From: willisdonald824@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, December 16, 2023 at 9:12:38 PM UTC-8, Donald Willis wrote:   
   > 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   
      
   I should note that these mystery solutions play hob with my old argument that   
   Sawyer's "3rd floor" meant 3rd-floor down, or 5th floor.  That was one of my   
   arguments for a 5th-floor shooting site.  But, no, it means "3rd floor", and   
   it was misinformation    
   to begin with.  Fooey.   Still, I continue to maintain that the 5th floor was   
   the unofficial "nest".   For two reasons:  Brennan, Fischer, Edwards, and   
   Jackson all testified that the shooter's window was wide open--thank you,   
   David Belin, for pursuing    
   this; no thanks for not liking the inevitable conclusion.  (There have been   
   rather feeble LN arguments against the validity of this four-way   
   corroboration.)  And LL Hill's "second window" transmission was doubly covered   
   up:  The witness who pointed it    
   out was "lost", and the ID of the patrolman who reported it was obfuscated by   
   attributing it to the wrong cop, Haygood, by both Haygood himself (who   
   maintained he knew nothing about the "lost" witness) and by transcriber Sgt.   
   Henslee.  Subsequent, more-   
   honest transcriptions by the DPD & the FBI restored the transmission to Hill,   
   but too late to recall the dishonest witnesses.  (LBJ was in much too much of   
   a  hurry.)  However, as I'm fond of noting, the Warren Report agreed with the   
   restoration to Hill!    
      Oh--and I believe that the supposedly "lost" witness was Robert (wide open)   
   Jackson.   
      
   And the only wide-open, 2nd-window from the SE end was on the 5th floor.  Yes,   
   that was B.R. Williams' window, and note that he was asked at the hearings if   
   a man named Brennan ID'd him coming out of the building.  He of course denied   
   all--Brennan was    
   supposed to have seen Norman & Jarman, not him.  Also note that Brennan told   
   reporters that the gunman was "nice looking".  That fits Williams somewhat   
   more than it does Oswald.  Yes, that "second window" was a mistake--Williams   
   was not the shooter--but    
   the Commission, or rather the DPD, did not allow "mistakes", that is, anything   
   which took the focus off Oswald or the 6th-floor "nest".  As also, see the   
   treatment of the other early suspect, the suspicious man on the 3rd floor!  Or   
   was that a mistake?   
      
   dcw   
      
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