Andrej Stancak

John:

the point is that Vicky Adams did not say she has seen Lovelady and Shelley when she and Sandra Styles went down the stairs and reached the first floor. These girls did not see Marrion Baker and Roy Truly either. Barry Ernest investigated this conundrum until he solved it. Vicky Adams confirmed to Barry Ernest repeatedly she did not see Shelley and Lovelady while on their way out. The alleged encounter between Adams&Styles and Shelley&Lovelady got into the Warren Report by mistake. Vicky Adams's corrected testimony for the Warren Commission never got into the published Hearings, she did not authorise the published version.

Adams and Styles left the building within 60 seconds or even slightly earlier (my calculations). The point is that Mrs. Garner, Adams's and Styles's supervisor, confirmed that they left before Truly and Baker climbed up the stairs and reached the fourth floor. Since the two parties (Adams & Styles and Baker & Truly) did not see each other and Adams & Styles left before Garner saw Truly & Baker, the only possibility is that the two girls left the building early on and therefore missed Truly and Baker. There is no chance that Lovelady and Shelley could be in the back of the first floor within one minute without being seen by Truly and Baker who came to the back of the first floor about 70 seconds after the last shot and just missed Adams and Styles.Moreover, both Lovelady and Shelley confirmed that they had seen Truly and Baker entering the building while they (Lovelady and Shelley) were about 15-20 meters away from the front entrance on the small concrete island there. 

Well, John Armstrong's interpretation of the immediate aftermath of the shooting is a very sad story. Rather, it is a mad story. It has the sole purpose of making Armstrong's escape plan working. To make his nonsensical escape plan working, Lovelady (!) needed to be  conspirator, Shelley too, the electric power needed to be shut off right before arrival of the motorcade, both men needed to make sure to switch on the power again so that the passenger lift can be used to transport two shooters from the sixth floor to the 1st floor, to this end the wooden floor needed to be dismantled and restored again so that nobody sees any manipulation with the floor, and of course, book boxes needed to be placed over the place where the wooden floor was disturbed, and off they go using a ladder to enter the lift through the roof of the said lift parked on the 4th floor. Therefore, Vicky Adams lied (or just did not remember?) that she had not seen Lovelady and Shelley who just happened to be there in the back of the first floor to fiddle with the electric switch box. These two men lied also when they said that they have walked to the island in front of the building and returned to the building after several minutes via the western entrance. Yes, they lied because they were CIA and helped the assassins to escape the building. 

This hurts.

Anyway, this is what Shelley told the Warren Commission:

Mr. BALL - What did you hear?
Mr. SHELLEY - Well, I heard something sounded like it was a firecracker and a slight pause and then two more a little bit closer together.
Mr. BALL - And then?
Mr. SHELLEY - I didn't think anything about it.
Mr. BALL - What did it sound like to you?
Mr. SHELLEY - Sounded like a miniature cannon or baby giant firecracker, wasn't real loud.
Mr. BALL - What happened; what did you do then?
Mr. SHELLEY - I didn't do anything for a minute.

Yes, Shelley did not do anything for about a minute. He was still at the centre of the top landing for tens of seconds, the same spot where he can be seen in Altgens6, Wiegman and Darnell. Shelley (and Lovelady) heard Gloria Calvary telling people on steps about the impact of shots and then he and Lovelady left the doorway to go to the island where they were stopped by Police. Both men saw Truly and Baker entering the building (*) when they were already safely on that island. The light in the first floor vestibule behind the glass door was shining brightly (seen in the Darnell), telling everyone that there was no power outage in the building. 

I am so glad that I do not have to lie - do not need to make any theory working, I just want to test if some possibilities could be true.

(*) Credit to Sandy Larsen for pointing to the direction of Officer Baker's run in Couch/Darnell a few years ago. Lovelady's and Shelley's testimonies clearly exclude the possibility that Baker ran straight into the building. He spent a period of time (20 seconds?) with first running to a location around the east corner of the building, and only then he returned to enter the building. Should Baker run straight into the building, he would be in the second floor lunchroom too soon, much earlier than Oswald if Oswald had to descend from the sixth floor (which he did not).

Jim:

thanks for posting the link to your review, it is extremely useful and it would only make a good service to this book if it would have included it as a foreword. I can now revisit the book and read the important bits in a focused way.

On a more general note, while it is necessary that the community has high experts on JFK archives, the question is what breakthrough can we expect from sifting through the archives. As pointed out in your review and by others, there are documented holes in the archived documents, especially in documents pertaining to Lee Oswald and his stay in Soviet Union and his travel to Mexico City. Of  course, it is possible to infer from such holes that the intelligence agencies want to prevent the public from knowing what they knew about Lee Oswald before November 22. However, nowhere in the archives will there be a document revealing the machinery of the assassination simply because the plot did not operate via filed documents; it was perhaps in one-to-one meetings held in secrecy and using coded language, keeping the number of people in the know to minimum. Some aspects of the plot, even if they appear tightly coordinated across parties, were likely achieved based on unspoken common interests (such as let us blame a communist since we all hate communism) and are therefore untraceable. 

As time goes on, there is less and less chance that a smoking gun type information will pop up either in archives or in form of a testimony or confession. Actually, the last real deal was Agent Hosty's note about Lee Oswald going out to watch P. parade, discovered by Bart Kamp in Malcolm Blunt's archive. This leads me to mentioning  a still existing  chance of revealing the identity of that unknown man standing at the western wall of the doorway in Wiegman and Darnell films, even if such identification would be based on circumstantial evidence.  

Keyvan:

This looks like an impressive visualisation of the frontal head shot. Would you please post also the original frame which you or the researcher you credited started from so that people could reproduce this finding.

While the dark spot(s) appears to be at the right location, the challenge is always to separate a true object (e.g., the entry wound) from noise of different origins that can cause similarly looking shapes. For instance, Jackie has also a dark spot to the left of her nose and just below her eye that looks like a depression (wound) on her face. One way of adding to the veracity of a photographic finding is to demonstrate it in multiple frames or different photographs; this is dead difficult in the case of JFK assassination.

Tyree's affidavit and his criminal case are quite extraordinary.

http://freepacifica.savegrassrootsradio.org/crackcia/tyree.html

Thanks to Calvin for pointing to this case.

Here is some more information on William M. Tyree.

https://www.cofc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/opinions/Williams.Tyree111909.pdf

This does not question the validity of information pertaining to JFK assassination provided by Bill Tyree.

The role of Ruth Paine in fishing vulnerable people for the CIA as described in the affidavit could happen. However, Lee Oswald was not in Dallas in 1957-1958 if I remember correctly, he was still in New Orleans. But people may not remember years and this is a 2nd-hand information anyway, so even if the years 1957-1958 would be a mistake, it does not mean that the whole story was made up.

23 hours ago, Andrew Prutsok said:

Doesn't Prayerman lore suggest Baker never went up the front steps and instead ran parallel to them?

As far as I understand the past posts on this topic, there are reasons, based on the intuitively extended trajectory of Baker's run, to think that Baker ran toward the east corner of the Depository first instead to the main entrance (glass door). However, he would then return immediately to the main entrance and enter the building. The run toward the east corner could cause a delay in Baker's entering the building of some 15-20 seconds. So, whether Baker ran first to the east corner or not, he would anyway enter the building through the door with Wesley Frazier standing next to the same door. However, Frazier denied twice seeing a police officer running into the building and passing him.

The problem with the possibility of Baker running first to the east corner is that there is no single testimony confirming such deviation from the official trajectory of Baker's run which was his running straight to the building.

On the other hand, my calculations (which require testing in a real building) suggest that Baker would reach the 2nd floor too soon unless he spent time with e.g., checking the east corner before entering the building, sooner than about 1 min 18 s obtained in FBI's reconstruction of Baker's movements.

Actually, the delay caused by Baker first running to the east corner of the building (maybe to check the fire escape stairs) would explain how could Lee Oswald feature as Prayer Man and still meet Baker on the second floor.  If Baker first went to check the east corner and delayed his entering the building by about 20 seconds, this would allow Lee Oswald to leave the doorway, check the storage spaces (one on the first floor and another on the second floor next to the passenger lift), get to the 2nd floor via the stairs starting in the front lobby, walk through the 2nd floor hallway and enter the 2nd floor lunchroom from the hallway area of the second floor. 

However, irrespective of the uncertainty of Baker's movements, Baker would climb the steps of the doorway while Frazier was standing up there on the op landing and Frazier would have to notice him. If he did not see Baker, why can he be trusted in spotting anyone else?

The point some researcher often use to question the possibility of Lee Harvey Oswald being outside just after the last shot rang out is that there are no eyewitnesses who would confirm Oswald's presence or Prayer Man's identity. The problem is that the question of Prayer Man's identity had surfaced so late after the assassination that there are almost no living witnesses who could confirm or refute this possibility. One living witness who could shed light on Prayer Man's identity is Buell Wesley Frazier. 

There seem to be issues with Mr. Frazier's reports about people in the doorway after the shooting that prompt a question of the width of Wesley Frazier's attention span. Prayer Man was an inconspicuous person standing calmly and staying in the doorway for a short period of time of less than a minute. But what about someone clearly attracting attention due to being the first police officer entering the Depository, running up the steps, pushing people away and passing Mr. Frazier at a distance of maybe one foot?  Well, Wesley Frazier did not register even such a major event:

Mr. BALL - Did you see anybody after that come into the Building while you were there?
Mr. FRAZIER - You mean somebody other that didn't work there?
Mr. BALL - A police officer.
Mr. FRAZIER - No, sir; I stood there a few minutes, you know, and some people who worked there; you know normally started to go back into the Building because a lot of us didn't eat our lunch, and so we stared back into the Building and it wasn't but just a few minutes that there were a lot of police officers and so forth all over the Building there.
Mr. BALL - Then you went back into the Building, did you?
Mr. FRAZIER - Right.
Mr. BALL - And before you went back into the Building no police officer came up the steps and into the building?
Mr. FRAZIER - Not that I know. They could walk by the way and I was standing there talking to somebody else and didn't see it.

The point is that if Mr. Frazier did not register a conspicuous person such as a police officer passing at a short distance near him, he may have not been aware of other people standing next to him. Thus, Frazier's lack of awareness of Payer Man's presence in the doorway does not refute the possibility of Lee Oswald being outside the building shortly after the shooting - exactly as he told the Police on Friday in the presence of FBI agent James Hosty.

1 hour ago, John Butler said:

I do not trust the people who had these films and images in their possession by any means.

There is nothing wrong in being cautious when analysing pictures downloaded from a public domain. I hope we will one day get access to a high-resolution, high-quality, certified copies of both the Darnell and Wiegman film.

This picture seems to be the closest to the time when Prayer Man had been photographed in the Depository doorway. It seems that Lee Oswald wore a silver band above his left wrist and nothing else. Unfortunately, Prayer Man's left wrist des not seem to be visible in Darnell; it would be an excellent clue as to the identity of Prayer Man.    

John:

agreed. Both Prayer Man and Lee Oswald had hairline patterns of the same category - Type II according to Norwood's classification of male baldness patterns (Norwood, O.T., Male pattern baldness: Classification and incidence. Southern Medical Journal, 11: 1359-1365, 1975).

Sandra Styles was interviewed by authors Zachry and Peterson for their book: The Lone Star Speaks: Untold Texas Stories about JFK Assassination" on July 3 and 12, 2016 (Chapter 27).

The quotes below denote an authentic statement by Mrs. Styles:

Styles recalled years later: “The workers [like Oswald] all wore jeans and work shirts with their shirt sleeves rolled up. Some would wear khakis or other kinds of work pants.”

I have underlined the most relevant part of Styles' statement. So, Oswald was a worker and he wore a shirt with sleeves rolled up. Let us check how Prayer Man would match a description of a "worker" such as an order filler handling book boxes.

Here is a zoomed view of Prayer Man with yellow line spanning the length of his bare forearm due to the shirt sleeve being rolled up and the purple line highlighting approximate transition from bare forearm to shirt.

The shirt CE150 shows striations on the right sleeve due to sequencing of darker and lighter strips with more proximal dark strips being darker than the distal dark strips. This would be consistent with the sleeve being rolled up at variable heights; the distal parts of the sleeve would be almost always folded and therefore less likely to be covered with dirt. The part of the sleeve at elbow region would be almost always exposed to the dirt such as dust or black ink from the inscriptions on cardboard boxes. In the picture below, the light strips are delineated with yellow rectangles and dark strips with black rectangles. The picture of the shirt CE150 was darkened to visualise the striations better.

Of course, the fact that Prayer Man had his shirt sleeves rolled up does not prove that Lee Oswald was Prayer Man. However, it is another important match between Prayer Man and a description of a Depository worker by an eye witness, and possibly a match with the shirt CE150.

Why do we not see just one feature in Prayer Man's appearance that would not match Lee Oswald?

I read this book (The Lone Star Speaks...) by picking chapters of interest rather than reading it from the beginning to the end. I find this book interesting, important and timely. In a way, it feels like a continuation of Larry Sneed's book: "No more silence. An oral history of the assassination of President Kennedy". No doubt about  Authors having archived their interviews. It is not usual to post all audio recordings from interviews for download on some server. I trust the Authors that they can backup all statements by authentic data. Actually, they have tried to verify witness accounts whenever possible. 

The book is important because some revelations are just mind-boggling. For instance, information obtained from Buell Wesley Frazier about knowing members of Dixie mafia and Charles Harrelson before arriving at Dallas is stunning. Not because anyone would see Mr. Frazier as a mafia man but rather that his relatives or family friends had links with mafia. These people could have used young Wesley to unwittingly (or wittingly?) frame Lee Oswald. Another chapter that stuck in my mind is chapter 21 containing interviews with Lt. J. Goode and Tosh Plumlee.  J. Goode shares more details about the work of the abort team on Dealey Plaza and about the dark complected man standing next to Umbrella Man.

The book is timely because the witnesses are slowly disappearing and any effort to save their memories should be applauded. Unless we want to recycle and ruminate the same data over and over for the next 57 years without being able to break through, we need novel information. There are basically three sources of data that could shed light on what happened to President Kennedy:

1. Documents in files and archives. While it is still possible that some game-changing documents will emerge, the last batch of documents released by Donald Trump did not reveal anything substantial. Researchers have little control over the release of the files that remain top secret even today. 

2. Interviews with witnesses who had directly or indirectly witnessed the assassination or knew Lee Oswald, Jack Ruby or Cuban or New Orleans community. This is what the JFKA researchers still can do and what Peterson and Zachry have done.  

3. Photographs and films from the assassination. It is possible that visual documents contain information which has not been extracted so far or neglected. Living  in Europe, this is the area I can realistically focus on. Even photographs that have been seen by thousands if not millions, such as Altgens6, can reveal novel information  overlooked for so long: https://youtu.be/C0Hwt-cIGq4 .

Here is a link to a youtube interview with the Authors:

There are a couple of stunning new pieces of data from Buell Wesley Frazier in the recently published book "The Lone Star Speaks: Untold Texas Stories About JFK Assassination" by K.W. Zachry and S. Paterson. 

https://www.amazon.com/Lone-Star-Speaks-Stories-Assassination/dp/1610881923/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Lone+star+speaks&qid=1609408367&s

Chapter 25 reports data from three interviews with Buell Wesley Frazier conducted by the Authors on three occasions: May 15 and May 30, 2015, and January 29, 2019.

One stunning information conveyed by Buell Wesley Frazier is his knowledge of Mafia men Pete Kay and Charles Harrelson:

Another important bit refers to the length of the package and the content of the package. Buell Wesley Frazier was clear about impossibility of the package containing the rifle. Mr. Frazier even arranged a Mannlicher-Carcano carbine, knocked it down and tested if the length of the knocked-down rifle would match the size of the package he saw with Lee Oswald on Friday morning, November 22:

"The “Oswald” Frazier knew never discussed guns, shooting, or the President. The man described in the newspapers as the President’s “accused assassin” was not the “Oswald” Frazier had known. Frazier was especially concerned about the police saying Oswald had carried a rifle to the Depository in Frazier’s car on November 22.

For his own peace of mind, Frazier located a rifle with a serial number only a few digits off from the serial number on the rifle Oswald was accused of using to kill the President. He dismantled it and wrapped it in brown paper so he and his sister could compare the size with the way they remembered Oswald’s package looking on that Friday.

“It was obviously still too long,” he said. “Lee could not have carried even a dismantled rifle like that one under his arm.” Frazier’s sister agreed.

If Oswald had really been carrying curtain rods that day, they should have been found somewhere in the Depository. Supposedly, they were never found. However, a few years after the assassination, Frazier received an intriguing phone call. Once the caller established that she was speaking to the man who had driven Oswald to work on November 22, 1963, she quietly confided to Frazier that some curtain rods had indeed been found in the Depository after the assassination."

I have conducted some model reconstruction of the package and how it could have been carried with the rifle butt resting on the cupped hand - the result (shown earlier in this thread) was that the rifle would be too long and stick out above Lee's shoulder. 

Interestingly, Buell Wesley Frazier names in this book chapter several people standing next to him in the doorway (Lovelady, Shelley, Stanton) but ignores the unknown man standing at the western wall about 3 feet away from him...  

Here is a link to a new interview with Buell Wesley Frazier on "Since We're On The Subject", recorded on November 22, 2020. The interview also includes Rob Frazier, Buell Wesley Frazier's son, who added useful information about the upcoming book "Steering Truth". The book was scheduled for publication about now, however, the publication date has been delayed due to the pandemic. The topic of JFK assassination starts at 11:44.

Timeline:

11:44 The topic of JFK is first mentioned.

13:20 Buell Wesley Frazier is first mentioned.

18:20 The interview starts. Blake Price and Mike Anderson leading the interview.

19:20 Memories of November 22, 1963 discussed.

20:20 About how Frazier joined the TSBD.

21:41 Lee Oswald starts working in the Texas School Depository.

22:02 About driving Lee Oswald to work and teaching Lee the order filler job.

27:09 Thursday, 21st of November.

28:27 When did Buell Wesley Frazier learned about the motorcade route.

32:40 Buell Wesley Frazier asked about whether he had any questions he would like to know now. Mr. Frazier wondered why Lee did not carry lunch to work on the 21st of November.

34:20 About his 7 hours questioning with the Dallas Police.

39:08 About the content of the package. 

40:28 About his testimony for the Warren Commission. 

43:02 Warren Commission wanted him to change his estimate of the package size.

45:10 Commissioner Ball read questions from the script.

46:17 More about his questioning by the Dallas Police, and the incident with Captain Fritz. Frazier was "fighting for life".

51:00 Buell Frazier did not know the name "Oswald", he knew Lee Oswald by his first name only. Therefore, he could not associate Lee Oswald with the broadcasts about capturing alleged assassin on Friday afternoon.

53: ~   Rob Frazier joins the interview and gives data on the new book "Steering Truth".

61:11 About his further work at TSBD, and about being drafted by the US army.

64:44 About how his association with Lee Oswald ruined several jobs later on.

68:06 Never met Robert Oswald, however, was friendly with Billy Lovelady.

71:20 Asked about his view of whether Lee Oswald was the assassin. 

I now see that Douglas has posted a link to Part 1 only. Here is the link for Part 2:

https://youtu.be/6DvfmbfejAA

I watched these two documentaries a couple days ago already, and I am still thinking them over, and playing some bits again.

While the basic premise of the CIA rogue case officers plotting to kill the President and using Lee Oswald as a scapegoat appears sound and very likely to be true, there are also some missing links and maybe even inaccuracies.

One point not made clear is how did Lee Oswald come to the decision to assassinate General Walker and what was De Mohrenschildt's role in this decision.  How could he know about Lee's shooting at General Walker if Lee appeared to be taken by surprise by the alleged de Mohrenschildt's question "Lee, why did you miss?" 

Speaking of inaccuracies, it seems that Lee Oswald was seen by Buell Frazier leaving the Depository not via the main entrance but from the loading dock area accessible from the back of the first floor; the documentary shows Lee exiting the main entrance.

Also, Lee Oswald is shown walking on a busy street with a paper bag (possibly holding the rifle), however, this does not seem to be the true picture of events.

Interestingly, the name of James Angleton was not mentioned in any of the two parts which did surprise me knowing that Jeff Morley has provided his knowledge for this two-part documentary.

It is also not clear or explained how were the rogue CIA agents able to steer the whole investigation and the autopsy.

From the perspective of my research, I appreciated that the documentary shows FBI agent Hosty's handwritten note clearly documenting the fact that Lee Oswald went from the first floor to watch "P. parade", and also Carolyn Arnold's statement about catching a fleeting glimpse of Lee Oswald in the first floor hallway at 12:25 (this time is hard to verify). That would be consistent with the possibility that Lee Oswald briefly went out and was captured in the Wiegman and Darnell films. 

The documentary assumes that Lee Oswald realised his framing after he left the building and was attempting to join the getaway car on a side road off Elm street and the car was not there. The only role for Lee Oswald in the whole plot was to build his pro-Castro credentials (e.g., summer 1963) and bring his rifle to the Depository building. It is not clear what was Lee Oswald told (possibly that there would be a mock assassination attempt which would be sufficient to enrage the public but not harming the President), however, it would be unjust to solicit explanations where hardly any hard data can be found. I assume that Lee did not know about the intention of the plotters to kill the President and realised his framing once he heard that the President had been shot; this information reached the Depository doorway within some 20-25 seconds after the last shot when Gloria Calvery got to the doorway steps. The point is that, if Lee Oswald stood in the doorway in the Darnell film, he would realise that his role and his situation changed dramatically if the mock assassination attempt changed to proper killing of the President.

That said, the two-part video is a serious and well-elaborated view of the assassination plot. I am sure it will be appreciated a lot in the part of the JFKA community which believes that there was a plot to assassinate the President.

Joseph:

thanks for pointing to this interesting book that also addresses Jack Ruby's role in the assassination. It is a rare collector item and prohibitively expensive on Amazon. However, I managed to find a link to a PDF of this book:

https://ia800204.us.archive.org/8/items/OglesbyCarlTheYankeeAndCowboyWar/Oglesby, Carl - The Yankee and Cowboy War.pdf

Sorry, why do we need a thread on US election on this Forum if none of the posts mention JFK? 

The article by Sebastain Carrasco "Who was the Man in Mexico City?"  landed in my email inbox today. The article discusses Mexico City in context of CIA activities from 1958 to 1964.

https://www.academia.edu/40178822/Who_Was_the_Man_in_Mexico?email_work_card=view-paper

Interestingly, our own researchers have initially considered the figure of Prayer Man as possibly Lee Oswald leaving the TSBD. Hence, the title of the Forum's most viewed and commented thread:

While the idea that Lee Oswald as Prayer Man would leave the doorway right away without returning to the building would hardly fare, Prayer Man's figure appears to have made an impression as someone leaving the building, which is something Prayer Man's body language indicates.

Could it be that the problem was Lee Oswald living after the shooting? In David's scenario, if I understand it correctly, the perpetrators did not mind the public (and Dr. Rose) recognising shots fired from multiple directions provided that Lee Oswald was dead and his leftist, pro-Castro leanings could be disclosed to the public. It would then be a Cuba-instigated crime in which, unfortunately, only one assassin was captured and that assassin was dead. It may have even been the intention to show to the public that it was a wider plot than one involving single assassin with no motives.

I am not sure how would Connally's wounds so decisively change this scenario because his wounds only support a multiple-site shooting which could be the desired outcome of the plot. What must have caused panic was Lee Oswald living and talking - if he lived longer, just a couple days longer to be able to meet a couple of trustworthy attorneys (such as Mark Lane), the plot would drift away from Oswald very quickly (and please mind that enigmatic person standing at the western wall in the Darnell film). Lee Oswald had to die before he reached the Dallas county jail.

While still waiting for the opportunity to carry out the shirt analysis to check if the dark spots seen on Prayer Man's shirt would match those visible on Lee Oswald's shirt CE150, I decided to contemplate  Prayer Man's body language. Here is the full article for those who are interested:

https://thejfktruthmatters.wordpress.com/2020/11/30/what-does-prayer-mans-body-language-tell-us-about-his-state-of-mind/

Briefly, the Darnell still viewed as a 3D reconstruction reveals the following features in Prayer Man's figure: 1. His incompletely crossed arms. 2. His closed hands (clenched fists?). 3. Head tilted slightly to the right. 4. Prayer Man's left leg bent in the knee joint and the left foot forward; the left foot orientated to the east and south. 5. His right foot holds the weight of the body and it is orientated toward east and south. 6. Prayer Man's gaze directed toward the east and south, in general direction of the intersection of Elm and Houston Street.

I checked two books on interpretation of body language which include head postures, hand and arm postures and the stance.

The body language analysis suggests that Prayer Man behaved defensively, felt vulnerable and was thoughtful. His gaze and feet pointed to the direction where his mind wanted to go - to leave the assassination scene in direction of East Elm Street.

Prayer Man's state of mind revealed by body language analysis appears to match Lee Oswald's movements after the shooting very well. There is no other explanation for Lee Oswald's precocious leaving the Depository than that he felt vulnerable, under a threat and defensive. Lee Oswald was a political man and it would fit much better his interest in politics to stay at the scene and learn as much as possible about the tragic event of historic significance. 

Lee Oswald was last seen after the shooting by Buell Wesley Frazier. Mr. Frazier claimed to have seen him leaving in direction of Elm after coming from the direction of north Houston Street. It seems that Prayer Man had been contemplating the same while he was standing in the doorway, gazing in the direction of Elm/Houston and standing in a foot-forward posture (so typical of Lee Oswald) with his lead foot pointing in the same direction.   

I bought the book and am in the middle of Chapter 3. While I cannot subscribe to the LBP's rant against distinguished researchers, I have difficulties extracting coherent bits of information from the transcribed interviews published in this book. I also dislike frequent back tapping which works as a distraction. In any field, a researcher, conducting a systematic research as Malcolm Blunt clearly has done, has both the right and duty to pass the acquired findings to the community. To communicate the results of a research efficiently is often more difficult and time consuming than acquiring data. As I am not finished with the book yet, I still hope to find coherent and well described findings of Malcolm Blunt's own research in this book when I get to subsequent chapters.

As someone living across the Ocean, I watched the US elections with great interest as I believed, together will millions across the world, that Biden's win would pave way to a human-oriented politics capable of solving many burning problems of today. Joe Biden is a good and wise man, very much needed during these difficult times.

However, I wonder what can Biden's win mean to our cause - the JFK assassination. Will he agree to open the remaining, perhaps the most sensitive documents pertaining to Lee Oswald? And what about Kamala Harris? Is she not the woman who basically opposed recent Sirhan Sirhan's appeals for a pardon?