donald willis
2018-06-20 19:16:47 UTC
Don't look now, but Roy Milton Jones' 1964 FBI interview put Oswald right
back on the bus to Oak Cliff, and exoneration there
One would think that between the authors of the Warren Report and our
modern-day LN researchers, SOMEONE would have done their due diligence and
long ago eliminated Roy Milton Jones as a possibility for the "man" that
bus driver Cecil McWatters picked up "on Elm around Houston". Yet, the
Commission's Norman Redlich went for Jones hook line & sinker because
Jones said that "he had exchanged words with a woman passenger" (WR p159),
not that unusual an occurrence on a bus, when you think of it.
Quick! What's the most memorable thing that McWatters said about the
"man" in his affidavit? Yes, that "he had told me the president was shot
in the temple". First, it's highly unlikely that someone who had just
"attended the usual morning session of classes" at his high school would,
circa 12:45pm, have information re the President's wounds. Secondly,
Jones himself "advised he could not recall any conversation between the
bus driver and himself or any other person on the bus about the President
being shot in the temple He said he did not hear any person make this
remark on the bus." (FBI report 4/3/64/CE 2641)
Jones was not the man on McWatters' bus. And yet Jones does seem to have
been on a Dallas bus that day. "Jones estimated that there were about
fifteen people on the bus at this time and two police officers boarded the
bus and checked each passenger to see if any were carrying firearms....
Jones estimated the bus was held up by the police offices for about one
hour and, after they were permitted to resume, they crossed the Marsalis
Bridge...." (FBI report)
Scour McWatters' lengthy Commission testimony, but you will find NO
reference to a one-hour delay caused by a police inspection on his bus.
Certainly, Redlich must have read the passages in Jones' interview re the
President's head wound and the boarding by the police. It would seem,
then, that the highly selective Mr. Redlich simply ignored same, perhaps
because they did not fit his agenda. Had he been just a mite more
scrupulous, or at least thorough, he could have categorically eliminated
Jones as a candidate for the role of McWatters' odd passenger, whom
McWatters positively identified, in a lineup, as Oswald (With Malice,
p458). And, according to Joseph Backes, in his article "Oswald and
McWatters' Bus", if it was Oswald on the bus, he would have gotten to the
Marsalis area, near his rooming house, about... 1:20pm.
Thank you, Mr. Jones.
Time for LNers to locate another Jones, though it may be too late....
dcq
back on the bus to Oak Cliff, and exoneration there
One would think that between the authors of the Warren Report and our
modern-day LN researchers, SOMEONE would have done their due diligence and
long ago eliminated Roy Milton Jones as a possibility for the "man" that
bus driver Cecil McWatters picked up "on Elm around Houston". Yet, the
Commission's Norman Redlich went for Jones hook line & sinker because
Jones said that "he had exchanged words with a woman passenger" (WR p159),
not that unusual an occurrence on a bus, when you think of it.
Quick! What's the most memorable thing that McWatters said about the
"man" in his affidavit? Yes, that "he had told me the president was shot
in the temple". First, it's highly unlikely that someone who had just
"attended the usual morning session of classes" at his high school would,
circa 12:45pm, have information re the President's wounds. Secondly,
Jones himself "advised he could not recall any conversation between the
bus driver and himself or any other person on the bus about the President
being shot in the temple He said he did not hear any person make this
remark on the bus." (FBI report 4/3/64/CE 2641)
Jones was not the man on McWatters' bus. And yet Jones does seem to have
been on a Dallas bus that day. "Jones estimated that there were about
fifteen people on the bus at this time and two police officers boarded the
bus and checked each passenger to see if any were carrying firearms....
Jones estimated the bus was held up by the police offices for about one
hour and, after they were permitted to resume, they crossed the Marsalis
Bridge...." (FBI report)
Scour McWatters' lengthy Commission testimony, but you will find NO
reference to a one-hour delay caused by a police inspection on his bus.
Certainly, Redlich must have read the passages in Jones' interview re the
President's head wound and the boarding by the police. It would seem,
then, that the highly selective Mr. Redlich simply ignored same, perhaps
because they did not fit his agenda. Had he been just a mite more
scrupulous, or at least thorough, he could have categorically eliminated
Jones as a candidate for the role of McWatters' odd passenger, whom
McWatters positively identified, in a lineup, as Oswald (With Malice,
p458). And, according to Joseph Backes, in his article "Oswald and
McWatters' Bus", if it was Oswald on the bus, he would have gotten to the
Marsalis area, near his rooming house, about... 1:20pm.
Thank you, Mr. Jones.
Time for LNers to locate another Jones, though it may be too late....
dcq