Patricia Puckett-Hall's recollections
(Gladys Johnson's grand daughter)
It's time to look at a video I've had bookmarked for a while concerning the memories of the current*) owner of 1026 North Beckley, a descendant of the Johnsons.
It's a prime example of how lies of the Warren Commission are still passed on as fact and how memories and hear-say from an 11-year-old shouldn't be considered facts.
Below are my comments referring the minutes of the video; if you've been following this thread you should have no problems understanding my comments/objections.
00:20
"LHO was a roomer of this house..." -- highly questionable.
00:40
"...where he would grab the bus every morning to go to work..." -- sorry, there isn't a shred of evidence that LHO ever took the Beckley bus, or any other bus, to work.
01:20
Actually a fair objection by TM considering, as Buell Frazier has repeatedly told, his car was unreliable...
03:20
11 years old in 1963.
03:40
"During the school year it was required that we came here so that my grand mother could make sure that we got out homework done..." -- So, hung out after school and doing homework; picked up by mother later. BUT, how does Pat's grand mother, who manages her restaurant, check on them when she's not at the rooming house? (hint: housekeeper)
04:00
Mother's studio (photographer) was on Jefferson Ave, across from the Texas Theatre!
04:20
The southern style "Mr. Lee" thing...I seriously doubt she ever saw anything signed by "Mr. Lee", but her story makes it even more unbelievable that Roberts/Johnson checked a year back for a Lee Harvey Oswald, likely at the dining table or in the sofa, having a "Mr Lee" currently occupying a room next to them, physically, and nobody makes the O. H. Lee vs. Lee Harvey Oswald connection? Add to this that Earlene Roberts no more that one hour earlier saw "Mr Lee" rush into his room and leaving within 2-3 minutes, something she never before experienced!
05:15
Living in the house, "Llots of men...!" -- Interesting, that was the first thing that came to her mind. But her routine apparently didn't change after Oswald officially was appointed assassin of JFK (and a cop killer) who registered under a false name. No worries!
05:20
Rooming house vs. boarding house...
05:35
So, rooming house with no kitchen privileges -- OOPS! Except for Mr. Lee, according to Gladys Johnson herself!
05:43
How big was the house in 1963, "in 1963 my grand mother had 18 bedrooms to this house" -- Mr. Johnson's count was 17 and managed to fit 11 of them in the basement(!); Gladys Johnson arrived at 22 in total, meaning that some 6 rooms were not for rent. If all were supposed to be in the main house something doesn't add up according to the floor plan...
05:53
How many of them were filled? "All of them...it was rare for, um, there to be a single room for more that a week". -- So, let's compare this to Gladys Johnson's estimate:
Do you believe a 50-year-old memory of an 11-year-old girl or the fresh memory of the 60-year-old homeowner, although Earlene Roberts claimed Gladys didn't know what vacancies she had? It's your call!
06:15
Only one room vacant when Mr. Lee showed up, the smallest one.
06:50
Details concerning Mr. Lee...
07:20
She had two brothers, 10 and 6, mostly interacting with Mr. Lee, her not so much.
07:45
Details RE mother working three jobs (interesting) so the kids often stayed into the evenings.
08:00
Mr. Lee in the evenings...loosely the routine told by Earlene Roberts, except he spent time with Pat's brothers! (see below).
08:10
Come out and watch a little T.V. Unfortunately, TM throws a lot of stuff at her she can just latch on to as she pleases. Roberts/Johnson are all over the place RE Mr. Lee's T.V. habits:
08:30
Roomers out in the back, so who was in the basement?
08:45
"...and then there's a front bedroom that's just right across from us so these two had the most accessible, um, rooms to the front door." -- Makes sense if she's referring to the #1 room on the floor plan also having french door. I'll bet Mrs. Gage occupied the #2 bedroom having a proper door and a smallish storage room accessible from within the bedroom.
09:00
"But any time my brothers and I and Mr. Lee was here on the same time, he would stop anything he was doing and would play with my brothers..." -- Well, doesn't sound exactly like the antisocial Mr. Lee described by Earlene Roberts and the Johnsons!
09:30
The anecdote about Lee giving the brothers a lecture...about two weeks before the assassination.
11:20
The day of the assassination the kids were at school so no first hand account of what happened at the rooming house.
11:50
Pat's mother actually witnessed "them" arresting Lee...
12:00
Q: "She recognized him as beeing Lee from the rooming house?"
A: "She recognized him as being a roomer...she didn't put a name to him"
LHO being rushed out of the TT into a car gave the mother how many seconds to recognize him? I'll call BS on that one.
12:30
The continuation becomes pretty interesting...the mother allegedly calls Gladys and is told the police and the FBI are there...Gladys, to the effect: "Well, the police and the FBI are here and they're in Mr. Lee's room!" --Actually lines up with the timeline provided by Roberts/Johnsons which is devastating to the WC as the 1026 address wasn't supposed to be known prior to LHO's arrest.
13:10
Mother closes studio, picks up kids from school and goes home.
14:10
Pat et al. usually not at the rooming house on Saturdays.
15:00
The shooting of LHO on TV at Pat's home. One of the brothers recognizes Mr. Lee. -- Really?
16:30
Pat's assessment of Mr. Lee...good with kids etc., doesn't fit a killer.
18:05
"So there were absolutely no red flags".
18:10
Saw him every day, except weekends, for six weeks. -- Well, did she really? He wouldn't arrive home until 5:00 to 5:30 p.m. so unless the mother worked late hours she would have picked up the kids before Mr. Lee was back. Also, kids don't count weeks and she would have had no reason to take notes of when he showed up.
18:30
Being around roomers coming and going, but, again, not a single word about being around the housekeeper who was there 24/7.
21:10
Mr. Lee chilling on the front porch in the evenings...totally in conflict with the Roberts/Johnsons account!
21:30
One more go at the lecture anecdote...
CONCERNS & CONCLUSIONS
A number of things raises my concerns as to the credibility of Oswald being the Room Zero Guy as she insists, and the whole setup in general.
What bothers me most is what she does not tell: why is the housekeeper not mentioned with a single word? If her grand mother ran a restaurant it had to be the housekeeper who kept an eye on Pat and her brothers when they returned from school. Up until the assassination, for approximately one year, it would have been Earlene Roberts and prior to that Mrs. Gage. Since Pat usually didn't fool around with her brothers she most likely would have engaged in more girly activities with the housekeeper. Earlene Roberts was super talkative and never had kids herself (to her sorrow) so she would likely have been interested in the grand daughter coming over after school. Even if ER wasn't the sharpest tool, she must have assisted with homework etc. and left some kind of impression. There would have been ongoing tensions between her grand mother and Earlene Roberts, eventually resulting in her dismissal. All we hear is the one-happy-family thing, I'm not buying it.
Pat claimed her mother rarely had vacancies, which supports the official story of Oswald got the last vacant room, whereas Gladys Johnson claims she rarely DIDN'T have vacancies, which would make it the exception that Oswald was offered Room Zero. Gladys not bringing the register to back up her story defies belief. There's no way of knowing which of the stories is fake.
Pat would have a strong economical interest in keeping the myth alive when selling the house. Imagine the price tag of a kind of run down rooming house on a random street in Dallas with no provenience vs. an important historic building.
I have no doubt that Pat was heavily groomed to believe that Room Zero Dude was Oswald as it was in everyone's interest to just move on and forget about the whole deal. IMO, nothing in her story can negate the red flags I've raised so far concerning "Oswald's" rooming house -- and there will be more as the thread develops.
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*) Possibly, the house was up for sale in 2013.