Both insisted Oswald's parcel was a good eight inches shorter than the disassembled Mannlicher-Carcano. LEWISVILLE, Texas - Buell Frazier wants to tell it like it is - or was - on a very important day in US history 45 years ago in Dallas. Kelsey Grammer, who starred as radio host Frasier Crane, continues to act in both television and in film. "Superman"star Christopher Reeve, who died at 52 in 2004, called in to discuss his agoraphobia. Buell said Dallas police instructed managers at the depository to gather all the employees for a roll call. He was 5 years old. Sadly, Mahoney diedin 2018 at age 77, with TMZ later revealing the cause of death to be lung cancer, brain disease, and seizures. Four co-workers stated this, in my article the HSCA transcripts are there in black and white. Subscribe to our Spartacus Newsletter and keep up to date with the latest articles. I stood on the steps at the front of the building and had a good view as the motorcade went passed.'. 'I didn't do anything wrong but some people would not accept that. Other Works Oswald typically stayed in a Dallas apartment near the book depository during the workweek. He told the commission that he parked the car and then left the engine running in order to charge up his battery. The answer, he said, may be contained in still-classified CIA documents. by detectives Rose and Stovall with very specific details, but Rose and. Joseph Ball: What did the package look like? Buell Wesley Frazier: I first heard, I never really did know his name, we just called him Lee around there. Another employee was a shy, quiet man called Lee Harvey Oswald who had started at the depository on 12 October. Joseph Ball: From the side of the seat over to the center, is that the way you would measure it? On the big screen, he appeared in "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country"and 2009's "Star Trek" reboot movie. Clearly, they were not describing a 36-inch-long package. Of the many, many guest stars to drop by "Frasier" during the course of the show's 11-season run, arguably one of the most legendary was Donald O'Connor. Interestingly enough, Kramer also appeared on "Frasier" forebear"Cheers," playing a "Talk Show Lady" in an episodein which Frasier's then-wife Lilith (Bebe Neuwirth) visited a Boston talk show to promote her new book. Additional TV credits included "The Waltons,"both "The Bob Newhart Show"and the subsequent "Newhart,""Touched By an Angel,""Dr. Ken,""NCIS,"and daytime soap "Days of Our Lives." According to LaMotta's IMDb page, he died in 2014 at the age of 75. He added that Oswald had been driven to the driving range by "a man named Frazier from Irving". They managed to figure everything else out allegedly, but never brought forward a normal route driver or bus rider to say "I rode with the assassin every morning to work and didn't even know it!" Frasier was a spin-off of the wildly successful Cheers,which ended its run in 1993. He is now retired from his job with the Lewisville School Board where as a receiving clerk he was responsible for stocking schools with equipment and furniture. Not to upset any apple carts but if it was a professional operation, the weapon(s) were both brought in the night before. Lee ) returning to the rooming houseafter work? With a good viewing position of the motorcade Buell said he remembers hearing the first gunshot. Frazier (18 years old) bought the used car in Huntsville, Texas from" Wood Motors". It has an unpopular view- surprisr, by both the far and the left - that Bonnie and Clyde were vicious killers. Hours later Buell, then aged 19, would find himself at the center of one of the most famous and talked about events of the 20th century. The curtain rods story, then, may not have been a total fiction. Ironically, it was Frazier and his sister who created a slight doubt that Oswald had, in fact, been carrying the murder weapon rather than his "curtain rods." FRAZIER - No, sir; stopped one time and bought some gas, I remember. Might involve someone like Roy Truly, Byrd or subordinates, maybe cooperating with associates of the Mayor? LaMotta doesn't appear again as Duke until a 1998 episode, when he's one of a few pals seen playing poker with Martin. Buell Wesley Frazier: He got out of the car and he was wearing the jacket that has the big sleeves in them and he put the package that he had, you know, that he told me was curtain rods up under his arm, you know, and so he walked down behind the car and standing over there at the end of the cyclone fence waiting for me to get out of the car, and so quick as I cut the engine off and started out of the car, shut the door just as I was starting out just like getting out of the car, he started walking off and so I followed him in. Joe Frazier, the former heavyweight champion whose furious and intensely personal fights with a taunting Muhammad Ali endure as an epic rivalry in boxing history, died Monday . Michelle's mom is still alive, though, and has seen her child reach the peak of female leadership in the country as well as accompanied her in the White House. Shehas also donevoice over work in Penguins of Madagascar and Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures. On the other hand, none of the witness statements are from men who would seem to be in the habit of speaking precisely (Jarman could not remember Frazier's name, Shields didn't know who did the hollering out the window which he may or may not have heard, Norman never made any claim that Frazier drove "Oswald" to work everyday, etc.). Buell Wesley Frazier: Was born in Texas in 1944. As per the museum video display, Frazier sold the car to "Buddy" Hough for $10 for record of sale. 'I just told them what I knew, and told the truth,' said Buell. Buell Wesley Frazier: If, if you were going to measure it that way from the end of the seat over toward the center, right. Is Ruth Payne still alive? The character makes another appearance later that same season, when Frasier experiences the surprise of discovering that Tewksbury is dating his producer, Roz. The show became an instant hit, with Grammer joined by David Hyde-Pierce as his brother Niles; John Mahoney as Martin, the Crane boys' retired cop father; Jane Leeves as Martin's caregiver, Daphne; and Peri Gilpin as Frasier's producer, Roz. Buell Wesley Frazier: I will say, you know, talking back and forth with the bossman all the time and from being around and getting along real fine and so he told me, I assume the day after he hired him that he was going to have him come in on Monday and he asked me had I ever seen him and I told him then no; I had never seen him. Mr. BALL - Did you ever stop on the way home on Friday night and buy anything? $32.95. The characters first appeared in Season 4 episode "To Kill a Talking Bird," and again in Season 6's "Taps at the Montana.". Buell Wesley Frazier: Oh, say, around 5 inches, something like that. And he partly supports a claim recently made by a former Mafia hitman who said that it was he, and not Oswald, fired the fatal shot that killed Kennedy. The claim by Files have added to the hundreds of conspiracy theories that have surrounded the death of JFK since his assassination. Jane Leeves, who played Daphne, moved on to the acclaimed series, Hot in Clevelandafter Frasier's success. Joseph Ball: Was it sometime around the middle of October, do you think, would that be close to it? A scared 19 year old kid, worried he was gonna get "pulled into all this", who was arrested, interrogated, given a lie detector test we'll never know the results off, and asked to sign a confession by Fritz. 0 Following. Q: Tell me, how was Lee Harvey Oswald carrying this package you described as he was walking in front of you? But Derek, Joe's youngest son, revealed that he never got the opportunity to say goodbye. In the half a century since JFK was killed Buell said he has been haunted by the events and the role he played in them. Five government investigations since JFK's death have concluded it was Oswald who shot Kennedy. The U.S. National Archives currently holds a number of unreleased CIA documents related to the assassination. By After the assassination Buell Wesley Frazier makes his way to the hospital to visit a sick relative, from this hospital he gets picked up to be taken to the DPD station. If not, why not?). View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro. I loved him.". BALL - Except this one weekend?Mr. A: As soon as I cut the engine off and got out and closed the door he started walking off. Before he died at age 95 in 2016 (via The New York Times), "Frasier"was Glenn's sole acting credit in a TV series. Buell would later tell the Warren Commission, set up to investigate the shooting, that he didn't think the brown paper package was long enough to be a rifle. Like his dad, Enzo lived until age 16, dyingin 2010. Prior to his 2003 death at age 78 (via The New York Times), one of O'Connor's final roles was playing wealthy timber baron Harlow Safford in the "Crane vs. Crane" episode of "Frasier." George O'Toole wrote a whole book about this episode back in the 1970's. Concerts in 2009 were part of a 50th Anniversary tour that culminated with a benefit in Big Bear Lake, California, in December. As IMDb illustrated, Loggia was a frequent television guest star throughout the 1960s and 1970s, breaking out into film with a supporting role in 1982's "An Officer and a Gentleman." Buell was called to give evidence to the Warren Commission. You have seen, not a real light color but you know normally, the normal color about the same color, you have seen these kinds of heavy duty bags you know like you obtain from the grocery store, something like that, about the same color of that, paper sack you get there Joseph Ball: What did he do about the package in the back seat when he got out of the car? Perhaps this is the reason Buell Frazier continues to ask himself, "How did you miss that?" and Ruth Paine still expresses a need to do "penance" because of what happened in Dallas in 1963. After all the handling of the bag attributed to Oswald, first in making it, then in packing it, then taking it to Frazier's car, putting it down in the car, picking it up and carrying it toward if not into the building for two blocks, and then, at least by inference, through the building, and when removing and assembling a rifle Marina testified he kept oiled and cleaned, how is it to be explained that he left only two prints? Shipping calculated at checkout. Or members George De Mohrenschildt or George Herbert Walker Bush? Celebrity Net Worth says that Frazier was also "far too generous with friends and family" and that he wasn't as good of a businessman as he was a boxer. Would've made a great Enquirer story at some pointLol But it didn't exist then, and still doesn't. He trained fellow employee Lee Harvey Oswald and drove Oswald to work occasionally, including on November 22, 1963. Hipocrite 17:03, 14 November 2012 (UTC) If you do not know, it is on the page called A site which defends the "official" version, critiquing conspiracy theories. A still from the Zapruder film shows Kennedy in Thornburn's position seconds after he is shot in the back of the head. He lived in Huntsville before moving to Irving where he stayed with his sister, Linnie Mae Randle. I followed him but I didn't catch up with him because at that time of the morning --. Buell Wesley Frazier: Yes. A regular reader calls our attention to C-SPAN's interview with Buell Wesley Frazier, a co-worker of Lee Harvey Oswald's in November 1963. This was less than twenty-four hours of the assassination. I know what I saw and the package was about two foot in length. On the morning of November 22, 1963, Frazier drove Oswald to the Texas Book Depository. People that ride the bus in the morning like that are usually commuters who ride the bus every day to work. Buell was the main host of the TV A&E show Paranormal State. As a stage actress in New York City, one of Playten's earliest roles was as in the off-Broadway production of "National Lampoon's Lemmings,"a nihilistic Woodstock satire in which she co-starred with future "Saturday Night Live" stars John Belushi and Chevy Chase. Select the best result to find their address, phone number, relatives, and public records. I don't get that impression from this exchange Mr. FRAZIER - Well, I say, we were standing like I said at the four-headed table about half as large as this, not, quite half as large, but anyway I was standing there getting the orders in and he said, "Could I ride home with you this afternoon? Joseph Ball: Before you saw him? 'I noticed the package straight away and asked Lee what it was,' Buell said. 'I used to drive home every day but Lee stayed in a lodging house. Lewisville, Texas (PRWEB) July 22, 2021 Buell Wesley Frazier has completed his new book " Steering Truth : My Eternal Connection to JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald": a gripping true story of a young man who witnessed the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. "Smokin'" Joe Frazier, a bruising boxer who was the first fighter to defeat Muhammad Ali and held the heavyweight crown for five years, has died after a fight with liver cancer. Photo by Author. Gratton returned as Leo later that season in the episode "Retirement Is Murder," then again in the fifth season's "Where Every Bloke Knows Your Name.". Joined November 2011. Sydow's roster of screen credits isn't nearly as extensive as Murphy's, but that's because he devoted much of his career to the stage, as an actor and director in both on- and off-Broadway productions even receiving a Tony nomination for directing a 1966 revival of "Annie Get Your Gun." The morning of November 22nd was like any other as he finished his breakfast at his sister's home in Irving, Texas, and prepared to drive to work. In fact, she admitted the two dogs "actually hate each other with a passion" and needed "to be separated at all times, which is pretty common in Jack Russell males." As a result, Frazier died with a net worth of just $100,000. Add to Cart. Eddie was played by Moose, reported "Today," a Jack Russell terrier who passed away at the ripe old age of 16 in 2006. , updated Joseph Ball: Had your sister told you that this fellow Lee was coming to work? When they do, their Tweets will show up here. I just cannot reconcile the Lee I knew with being a man who would assassinate the President.'. He was questioned for hours as detectives suspected he was involved in an assassination plot. Still, it was odd that Buell never . But then he heard two further shots and saw women in the crowd screaming and running in panic. 15:30 GMT 20 Nov 2015 The results of that polygraph have never seen the light of day, and I believe that Frazier failed. Both Frazier and Mrs. Randle swore that the bag Oswald carried was 27 or 28 inches long. 4 talking about this. Mr. BALL - At any time coming back after a weekend did you ever stop at a restaurant for breakfast?Mr. If he went home with me on Friday afternoon he always rode back with me on Monday morning. Eddie, the beloved dog portrayed by show business pup Moose, passed away in 2006 at age 15. Buell's evidence that Oswald walked into work with a package the same shape as a rifle was deemed as crucial. In the years after the death of Kennedy, Buell said he was shunned by people once they learned of his links to the assassination. In custody, however, Oswald denied having told Frazier he intended fetching rods for his rented room - and even insisted that he had not carried a long package, or placed it on the back seat of Frazier's car, on the morning of the murder. Rock guitarist Eddie Van Halen, who died in 2020, was a clueless caller named Hank who couldn't figure out if Frasier could hear him. 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