Post by Gil Jesus"The preponderance of the evidence supports the conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald.....carried the rifle into the Depository Building concealed in the bag."
( Report, pg. 137 )
One witness saw Oswald enter the building that morning and testified that Oswald's hands were empty.
Is Dougherty a credible witness in your view.?
He was a 40-year-old unmarried male still living at home with his parents. Here is some of his testimony:
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Mr. BALL - Did you ever leave the United States during the War?
Mr. DOUGHERTY - Oh, yes.
Mr. BALL - Where did you go?
Mr. DOUGHERTY - Well, I was stationed, oh, for about a year up in Indiana up there---Seymour, Ind.
Mr. BALL - Then where did you go from there in the service?
Mr. DOUGHERTY - Well, I stayed there until I got discharged.
Mr. BALL - You didn't ever go outside the country to Europe?
Mr. DOUGHERTY - Oh, no.
Mr. BALL - Or to the South Seas?
Mr. DOUGHERTY - No.
Mr. BALL - You stayed in this country all the time?
Mr. DOUGHERTY - Yes.
Mr. BALL - Now, did you ever have any difficulty with your speech?
Mr. DOUGHERTY - No.
Mr. BALL - You never had any?
Mr. DOUGHERTY - No.
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Mr. DOUGHERTY - Well, jobs were pretty scarce about the time I got out of the service, so I just went from place to place and applied and put my application in, so I started over here at the Texas School Book Depository and put my application in there and I got it through the Suburban Employment Agency, and I been working there ever since.
Mr. BALL - And that was when--in 1940, was it, you started to work at the Texas School Book Depository?
Mr. DOUGHERTY - September 17, 1940.
Mr. BALL - 1940 what?
Mr. DOUGHERTY - Let's see, I have been with them 11 years--that would be---
Mr. BALL - That would be 1952, wouldn't it?
Mr. DOUGHERTY - Yes--that's 1952.
Mr. BALL - 1952?
Mr. DOUGHERTY - Yes; that's right, to be exact.
Mr. BALL - What did you do between the time you got out of the service and 1952?
Mr. DOUGHERTY - Well, I didn't do anything to be frank with you.
Mr. BALL - You didn't?
Mr. DOUGHERTY - No.
Mr. BALL - You didn't work?
Mr. DOUGHERTY - Oh, no.
Mr. BALL - You stayed at home?
Mr. DOUGHERTY - No, sir.
Mr. BALL - Did you live with your father and mother?
Mr. DOUGHERTY - Yes.
Mr. BALL - Have you ever been married?
Mr. DOUGHERTY - No.
Mr. BALL - And you still live with your father and mother?
Mr. DOUGHERTY - Yes.
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Mr. BALL - And how long do you take for lunch?
Mr. DOUGHERTY - Well, from 12 to 12:45.
Mr. BALL - Forty-five minutes?
Mr. DOUGHERTY - Yes.
Mr. BALL - Do you always take a full hour?
Mr. DOUGHERTY - Yes; I usually do.
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The Commission simply ignored this witness, suppressed his testimony and omitted it from its Report.
They discounted Dougherty’s testimony because he clearly had issues with his speech.
Post by Gil JesusAnd this is what you Lone Nutters call the truth.
You seem to be ignoring a large piece of the puzzle. Oswald’s rifle was missing from its normal hiding place in the Paine garage and was recovered from the TSBD shortly after the assassination.
You should be shaking your head at Dougherty’s testimony, and your own inability to explain how Oswald’s rifle got to the sixth floor, if Oswald didn’t bring it in on the morning of the assassination.
This is why you get no traction with your arguments: They rely on poor witnesses and ignore better witnesses and ignore or discount the hard evidence you can’t explain.
I established the evidence puts Oswald’s rifle on the sixth floor a month ago. You ignored it.
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