Case in point: Officer Marrion Baker's FBI statement of 9/23/64.
For some reason, the FBI treated Baker like a small child or an illiterate person- incapable of writing his own statement. Or, maybe they thought that Agent Burnett just had prettier handwriting. But, for whatever reason, they wouldn't let a grown man write his own statement. That's weird, in itself.
But then, even more weirdly, stuff got into the statement that Burnett wrote that Baker didn't even say. For instance, Burnett wrote down that Oswald was drinking a Coke. Drinking. DRINKING???
Baker first saw Oswald NOT in the lunch room but in the little anteroom next to the lunch room. So, Oswald was going to the lunch room. He was about to enter the lunch room. And apparently, the door to the lunch room was propped open.
So, try to understand this: there were three doors involved. There was the door from the office to the anteroom which Oswald went through. There was the door from the stairwell to the anteroom which Baker went through. And there was the door from the anteroom to the lunch room which was propped open.
So, Baker goes through his door, and he has a view of Oswald walking away from him, with his back to him. So, he calls to him. He says "Come here you" or something like that. So, Oswald stopped and turned around and did what he was told. He walked back towards Baker without saying anything. But then, Truly arrived, and Baker asked Truly if he knew the man. Truly said that he did and that he worked for him. And that ended it. Baker and Truly turned around and continued up the stairs.
Now, how could drinking a Coke enter that picture when Oswald had just gotten there? Baker certainly didn't say that he saw Oswald drinking a Coke when he saw him through the glass in the door. And when he saw him directly, Oswald was walking away from him with his back to him. So, how could he have seen Oswald drinking then? And then when Oswald turned around and walked back towards him, are we supposed to believe that Oswald drank then? I gotta tell you, that would be pretty damn cocky to be looking at a cop in uniform who had just barked an order at you and was brandishing a gun that he was pointing at you, and for you to take a drink at that moment.
So, I think we can state categorically that Baker never said anything about seeing Oswald drinking a Coke. So, how did it wind up in Special Agent Burnett's statement, such that Baker had to cross it out? Mistakes are one thing, but this one doesn't even make sense as a mistake. That is, it's not a mistake that anyone could make. Burnett pulled "drinking a Coke" from out his ass and plopped it into the report. Why? Who does such a thing? It was a very simple process: a grown man was dictating his statement to another grown man instead of being allowed to write it himself. And then, the other man, for reasons unknown, added something to his story that was never said.
If it was Baker's statement and Burnett was writing it, why didn't Burnett write it word for word? Or at least close thereto. But, to add "drinking a Coke"? As I just demonstrated, it doesn't even fit into the mechanics of the story for Oswald to have been drinking a Coke at the time. He was just going into the lunch room; not leaving it. Don't you have to get to the lunch room first before you can buy a Coke?
Now, I don't know what kind of person Marrion Baker was, but I know what kind of person I am. I think we all know what kind of person I am. And I am the kind of person who, upon seeing that the FBI agent had added the phrase "drinking a Coke" to my statement would have exploded. "How the fuck did this get in here? I didn't say that. So, why did you write it?"
But that it happened at all is very strange; very weird; very other worldly; the other world being the world of the JFK assassination.
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