Shelley & Truly and the second floor lunch room encounter

This is an addendum to my post from May 25 2022 The Destruction of Lee Oswald’s Alibi & The Invention of the Second Floor Lunchroom Encounter.

So I have been using Claude, and feed it with all possible documentation and make it play devil’s advocate to show where the mistakes lie or better yet what is missing. And this is where it becomes interesting as you just keep feeding ‘the machine’ with all possible info and just drop all documentation, photos and videos in there and then come across something, better yet ‘been given something’ where you just have to say thank you Claude.

This is about Bill Shelley’s and Roy Truly’s affidavits, its content and the timings thereof.

Shelley’s second handwritte affidavit mentions  Lee Harvey Oswald’s lunch habits
“Lee would bring his lunch & usually eat with us in the lounge & read the paper.”
Shelley’s own handwritten affidavit on November 22 describes Oswald’s regular lunch habit as eating in the lounge, the domino room on the first floor. This is Shelley’s baseline description of where Oswald ate. It directly corroborates Oswald’s own account of eating on the first floor.

“I Ask Mr. Truly About Him & He Told Me He Had Not Seen Him”
After the shooting, Shelley asked Truly about Oswald. Truly told Shelley he had not seen Oswald.
This second handwritten affidavit is from November 22, 1963, the same day as the Pinkston memo claiming Truly had seen Oswald in the second floor snack bar. If Truly had encountered Oswald in the lunchroom minutes after the shooting, why did he tell Shelley he had not seen him?

There are only two possibilities:

1/ Truly lied to Shelley on November 22 about not having seen Oswald, while simultaneously telling Pinkston he had seen Oswald in the second floor lunch room.

2/ The Pinkston memo’s second floor encounter account was not what Truly actually told Pinkston on November 22.

One of these statements is false. And I like to point out that Shelley’s is contemporaneous, signed, and has no motive for fabrication.

The more parsimonious explanation is that Truly had not seen Oswald — which is what he told Shelley — and the Pinkston memo’s second floor snack bar account either misrepresents what Truly said, or records something Truly said that was itself inaccurate reconstruction rather than genuine recollection.

Shelley’s November 22 signed affidavit is a document that most directly falsifies the foundation of the entire second floor lunchroom encounter narrative.