From: willisdonald824@gmail.com   
      
   How "Braden"/Florer got on the police airwaves   
      
   It all started with Insp. Sawyer, Sgt. Gerald Hill, Patrolman James Valentine,   
   and Officer Ira Trantham, at the front of the TSBD.  "Jerry Hill and   
   [Trantham] went inside.  Hill continued upstairs and an officer ap[proached   
   him with a prisoner.  Advised    
   this subject had been observed 'acting suspiciously' on the third floor   
   without a reasonable explanantion for being up there... At the front doorway,   
   Sawyer was apprised of this development" and had Trantham take the suspect to   
   the sheriff's.--Trantham's    
   HSCA interview.   
      
   "Shortly after, a DPD officer brought a boy in a sport coat up and said, 'Here   
   is the man that had done the shooting'... Insp. Sawyer was informed of   
   this..."--Chief Criminal Deputy Allan Sweatt, Investigation Report 11/23/63.     
      
   Quite a jump--from "acting suspiciously" to "the man that had done the   
   shooting".  Why was the "prisoner" thought to be the man who shot Kennedy?    
   The man, as far as we know, had no weapon or bullets on him.  Did he try to   
   run?  Did he confess?  The "   
   Braden"/Florer end of this puzzle will remain a puzzle.  But, at the other   
   end...   
      
   The Trantham interview corrects Sgt. Hill, who testified he went into the   
   building with Sawyer.  The latter apparently went in a little later.  How do I   
   know that he didn't go in earlier?  Because, at 1pm, DPD Captain Talbert   
   radios, "I think that 5 and    
   9 (Lumpkin & Sawyer) both are still in the building." (CE 1974 p43)  By 1:08,   
   Sawyer seems to be out front again--Sgt. Harkness radios that information &   
   persons should be brought to Sawyer.  (CE 1974 p50)  And at 1:12, Sawyer   
   radios that hulls were    
   found on the "3rd floor".     
      
   The Braden/Florer puzzle helps clear up the 1:12 puzzle.  Sawyer has heard   
   that a man has been arrested, on the 3rd floor, for shooting.  About 1:10,   
   Sgt. Hill brings Sawyer up-to-date.  He says that shells and scraps of chicken   
   have been found.  Whether    
   or not Hill indicated the number of a floor for this find, we don't know.  But   
   Sawyer ties Hill's information to the earlier 3rd-floor information and radios   
   that the shells were found on the "3rd floor".  The old mystery solved...   
      
   But there was a secondary mystery.  Sawyer told reporters that day that shells   
   and remains of fried chicken were found on the *fifth* floor.  Where did he   
   get *that*?  Educated guess:  Chief Deputy Sheriff Allan Sweatt reported that   
   weekend that fellow    
   deputy Luke Mooney yelled out the "5th floor window" that "spent cartridge   
   cases" had been found there.  Sawyer was apparently inside when Mooney cried   
   out and did not hear him.  But I think that Sweatt must have heard Sawyer's   
   broadcast and went over to    
   tell him about the "fifth floor window".  Hence, the adjusted story told to   
   reporters... Another mystery solved?   
      
   dcw   
      
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