On Tuesday, November 7, 2023 at 1:36:57 PM UTC-5, Donald Willis wrote:
FBI 62-109090 (courtesy of Mary Ferrell) reports that "Patterson did identify Oswald and also SAW HIM DISCARD HIS ZIPPER JACKET". If true, Patterson did not, for some reason, help police find the jacket, which was not reported discovered until about 10
minutes after the shooting. If he knew where it was, he could have found it in jig time, and at least pointed it out earlier.
He didn't help them find the jacket or point out its location because he never saw the jacket discarded.
An FBI report on his interview dated 1-22-64, makes no mention that he witnessed it.
It states:
"...the individual made a turn in a northerly direction, and proceeded behind Ballew's Texaco Service Station, where the individual discarded a jacket which
was later recovered by the Dallas Police Department." ( Patterson Exhibit A, 21 H 25 )
https://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh21/html/WH_Vol21_0025a.htm
It never said that he SAW the jacket discarded.
Seven months later, the FBI added as a note to the bottom of the document you cite ( 62-109090, Sec. 18, pg. 109 ) that Patterson "SAW him discard his jacket."
That document is dated 8/24/64.
The FBI also said that Patterson was shown a picture of Oswald during that 1/22 interview and identified him as th man he saw. ( Patterson Exhibit A, 21 H 25 )
The next day, 8/25/64, the FBI re-interviewed Patterson. He said that he was never shown a picture of Oswald in that 1/22 interview and could not state that he "idenified Oswald at that time."
https://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh21/html/WH_Vol21_0026a.htm
The following day, 8/26/64, the FBI re-interviewed Patterson. He was shown two pictures, Oswald's Dallas mugshot and one of the "backyard" photos of him with the rifle ( 21 H 28 )
and Lo and Behold, he identified Oswald as the man he saw. He signed an affidavit saying that he was not shown a picture of Oswald on 1-22 and asked that that paragraph be stricken from the public record.
( 15 H 745 )
Again, he makes no mention in either the 8/25 or 8/26 interviews of seeing the jacket discarded, a strange occurrance because even if he didn't mention it,
you'd think that the FBI would have asked him about it.
Patterson was never called to give testimony by the Warren Commission.
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