JFK Conference: Mark Lane Addressed the Secret Government’s Role in the Assassination

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129. A spoon of barley tossed into a barrel of water makes mighty thin gruel. Here's the testimony

of Joe Marshall Smith on 23 July 1964:

Mr. SMITH. Yes, sir; I checked all the cars. I looked into all the cars and checked around the bushes. Of course, I wasn't alone. There was some deputy sheriff with me, and I believe one Secret Service man when I got there.
I got to make this statement, too. I felt awfully silly, but after the shot and this woman, I pulled my pistol from my holster, and I thought, this is silly, I don't know who I am looking for, and I put it back. Just as I did, he showed me that he was a Secret Service agent.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you accost this man?
Mr. SMITH. Well, he saw me coming with my pistol and right away he showed me who he was.
Mr. LIEBELER. Do you remember who it was?
Mr. SMITH. No, sir; I don't--because then we started checking the cars. In fact, I was checking the bushes, and I went through the cars, and I started over here in this particular section.

So Mr Smith thought he met a Secret Service agent but didn't remember who it was and never specified how the unknown person "showed" Smith that he was Secret Service. Meh. Really. There's nothing anybody can do with that except engage in fruitless speculation