had an argument with a woman passenger.425 In his Commission testimony, McWatters said he had been in error and that a teenager named Milton Jones was the passenger he had in mind.425 In a later interview, Jones confirmed that he had exchanged words with a woman passenger on the bus during the ride south on Marsalis.427 McWatters also remembered that a man received a transfer at Lamar and Elm Streets and that a man in the lineup was about the size of this man.428 However, McWatters' recollection alone was too vague to be a basis for placing Oswald on the bus.
> > == unquote ==
> >
> > I also asked at that time what difference it made.
> > > > >
> > > > > From his 11/22 FBI interview: "McWatters is unable to state at which point this man [the "shot in the temple" man] got on his bus, but believes it was between the corner of Poydras and Elm and the corner of Commerce and Houston...." That area includes "Elm around Houston", but not Field before Griffin, the pickup spot for O as designated in McW's testimony.
The pickup spot for Oswald in McWatter's testimony was between Field and Griffin. He gave the same man a transfer after a few blocks when the bus got stuck in traffic and the man departed.
== quote ==
Mr. BALL - Well then, do you remember picking up a passenger at a place other than at a bus stop as you went down Elm?
Mr. McWATTERS - Yes, sir.
As I left Field Street, I pulled out into the, in other words, the first lane of traffic and traffic was beginning to back up then; in other words, it was blocked further down the street, and after I pulled out in it for a short distance there I come to a complete stop, and when I did, someone come up and beat on the door of the bus, and that is about even with Griffin Street.
In other words, it is a street that dead ends into Elm Street which there is no bus stop at this street, because I stopped across Field Street in the middle of the intersection and it is just a short distance onto Griffin Street, and that is when someone, a man, came up and knocked on the door of the bus, and I opened the door of the bus and he got on.
Mr. BALL - You were beyond Field and before you got to Griffin?
Mr. McWATTERS - That is right. It was along about even with Griffin Street before I was stopped in the traffic.
Mr. BALL - And that is about seven or eight blocks from the Texas Book Depository Building, isn't it?
Mr. McWATTERS - Yes, sir. It would be seven, I would say that is seven, it would be about seven blocks.
Mr. BALL - From there?
Mr. McWATTERS - From there, yes, sir.
Mr. BALL - What did the man look like who knocked on your door and got on your bus?
Mr. McWATTERS - Well, I didn't pay any particular attention to him. He was to me just dressed in what I would call work clothes, just some type of little old jacket on, and I didn't pay any particular attention to the man when he got on-
Mr. BALL - Paid his fare, did he?
Mr. McWATTERS - Yes, sir; he just paid his fare and sat down on the second cross seat on the right.
Mr. BALL - Do you remember whether or not you gave him a transfer?
Mr. McWATTERS - Not when he got on; no, sir.
Mr. BALL - You didn't. Did you ever give him a transfer?
Mr. McWATTERS - Yes, sir; I gave him one about two blocks from where he got on.
Mr. BALL - Did he ask you for a transfer?
Mr. McWATTERS - Yes, sir.
== unquote ==
> > > > How do you get from 'this man' to [the 'short in the temple' man]?
> > > Well, I don't want you to go to all the trouble of reading the FBI report, so I'll quote the pertinent section:
> > I want to read the entire thing, and I've asked you for the link on numerous occasions. You never have provided it.
Still haven't provided it.
> > >
> > > "She looked at this man, who was the one who had told McW that the President had been shot in the temple, and said 'Why he's smiling; you're joking!" McW glanced back & this young man did have a sort of grin on his face. The man said nothing at this time.
> > > McW is unable to state at what point this man got on his bus, but believes it was between the corner of Poydras and Elm and the corner of Commerce and Houston."
> > >
> > > That's how.
> > What part of "McWatters is unable to state at what point this man got on his bus" did you fail to understand?
> In his affidavit, he pretty much pinpointed the "point"--he gave a looser designation in his FBI statement. But Elm & Houston is right in the middle of those looser coordinates.
Unfortunately, you can't board the bus there, because his bus is in the left lane to make the left turn. It doesn't pull to the curb there.
> > > > >
> > > > > And that interview also eliminates Milton Jones as the "man" of both McW's 11/22 statements, FBI and county. In his Commission testimony, McWatters stated that he picked up Jones "one block before St. Paul", on Elm. That is about 6 (long) blocks from the outer limit of "Poydras and Elm" in his FBI interview.
I never thought JOnes was the man. Jones was already on the bus when the man boarded. Jones said so.
> > Doesn't that put Milton Jones on his bus?
> It would, but if Oswald got on at Elm & Houston, then the story is different, if not the bus.
Except Oswald couldn't board at Elm & Houston, and didn't. So your whole argument here goes kaput.
> You keep arguing, as I understand your argument, that Milton Jones was on a different bus than McWatters bus.
So how could McWatters pick Oswald out, thinking he was Jones, if Jones wasn't even on McWatters bus? Your attempt to put both Oswald and Jones on different buses makes no sense. Don't let that stop you. It never has in the past.
> > > > Yes, as everyone but CTs realize, memory is a good part reconstruction and a good part recollection. Stuff you read or heard can become part of memory and recited as if true when you are questioned about it.
> > > Yes, please continue to generalize and ignore what I wrote.
> > Not ignoring what you wrote. You simply don't understand the limits of human recollection and attempt to use confused statements by witnesses to eliminate Oswald. You still need to cite the evidence for how Oswald came to be in possession of a bus transfer punched by McWatters unique handpunch, if Oswald was not on McWatters bus and didn't receive a transfer from McWatters.
> >
> > Do explain that, citing the actual evidence.
> There was a transfer on Oswald. Apparently punched by McW. But was it the same transfer later in evidence? You'd have to have a photo (a close-up) of the transfer being taken out of O's pocket to prove that.
Hilarious. I said *cite the actual evidence*. Instead, you speculate about a swap of transfers there is zero evidence for.
Mcwatters said he gave out only two transfers on that trip, and only one to a man (the other went to a woman). So if this was not a transfer taken off Oswald, how did the police obtain it to plant on Oswald? Why did they bother?
And note the level of evidence you want to have to put the transfer McWatters said he gave to a man who left the bus after only a few blocks in Oswald's legitimate possession! You want a film of it being taken from Oswald's pocket!
But if such a film existed, you would claim it was faked, that *they* could have started filming after *they* put the fake transfer in Oswald's pocket, and besides, why would *they* film that anyway?
Wouldn't you?
You merely speculated it was planted, and the legitimate transfer removed. When push comes to shove, like all CTs, you argue the evidence against Oswald was faked. But you never show evidence of this fakery.
I remind you Jones said a man got on the bus and left after only a few blocks.
I remind you McWatters said a man got on the bus and left after only a few blocks.
I remind you Bledsoe said a man got on the bus and left after only a few blocks. And she identified that man as Oswald.
Please tell me how they determined it was McWatters who was the bus driver of the bus Oswald was on.
Do you know?
Do you have any speculation?
> > > >
> > > > CTs will do everything to void that transfer. Ben asks where's the transfer book (as if not producing an empty checkbook means those checks were never written or cashed. Gil tries to argue a fraudulent transfer was introduced into the record. And Don tries to pretend somebody else not named Oswald was the guy who got off the bus and obtained the transfer as leaving.
> > > "McW is speaking... of only Oswald, not Jones, when he talks about "shot him in the temple", the lineup, and the bus TRANSFER." CAPS for those with very short memories.
> > So Oswald got off the bus and when he got off the bus, he obtained the transfer? What then are you arguing about?
> > Your arguments make no sense when analyzed. You are now conceding, it appears, that Oswald obtained a transfer when he left the bus. Yes, I agree.
> We don't know for sure where or when he got it. As I've said before, back in the days when I took the bus, I sometimes got a transfer when I got on.
You could get it if you knew you needed to take a second bus. But what if the bus got stuck in traffic, which you couldn't know about in advance? Wouldn't you ask for a transfer when leaving?
Isn't that exactly what two people did?
> > > >
> > > > None of them do an adequate job of citing the evidence for how the transfer wound up in Oswald's possession. It's all assertions all the way down. Nobody cites a shred of evidence establishing how they explain the transfer in Oswald's possession.
> > > And Hank can't explain how, somehow, Oswald (or Jones) got on the bus at Elm & Houston after he got on and off earlier. Well, busses were slow that day, and I guess Oswald could have run down to Elm & Houston to get back on the bus....
> > Straw man argument. The Commission didn't say, and I didn't say, that Oswald or Jones got on the bus at Elm and Houston. You think every mistake by every witness points to a conspiracy. That's not the way to solve any crime, over-analyze every statement and presume every contradiction between any two witnesses, or even between the same witness at different times, is some big clue to resolving the crime.
> So you're saying that McW's "Elm around Houston" in his affidavit was a mistake? Well, yes, I guess you'd have to--because that puts him on the bus to Oak Cliff....
It is a mistake, because as McWatters explains, the route his bus takes demands he make a left onto Houston at Elm, and that means he can't pull to the curb to pick up passengers at that corner, because he has to be in the left lane to make that left turn.
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> dcw