DJ. The NASA icon played himself in the 2001 episode "Docu.Drama,"which featured Roz getting the go-ahead from management to produce a radio documentary about space travel. We also dont have phone or cab records stating that they frequented this address for a month and a half That is weird how they couldnt figure out how he got to and from work everyday. Buell Wesley Frazier: Right, before I saw him. In addition to training new employee Lee Harvey Oswald a month prior to the . The interview, recorded at the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas in July, will be broadcast this weekend BALL - Did you ever stop on the way home on Friday night and buy anything?Mr. 'There were other people involved. And knowing how Oswald was with money, he probably would have taken him up on the offer. I wouldn't be surprised if David Morales had cased the place, or another guy who helped train the Operation 40 shooters, can't remember his name at the moment. Both insisted Oswald's parcel was a good eight inches shorter than the disassembled Mannlicher-Carcano. The Warren Commission would dismiss the curtain rods factor as a fabrication, quoting Oswald's landlady as saying his apartment needed neither curtains nor rods and saying that no rods had been found at the Depository. 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. Years later Buell told a story about how he was arrested at the hospital. The 19-year-old who drove Lee Harvey Oswald to work the day he allegedly assassinated President John F. Kennedy still has questions about the tragedy in Dealey Plaza. Robert Loggia was already an established Hollywood star when he guest starred in a 2000 episode of "Frasier,"playing Stefano, owner of an Italian restaurant whose gruff and terrifying demeanor once left Niles (David Hyde-Pierce) suffering PTSD as a child. Garland G. Slack, who also testified before the Warren Commission, claimed that he saw Oswald practicing with a rifle at a firing range on November 10, 1963. He would ride home with me on Friday and he would come back with me on Monday. But the first time I ever saw him was the first day he come to work. One "Frasier" fan favorite feature was the show's cavalcade of guest stars not the ones who appeared onscreen, mind you, but the celebrities who called in to Frasier Crane's radio showin search of Frasier's help with their always-absurd psychological problems. Joe Frazier was the world heavyweight-boxing champion from February 16, 1970, until January 22, 1973, when boxing great George Foreman beat him. 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. Buell Wesley Frazier has been one of the few Texas School Book Depository employees who is alive and still talks about that day in 1963 in Dealey Plaza, Dallas Texas. The Commission, which spawned a dozen conspiracy theories by ruling Oswald acted alone, found otherwise. The Warren Commission - and the Assassinations Committee in 1979 - concluded that Oswald did carry the rifle to work. In an interview with WHYY, Derek got candid about his relationship with his father, which went awry months before his death. Truly and Mr. And I have seen, you know, I am not very old but I have seen a lot of guys in my time, just going to school, different boys and girls, some talk a lot and some don't, so I didn't think anything strange about that. When Frasier learns he'll be honored by having a caricature of himself hanging on the restaurant's wall, Niles is still so scarred, decades later, that he refuses step foot inside the eatery. Shehas also donevoice over work in Penguins of Madagascar and Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures. It has also been pointed out that one of Frazier's friends was a man named John M. Crawford. Buell Frazier. 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.). By "Star Wars"actress and novelist Carrie Fisher, who died in 2016, was hilarious as an insomniac caller who droned on for so long about her inability to get any sleep that she sent both Frasier and Roz snoozing. Actor John Mahoney, who gained national notoriety as Dr. Frasier Crane's cantankerous father on the beloved 90s sitcom,Frasier,died Sunday in a Chicago hospice facility at 77. He was previously married to Beverly J. Frazier. 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 . Stan Jablonski, who took over for veteran cop Sgt. Buell Wesley Frazier had previously worked in a department store and had handled curtain rods as part of his duties. Both Frazier and Mrs. Linnie Mae Randle swore that the bag found on the 6th floor was much longer than the package Oswald was carrying. The Commission proposes to ask these witnesses questions concerning their knowledge of the . He lived in Huntsville before moving to Irving where he stayed with his sister, Linnie Mae Randle. The curtain rod story comes only from Buell Wesley Frazier. The claim by Files have added to the hundreds of conspiracy theories that have surrounded the death of JFK since his assassination. He was 67. Jane Leeves, who played Daphne, moved on to the acclaimed series, Hot in Clevelandafter Frasier's success. Hough. And Clyde he has remained, an icon of greatness as an athlete and of goodness as a man. Far from trying to sneak away, Oswald, package in hand, volunteered to wait with him. On 12/21/2019 at 8:01 AM, Rob Clark said: On 12/20/2019 at 5:42 PM, David Josephs said: Mr. BALL - At any time coming back after a weekend did you ever stop at a restaurant for breakfast? Certainly, he carried something to work and was evasive about it when questioned. 'Not for one minute do I think Lee was on his own,' Buell told Daily Mail Online. Wesley Buell Frazier. The bag found on the sixth floor was 38 inches long, and the disassembled rifle was 34.8 inches long. In the years after the death of Kennedy, Buell said he was shunned by people once they learned of his links to the assassination. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. 'I kept on telling the police I did not know anything. Oswald told Frazier that the package contained curtain rods. . Investigators were able to prove Oswald bought the Italian made Mannlicher Carcano bolt-action rifle used in the JFK slaying. Frazier testified that Oswald held one end of the package cupped in his hand, in the same way a soldier would hold a rifle during military drill. In September, 1963, Frazier began work at the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas. George O'Toole wrote a whole book about this episode back in the 1970's. Paul Thompson In Dallas, Texas, For Dailymail.com That doesn't mean it couldn't have happened. I loved him. I was just a simple country boy and it was just a nightmare. FRAZIER - Right, that is what I say. This carried the sinister implication that Oswald was trying to sneak into the building so Frazier could not see him hide the rifle. Members of the panel, who included Gerald Ford, later to become 38th President, insisted he must have been mistaken about the brown package carried by Oswald. Norman, Jarman, Shields, and Lewis all said "they rode together either every day" or "always rode together". And a press photographer. Think he might have known Dallas Petroleum Club member Harold Dry Hole Byrd, owner of the TSBD? Completing the Story of the Assassination, A regular reader calls our attention to C-SPANs interviewwith Buell Wesley Frazier, a co-worker of Lee Harvey Oswalds in November 1963. 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. I don't know how well Frazier may have known Oswald beyond the weekend rides. Mrs. Randle testified that when Oswald gripped the package at the top, with his arm extended fully downward, "the bottom (of the package) almost touched the ground." "Oswald" carried no rifle into the TSBD and Frazier knew it. One day I was called into the office and told I was being let go. Join Facebook to connect with Tracy Frazier and others you may know. I don't. The package he carried was just too small. It has also been pointed out that one of Frazier's friends was a man named John M. Crawford. Oswald had been arrested hiding out at a movie theater after earlier shooting Dallas police officer JD Tippit who had recognized him from a description flashed to all law enforcement officers. 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." Shields and Lewis even specified where they normally parked. Would've made a great Enquirer story at some pointLol But it didn't exist then, and still doesn't. I dropped him there.'. The only suggestion of any connection between Oswald and the bag was through fingerprints. ', C-SPAN to air telling story from Oswalds co-workerRead More , Technical assistance courtesy of the Mary Ferrell Foundation | Designed by iWebResults, C-SPAN to air telling story from Oswalds co-worker. SCROLL DOWN TO SEE ASSASSINATION IN COLOR. 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.". Just over a decade after he guest starred in that 2003 episode, BBC News reported that Hoskins died at age 71. He told the commission that he parked the car and then left the engine running in order to charge up his battery. I've never read anything about him going by the rooming house to pick up or drop off Oswald. Our next order of business, therefore, is to find out why Buell Wesley Frazier was erased from the famous Altgens photograph. The reader can demonstrate this by taking a yardstick, which is the same length as the package which the Warren Commission claimed Oswald held, and hold one end of the yardstick cupped in the hand. When they were shown the bag found on the sixth floor, Frazier and Randle swore that it was "too long" to be the bag Oswald carried. LaMotta doesn't appear again as Duke until a 1998 episode, when he's one of a few pals seen playing poker with Martin. He added that Oswald had been driven to the driving range by "a man named Frazier from Irving". As Deadline noted, he played the recurring role of Dr. Ira Graves in "Star Trek: The Next Generation," and also appeared in an episode of "Voyager." 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? The problem was that Doorman was on the top level, and there were no steps behind him. 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. He was my father. Fellow worker at the Texas School Book Depository at the time of President Kennedy's assassination, he drove the alleged would-be assassin Lee Harvey Oswald to work that morning. Frazier lived in the suburb of Irving, near Oswald's wife and daughter, and about 15 miles from his job. FRAZIER - I would say sometime between eight and ten, because I go to work at eight and I would break at ten. , updated (1) At 19, he arrived in Irving in early September 1963 from the town of Huntsville 200 miles away to find work and live with his sister Linnie Mae Randle, her husband Bill . Only Buell and his sister claimed to see Oswald carrying a large package. LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) - Eyes closed and fists clenched, Robert Buell was executed by injection Wednesday for a 20-year-old killing he still denied. ", In addition to "Frasier," Playten's many television credits included "The Cosby Mysteries,""Law &Order,""Third Watch,"and venerable soap opera "As the World Turns.". When interviewed by the author in 1987, Frazier was firm in his belief that Oswald did not bring the rifle to work with him on the morning of the assassination. No way it would fit. The following month, Ruth Paine, a neighbour of Linnie Mae Randle, told her that Lee Harvey Oswald was going to work at the same building. Not to upset any apple carts but if it was a professional operation, the weapon(s) were both brought in the night before. There is some lying going on, but I dont believe it's from four of Oswald's co-workersits from one guy in particular, who knew Oswald more than he let on, knew Oswald had brought a rifle that day, let him off at the building, and went and parked. Should come as no surprise the crooked Warren Commission did not call Mrs. Williams to cross check what Linnie and Buell claimed happened the morning of the 22nd. He was previously married to Beverly J. Frazier. They kept on asking me the same questions. Both insisted Oswald's parcel was a good eight inches shorter than the disassembled Mannlicher-Carcano. The U.S. National Archives currently holds a number of unreleased CIA documents related to the assassination. | Other notable roles include a multi-episode arc on "The Sopranos.". Truly and Mr. 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." Frasierfollowed Kelsey Grammer's titular character as he relocated from Boston to Seattle, where he takes in his father, Martin, and is frequently visited by his brother, Niles. Eddie was played by Moose, reported "Today," a Jack Russell terrier who passed away at the ripe old age of 16 in 2006. Package was too short. He played priests on both serial killer thriller "Dexter"and raucous comedy "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,"and appeared on both "Mad Men" and the animated "Biker Mice from Mars.". After being off the air for 14 years, InsideEdition.com takes a look back at where Frasier's stars are today. Buell Wesley Frazier: If, if you were going to measure it that way from the end of the seat over toward the center, right. He told the Warren Commission that Oswald took a package into work that day that he claimed contained curtain rods. For years, he had trouble finding work. Jaxon Buell, the boy who was nicknamed " Jaxon Strong " for his determination to live after he was born with an extreme brain malformation, has died. Buell Wesley Frazier: It was in his side over on his side in the far back. He thought it might have been a motorbike in the presidential motorcade back firing. Oswald did not have a driver's license and regularly had Frazier drive him to work. "Michael dressed in a black 'Phantom of the Opera' shirt with a . I loved him.". "I just felt I had to try acting one more time. I don't know how well Frazier may have known Oswald beyond the weekend rides. Shipping calculated at checkout. In 1963, Frazier was a nineteen-year-old order filler at the Texas School Book Depository. A still from the Zapruder film shows Kennedy in Thornburn's position seconds after he is shot in the back of the head. It was because they found out I had given Lee a lift to work on the day Kennedy died. 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