Julia Ann Mercer

[Paul Bacon]

Just a small observation here.

In Mercer's statement (Julia Ann Mercer-1) dated 1/16/68, she said her statement to the FBI was altered.  No surprise there.  Additional evidence of an altered statement is shown within the statement.  The FBI has her saying that the truck was parked on the right side of Elm Street, but later has her saying the man who took the rifle out of the back of the pickup "...then proceeded to walk across the street and up the grassy hill..."

Someone got it wrong...

 

[Joe Bauer]

Citing Dallas PD Patrolman Joe Murphy's recounting of the stalled truck and who came and went from it as credible is laughably absurd knowing he had left the area (for what, a 1/2 hours time? ) to take one of these men back to get another truck. 

Julia Ann Mercer obviously saw what she saw regards the truck and it's occupants when Murphy was on this drop off errand because she mentions seeing only two men, not three.

Speaking of Julia Ann Mercer seeking attention regards her story, have any of you ever been confronted by armed policemen in uniform and out-of-the-blue told to come with them for any reason?

My common sense guess is that they did this to Julia Ann Mercer without polite apologies and reassuring smiles and explanation.

I never have, but I am sure it would be a very alarming and even scary experience during any normal time let alone 11,22,1963.

You would logically assume that if Julia Ann Mercer made up her story including her "SS not so secret" comments to other coffee shop patrons for attention, she was probably cursing herself for doing so within earshot of these two officers.

And who would keep reciting this story of the stalled truck and gun case removal under even more stressful face to face questioning if it was all exaggerated in the first place. We'd probably admit it was all an embarrassing attention seeking mistake.

Yet, even under these stressful circumstances, Mercer stuck with her story throughout her questioning.

She stated her original story consistently that day and the next day and both times before Ruby shot Oswald.

And were these officers in the coffee shop having coffee and doughnuts themselves?  If they were, then JFK must not have been shot at that point, otherwise they would have been called back out to the frantic "attention all units" scene all over Dallas.

And since when does a worker in a stalled truck get something several feet long out of the back of the truck to try to restart a dead engine?  An item stored in a bag with a handle?

And what's up with walking with this gun carrying case looking item up the grassy knoll farther and farther away from his stalled truck and not returning right away?

Did this younger truck exiting worker just decide to do something more productive and interesting with his wait time like metal detecting or pipe bending on the top of the knoll rather than sit there with a paunchy old guy who looked like Jack Ruby?  Maybe he just needed to take a leak and this long bagged item was a false excuse ruse to any one who might have wondered why he walked up there? 

Maybe there really was a rifle in the case and this beany cap, checkered jacket wearing fellow was planting it up somewhere behind the picket fence?

Mercer's 1968 claim of alteration of her signature and deposition statements isn't far fetched when you consider the Dallas FBI destroying important file evidence regards Oswald and agent Hosty keeping this fact from the Warren Commission with the outrageous explanation of "they didn't ask me."

How could the Warren Commission ask about something they had no knowledge of?

Who's doing the lying or truth withholding here?

If Hosty had told the WC about the Oswald file destruction, it would have turned the investigation upside down and all around.

Could you imagine the questions the Warren Commission would then have to ask the FBI regards Oswald and what they knew about him and their motives in destroying such evidence?

Geeminy.

My point here is that the credibility factor of Mercer was higher than the FBI's in this matter imo, especially after we eventually knew how much was held back from the WC by them.

Fact is, no one ever found the "stalled truck." 

Mercer's story is more important than the coverage it received imo.

You have a young, sharp eyed, reputable eye-witness mere feet away with a clear straight ahead view stating she watched a young man take a gun case looking item from the back open bed of this coincidently "stalled" truck up to the top of the grassy knoll. She had to move on but in her time there she didn't see this man return or return with the case.

There would be no rational reason for anyone removing such an item from a stalled truck and taking it as far away from the truck as the man did. 

Again, you are forced to consider this illogical action with logical suspicion.

The man could have taken a gun up on top of the knoll and left it there for ...well, who knows what?

 

Edited May 12, 2022 by Joe Bauer