I have said before that Barry Ernest, the world's leading authority on Victoria Adams, has NEVER suggested that Shelley and Lovelady lied about NOT going inside right away, but rather, taking several minutes to do something else outside.
In this post by Barry Ernest, he mentions Shelley and Lovelady remaining outside for several minutes after the assassination before re-entering the building. He doesn't specify walking down to the railroad tracks, but that is not really the issue when it comes to Victoria Adams. They could have been doing cartwheels in the parking lot, and it would have amounted to the same thing.
Barry Ernest:
The Warren Report stated in 1964 that if Miss Adams was accurate with her time, then she probably would have heard or seen Oswald on the back stairs. It used the logic that since it "knew" Oswald committed the crime and descended the stairs immediately after the assassination (which he had to do to meet Officer Baker and Roy Truly in the second-floor lunchroom), then it was Miss Adams who was wrong if she failed to hear or see the assassin on the stairs. It thus concluded she came down the stairs later than she thought, AFTER Oswald had already passed the fourth floor while going down, and AFTER Baker and Roy Truly passed the fourth floor going up.
It also said Miss Adams was wrong and had descended the stairs much later based on her comment in her testimony that when she arrived on the first floor, she saw and spoke to employees Bill Shelley and Billy Lovelady there. Shelley and Lovelady both claimed they remained outside the Depository for several minutes before returning and therefore, if Miss Adams saw them, she was mistaken and arrived there much later, after both men got back inside the building.
What if I told you that co-worker Sandra Styles, who accompanied Miss Adams every step of the way but remarkably was never called as a Commission witness, verified that Miss Adams was telling the truth and did, in fact, descend the stairs when she said she did?
What if I told you that Vicki Adams said she NEVER told the Commission she saw and spoke with Shelley and Lovelady, and that she actually had spoken to someone else on the first floor?
Or Sandra Styles, who said she remembers that other person being on the first floor too, but DEFINITELY did not see Shelley and Lovelady there, even though she knew both men well?
Or that a document exists the PROVES Miss Adams came down the stairs when she said she did, and also PROVES the Commission knew she was telling the truth about that incident three months in advance of when it wrote that she was wrong?
You see what I mean? Barry Ernest doesn't doubt that Shelley and Lovelady were delayed in getting back inside. And I bet you that if we asked him today, he'd be more than willing to concede that they walked down to the railroad tracks.
The fact is that, according to Barry, Vicki Adams denied the whole thing about interacting with Shelley and Lovelady, so it doesn't matter when they got back into the building. Barry also points out that Vicki's friend Sylvia Styles, who was with her, also denies that they ran into Shelley and Lovelady.
So, Barry's position is that the Warren Commission falsified Vicki's statement about having encountered Shelley and Lovelady. That's what Barry thinks is fake: not the trek to the tracks but Vicki's encounter with Shelley and Lovelady.
If that's true, if Barry Ernest is right, it makes the set consisting of Shelley and Lovelady really having trekked to the tracks and Vicki Adams really having descending the stairs immediately after the third shot NOT mutually exclusive.
Therefore, Backass needs to add a third choice to his poll:
Out of respect for Barry Ernest, you really ought to change the poll, Backes. And I am going to try to contact Barry and get him to weigh in on this.
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