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Goyernment Reaction to Oswald as Assassin- Reflexively Quick
Juxtaposed to the failure to provide any explanation for
the extreme reluctance of the authorities to follow conspiratoria
leads, there is also no satisfactory explanation of why there was
such fast action in wanting Oswald. There was not general roll call
in the Depository, and other employees than Oswald left the
building. Thus, his behavior as a Depository employee did not seem
to distinguish him in any way The alleged eyewitness to the
A
President's assassination, Howard L. Brennan, who was supposed
to have seen Oswald. do the shooting, is hardly a reliable witness
He failed to pick out Oswald in the police line up that day :
(III H 148 Further, if we assume Brennan to have been a creditable
observe, the question remains concerning why after he informed
the pólice, the assassin was in the Book Depository, police
continued to concentrate on the knoll area, and why there was not
immediate action to seal off the Depository.
Further, if there was such prompt action in responding to
Brennan's dexcription of Oswald as being on the sixth floor of
the. School Book Depository, the question arises concerning why
there was such inaction until 1:22 P.M. that the rifle and shells
were not found on the sixth floor until that time.
Similar problems with eyewitness testimony related to the
killing of Officer Tippit fail to inspire confidence in official
honesty. Helen L. Markam, an eyewitness to the Tippit murder,
gave a description of the assassin which didn't fit Oswald.
In addition to Mrs. Markam, the only other witnesses who actually
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