There is more evidence that the Fritz notations are NOT chronological.
First, there are two columns, and we have to assume that Fritz wrote the left column first since people write from left to right. It is, after all, English, not Punjabi.
It seems that he wrote the word "First" but crossed it out.
Then he wrote the starting time of the interview, 3:15 PM.
Then there is an undecipherable word which I presume was meant to be "denied". So that would be "denied own(ing) rifle".
The second thought is that he saw one (a rifle) at Building M. where Truly was showing it to two others.
The third thought is that he went home by bus and changed his pants.
But, that third thought came after all the things on the other side of the paper. It came after his encounter in the lunch room with the Officer; it came after his (upon breaking for lunch) going to the 1st floor and having lunch; it came after his being out front with Bill Shelley; and it came after he decided to leave work for the day.
So, it was after all those things, yet it was written before any of them. Why? Because it was a conversation, not a narrative. If it was just one person, Fritz himself, writing, you would expect it to be orderly and organized and continuous. But conversations can jump around.
He wrote 1st with an arrow which seems to be pointing "to 1st fl had lunch" which makes sense because that was the first thing Oswald did.
But, when did Fritz write the arrow? And why did he write it?
I figure he wrote it because he knew the order got skewed. I figure that he started the right column with "to 1st fl had lunch". It makes sense when you consider how low he started the first column which is on the left.
Below, I removed the top line from the second column:
You see how natural it looks? Why would he start so high on the right? But, what if he ran out of room on the right? What if "Claims 2nd fl. Coke etc." was the last thing he wrote? What if he squeezed it in up there for having run out of room on the page? That would explain why he wrote "1st" and an arrow, so that he would be reminded later of the correct chronological order. Below again is the original:
Do you see how cramped and crowded it looks? Would he have started like that? After leaving so much room on the other side? I doubt it. And that would explain the chronological disorder.
But regardless, Fritz wrote down what Oswald did upon leaving work before writing down anything he did at work. Therefore, the notes are definitely NOT chronological; hence, the assumption that they are, that they must be, is false, is wrong. Therefore, to play the chronological card to interpret the timing of "out with Bill Shelley in front" is also wrong.
"Out with Bill Shelley in front" was Oswald's alibi; it referred to where he was during the motorcade, during the shooting.
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