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Light-colored top, probably with long sleeves, light-colored or brown hair. Carolyn Walther saw the same man as Rowland, Towner, Brennan, Edwards, and Fischer. That man, the one in the sniper’s nest moments before the shooting, was not Lee Harvey Oswald. It’s true that none of these witnesses described Oswald, but how do I know for sure? It’s because Lee Harvey Oswald was the other man Carolyn Walther saw in the window.

In her FBI statement, Walther said she could only see the right side of this man, from his shoulders to his hips, and specifically described him as wearing a brown suit jacket. She did not mention a tie.

Oswald’s former landlady, Mary Bledsoe, saw him on the Marsalis bus, shortly after he walked out the front entrance of the Texas School Book Depository, just a few minutes after the assassination. She described the brown dress shirt he was wearing for Warren Commission senior counsel Joseph Ball. She noticed it had a hole in the right sleeve, near the elbow.

Most of the buttons were missing, too. Just one held the shirt together, about halfway between his shoulders and hips. As a result, the shirt did not close up at the top and bottom as a dress shirt normally would. Especially from the distance Carolyn Walther stood from that window, it is not hard to see why she mistook Oswald’s shirt, for a suit jacket.

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Ronald Fischer and Robert Edwards would have been able to hear the roar of the crowd as President Kennedy got closer to Dealey Plaza. They were standing on the street, next to the curb at the southwest corner of Houston and Elm, just before the motorcade turned from Main Street. At this time, Edwards got Fischer’s attention and pointed out a suspicious looking man in the sixth-floor sniper’s nest. It appeared to them he was positioned awkwardly and possibly hiding.

From their vantage point, the co-workers Fischer and Edwards could only see a portion of the sniper’s upper-body and head. They gave the same general description of a light brown-headed man wearing an open neck, light-colored shirt.

Warren Commission Assistant Counsel David Belin was clearly bothered by Fischer’s description of the man’s hair color.

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The Warren Commission’s star witness, steamfitter Howard Brennan had a prime seat next to the north reflecting pool at the corner of Houston and Elm, not so much to watch the motorcade, but to see what was going on across the street. He saw the same man as James Towner in the sixth-floor sniper’s nest prior to the motorcade’s arrival.

Like Arnold Rowland and Towner, Brennan described a man wearing a light-colored top. He apparently got such a good look that in a statement taken that afternoon, Brennan said he believed he could identify the man.

As it turned out, he got his chance. During the evening of the assassination, authorities brought him in to view a lineup that included Lee Harvey Oswald. That night, Brennan failed to identify Oswald as the man in the window.

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We all know Tina Towner Pender by now. We can see the Presidential limousine’s damaged vent window in the film she captured from the southwest corner of Houston and Elm. She had her parents, James and Pat, on either side of her as she was filming.

The Towners were never asked to give a statement or testify concerning the assassination, despite their prime vantage point. More than 30 years later, in a 1996 Oral History interview with Pat and Tina by his side, James Towner described a man who wore a white coat in the sixth-floor sniper’s nest window. He thought the man had to be Oswald.

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Two more witnesses, Roger Craig and Arnold Rowland, who heard 3 shots and thought there was more time between the first and second, implying that the assassination started when Tina Towner was filming. Rowland saw two men on the sixth floor walking back and forth 15 minutes prior to the assassination, one with a rifle at the western end of the Depository. Were there two shooters? Stay tuned.

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Who was on the sixth floor?

Most witnesses reported hearing three shots. Witnesses saw a shooter in the sixth-floor, southeast corner window of the Texas School Book Depository. Authorities found three shell casings under that window minutes after the shooting. Shortly thereafter they found the matching rifle, which they then linked to Lee Harvey Oswald.

In episode 20, we finished a series of witness sketches that provided clues and ultimately corroboration that the assassination of President Kennedy started just after the limousine turned the corner onto Elm Street. With the discovery of the vent window strike, we know a single shooter would have had 13 seconds, plenty of time, to pull off the assassination.

To steal the title from Gerald Posner’s 1993 book, Case Closed, right? Well, that’s what I thought.

This video is about 2.5 minutes long.

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Shortly after the Presidential limousine turned onto Elm Street, Beverly Oliver, the Babushka Lady, heard two popping sounds, close together. Bang-bang. Like many other witnesses she didn’t realize they were gunshots until the shooting was over. Oliver thought she heard five shots.

Incredibly, a woman in the audience who was along Main Street when the motorcade went by heard the shooting the same way as Beverly Oliver. During the question-and-answer period, she described hearing 4 or 5 loud noises with the first two, “bam-bam, really fast.”

That’s two more witnesses who heard two loud noises, very close together at the start of the shooting. If these noises were really shots, then there had to be more than one shooter.

This video is about 4 minutes long.

Here is the YouTube link to the entire JFK:_Conspirators series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx_nMuacWEhmVprsXmvMRrzm13Nbix0M5