Subject: Harold Norman...not interviewed at all til 11-26
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 05:19:56 GMT
From: barb_j@ix.netcom.com (Barb Junkkarinen)
Organization: Netcom
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.assassination.jfk

Harold Norman was not even interviewed
until Nov 26th.....and that was by the FBI. Jarman and Williams made
handwritten statements on 11-22, Jarman gave an affidavit that was
notarized on 11-23 as well.

 At any rate, in his 11/26
statement, Norman made NO mention of having heard the pinging shells
and the cycling of the rifle. He told the FBI that after the first
shot:

"...he stuck his head from the window and looked upward toward the
roof but
could see nothing because small particles of dirt were falling from
above him. He stated two additional shots were fired after he had
pulled his head back in from the window." (CD5p26)

There were witnesses on the street who reported seeing two men
sticking
their heads out of the window and looking up. Note also, that in this
statement, Norman has the debris falling from a source
*outside*...NOT from the ceiling inside.

It was over a week after the FBI interview that Norman was interviewed
by
the Secret Service (SS491). It was in *that* interview that Norman's
tale
of hearing the shells and rifle *first surfaced*. To the SS he stated:

"I knew that the shots had come from directly above me, and I could
hear
the expended cartridges fall to the floor. I could also hear the bolt
action of the rifle. I also saw some dust fall from the ceiling of the
fifth floor and I felt sure that whoever had fired the shots was
directly
above me". (CD87)

By the time he appeared before the WC on March 24, 1964, he then
remembered
*saying* to the others at the time that he heard the shell and rifle
sounds
from above, he denied seeing any falling dust but said he saw some in
Williams' hair, and didn't remember ever putting his head out the
window
nor the falling dirt that he had told the FBI about.(3H191-196)

Ahem.

Barb :-)