Witnesses @ Dealey Plaza that should have gone to the lineups.
Roger Craig was a well respected Deputy Sheriff at the time of the assassination.
He had been named Man of the Year in 1960 and had a successful career, promoted four times up until 1967.
He was on duty in Dealey plaza on Nov. 22nd and saw a man that looked like Lee Harvey Oswald running from the scene.
Craig's testimony on April 1, 1964 is consistent with his original written statement to the Sheriff's Dept. on Nov 23, 1963.
Mr. BELIN - All right. Your heard someone whistle?
Mr. CRAIG - Yes. So I turned and--uh-saw a man start to run down the hill on the north side of Elm Street, running down toward Elm Street.
Mr. BELIN - And, about where was he with relation to the School Book Depository Building?
Mr. CRAIG - Uh--directly across that little side street that runs in front of it, He was on the south side of it.
Mr. BELIN - And he was on the south side of what would be an extension of Elm Street, if Elm Street didn't curve down into the underpass?
Mr. CRAIG - Eight; right,
Mr. BELIN - And where was he with relation to the west side of the School Book Depository Building?
Mr. CRAIG - Right by the--uh--well, actually, directly in line with the west corner--the southwest corner,
Mr. BELIN - He was directly in line with the southwest corner of the building?
Mr. CRAIG - Yes,
Mr. BELIN - And he was on the south curve of that street that runs right in front of the building there?
Mr. CRAIG - Yes,
Mr. BELIN - And he started to run toward Elm Street as it curves under the underpass?
Mr. CRAIG - Yes ; directly down the grassy portion of the park,
Mr. BELIN - All right. And then what did you see happen?
Mr. CRAIG - I saw a light-colored station wagon, driving real slow, coming west on Elm Street from Houston.
Uh-- actually, it was nearly in line with him. And the driver was leaning to his right looking up the hill at the man running down.
Mr. BELIN - Uh-huh.
Mr. CRAIG - And the station wagon stopped almost directly across from me. And--uh--the man continued down the hill and got in the station wagon.
And I attempted to cross the street. I wanted to talk to both of them. But the---uh--traffic was so heavy I couldn't get across the street.
And--uh--they were gone before I could---
Mr. BELIN - Where did the station wagon head?
Mr. CRAIG - West on Elm Street.
Mr. BELIN - Under the triple underpass?
Mr. CRAIG - Yes.
Mr. BELIN - Could you describe the man that you saw running down toward the station wagon?
Mr. CRAIG - Oh, he was a white male in his twenties, five nine, five eight, something like that; about 140 to 150;
had kind of medium brown sandy hair--you know, it was like it'd been blown--you know, he'd been in the wind or something--
it was all wild-looking; had on--uh--blue trousers--
Mr. BELIN - What shade of blue? Dark blue, medium or light?
Mr. CRAIG - No; medium, probably; I'd say medium. And, a--uh--light tan shirt, as I remember it.
Mr. BELIN - Anything else about him?
Mr. CRAIG - No; nothing except that he looked like he was in an awful hurry.
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Roger Craig 11/23/63 Sheriff’s Report
"About this time I heard a shrill whistle and I turned around and saw a white male running down the hill from the direction of the Texas School Book Depository
building and I saw what I think was a light colored Rambler station wagon with a luggage rack on top pull over to the curb and the subject who had come
running down the hill got into the car.
I reported this incident at once to a secret service officer whose name I do not know, then I left this area and went at once to the building and assisted
in the search of the building. Later that afternoon, I went to the City Hall and identified the suspect they had in custody as being the same person
I saw running down this hill and get into the station wagon and leave the scene."
Helen Forrest witnessed the same scene Roger Craig did but from the opposite side of the street.
Forrest told historian Michael Kurtz she was on the incline by the grassy knoll, when she "saw a man suddenly run from the rear of the Depository building,
down the incline, and then enter a Rambler station wagon." Like Roger Craig, Helen Forrest was clear in identifying the running man.
"If it wasn't Oswald," she said, "it was his identical twin."
Another witness, Marvin C. Robinson, stated that approximately between 12:30-1:00, sometime after the shooting just after passing
the Elm and Houston intersection (traveling west on Elm, just in front of the TSBD), “…a light colored Nash station wagon suddenly appeared before him.
He stated that this vehicle stopped and a white male came down the grass covered in line between the building and the street and entered
the station wagon after which it drove away in the direction of the Oak Cliff section of Dallas.”
Still another witness; Roy Cooper.
Here we have 4 witnesses that saw the same thing --2 of the witnesses are able to confirm the man as the suspect.
Yet nothing is done, these people were not called to the lineups, and witnesses were not called before the commission.
Compelling evidence. The authorities provide the manipulation and exclusion of witnesses.
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Something very interesting beyond the lineups is when Craig goes back to Fritz's office.
There is the man he had seen earlier, but more peculiar is the mention of Mrs. Paine. Mr. CRAIG - I drove up to Fritz' office about, oh, after 5--about 5:30 or something like that--and--uh--talked to Captain Fritz and told him what I had saw.
And he took me in his office---I believe it was his office---it was a little office, and had the suspect setting in a chair behind a desk---
beside the desk. And another gentleman, I didn't know him, he was sitting in another chair to my left as I walked in the office.
And Captain Fritz asked me was this the man I saw--and I said, "Yes," it was.
Mr. BELIN - All right.
Will you describe the man you saw in Captain Fritz' office?
Mr. CRAIG - Oh, he was sitting down but--uh--he had the same medium brown hair; it was still--well, it was kinda wild looking; he was slender, and--uh--
what 1 could toll of him sitting there, he was--uh---short. By that, I mean not--myself, I'm five eleven--he was shorter than I was. And--uh--fairly light build.
Mr. BELIN - Could you see his trousers?
Mr. CRAIG - No; I couldn't see his trousers at all.
Mr. BELIN - What about his shirt?
Mr. CRAIG - I believe, as close as I can remember, a T-shirt--a white T-shirt.
Mr. BELIN - All right. But you didn't see him in a lineup? You just saw him sitting there?
Mr. CRAIG - No; he was sitting there by himself in a chair--off to one side.
Mr. BELIN - All right. Then, what did Captain Fritz say and what did you say and what did the suspect say?
Mr. CRAIG - Captain Fritz then asked him about the---uh---he said, "What about this station wagon?"
And the suspect interrupted him and said, "That station wagon belongs to Mrs. Paine"---I believe is what he said. "Don't try to tie her into this.
She had nothing to do with it." And--uh--Captain Fritz then told him, as close as I can remember, that, "All we're trying to do is find out what happened,
and this man saw you leave from the scene." And the suspect again interrupted Captain Fritz and said, "I told you people I did." And--uh--yeah--then,
he said--then he continued and he said, "Everybody will know who I am now." And he was leaning over the desk. At this time, he had risen partially
out of the chair and leaning over the desk, looking directly at Captain Fritz.
That station wagon and what people saw of it in Dealey Plaza can have a thread of it's own, this is about the lineups.
Roger Craig, Helen Forrest and Marvin Robinson should have been called to the DPD lineups to identify the man they saw leave the scene.
Once again, the fact that they weren't brings considerable suspicion and doubt regarding the official narrative and the way evidence was handled in this case.