Examining Linda Faircloth's tale

[Guest Mark Valenti]

So Linda was an employee of Pfisterer in New Orleans, asked to compile a history of the company. In speaking with her colleagues, she was informed that LHO had worked for the company in the 1950's. Here's what she found out:

LHO started as a waxer. He didn't do very well at that, so they decided to give him "another task."

This is when it starts to get weird. According to Linda, LHO was a waxer for around five and a half months. Then Pfisterer suddenly comes to the stark realization that he's lousy at his job.

She claims that Mr. Pfisterer and his rival, Mr. Auderer, decided to give this young man a new job - one with even MORE responsibility - delivering their precious goods to valued customers, transporting goods across the river, at fifty cents per case.

These highly placed executives allegedly found it important to give this bad worker a more important job, despite his lousy performance. And the reason LHO got the job? He had a motorcycle!

Terrible employee Lee apparently took the cases and dumped them, never completing his task, then he just disappeared into history.

Here's where it starts to get interesting. Linda started digging into the recollections of those employees who were supposed to know LHO.

However...

LINDA: "Every time I asked a question, they would say, well the one you need to talk to is Lionel Slater because he worked with him."

MORE:

"I talked to Lionel Slater, he said the one you really need to talk to is is Palmer McBride."

Starting to sound like everyone is passing the buck.

LINDA: "Everybody still goes back and says, well the time he worked for Pfisterer is the 57-58 era, so...that's the basis of the information I have on him."

THE INEVITABLE "WE CAN'T FIND ANY PROOF OF OUR CLAIMS":

LINDA: "The lab moved to the present location in 1974 and consequently we lost a lot of records from the move...and then we've had a few floods where we've lost some records. We've gone back and tried to find everything we could. But we couldn't come up with actual documents. There's a lot of good people who really, truly believe that the time of his employment was 1957 and 58, and that he was a very interesting character."

She also said that Pfisterer executives claim the FBI showed up on the Monday after the assassination and took away their employee records.

QUESTION: So does Pfisterer have ZERO records of Lee Harvey Oswald because they were lost in a move?

Or were they lost in a flood?

Or were they stolen by the FBI?

[W. Tracy Parnell]

Mark,

The whole story smells as you point out. What happens is Armstrong goes around finding these people and then tells them that they are a witness to history and their story will help to rewrite the JFK case and so on. Some of them have appeared (as I'm sure you know) at JFK conferences and are treated as stars. Witnesses should be taken with a grain of salt especially years and years later when their memories are a mixture of memory and life experiences. But to the Armstrong people they are the gold standard to be valued above all else.