Questions for Wesley Frazier

Wesley Frazier is scheduled to be interviewed by the Sixth Floor Museum on June 12, to my understanding. I've drafted a list of some suggested questions, as a supplement to whatever Gary Mack is planning to ask him. I'm going to e-mail this list to Gary by the end of May, at the latest. Feel free to add to it, or perhaps comment on how I might more "gingerly" phrase my questions.

- Eddie Shields was part of the skeleton crew, 3 or 4 guys, who worked down at the Houston Street warehouse, beside the employee parking lot. Shields told the HSCA that he recalled, on the morning of November 22nd, that once you'd parked your car, somebody hollered out at you, "Where's your rider?" And that you answered, "I dropped him off at the building."

How do you explain this? Did you or did you not drop Oswald off at the Book Depository that morning, before you parked your car?

- Were you the one who actually brought a long package into the Book Depository that morning?

- Did you bring in your Enfield rifle to work that morning?

- Shields stated that he thought Oswald rode with you to work every day. James Jarman also told the HSCA that you always brought Oswald to work. Did you ever pick Oswald up at his rooming house? Swing by Oak Cliff on your way to the Depository?

Did Oswald stay in Irving with his wife Marina more than just on weekends?

-You told HSCA investigators Jack Moriarty and Maxwell Day that you were "very good friends" with two of the lead escort motorcyclists in the motorcade. How did you get to such good friends in such a short time, seeing as you had only moved up from Huntsville at the beginning of September?

While you were on the front steps, watching the motorcade approaching, these lead escorts- as they rounded that hairpin turn onto Elm Street- they made their motorcycles backfire? You could hear them go "pop- pop", vaguely like the sound of gunfire?

Do you think they were just clowning around? Or might there have been something more sinister to it?

- From the front landing, when the shooting started, did it seem that any shots came from the Dal-Tex Building, or any of the other buildings on Houston Street?

- After the shooting, you said you went down to the curb in front of the steps? And you noticed a military person you had seen the day before? Was he in uniform, or in plainclothes?

And he was shouting at some cop that he'd just had his wallet stolen? Don't you think he was trying to divert the policeman's attention?

And did it seem to you, when the President was shot, that the military person knew it was coming?

And you remarked to the HSCA investigators, that the assassination- the whole operation- it seemed like a military experience?

- You spent the last 10 minutes of your lunch break in the basement. Was anybody else down there at this time, about 12:35- 12:45?

The power went out on the passenger elevator, in the front of the building, about 12:40. And shortly thereafter it went out on the freight elevators. How do you explain this?

The 440-Volt electrical box that controlled the elevators was down in the basement. Did you or did you not shut off the power to those elevators?

Who told you to shut them off? Whose orders were you following?

- Your stepfather, David Williams, was an alcoholic. He was abusive to you at times, while you were growing up? He was a big reason why you left Huntsville?

At the end of October, shortly after he & your mom came up for a stay at the Randle home in Irving, he had another heart attack and had to be hospitalized? So he had already been in the hospital about a month by the time of the assassination?

You had already visited him there, before November 22nd? And you had no particularly compelling family reason for seeing him there, on November 22nd? Isn't that right?

Because once you were dismissed from work that afternoon, around 1:30, you went straight home to your sister's, to Linnie Mae Randle's home, didn't you? You didn't go to the hospital until around 5 o'clock, isn't that right?

Will you tell us what you did with yourself, what you and your sister did, that afternoon of November 22nd?

Did anyone phone you with some information? About Oswald supposedly carrying a paper package to your house that morning? That you were supposedly now eyewitnesses to?

- You were kept past midnight at the Dallas police station on the 22nd. They gave you a polygraph exam? Was it just the examiner in the room? Do you recall whether other detectives were present?

They showed you a bag, made from heavy brown paper? And you told them you'd never seen it before? That the bag Oswald had brought to work was made of crinkly brown paper?

So why did you testify to the Warren Commission that the bag Oswald brought in was like the heavy-duty bags you'd find in a grocery store?

Do you recall any further questions from that polygraph exam? Any idea why the Dallas police would keep those test results hidden?

Did you pass the test?

- During your HSCA interview, you told the investigators that you were put in a police line-up with Oswald. About what time of night did this take place? Was it before or after you were called back to the station to take a polygraph?

You told the HSCA that Oswald remarked then that he "owned Dallas." That he said to you, "You drove the car." Do you remember anything else about what went on during that line-up?

- What can you tell us about Jack Dougherty? Was he a bit of a mental case? A big guy with the brains of a brontosaurus?

Did he seem like he'd do anything for Roy Truly? That Truly was his puppet-master?

Did he act like he knew something about the assassination, that nobody else knew?

What do you think he knew? What do you think he might have done that day?

Richard,

These are some great questions. Not that Gary Mack actually has the courage to ask Frazier any of them. I'm still waiting for a reply to the 15 questions I asked Mack on my blog. Jim Di even mentioned it during one of his black op radio interviews.

In the PM I sent you, I wanted to know if it was ok for me to use your name in my essay. The reason I am asking again is because I wasn't sure if you had actually received the PM. Please let me know if it is ok.

Two questions I would like to ask is whether or not he ever took Oswald to the Sports drome rifle range; as Garland Slack said he did, and whether or not he was friends with John Crawford who was allegedly a friend of Jack Ruby?

Richard,

I don't think there is any "gingerly" way that some of those questions can be asked.

I do think all questions on bags, lunch-time eating places, relationship with sister and step-dad, why he visited his step-dad that day, why he was not offered work with Irving Table Tops, and where he usually dropped Oswald off at work - and how often - are all very pertinent questions that need to be - scream out to be - asked.

I have questions that I doubt anyone who has access to Frazier would ask, and if they did he wouldn't answer.
Which is sad. His story makes me sad.


"I know there is someone out there who really knows the true story about who did what, and I don't want any harm to come to my family". ~ Buell Wesley Frazier.

I want to know who he thinks will harm his family, why he thinks someone would harm his family. What, if anything has been said to Frazier to make him think his family would be harmed. What he thinks the true story is.
http://www.primecollective.com/buell-frazier/

Frankie,

Here are the contact details for the photo-journalist who did the story:

http://www.melanieburford.com/contact.html

Maybe you could drop her a line? Maybe she got some sense of what he meant, or he may have even said something "off camera" which was more specific?

Thanks!

You're welcome, Frankie. Let us know how you go.

I will. I have sent Mel a short message asking for more info about the interview, specifically the quote above about fearing for his family and will post any reply I get here.

Gary Mack informed me that the interview of Wesley Frazier would be conducted by associate curator Stephen Fagin, who's head of the Oral History Project. He said he'd forward my questions to him for consideration, but cautioned that the C-Span interview is geared toward a general audience, and not intended to be an investigation or cross-examination.

It should air in about a month. The weblink is http://www.c-span.org/History

Just a p.s. I asked that reporter about what BWF meant and I got no answer.