Warren Burroughs was assistant manager of the Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff. John Brewer, the manager of Hardy's Shoe Store, saw a man acting strangely outside his shop: "The police cars were racing up and down Jefferson with their sirens blasting and it appeared to me that this guy was hiding from them. He waited until there was a break in the activity and then he headed west until he got to the Texas Theatre."
Brewer went into the theatre and spoke to Burroughs about this suspicious character. Burroughs had seen him enter the balcony of the theatre. When the police arrived Brewer accompanied the officers into the cinema where he pointed out the man he had seen acting in a suspicious manner. After a brief struggle, Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested.
Burroughs claimed that Oswald entered the Texas Theatre just after 1.00. He also testified that Oswald came downstairs and purchased some popcorn at 1.15. This information caused problems for the Warren Commission as it was claimed that J. D. Tippit had been shot at 1.16.
This is the first account that requires a 'second Oswald' in order to be true.
Then there was Bernie Haire.
Bernie Haire of Bernie's Hobby House, two doors east of the theater went outside when he saw police cars congregating. When he couldn't see what was happening because of the crowd he went to the alley out back. It too was full of police cars. "stopped outside the rear door and witnessed what he thought for decades was the arrest of Oswald" "brought a young white man out … put him in a police car and drove off." Told in 1987 Oswald had been taken out the front entrance he was shocked.
A second account that requires a 'second Oswald' in order to be true.
On their face, these accounts sound like the preposterous ravings of crazed conspiracy theorists.
What if I told you that Jean Souetre was a French mercenary and former member of OAS?
What if I told you that In 1977, the publication 7 of a CIA document mentions his presence in Dallas on Friday.November 22, 1963?
What if I told you that this document was in response to a request from the French government, which was concerned about the whereabouts of Souetre because French President deGaulle was to make some public appearances and they suspected Souetre in a prior attempt on deGaule's life?
What if I told you that eighteen hours after the death of President Kennedy, a Frenchman was arrested and then expelled from the United States. The note specifies: "the subject is suspected of being a captain deserter from the French army and militant of the OAS"?
What if I showed you these side-by-side photos of a man named Jean Souetre (left) and Lee Oswald (right), taken shortly after his arrest?
Now how crazy would the accounts of Burroughs and Haire be?