15:30 GMT 20 Nov 2015 I loved him. He went to work at the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas and in September, 1963 met and befriended Lee Harvey Oswald. I dont blame him for staying quiet all these years but do hope he comes foward if he knowsmore before its too late. A still from the Zapruder film shows Kennedy in Thornburn's position seconds after he is shot in the back of the head. Buell Frazier We found 91 records for Buell Frazier in TX, GU and 9 other states. His death, coupled with reports of a second gunman on the Grassy Knoll, meant there are hundreds of conspiracy theories about the assassination. Travis Buell. On 22nd November, 1963, Buell Frazier gave Oswald a lift to the TSBD. The Commission has been advised, that these two witnesses have stated that they saw Lee Harvey Oswald on the morning of November 22, 1963. Wesley Frazier was born on June 4, 1944 in Harris County, Texas, USA. 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. Oswald told Frazier that the package contained curtain rods. I dropped him there.'. Joseph Ball: It was, what part of the back seat was it in? Even if he walked the two miles everyday Id imaginehed be seen by multiple people also on their way to work at the same time. I don't know how well Frazier may have known Oswald beyond the weekend rides. In addition to his "M*A*S*H" role, these included voice roles in several of Disney's animated films, appearing in "Beauty and the Beast,""Pocahontas," "The Hunchback of Notre Dame,"and "Lilo &Stitch." Our next order of business, therefore, is to find out why Buell Wesley Frazier was erased from the famous Altgens photograph. This leads Frasier to a confrontation with Tewksbury, which results in a psychiatric session that proves more revelatory than Frasier expected. The Commission, which spawned a dozen conspiracy theories by ruling Oswald acted alone, found otherwise. Despite the 1964 Commission's findings that Oswald acted as a 'lone wolf assassin' many people still believe others were involved in the assassination. After immigrating to the U.S. from his native England at age 19, he spent years working as an English teacher, and then as associate editor of a medical journal before pursuing his passion for theater. In September, 1963, Frazier began work at the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas. According to IMDb, Glenn's only other screen credits were providing his voice to the 2003 TV documentary"Kitty Hawk: The Wright Brothers' Journey of Invention," and voicing former U.S. PresidentRutherford B. Hayes in the 2003 documentary "The American President.". "I just absolutely refused to be beaten by it,"he explained, admitting he'd"made some of my biggest movies when I was diagnosed. More than a decade after that series wrapped, Stiers made a guest-starring appearance on "Frasier." For the entire season, Buell worked on it, which was weird as he never got it fixed. Buell Wesley Frazier: Mini Bio (1) Wesley Frazier was born on June 4, 1944 in Harris County, Texas, USA. Tweets. Here is a map of Lee Oswald's walk to Buell Frazier's house on the morning of 11/22/63. He has also portrayed such beloved animated TV characters as Sideshow Bob inThe Simpsons and Blinky inTrollhunters. After retiring from more than 15 years as a university professor in Seattle, Sydow relocated to Los Angeles in 1986 and resumed his acting career. I was working as a manager of a clothing store in a job I really enjoyed. . Q: What did Lee Harvey Oswald do when you were charging your battery? FRAZIER - No, sir; stopped one time and bought some gas, I remember. "Michael dressed in a black 'Phantom of the Opera' shirt with a . When they do, their Tweets will show up here. Joseph Ball: From the side of the seat over to the center, is that the way you would measure it? He takes the Beckley Bus to a stop literally outside his rooming house. (which is why his getting on the Marsalis bus makes no sense at all). For sci-fi fans, the actor will remain best known for playing Odo, the shape-shifting head of security on "Star Trek:Deep Space Nine." Buell Wesley Frazier: Oh, say, around 5 inches, something like that. BALL - Did you ever stop on the way home on Friday night and buy anything?Mr. SCROLL DOWN TO SEE ASSASSINATION IN COLOR. Only Jack Dougherty saw Oswald enter the Texas Book Depository on 22nd November, 1963. Prior to her 2011 death at age 63, reported The New York Times in her obituary, one of Playten's most memorable roles was in an Alka-Seltzer commercial, playing a newlywed bride whose first home-cooked meal has given her husband some serious indigestion. In addition to playing Eddie, Moose had also played the titular dog in the movie "My Dog Skip.". 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. By Buell Wesley Frazier: I would say roughly around 2 feet of the seat. Buell Frazier. While Buell, now aged 71, said he doubts that Oswald acted alone he is skeptical that anyone else could have been in the book depository to fire on the Presidential motorcade. "Bob died peacefully at hospital last night surrounded by family, following a bout of pneumonia,"his wife and children said in a statement. But Derek, Joe's youngest son, revealed that he never got the opportunity to say goodbye. To think that people could think I had something to do with the President's death was really awful.'. Joseph Ball: Had you heard he was coming to work before he came to work? LaMatta wasn't exactly a fan of his work on the wacky sitcom,subsequently telling TMZ he thought "the show 'ALF' was a piece of s*** worst work I ever did.". The complete context of Mrs. Randle's testimony clearly demonstrates that she was referring to the texture of the paper rather than the weight of the package: "He was carrying a package in a sort of heavy brown bag, heavier than a grocery bag it looked like to me." The bag was firmly linked to Oswald by a fingerprint and a palm print, although it was free from any scratches or oil from the metal parts of a rifle. (Which is why our "Oswald" so adamantly denied bringing in or saying anything about "curtain rods" to Frazier!). He only needed a lift to work on Monday mornings, so Frazier was surprised when Oswald . 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. The side I saw of him was a very kind and loving man, and that's the way I like to remember him." -- Buell Wesley Frazier. Frasier Crane was part of an eccentric crew of personalities at fictional Seattle radio station KCAL 780 on "Frasier," including perpetually apoplectic sports host Bob "Bulldog" Briscoe (Dan Butler) and pompous restaurant critic Gil Chesterton (Edward Hibbert). Because Oswald worked where the bag was reported to have been found, the presence of his fingerprints was totally meaningless. Buell Wesley Frazier: Right, before I saw him. Buell Wesley Frazier: Yes; she did. Files, 72, has even gone so far as to claim his Mafia boss Charles Nicoletti was in the book depository in downtown Dallas and the assassination of was plotted by the CIA and Mafia. Assassination of John F. Kennedy Encyclopedia. Is Ruth Payne still alive? Clearly, they were not describing a 36-inch-long package. Like Grammer, he has also lent his voice talents to The Simpsons, as Cecil Terwilliger and Felix. So he frequently got a ride to work from a colleague named Buell Frazier, who lived in the suburb of Irving, Texas, near where Oswald's wife and daughter stayed. Films such as 'JFK' by Oliver Stone, which suggested a second gunman standing on the Grassy Knoll, have helped fuel the conspiracy theories that continue to this day. And knowing how Oswald was with money, he probably would have taken him up on the offer. 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. The only thing as strange is that the bag was also handled by the police and was the only evidence they did not photograph, according to their testimonies, where found. $32.95. Joseph Ball: When you got in the car did you say anything to him or did he say anything to you? Truly had hired him. Frazier was and still is a nice guy, and would have probably offered. Buell said Dallas police instructed managers at the depository to gather all the employees for a roll call. Mr. BALL - At any time coming back after a weekend did you ever stop at a restaurant for breakfast?Mr. 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. Moose also wasn't particularly fond of his onscreen owner, as the late John Mahoney recalled in an interview with Fox News. That never came up, and Kennedy was never mentioned,' said Buell. Those papers. 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. He added that Oswald had been driven to the driving range by "a man named Frazier from Irving". Within a few days, he began driving Oswald to Irving, Texas on Friday nights and back to Dallas on Monday mornings. The Warren Commission - and the Assassinations Committee in 1979 - concluded that Oswald did carry the rifle to work. Buell's evidence that Oswald walked into work with a package the same shape as a rifle was deemed as crucial. He lived in Huntsville before moving to Irving where he stayed with his sister, Linnie Mae Randle. Paul Thompson In Dallas, Texas, For Dailymail.com I don't, at this time, endorse the theory. 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. I take the bus myself into the city for work and I seethe same people every single day, morning and night. All I did was give him a ride to work.'. If not, why not?). 'I knew then that someone was shooting,' said Buell. 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. The shooting was captured by Abraham Zapruder who filmed the entire gory scene as the President was struck. I said to him, " I will race the engine pretty fast and charge it up a little bit.". 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. Photo by Author. Frasier was a spin-off of the wildly successful Cheers,which ended its run in 1993. Another fight . Buell said he was excited to see the President - but wanted to get a good look at Jackie Kennedy. 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 thought it might have been a motorbike in the presidential motorcade back firing. The two men became friends and Frazier agreed to give Oswald a lift to work when he was staying at Paine's house in Irving. 'Oswald did have access to the book depository as he worked there and he was present on the day of the assassination. She ultimately brings Glenn onboard as a replacement narrator, which irks Frasier to no end. Over the years he's come to know several people who found themselves embroiled in the investigation, including ex-Dallas detective Jim Leavelle and Oswald's co-worker Buell Frazier. It's Sheppard's association with the "Star Trek"franchise, however, for which he's best remembered. We do however have a rifle and a bag, much bigger than 2 feet, found in the TSBD. 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. And Clyde he has remained, an icon of greatness as an athlete and of goodness as a man. Niles is hired as an expert witness by Safford's son in his effort to have his father legally declared senile; Frasier, however, gets to know the elder Safford and comes to believe his mental faculties are intact, but that he's just an eccentric with a zest for life. Stiers also had recurring roles in "StargateAtlantis,""The Dead Zone" and the sitcom "Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place.". The mayor being a CIA asset since at least 1956 (now proven) Earl Cabell. 4 talking about this. Buell Wesley Frazier: It could have been because it was sometime in October because I remember I went to work there on the 13th and I had been working there, 4 or 5 weeks and then he come there. The results of that polygraph have never seen the light of day, and I believe that Frazier failed. 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. Buell was called to give evidence to the Warren Commission. I also believe Frazier knows more than he has ever let out and I've expressed that thought in the past. Ren Auberjonois had already developed a well-established career as a character actor when he guest starred on "Frasier." During a career that spanned from the late 1940s until 2010, Murphy appeared in numerous films and TV series, ranging from "Magnum, P.I." Both denials are implausible, because there is no reason to doubt the word of either Frazier or that of his sister, who also saw Oswald with the long package. Wesley Frazier was born on June 4, 1944 in Harris County, Texas, USA. 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. Joseph Ball: You heard that from your sister? Both insisted Oswald's parcel was a good eight inches shorter than the disassembled Mannlicher-Carcano. "Cheers"was a pillar of NBC's much-vaunted "Must See TV" Thursday night lineup when the beloved barroom comedy said goodbye in 1993. Before his death 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. A: I parked the car, and as I was sitting there I looked at my watch and I had a few minutes about eight or ten minutes, so I sat there and was looking out over Stemmons Freeway, which you could see from the parking lot, and I said I would charge my battery for a few minutes, because I had been driving in tow and you could look at your gauge and see the battery was not charging. Joined November 2011. "Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatusthe bureaucracy, the police, the military."Simone Weil, French philosopherWe've bartered away our right to self-governance, self-defense, privacy, autonomy and that most important right of all: the right to tell the government to "leave me the hell alone . 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. Frazier demonstrated this by showing that Oswald could not physically have carried a 35-inch rifle tucked into his armpit with the base cupped in his hand, as Frazier remembered.". 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. Actually that was discussed in another thread here just in the last couple of weeks. I told them all I knew, but I could see they suspected I was involved. Only Buell and his sister claimed to see Oswald carrying a large package. "Frasier" isn't just Glenn's most memorable TV guest starring role it's his only one. For years, he had trouble finding work. He told the commission that he parked the car and then left the engine running in order to charge up his battery. Oswald denies he took a package to work with him that day. He reached the same conclusion - Frazier lied about the "curtain rods" sack. 'I noticed the package straight away and asked Lee what it was,' Buell said. ESPN reported that although Foreman was a "dear friend" of Frazier's and would've liked to go, he decided not to attend the funeral because "he would not be able to handle it.". He recently appeared in films like The Expendables 3, X-Men: The Last Stand and Transformers: Age of Extinction. ", Actors Jack Sydow and Rosemary Murphy made two appearances on "Frasier" as Alfred and Carol Larkin, who lived in Niles Crane's (David Hyde Pierce) posh apartment building. As a result, Frasier agrees to testify against his brother in the trial. Two days later he was shot dead by nightclub owner Jack Ruby as he was being brought out of a police station. Joe Frazier, byname Smokin' Joe, (born January 12, 1944, Beaufort, South Carolina, U.S.died November 7, 2011, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), American world heavyweight boxing champion from February 16, 1970, when he knocked out Jimmy Ellis in five rounds in New York City, until January 22, 1973, when he was beaten by George Foreman at Kingston, 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. In the years after the death of Kennedy, Buell said he was shunned by people once they learned of his links to the assassination. Hediedat 88 in 2010 (via The Hollywood Reporter). When Buell Frazier glanced into the back seat of his car he noticed an odd shaped package wrapped in brown paper. Jane Leeves, who played Daphne, moved on to the acclaimed series, Hot in Clevelandafter Frasier's success. In an interview with Fox Newsshortly before his death,Mahoney candidly discussed overcoming cancer twice previously. At one point he was even asked to sign a confession admitting his part in the killing. Frazier demonstrated this by showing that Oswald could not physically have carried a 35-inch rifle tucked into his armpit with the base cupped in his hand, as Frazier remembered. In addition to training new employee Lee Harvey Oswald a month prior to the . "Superman"star Christopher Reeve, who died at 52 in 2004, called in to discuss his agoraphobia. Ive always thoughtthat Frazier had more involvement than he let on and believe he wasOswalds ride to work everyday. Buell Wesley Frazier: Yes. 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