Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

Part 2 by John Armstrong: The boarding of McWatters' bus near the TSBD by Dallas Police Officers

Captain W. R. Westbrook was in charge of personnel at Dallas Police headquarters. Around 12:31-32 PM one of the DPD dispatchers, Mrs. Kinney, came into Westbrook's office and told him shots had been fired at President Kennedy. Westbrook sent officers who were in his office, Sergeants Stringer and Carver, and possibly Joe Fields and McGee, to the TSBD building. Westbrook told the WC that he then walked down the hall spreading the word and telling the other people that they needed some men down there (TSBD) and that almost everybody left (CIRCA 12:33-34). 

Westbrook said that he "sat around" a while (TIME UNKNOWN--5 MINUTES ??) and then began walking, in civilian clothes, one mile to the Texas Depository Building, a 22 minute walk. Westbrook said there wasn't a police car available to drive him, yet Capt. Westbrook could easily have asked the dispatcher to call a patrol car. Westbrook said that he walked from the city hall to the TSBD, and stopped along the way to listen to transistor radio reports. Westbrook told the WC, "After we [WE, PLURAL !!] or after I reached the building, I contacted my sergeant, Sgt. Stringer, and he was standing in front and so then I went into the building to help start the search [START THE SEARCH ?? THE SEARCH WAS ALREADY WELL UNDERWAY] and I was on the first floor and I had walked down an aisle and opened a door onto an outside loading dock. And when I came out onto this dock, one of the men hollered and said there had been an officer killed in Oak Cliff [CIRCA 1:10-1:15 PM]."


WESTBROOK'S WC TESTIMONY ASIDE, HIS WHEREABOUTS FROM THE TIME HE WAS SEEN AT THE POLICE STATION (CIRCA 12:33-12:40 PM) TO HIS ARRIVAL AT THE TSBD (CIRCA 1:10-1:15) ARE UNKNOWN. HIS STORY OF WALKING TO THE TSBD, AFTER THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES WAS SHOT, IS NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO BELIEVE. BUT THIS STORY GAVE WESTBROOK AN ALIBI TO ACCOUNT FOR 40-50 MINUTES OF HIS TIME. CAPTAIN WESTBROOK WOULD LIKE US TO BELIEVE THAT HE WALKED 22 MINUTES TO THE SCENE OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S MURDER, BUT THEN HURRIEDLY DROVE TO THE SCENE OF OFFICER TIPPIT'S MURDER.


Kenneth Croy was a 26 year old reserve police officer, separated from his wife, and living with his parents. When President Kennedy was shot Croy told the WC he was sitting in his car at city hall (same location as Capt. Westbrook). Croy said that while driving his car home he was "hemmed in from both sides" by traffic on Main and Griffin for about 20 minutes. He then said that he drove past the courthouse on Elm and asked police officers (names unknown) if he could be of any assistance. He then said that he proceeded to drive home. CROY'S WC TESTIMONY ASIDE, HIS WHEREABOUTS FROM 12:30 PM UNTIL 1:45 PM ARE UNKNOWN. HIS STORY OF SITTING IN HIS CAR WHEN THE PRESIDENT WAS SHOT, AND GETTING HEMMED IN WITH TRAFFIC FOR 20 MINUTES GAVE HIM AN ALIBI TO ACCOUNT FOR OVER AN HOUR OF HIS TIME. CROY WOULD LIKE US TO BELIEVE, THAT ON THE DAY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES WAS KILLED, ONE OF THE MOST MEMORABLE DAYS OF THE CENTURY, HE DECIDED TO GO HOME.


NOTE: THE FOLLOWING IS SPECULATION: One possibility to account for Westbrook and Croy's time could have been the boarding of McWatters bus, which was not reported to the WC nor investigated by the FBI or DPD. Westbrook could have ridden with Croy from city hall to Elm St. where Westbrook met and supervised two unknown police officers who boarded McWatters bus looking for LHO. (CIRCA 12:45 ?). Could Capt. Westbrook have also been carrying a "drop gun" that could have been "planted" on Oswald if and when the two police officers shot and killed Oswald on the bus? If Oswald had been killed on the bus, Stuart Reeds photos of McWatters bus would have become famous.


We will soon see that when Capt. Westbrook arrived at the Tippit murder scene he was carrying a wallet that contained identification for Lee Harvey Oswald and Alex Hidell. The wallet was allegedly given to him at the scene by Croy. QUESTION: Capt Westbrook hired Roscoe White only two months before the assassination. Where was Roscoe White, and what was he doing on 11/22/63??


Next part continues here:

http://oswaldinthedoorway.blogspot.com/2015/04/this-is-part-ii-of-john-armstrongs.html