Nothing pleases me more than for someone to reach the same conclusion I did, but independent of me. And that seems to have happened between me and Michael Ward. What follows is a comment of his establishing that, yes, Oswald did go to the 2nd floor lunch room and encounter Baker and Truly, and it unequivocally proves that he could not have assassinated JFK.
One caveat though: he agrees with me that Carolyn Arnold's 1st floor sighting was real. She saw Oswald behind the glass shortly before the motorcade arrived. However, she didn't keep looking at him. She just glanced at him. As you would expect, she turned around and faced forward to watch the motorcade. And after she turned around, that is when Oswald stepped outside and stood on the landing, where he was captured in both the Altgens photo and the Wiegman film.
Michael Ward:
I believe Oswald was on first floor… looking out glass front doors at time of parade as Carolyn Arnold did say.
Why? Because of 2 reasons.
1. No way Oswald came down stairs from 6th floor to be in 2nd floor lunch room without being seen. The 2 ladies (Adams, Styles) coming down the same wooden loud stairs would have seen or heard Oswald hurriedly coming down those same stairs to get to 2nd floor lunch room.
2. The way the door with window on 2nd floor where Officer Baker saw a person (movement) from right to left. It’s situated in such a way the only way Baker would see such movement is from someone coming from the office area. This was Oswald coming to lunch room from the 1st floor. Oswald would have come up the flight of stairs in front entrance area that only led to 2nd floor. Oswald then proceeded across 2nd floor office area heading to lunch room area. Oswald would have been moving from (Bakers view) right to left as he crossed that window area (in the anteroom) just before entering the lunch room. This is what caught Baker's vision as Oswald moved into the lunch room.
Plus… the door with window was heavy with a very slow closing mechanism which took 15-20 secs to slowly close. And no way Oswald entered through that door in time for door to completely close without Baker noticing it’s movement closing when he saw Oswald's movement through the glass.
Just more evidence that Oswald was on 1st floor and moved back to lunch area across 2nd floor as he told police.
Ralph Cinque
It is very regrettable that some people deny that the 2nd floor enounter took place. It is absolutely certain that it did. Oswald said it did. It's in the Fritz Notes. And Baker correctly described the anatomy of the rooms there, with the little anteroom with glass in the door adjacent to the lunch room. How could he know about any of that without being there and seeing it? He also accurately described Oswald's clothes as a "light brown jacket and white shirt." It was actually a shirt, not a jacket, but it had the lay of a jacket. And the shirt was just a t-shirt. Still, Baker accurately recalled the uniqueness of Oswald's distinctive outfit.
Marrion Baker was a lowly motorcycle cop. Nobody tapped him on the shoulder and said, "Psst. Do you know that we're killing Kennedy on Friday?" He wasn't in on it. He wasn't a conspirator. He didn't conspire with Roy Truly to lie. Now, Truly was a conspirator. He was in on it. But, Baker and Truly did not know each other. They had never met before. And neither ever referred to the other by name. It was always "the super" and "the officer." They were strangers, and one thing strangers don't do is conspire to commit perjury together. And what reason did Baker have to lie? He did nothing wrong, and he was not involved in the plot.
Oswald did not leave the TSBD until several minutes after the shooting. One of the images of the Three Tramps shows Oswald talking to a police officer at the top of the steps as he was leaving the building. That was a few minutes after the assassination. It was not at 2:00, as is commonly claimed, but more like 12:33. Jim Marrs agreed with me about that. He's the one who laid it out for me.
So, we have to account for Oswald from 12:30 to 12:33. He was not hiding in a closet. But, if you do the Math for the time it took him to move from the doorway to the 2nd floor lunch room, it works out perfectly for him to be back at the doorway at 12:33 when he was leaving for his boarding room. That's Oswald standing there top-right talking to Police Inspector J. H. Sawyer.
So, how did Oswald kill 3 minutes? He wasn't hiding in a closet. He made the trek to the 2nd floor where he encountered Baker and Truly.
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