The floor installation project on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository

The official story is that on the day of President Kennedy’s assassination, the new plywood flooring on the sixth floor of the TSBD was being installed by the TSBD warehouse workers. The following reasons are why this was a LIE to cover up for the presence of actual floor installers; and that one of them (Herbert Leon Lee) was almost certainly the sniper/assassin. Note: Screenshots were posted for this article on my X/Twitter timeline.

1). Roy S. Truly, the superintendent of the TSBD, told the FBI when he was interviewed on the day of the assassination that the previous tenant of the TSBD building had left the floors of the building soaked with oil, and that this oil was “damaging” the stock of the TSBD, which of course were schoolbooks. He also said that the TSBD had occupied the building “for only a few months” and in order to fix the problem, new sheets of plywood were being installed.

Truly said the new plywood was being installed by “the regular warehouse employees WHENEVER THEY HAD SLACK PERIODS OF WORK” (emphasis mine). This doesn’t make sense. If Truly and the TSBD company were really concerned about the stock being damaged, then why the heck weren’t professional floor installers brought in to install the new plywood as quickly as possible? This is red flag #1. Note how Truly also didn’t name any of the “regular warehouse employees” who were supposedly installing the new plywood.

2). The six workers who were supposedly installing the new plywood were Bonnie Ray Williams, Billy Nolan Lovelady, Charles Douglas Givens, Danny Garcia Arce, Jack Edwin Dougherty, and their supervisor/manager: William Hoyt Shelley. However, not one of them mentioned anything about installing the new plywood on the sixth floor in their affidavits and their interviews with the FBI on the day of the assassination.

Granted, it's not like they had to specifically mention that they were installing the plywood, but you would think that at least ONE OF THEM (out of six men) would have mentioned it. The first mention comes from Bonnie Ray Williams THE NEXT DAY after the assassination. Please read the post below for all the problems with William’s story. The lack of mention by any of them on the day of the assassination is red flag #2.

3). If the floor installation was apparently so urgent that five workers and their supervisor/manager(!) were supposedly installing the new plywood on the day of the assassination, it begs the question of why this wasn’t completed much sooner than the day President Kennedy’s motorcade passed by the building? This goes against Roy Truly claiming that the plywood was being installed by “the regular warehouse employees whenever they had slack periods of work.” This is red flag #3.

(All of the above was discussed in the book “JFK Assassination: The Real Culprit” but here’s some more information to think about).

 4). When Bonnie Ray Williams was interviewed by the Secret Service in December 1963, he accidentally gave it away that they were not installing the new plywood floor: “Williams was one of the employees who had moved boxes of books on the sixth floor on the morning of November 22, 1963, in connection with clearing an area PREPARATORY TO LAYING THE NEW FLOOR” (emphasis mine).

In other words, they were moving (and stacking) the boxes of books during the morning of the assassination in preparation for the plywood to be installed! Roy Truly was also interviewed by the Secret Service, but again, he didn’t name the TSBD workers who were supposedly laying/installing the new plywood floor.

5). When Roy Truly testified before the Warren Commission, he was asked if he was “familiar with the fact that they had moved books in the process of laying that floor?” Truly’s response was “I knew they had to. I didn’t know where they moved them particularly until that time. I DON’T SUPPOSE I HAD BEEN UP ON THAT FLOOR IN SEVERAL DAYS” (emphasis mine).

Really? The man who was the superintendent of the building where a new plywood floor was being installed to take care of the so-called oil damage problem to the stock of the company he worked for, didn’t bother to go and check on the progress of the floor installation project for himself? That doesn’t make sense.

Although the aforementioned mentioned TSBD workers would testify to the Warren Commission that they were installing/laying the new plywood, this was a lie to cover-up for the presence of actual floor installers. They were just moving and stacking boxes of books on the sixth floor in preparation for the floor installation, because Roy Truly probably told them that floor installers were scheduled to come in. I think Herbert Leon Lee and his friend James Douglas Watson got there around 12 pm…