From: willisdonald824@gmail.com   
      
   "A propos de Alyea's Dec. '63 statement"   
      
   ... in which he seems to think that Bonnie Ray Williams' chicken and soda   
   bottle indicated a shooting site:  It started me thinking (always a bad sign)   
   that Insp. Sawyer's police-radio message and his briefing for reporters might   
   have been based on the    
   same mistaken assumption.  The radio version:  "We have found empty rifle   
   hulls on the fifth floor and from all indications the man had been there for   
   some time" (from Sawyer's testimony).  The news briefing:  "Police found the   
   remains of fried    
   chicken and paper on the fifth floor.  Apparently, the person had been there   
   quite a while."  (quoted in the Stockton (CA) Record, the San Fransisco   
   Examiner, and the Oakland (CA) Tribune)  Someone at Cop HQ, though, must have   
   panicked and believed    
   that Sawyer's briefings might be taken as saying that there were chicken   
   scraps in & around the "nest" itself.  So the DPD and the sheriff's office   
   industriously enlisted several hapless deputies and police officers to concoct   
   a shells-and-chicken's-   
   nest story, including deputies Mooney, McCurley, and Weatherford and DPD Sgt.   
   Hill.  I say "concoct" because, dutifully, photographers Det. Studebaker (of   
   the DPD Crime Lab) and Alyea insisted that no chicken remains were found in   
   and about the "nest"    
   itself, or it would have appeared in some of their photos and film there.  As   
   it turns out, though--if Sawyer was referring simply to the Williams   
   stash--the officers perpetrated the hoax all for nothing.  The police and   
   sheriff's departments, then,    
   somewhat hilariously, colluded in a cover-up of something which didn't need   
   covering up, a conspiracy to cover up... nothing!    
      
   dcw   
      
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