Posted on 11/16/2008 6:56:53 AM PST by MeekOneGOP
Oswald co-worker no longer silent about JFK assassination role
01:56 AM CST on Sunday, November 16, 2008
LEWISVILLE – Buell Frazier wants to tell it like it is – or was – on a very important day in U.S. history 45 years ago in Dallas. The quiet, thoughtful man of 64 is not as well-known as some of the others who skyrocketed to fame or infamy in November 1963. But Mr. Frazier played a defining, if unintentional, role in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
He drove Lee Harvey Oswald to work that fateful Nov. 22.
And the Warren Commission, the investigative committee appointed to explain all aspects of Mr. Kennedy's death, claimed that Oswald carried his cheap mail-order rifle to work with him in Mr. Frazier's car.
That put Mr. Frazier in the spotlight immediately after Oswald was captured – and long afterward as a mourning nation sought to find an explanation to the tragedy.
With but a few exceptions, he has kept almost 4 ½ decades of angst, frustration, fear and occasionally even fury bottled up.
All Mr. Frazier did was offer a friendly gesture to a man he hardly knew.
In mid-September 1963, Mr. Frazier, 19, moved to Irving to live with his sister, Linnie Mae Randle, her husband and three children.
He slept on his sister's couch, drove a clunker Chevy and was pleased to be earning $1.25 an hour, then the minimum wage, at the Texas School Book Depository.
As a teenager in Huntsville, Mr. Frazier had deftly ...
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“Discovery Channel has a special on tonight at 9PM Eastern time called, “JFK: Inside the Target Car”
If it’s the one I saw it pretty much dispels the myth of the magic bullet. They use gel bodies that have the same density as humans and place them in a car just like the one kennedy and Conolly were in. They fired a bullet from the same gun as Oswald and from the same distance and angle. The bullet behaved exactly as the one that hit Kennedy and Connolly, and ended up just as pristine.
I was 13 years old when Kennedy was killed but I remember him speaking these words and they have stuck with me all these years:
“The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the Americans freedom and before I leave office I must inform the Citizen of his plight.”
10 days later Kennedy was murdered in Dallas.
Had I not heard these words I may have believed The ‘Oswald’ theory. To me at least there was a whole lot more going on than the ‘Lone Gunman’ scenario.
Bump and to read later...
I have been shooting firearms for 20-25 years. I would not call myself an expert's expert, but it sure appeared to me to have been an easy series of shots for Oswald to have taken.
I was most surprised by how small the area was and how close Oswald and Kennedy were to each other.
Precisely.
Thank you.
“Check out Gerald Posner’s book “Case Closed.” It is pretty convincing in its portrayal of Oswald as a total loser who acted alone.”
Good point. What people seem to forget is that he fit the same profile as most killers of celebrities or politicians in the last 60 years. A loner with visions of grandeur who had already tried to kill a general with the same rifle. The fact he was a commie is less about his philosophy as about his desire to be different. His stay in Russia was a bust because he expected to be treated like royalty by the Soviets who instead didn’t trust him and stuck him in a very menial job which he detested. If there had been a conspiracy he is the last person any sensible group would hire to try and pull it off, particularly with a gun he bought mail order for 12.95. He was nuts and happened to be at the right place at the right time.
Thank you, potlatch. I would have missed this thread without your ping.
Ping, too.
The State Department has always been filled with lefties.
If you look at even a few pieces of undisputed evidence and apply some logic, it is easy to see that Oswald acted alone.
How else do you explain the fact that immediately after the shooting Oswald: left the TSB; left Dealy Plaza to find a bus, even though if he waited in front of the TSB, he could have gotten on a bus that would have dropped him off closer to his rooming house; almost immediately got off the bus he did get on when the bus became stalled in traffic; had a taxi driver drive past his rooming house before dropping him off; changed his cloths; snuck into a movie theater; resisted arrest, including pulling a gun on the officers; and a policeman was murdered in the vicinity in between the time that Oswald went to his rooming house and the time he was arrested.
Based on this information alone, we can deduce that Oswald was involved. The conspiracy question can be answered if you ask yourself if it would be logical to have someone shoot the prez from his place of work, knowing that he would be identified almost immediately? A conspiracy would have to assume that the location of the shooter would probably be identified immediately. That would mean that the assassin would have to flee immediately, thus incrminating himself; or stay and wait for the police to find the murder weapon and eventually link it to the assassin.
Way to go, Liberal Biased Media jerks !!
They’re despicable.
I’m still waiting for couric to take Levin up on his challenge to come on his show and discuss Constitutional Law, since she thought it was so important to ask Sarah Palin about it.
And Hannity has issued an “invitation” to that scum Ayers, and his “wife”, to come on his show.
It's new and different.
By the way, at his website, you can also buy his gold bullion.
You might want to stop using him and his bullshit story about being best pals with legendary snipers, because he's a kook who sells spooky conspiracy books and gold to paranoiacs.
Just so you know.
Sadly, this story really shows that you should get ahold of a good lawyer
before talking to government employees.
Not being discourteous with the police, DAs or FBI, but just insisting
on asserting your rights (to not be rail-roaded).
I’m still suprised at some convict that says “the cops lied to me”
and tricked me into a confession.
All I can think is that they’ve never watched “Law And Order” or
similar cop shows.
That being said, I was impressed with Gerald Ford openly saying he
thought that Frazier and his sister were just mistaken and didn’t have
any bad motive for their statements.
That’s something you don’t always hear from investigators.
It’s even more a badge of decency given the pressure the commission
was under to “find someone, anyone” to blame.
You’re welcome.
Ping.
Times change. They're Progressives now.
I will ask my husband because he was told the story. Maybe he will remember. It had to do with missles and I don’t think it was Cuban missles.
A wink and a nod, and that guy is grinning... thats kinda telling ain’t it?
By name I don’t either, but by deed I certainly do.
I have never thought he was involved, but down deep none of us have much way of knowing what exactly took place back then. I’m not at all comfortable with the Warren Report.
While I do think Oswald was involved, I am convinced of little else about the case, and wouldn’t be surprised by just about anything revealed in the future about the case.
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