From: willisdonald824@gmail.com   
      
   DPD Ruses, Part I: Insp. Sawyer in the hot seat   
      
   For me, the discovery of DPD Insp. Sawyer's actual source for his 12:44   
   suspect description somewhat vindicates him.  Before that, I had thought that   
   he was part of the conspiracy and that he was handed--*before* 12:30pm   
   11/22/63--a pre-fab description.     
   But NTFH's discovery of the FBI dispatches re his encounter with a witness in   
   back of the depository takes him off the conspiracy hook, though, yes, it   
   leaves him dangling on the cover-up hook.  The discovery also partially   
   explains why Sawyer's    
   Commission testimony was so full of holes.  He used his unnamed witness's   
   suspect description as the basis for his 12:44 transmission--unfortunately for   
   Sawyer, that suspect description included a *weapon* description.  And, on the   
   money or not (good    
   reason to believe not), a police inspector bought it--lock, stock, and   
   barrel--and all-but-legitimatized it by putting it on the police airwaves.    
   Perhaps there was something compelling about the witness's presentation.    
   We'll never know because Sawyer    
   had to forget that the person even existed.   
      
   The broadcasting of the weapon description put Sawyer in the hot seat, and the   
   actual conspirators (including, I believe, DPD Homicide Capt. Fritz) had to   
   scramble to attach it to a suspect in the depository, or it might sound as if   
   there were *two*    
   active rifles in Dealey that day.  (There may have been, but Sawyer's   
   witness's suspect was most probably not one of them.)  Sawyer must have been a   
   nervous wreck at the hearings:  He was also in the hot seat for his 1:11   
   transmission situating the    
   sniper on the fifth (or third) floor.  Lotta scrambling going on before his   
   Commission stint, and some 'splainin' to do for the Commissioners during it.   
      
      
   First, Sawyer, almost comically, gets off on the wrong foot when Counsel David   
   Belin asks him why he "headed west on Main Street".  Sawyer:  "Because that   
   was the way the car was pointed at the time I got in." (v6p316)     
      
   Secondly, Sawyer testified that he went to the depository because he had heard   
   Sheriff Decker, at 12:30, invoke the "Texas School Book Depository".    
   Wrong--check the DPD radio logs.     
      
   Thirdly--after being corrected by counsel--he then says that, yes, maybe he   
   actually started to Dealey or got to Dealey or went into the building about   
   12:34, when the depository was first mentioned on the DPD radio. (v6p319)    
   Wrong again, because...   
      
   Fourth, Sawyer testified that officers at the building told him that they'd   
   heard about shooting from the fifth floor, and he took an elevator up.  But   
   the officers in question--that would have been Sgt. Harkness and Patrolman   
   Hill--did not radio their    
   data until, respectively, 12:36 and 12:37, then went down to the depository.    
   But even, say, 12:38 would have been wrong, because...   
      
   Fifth, at 12:44, Sawyer still seems not to have not heard from Harkness and   
   Hill:  He references no floors in the building, in fact does not reference the   
   building at all, in his suspect description.   
      
   Sixth, Sawyer, at 12:45, radioed that he was not aware that the suspect had   
   been in the building, though we now know that he had been told that a suspect   
   had been seen running "from" the building.  It was the dispatcher who,   
   finally, got Sawyer onto the    
   scent of the depository, told him that the shooting "did come from about the   
   5th or 4th floor" (CE 1974 p171)  But Sawyer's entry into the building perhaps   
   has to be pushed out even further, to no earlier than about 12:52, because...   
      
   Seventh, the "couple of officers" with whom Sawyer says he entered the   
   building must have been Sgt. Gerald Hill and Patrolman James Valentine   
   (Hill/v7p45)--and they were only radioing, at 12:48 (DPD radio logs), that   
   they were "en route Elm & Houston".    
    The two were the only officers who claimed to have gone in with him.  So,   
   Sawyer was, initially, some 20 minutes off on his entry time, though he had   
   testified that he was down & out of the TSBD by 12:37. (v6p320)   
      
   As Claviger has said (on the old alt.assassination.jfk), Where the hell was   
   Sawyer for those 20 minutes?  He was apparently, for at least part of that   
   time, talking to a witness who saw someone run out of the depository--out the   
   back apparently--the    
   witness who gave him the suspect description, radioed in by Sawyer at 12:44,   
   the description generally--and obviously incorrectly--attributed to witness   
   Howard Brennan, who provided, never at all believably, a height and weight   
   estimate of a suspect seen    
   on an upper floor of the depository.  A suspect whom he thought was standing   
   as he shot.  Gamely, poor Brennan went along with the DPD ruse.   
      
   Eighth:   Here is Sawyer, at the hearings, quoting--not entirely   
   accurately--his 1:11 radio transmission, "We have found empty rifle hulls on   
   the fifth floor." (v6p322)  But even that correct-sounding quote from Sawyer   
   is incorrect.  From "Pictures of    
   the Pain (p523):  Sawyer, at 1:11: "On the third [sic] floor of this book   
   company down here, we found empty rifle hulls."  (from Trask's transcription   
   of an audio tape of the DPD radio logs.  See also the FBI transcription of   
   the radio logs for that    
   curious "3rd floor".)  (CE 1974p176)  Sawyer was testifying, falsely, in   
   concert with Sgt. G.D. Henslee's transcription of the logs (Sawyer Exhibit B   
   p400): "We have found empty rifle hulls on the fifth floor..."  A double DPD   
   ruse by Sawyer and    
   Henslee...   
      
   The DPD invoked the fifth floor rather than the third because, I think--as   
   everyone knows--the fifth was often confused with the sixth, at least from the   
   outside of the building.  So "fifth" could be brushed off as a harmless   
   confusion of floors.  But "   
   third", not so much.  Certainly, "third" could not be interpreted as "sixth",   
   from any point of view or angle--although it could be interpreted as "third   
   floor from the top", or... "fifth".  In fact, Sawyer elsewhere told reporters,   
   "Police found the    
   remains of fried chicken and paper on the fifth floor." ([AP] Stockton [CA]   
   Record 11/22/63 p8/And a tip of the hat to Walt Cakebread.)  And if Sawyer, as   
   has been shown, did not enter the depository until about 12:52, and achieved,   
   at least, the fifth    
   floor, in his search, then he might have been there, in person, when the hulls   
   were found, or just after they were found, on an upper floor of the   
   building.     
      
      
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