The Voice Of Buell Frazier

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An excerpt from the Lone star book that I mentioned in the Pat Hall thread.




THE VOICE OF BUELL WESLEY FRAZIER


“I know you have police out in the hall there, but I can get two
or three good licks on you before they get in here!”


[size=40] W[/size]hile Lee Harvey Oswald was being interrogated by the Dallas Police, the man who had mentored him when he first began working at the Texas School Book Depository and who had occasionally driven him to and from work from the Dallas suburb of Irving was undergoing a police interrogation himself.



Buell Wesley Frazier lived half a block away from where Oswald’s wife and children were staying in Irving. This tall, lanky nineteen-year-old from Huntsville, Texas, had been employed at the Depository only since September of l963. However, he was a quick learner and a patient teacher who enjoyed helping others. Frazier was asked by his supervisor, William Shelley, to mentor Oswald when he began working at the Depository in October 1963.


On the morning of November 22, he drove himself and Oswald to work at the Depository. As far as Frazier knew, it was mere coincidence that Ruth Paine, a neighbor who had befriended Oswald’s wife Marina, lived only a few houses from Frazier’s older sister, Linnie Randle. Paine even offered to let Oswald’s Russian wife and their children stay with her in Irving because,she said, she wanted to improve her Russian language skills. Randle was allowing her younger brother Buell to live with her and her family until he could save enough money to live on his own.


Paine had explained to Randle that Marina Oswald’s husband was looking for work and asked Randle if her brother Buell knew of any openings at the Texas School Book Depository. Through what appears to be an innocent encounter between two neighbors, Oswald was able to obtain work in the same building as Buell Wesley Frazier. Oddly enough, it was Ruth Paine, not Oswald, who directly contacted the Depository and arranged for Oswald’s employment interview. Who knows where Oswald might have been working on November 22, 1963, if Good Samaritan Ruth Paine had not assisted with his employment difficulties.


Though Frazier and Oswald never became close, Frazier was important to Oswald. Unlike Oswald, Frazier had a driver’s license and access to a car, so occasionally he drove Oswald from work to Irving on Friday afternoons so he could spend the weekend with his family. Oswald also rode back to work on Monday mornings with Frazier.


To Be Continued

A time stamp for the apprehension of Frazier at the hospital.

Mick I believe the time LMR arrived was later then 3pm. Frazier let slip in his HSCA interview that Linnie and his mother were home when he arrived after leaving the TSBD. I believe when Oswald was named they took off and eventually Buell (or both) went to the hospital. Buell also said in his HSCA interview that the cops visited his mother after he left. He claimed there that she told them he was at the hospital.

As for Adamcik below is the relevant page of his report of the day. Strangely no mention of LMR. That encounter appears in the joint report that I believe was written by Rose and Stovall.

When you read that report it seems like they frame shifted an hour or so to all the times. Who think that when LMR rolled up she had just left Buell? My point in this is, who mentioned the package first? The existence of CE142 as a possible gun wrapper was known sometime between 2pm and 3pm. Was that information passed through to the Paine's? Were the women asked about a package at that time?

The relevant section from the Rose Stovall Adamcik Report.



Seems LMR was suspicious, strange as she was aware that Lee was supposedly on an unusual mission to pick up curtain rods. Seems like both brother and sister had memory loss that morning.

Colin_Crow wrote:Mick I believe the time LMR arrived was later then 3pm. Frazier let slip in his HSCA interview that Linnie and his mother were home when he arrived after leaving the TSBD. I believe when Oswald was named they took off and eventually Buell (or both) went to the hospital. Buell also said in his HSCA interview that the cops visited his mother after he left. He claimed there that she told them he was at the hospital.

As for Adamcik below is the relevant page of his report of the day. Strangely no mention of LMR. That encounter appears in the joint report that I believe was written by Rose and Stovall.

When you read that report it seems like they frame shifted an hour or so to all the times. Who think that when LMR rolled up she had just left Buell? My point in this is, who mentioned the package first? The existence of CE142 as a possible gun wrapper was known sometime between 2pm and 3pm. Was that information passed through to the Paine's? Were the women asked about a package at that time?

Thanks for this Colin,

I'll have to go back and have a re-read of the Where's your Rider thread. That has all of the relevant docs in the thread.
I do remember finding something which supported the scenario of LMR meeting with Police earlier than Adamcik suggests in his report. I'll try and dig all those docs up and post here.

Why would Wesley be confused about what he did after leaving the TSBD? Why would he misremember what he did immediately after the assassination? Why would LMR confuse the hospital when she informed Police where Buell was located?

As I have said before why would she insist on a large sack, carton or package carried by Oswald when the evidence points to him not having done that.
Is it merely CYA or something else?


If Linnie Mae went to the Hospital to visit the Stepfather, did she end up going to Parkland by mistake? I find it inconceivable that LMR would not know which hospital the stepfather was in. He'd been in there for about a week if memory serves. 
You raise valid points Colin and I'll see if I can't get to the bottom of most of them. I'm curious again.

Part of that video was an excerpt from the 1964 documentary “Four Days in November” which shows the view the assassin had of Elm St. and described it as “excellent”.

However, the view presented was filmed from ... the Dal-Tex building.

Something wrong with that picture eh Mick?

He was a kid who understood mob mentality and how to keep his mouth shut. I think he still does.

Exactly Mick. He seems to have no love lost for his step father. Quite a miserable childhood he seems to have had.

I wonder if anyone from the hospital has ever confirmed any of that happened.

Exactly Mick. Something quite fishy.

Most people in cars had the radio on and were in a mad rush to get to a place they could watch TV. But Buel decided to go out of his way to make his mom happy. Maybe on a different day.

For his own peace of mind, Frazier located a rifle with a serial number only a few digits off from the serial number on the rifle Oswald was accused of using to kill the President. He dismantled it and wrapped it in brown paper so he and his sister could compare the size with the way they remembered Oswald’s package looking on that Friday.


“It was obviously still too long,” he said. “Lee could not have carried even a dismantled rifle like that one under his arm.” Frazier’s sister agreed.

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SO... begs the questions did this happen on 11/22 with a Enfield of Buells... so Buell was off the hook if they agreed on a too short size for the Enfield