The JFK Assassination made simple —
using video evidence and doctors' testimony

This page below is only concerning Oswald's
whereabouts at the time of the Kennedy assassination.

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Below is the summary of evidence for Oswald's location
at 12:30 PM at the time of Kennedy's assassination.

Kennedy was expected to pass by the Book Depository
at noon on Nov 22, 1963. But arrived at around 12:30 PM,
passing the Texas Book Depository later than scheduled.
Where was Oswald?



At noon, Janitor Eddie Piper saw Oswald on the first floor:
Mr. BALL. Was that the last time you saw him?
Mr. PIPER. Just at 12 o'clock.
Mr. BALL. Where were you at 12 o'clock?
Mr. PIPER. Down on the first floor.
At 12:15 and 12:25, coworker Carolyn Arnold (and others) saw Oswald on the bottom floor eating:



In an interview with the journalist Earl Golz in 1978, Carolyn Arnold claimed that
“she saw Oswald in the 2nd–floor lunchroom as she was on her way out of the depository
to watch the presidential motorcade .... She left the building at 12:25pm.”
(Earl Golz, ‘Was Oswald in Window?,’ Dallas Morning News,
26 November 1978, p.13A)
From 12:00 to 12:20, Bonnie Ray Williams was eating his lunch
on the sixth floor where Oswald should have been, but there was no Oswald.
The investigators tried to get Williams to change his story:


At 12:35, right after the assassination
Police Officer Policeman Marrion L. Baker saw Oswald on the bottom floor:




Mr. BELIN - You went up the stairs then?
Mr. BAKER - Yes, sir.
Mr. BELIN - When you started up the stairs what was your intention at that--
Mr. BAKER - My intention was to go all the way to the top where I thought the shots had come from, to see if I could find something there, you know, to indicate that.
Mr. BELIN - And did you go all the way up to the top of the stairs right away?
Mr. BAKER - No, sir; we didn't.
Mr. BAKER - What happened?
Mr. BAKER - As I came out to the second floor there, Mr. Truly was ahead of me, and as I come out I was kind of scanning, you know, the rooms, and I caught a glimpse of this man [OSWALD] walking away from this--I happened to see him through this window in this door. I don't know how come I saw him, but I had a glimpse of him [OSWALD] coming down there.
Mr. DULLES - Where was he coming from, do you know?
Mr. BAKER - No, sir. All I seen of him was a glimpse of him [OSWALD] go away from me.
Mr. BELIN - What did you do then?
Mr. BAKER - I ran on over there
Representative BOGGS -You mean where he was?
Mr. BAKER - Yes, sir. There is a door there with a glass, it seemed to me like about a 2 by 2, something like that, and then there is another door which is 6 foot on over there, and there is a hallway over there and a hallway entering into a lunchroom, and when I got to where I could see him [OSWALD] he was walking away from me about 20 feet away from me in the lunchroom.
Mr. BELIN - What did you do?
Mr. BAKER - I hollered at him at that time and said, "Come here." He [OSWALD] turned and walked right straight back to me.
Mr. BELIN - Where were you at the time you hollered?
Mr. BAKER - I was standing in the hallway between this door and the second door, right at the edge of the second door.
Mr. BELIN - He [OSWALD] walked back toward you then?
Mr. BAKER - Yes, sir.
[cut]
Mr. DULLES - Can I suggest if you will do this, put on there where the officer was and where Lee Oswald was, or the man who turned out to be Lee Oswald, and which direction he was walking in. I think that is quite important.
Mr. BELIN - Yes, sir. We are going to get to that with one more question, if I can, sir. When you saw him, he [OSWALD] then turned around, is that correct, and then walked back toward you?
Mr. BAKER - Yes, sir.
Mr. BELIN - Was he carrying anything in his hands?
Mr. BAKER - He had nothing at that time.
Mr. BELIN - All right. Were you carrying anything in either of your hands?
Mr. BAKER - Yes, sir; I was.
Mr. BELIN - What were you carrying?
Mr. BAKER - I had my revolver out.
Mr. BELIN - When did you take your revolver out?
Mr. BAKER - AS I was starting up the stairway.
[cut]
Representative BOGGS -Were you suspicious of this man?
Mr. BAKER - No, sir; I wasn't.
Representative BOGGS -And he came up to you, did he say anything to you?
Mr. BAKER - Let me start over. I assumed that I was suspicious of everybody because I had my pistol out.
Representative BOGGS -Right.
Mr. BAKER - And as soon as I saw him, I caught a glimpse of him and I ran over there and opened that door and hollered at him.
Representative BOGGS -Right.
Mr. DULLES - He had not seen you up to that point probably?
Mr. BAKER - I don't know whether he had or not.
Representative BOGGS -He came up to you?
Mr. BAKER - Yes, sir; and when I hollered at him he turned around and walked back to me.
Representative BOGGS -Right close to you?
Mr. BAKER - And we were right here at this position 24, right here in this doorway.
Representative BOGGS -Right. What did you say to him?
Mr. BAKER - I didn't get anything out of him. Mr. Truly had come up to my side here, and I turned to Mr. Truly and I says, "Do you know this man, does he work here?" And he said yes, and I turned immediately and went on out up the stairs.
Mr. BELIN - Then you continued up the stairway?
Representative BOGGS -Let me ask one other question. You later, when you recognized this man as Lee Oswald, is that right, saw pictures of him?
Mr. BAKER - Yes, sir. I had occasion to see him in the homicide office later that evening after we got through with Parkland Hospital and then Love Field and we went back to the City Hall and I went up there and made this affidavit.
Representative BOGGS -After he had been arrested?
Mr. BAKER - Yes, sir.


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