I've never read anything about him going by the rooming house to pick up or drop off Oswald. 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. On November 22, 1963, Frazier gave Oswald a lift to the Texas Book Depository. As the years passed he became more comfortable discussing what happened and is now well known by staff at The Sixth Floor Museum in the book depository. Yet that wasn't the end of the story; in September of that same year, new sitcom "Frasier"launched, focusing on tavern regular Dr. Frasier Crane, played by Kelsey Grammer. To think that people could think I had something to do with the President's death was really awful.'. "It was really the facts were bizarre," said Frazier's attorney Gregory P. Isaacs. Glenn Frazier survived the Bataan Death March and more than three years of slave labor in Japanese prison camps. Buell Wesley Frazier: Let's see, when I got in the car I have a kind of habit of glancing over my shoulder and so at that time I noticed there was a package laying on the back seat, I didn't pay too much attention and I said, "What's the package, Lee?" Other Works This revolved around Buell, the handyman, and Anna's mailbox. He will see that the other end will project beyond his shoulder. 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. Sadly, Gratton died in 2011 at age 71, with his obituary noting that he'd be remembered for "his sense of humor, both whimsical and pointed, his love of military history, and his life-long dedication to the art and craft of acting. Buell Wesley Frazier: Was born in Texas in 1944. 'Lee always said he was a patsy and I believe him. I believe he knew Oswald better than he let on, knew about the rifle and lied about the package, and gave him a ride at least to,and if notfrom, work every day. Frazier was released. Buell Frazier (left), who gave Lee Harvey Oswald a lift to work on the day of the Kennedy assassination, and Hugh Aynesworth, a veteran reporter at the time, answered questions last week at the . Truly and Mr. Back in 1963, he said, employees would have noticed a stranger in the building. It would have been too far to walk, especially in the morning, cabs would have been too expensive to use twice a day for Oswald. In the years after the death of Kennedy, Buell said he was shunned by people once they learned of his links to the assassination. Rob ClarkDecember 19, 2019 in JFK Assassination Debate. She had never lived anywhere else. Other notable roles include a multi-episode arc on "The Sopranos.". He was previously married to Beverly J. Frazier. Notably absent was George Foreman. The only way that Oswald could have carried the disassembled rifle and bag in the manner described by Frazier and Randle would have been if his arms hung down to his ankles. The President has made some powerful enemies who wanted him out of the way. The same year he appeared on "Frasier," O'Connor also appeared in a guest spot on "The Nanny." "Oswald" carried no rifle into the TSBD and Frazier knew it. 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. 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. 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). And if I fail, I fail," he continued. 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." So sayeth Buell Frazierand no one else. I told them all I knew, but I could see they suspected I was involved. Official Sites. Anna, who lost her daughter Elizabeth, and got separated from her therapist husband, Douglas, didn't mind though as she liked having his comforting presence around. It wouldn't be surprising if Gratton's face seems familiar to anyone who watched a lot of television in the 1980s and '90s. On the big screen, he appeared in "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country"and 2009's "Star Trek" reboot movie. @martiFrazier1. Buell Wesley Frazier: Oh, say, around 5 inches, something like that. FYI, there is a past thread here that speculates that LHO and BWF were lovers, based on a singular interpretation of something Frazier said. It has also been pointed out that one of Frazier's friends was a man named John M. Crawford. However, he told the Warren Commission that Oswald was not carrying "anything in his hands" when he arrived that morning. Concerts in 2009 were part of a 50th Anniversary tour that culminated with a benefit in Big Bear Lake, California, in December. Family (1) Spouse Beverly J. Frazier (7 June 1962 - 20 November 1987) (divorced) Trivia (1) Fellow worker at the Texas School Book Depository at the time of President Kennedy's assassination . He has made his claims to a Dutch filmmaker but they have previously been dismissed as 'not credible' by the FBI. I doubt he took the bus because as you stated nobody ever came forward saying they seen him. Atleast one of them would have come foward and saidthey rode with him if he was taking a bus. Stiers also had recurring roles in "StargateAtlantis,""The Dead Zone" and the sitcom "Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place.". Oswald typically stayed in a Dallas apartment near the book depository during the workweek. I know. 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. Shipping calculated at checkout. As for the Bonnie Clyde film: This is inextricably linked to the previous. 'It was the truth, but they did not believe me and were convinced I was involved.'. Buell Wesley Frazier: I would say roughly around 2 feet of the seat. Publicity Listings 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. I never saw him outside of work. 'Some people think I am guilty that I helped Oswald. Norman, Jarman, Shields, and Lewis all said "they rode together either every day" or "always rode together". I'd be interested in your feedback. to the Woody Allen-directed "Mighty Aphrodite." Buell said Oswald was 'quiet' during the 20 minute drive and no one mentioned the visit of President Kennedy to Dallas. Joined November 2011. 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. Buell was the main host of the TV A&E show Paranormal State. 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. 'They asked if I was traumatized by the events, but I wasn't. I just cannot reconcile the Lee I knew with being a man who would assassinate the President.'. 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. Oswald told Frazier that the package contained curtain rods. . DJ. Mr. BALL - Did you ever stop on the way home on Friday night and buy anything? In September 1963, Frazier began work at the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas. "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 . Certainly, he carried something to work and was evasive about it when questioned. I dropped him there.'. James Files said he was on the Grassy Knoll and fired the bullet that ultimately killed the President as his motorcade sped through downtown Dallas 52 years ago. 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, The only suggestion of any connection between Oswald and the bag was through fingerprints. Joseph Ball: What did the package look like? They found a matching palm print on the stock, but had no proof that he had it with him the day of the assassination. 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. Mr. FRAZIER - No, sir; stopped one time and bought some gas, I remember. In an interview with WHYY, Derek got candid about his relationship with his father, which went awry months before his death. SCROLL DOWN TO SEE ASSASSINATION IN COLOR. 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. 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. 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. The Commission proposes to ask these witnesses questions concerning their knowledge of the . FRAZIER - Yes.Mr. Kelsey Grammer, who starred as radio host Frasier Crane, continues to act in both television and in film. Likes. One day I was called into the office and told I was being let go. Like his dad, Enzo lived until age 16, dyingin 2010. Oswald denies he took a package to work with him that day. FRAZIER - Right, that is what I say. | The characters first appeared in Season 4 episode "To Kill a Talking Bird," and again in Season 6's "Taps at the Montana.". O'Connor's final screen role was in the 1997 cruise ship comedy "Out to Sea,"which re-teamed "The Odd Couple"stars Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. 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. He lived in Huntsville before moving to Irving where he stayed with his sister, Linnie Mae Randle. The shooting was captured by Abraham Zapruder who filmed the entire gory scene as the President was struck. Buell Wesley Frazier: Right. In September 1963, Frazier began work at the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas. Frazier testified that he drove Oswald to the Paine residence virtually every weekend, right up until the day before the assassination where the pattern was shifted by Oswald coming out on the evening of Thursday, November 21. 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. 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. Frazier was and still is a nice guy, and would have probably offered. Read on to remember the "Frasier"stars we've sadly lost. The truth is that he was involved in the plot to frame an innocent man. 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. He negotiated with Hough for another car. As a result, Frasier agrees to testify against his brother in the trial. Steering Truth by Buell Wesley Frazier. 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." Add to Cart. 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. And knowing how Oswald was with money, he probably would have taken him up on the offer. Buell Wesley Frazier: Well, I will be frank with you, I would just, it is right as you get out of the grocery store, just more or less out of a package, you have seen some of these brown paper sacks you can obtain from any, most of the stores, some varieties, but it was a package just roughly about two feet long. Only Jack Dougherty saw Oswald enter the Texas Book Depository on 22nd November, 1963. Ultimately, Mahoney joined Chicago's famed Steppenwolf Theatre Company, which led to roles in such films as "Moonstruck," "Say Anything"and "In the Line of Fire,"to name just a few. Of the more than 100 stars who called in, many of them are sadly no longer with us. Bill Gratton played one such pal, Leo, who initially appeared in the second season, featured in the episode"Duke's, We Hardly Knew Ye." You will be able to leave a comment after signing in. 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.". He added that Oswald had been driven to the driving range by "a man named Frazier from Irving". In Stiers' 2003 episode, titled "Fathers and Sons,"he plays Leland Barton, the former research assistant to Hestor Crane, later mother of Nilesand Frasier. The bag found on the sixth floor was 38 inches long, and the disassembled rifle was 34.8 inches long. In an interview with Fox Newsshortly before his death,Mahoney candidly discussed overcoming cancer twice previously. A: As soon as I cut the engine off and got out and closed the door he started walking off. Buell said he was excited to see the President - but wanted to get a good look at Jackie Kennedy. For years Buell refused to talk about his involvement with one of the 20th century's most famous events. Buell Wesley Frazier: Yes; she did. He was questioned for hours as detectives suspected he was involved in an assassination plot. 'I just told them what I knew, and told the truth,' said Buell. People that ride the bus in the morning like that are usually commuters who ride the bus every day to work. He could have done so only if the package was shorter. 'Oswald was not the most talkative person, and nothing stands out from our conversations.'. Frazier testified that Oswald was carrying a package when Frazier picked him up. 5, 6 inches or there. The child passed away "very. Joseph Ball: On the way back and forth did you talk very much to each other? But I say like I said I just roughly estimate and that would be around two feet, give and take a few inches. 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. More than a decade after that series wrapped, Stiers made a guest-starring appearance on "Frasier." 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