Saturday, December 28, 2013

So, it turns out that the Fritz Notes are even more significant than we ever realized, and that's because they contain the only concrete reference to an Oswald alibi that there is in the record. And that alibi of course was: Out with Bill Shelley in front. 

There is nothing else. No other interrogation report contains anything about an Oswald alibi- even though it was the most important question they could have asked. And the only reference to an Oswald alibi in the Warren Report is when Will Fritz was asked a direct question by Joseph Ball:

Mr. BALL. Did you ask him what happened that day; where he had been? (at the time of the shooting)
Mr. FRITZ. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. What did he say?
Mr. FRITZ. Well he told me that he was eating lunch with some of the employees when this happened.

Now, I have to think that Ball really blew it that time. He put Fritz on the spot. Fritz knew that Oswald ate alone when Jarman and Norman were milling around. That's a far cry from having lunch with them. And most important, it was well before the assassination. So, his response was a bold-faced lie. Why didn't Fritz mention "out with Bill Shelley in front" from the notes? What? He didn't even mention the existence of the notes. He denied the very existence of the notes.

And I am pleased to see that others online besides me are insisting that those were notes that Fritz took during the interrogations and not days later, which is a childish and stupid notion and obviously wrong. 

It's just an urban legend that Oswald ever said he was in the lunch room during the shooting. No evidence backs that up. And since he definitely was not eating during the time of the shooting, what would he have been doing there? Twiddling his thumbs? Picking his nose?  Engaging in self-gratification? What? You can't just have a guy sitting in a lunch room doing nothing. Maybe you think that because we're talking about the deranged, disturbed Lee Harvey Oswald that anything goes, but you would be wrong. Besides, if he didn't kill Kennedy, why assume he was deranged and disturbed?

"Out with Bill Shelley in front" stands alone as the only evidence of an Oswald alibi that there is. And that's why I say it is even more important than I, or anyone else, ever realized.  



1 comment:

  1. Good one, Ralph. I think you are exactly right. They wanted to conceal what Lee had told Fritz lest someone start looking for confirming or disconfirming evidence, which would have led back to the Altgens6. VERY NICE CATCH! Ball did what he could using Fritz as his straight man. They may have rehearsed this exchange.

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