THE PLAZA "WITNESS"
"Brennan...appears to be one of those self-promoting bystanders who because of....the need to be associated with some great tragedy -- pretend knowledge of the event when they actually have no information." ( Gerald McKnight, Breach of Trust, pg. 398 )
Placing Oswald on the sixth floor with the rifle in his hands was tantamount to the Commission's proving that he fired the shots at the motorcade in Dealey Plaza. In order to do this, the Warren Report banked heavily on the testimony of a single witness, Howard Leslie Brennan. Brennan was standing at the corner of Houston and Elm facing the Texas Book Depository in Dealey Plaza when JFK was assassinated.
Brennan was the only witness to claim that he saw Lee Harvey Oswald fire from the 6th floor window of the Texas School Book Depository.
The Report stressed that Brennan was in an "excellent position" to observe anyone in the window and was an "accurate observer". It was Brennan's description, the Report said, that went out over the police radio minutes after the assassination.
The Commission had problems trying to establish the fact that Brennan was, in fact, the source of the description of the shooter. Articles began appearing pointing out contradictions in Brennan's testimony as it appeared in the Report. Two weeks after the Report was made public, Commission Head Counsel J. Lee Rankin wrote Hoover twice, on December 2 and again on the 18th, requesting a complete chain "from Brennan to the police dept.". Although they tried, the FBI failed to do so.
BRENNAN'S DESCRIPTION
He described seeing a white man "in his early thirties, fair complexion, slender but neat, possibly 5-foot 10, 160 to 170 pounds, wearing light colored clothes, more of a khaki color."
( 3 H 144-145 )
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