Warren Commission Testimony of
Marrion L. Baker, 3.25.1964
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 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 coming
down there.
...
Mr. BAKER:
Now, through this window you can't see too much but I just caught a glimpse of
him through this window going away from me and as I ran to this door and opened
it, and looked on down in the lunchroom he was on down there about 20 feet so
he was moving about as fast as I was.
Oswald was
"moving about as fast" into the lunchroom as Baker was moving from
the landing just off the stairway to the door? How did that happen?
Baker's
story is that he "ran" to the door in order to go after a man he had
glimpsed "walking away." Yet we are to believe that they covered
about the same distance in the same time—i.e., that Baker running did not cover
more ground than Oswald walking.
Evolution
is not without irony.
From the book Prayer Man: Out of
the Shadows and Into the Light
It's a
nonsensical scenario, said Sean, so nonsensical that one wonders why Baker is
making such a transparently unrealistic claim. Why doesn't he just say that
Oswald was running? Or, alternatively, that Oswald was only a few feet into the
lunchroom by the time he himself opened the door and looked into the lunchroom?
The short answer is Baker has to merge by force two stories that cannot easily
be merged:
1.) I saw a
man walking away (as per Baker's November 22 affidavit).
2.) I saw
Oswald standing by the coke machine (as per a later draft of the story, as told
by [or to?] Roy Truly).
Baker has a
real problem here: his November 22 affidavit talked of "a man walking away
from the stairway." For Oswald, just behind the glass pane, to be
"walking away" in any commonsense meaning of the words, he would need
to be walking into—a wall.
From
Baker's vantage point "A," the lunchroom is sharply off to the left,
not straight ahead—not even close. So Baker, in his Warren Commission
performance, has to split his affidavit's single description of a man
"walking away" into two incidences of walking away.
The result
is an awful mess.
The one
thing Baker desperately needs to say—that his first glimpse of Oswald had him
"walking away from the stairway"—is the one thing the layout of the
landing/door/lunchroom disallows him from saying. And so we get a hesitation
around the words "walking away":
Warren Commission Testimony of
Marrion L. Baker, 3.25.1964
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 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 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 go away from me.
"I
caught a glimpse of this man walking away from this—"…if only Baker could
finish the thought with the one magic word indelibly etched into his mind:
"stairway."
But he
can't, for to do so would be to make a ridiculous claim that would only draw
attention to the discrepancies between his current story and the story told in
his affidavit.
Excruciatingly,
Oswald walking directly away from Baker's position such that Baker can call to
him and have him turn around and come back to where Baker is, has to be held
back until Baker has left the stairway and gone over to the door:
Warren Commission Testimony of
Marrion L. Baker, 3.25.1964
Mr. BAKER:
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 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 turned and
walked right straight back to me.
Baker is
now, at last, giving a story that sounds a little more like his November 22
affidavit story:
Police Officer Marrion Baker's First
Affidavit, 11.22.1963
As we
reached the third or fourth floor I saw a man walking away from the stairway. I
called to that man and he turned around and came back toward me.
But only a
little.
Baker's two
stories—his November 22 affidavit plus his Warren Commission testimony—are
still irreconcilable. Even after the heavy coaching that Baker has been put
through ahead of his Warren Commission appearance (you see much evidence of
this reading his entire WC testimony), we still are being asked to believe that
an indeterminate glimpse of a man moving behind a door located well off the
stairway could be described as a sighting of "a man walking away from the
stairway."
The plain
sense of those words in Baker's November 22 affidavit cannot be ignored: the
man had just left the stairway and was putting distance between it and him.
That's what "walking away from" means, and it's how Baker himself is
using those words in his Warren Commission testimony.
But with
the Warren Commission, all things—including plain, common sense—are ignored if
they don't support First to Second Evolution.
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