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. In an interview with WHYY, Derek got candid about his relationship with his father, which went awry months before his death. Would've made a great Enquirer story at some pointLol But it didn't exist then, and still doesn't. Buell Wesley Frazier: Yes; she did. [5] He was the executive producer for the feature film American Ghost Hunter, released in 2010. But the first time I ever saw him was the first day he come to work. Among the many, many roles listed in his IMDb creditsare a brief guest spot on "Frasier." Either Oswald had a package that morning and it was a rifle in a bag, and Frazier knew it. 1 Follower. Buell Wesley Frazier was Lee Harvey Oswald's neighbor and close friend. 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. The interview, recorded at the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas in July, will be broadcast this weekend, This reader says that the Frazier interview shows he would not have been a good prosecution witness [against Oswald] given that he says No way the rifle was in the package Oswald brought to work that day [November 22, 1963]. This leads Frasier to a confrontation with Tewksbury, which results in a psychiatric session that proves more revelatory than Frasier expected. Buell Wesley Frazier was only 19 years old in 1963 when he met Lee Harvey Oswald on the job at the Texas Schoolbook Depository in Dallas. Wesley Frazier was born on June 4, 1944 in Harris County, Texas, USA. Truly had hired him. 'Lee always said he was a patsy and I believe him. That never came up, and Kennedy was never mentioned,' said Buell. 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. 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. 'I knew then that someone was shooting,' said Buell. 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. As Deadline reported, Kramer died in early 2020 at age 74. Before he died at age 95 in 2016 (via The New York Times), "Frasier"was Glenn's sole acting credit in a TV series. Yet the Commission felt Frazier and his sister were mistaken, and to bolster their theory that Oswald did carry the rifle to the Depository, they had the 38-inch paper bag which had been found by the window on the sixth floor. He was my father. In September 1963, Frazier began work at the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas. A song-and-dance man of the highest order, O'Connor's storied roster of screen credits, via IMDb, include the classic Hollywood musical "Singing in the Rain,"and umpteen "Francis the Talking Mule"movies. Frasier ran for 11 seasons before ending in 2004. His death, coupled with reports of a second gunman on the Grassy Knoll, meant there are hundreds of conspiracy theories about the assassination. Ren Auberjonois had already developed a well-established career as a character actor when he guest starred on "Frasier." 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. The Roy Lewis audio stating this I play at the beginning of this episode https://www.spreaker.com/user/thelonegunman/ep-100-i-dropped-him-off-at-the-building, yeah, and Jarman says he sees Wesley THE NEXT DAY AT WORK after the assassination. It won 130 awards, including a Golden Globe for Best Comedy in 1995 and the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy in 1998. 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. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. 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. All Rights Reserved. When Buell Frazier glanced into the back seat of his car he noticed an odd shaped package wrapped in brown paper. I don't know how well Frazier may have known Oswald beyond the weekend rides. 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. Joseph Ball: What did the package look like? He. Eddie was played by Moose, reported "Today," a Jack Russell terrier who passed away at the ripe old age of 16 in 2006. . Joseph Ball: How much of that back seat, how much space did it take up? Peri Gilpin, who starred as Frasiers producer, RozDoyle, has since appeared in Greys Anatomy, CSIand Masters of Sex. Assassination of John F. Kennedy Encyclopedia. Other notable roles include a multi-episode arc on "The Sopranos.". Buell was called to give evidence to the Warren Commission. 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 . Joseph Ball: When you first saw him was it a Monday morning? "Frasier" isn't just Glenn's most memorable TV guest starring role it's his only one. Oswald denies he took a package to work with him that day. He will see that the other end will project beyond his shoulder. That really bothered me. It was because they found out I had given Lee a lift to work on the day Kennedy died. And knowing how Oswald was with money, he probably would have taken him up on the offer. I don't, at this time, endorse the theory. He in turn, was an associate of Jack Ruby.[1]. In the filmed re-enactment (seen below) that Buell Frazier performed for David Wolper's movie cameras (which occurred sometime prior to October of 1964), Buell's ten-year-old Chevrolet sedan seems to be running pretty smoothly and quietly (based on what we can hear during the limited time when the microphone actually picks up the sounds of the Buell Wesley Frazier: If, if you were going to measure it that way from the end of the seat over toward the center, right. Those papers. 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. "Michael dressed in a black 'Phantom of the Opera' shirt with a . 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. I know. But . The pix below show him in the corridor trying to makes his way through the crowd of camera men and reporters. @martiFrazier1. He could have done so only if the package was shorter. Joseph Ball: The paper, was the color of the paper, that you would get in a grocery store, is that it, a bag in a grocery store? The authorities believe the packaged contained a rifle. "I just felt I had to try acting one more time. Buell Wesley Frazier had previously worked in a department store and had handled curtain rods as part of his duties. Concerts in 2009 were part of a 50th Anniversary tour that culminated with a benefit in Big Bear Lake, California, in December. 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 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. Shields and Lewis even specified where they normally parked. His high-profile turn as the Miami mob boss deposed by Al Pacino's Tony Montana in 1983's "Scarface" led to further big-screen work, including such films as "Prizzi's Honor,""Jagged Edge," and "Big,"in which he shone as the toy impresario who hires Tom Hanks' boy-in-a-man's-body character and dances with Hanks on giant piano keys in the movie's most famous scene. To me, the gist of the Frazier mystery is the package/sack supposedly carried into the TSBD by "Oswald" that morning. It ruled Oswald had brought the gun to work with him that morning. The first one is a very good questionas I'm not 100 percent convinced it was our Oswald staying at 1026 N. Beckleybut if it was, it would've only added 5 minutes to Frazier's commute. I kind of wonder if Ozzie didn't have other business to attend to in the evenings through the week that maybe he wouldn't want Frazier involved in. Joseph Ball: From the side of the seat over to the center, is that the way you would measure it? He in turn, was an associate of Jack Ruby. 0 Following. And Clyde he has remained, an icon of greatness as an athlete and of goodness as a man. We know they liked to recruit young, and still do to this dayto sum it up, Frazier is lying about . 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. He added that Oswald had been driven to the driving range by "a man named Frazier from Irving". Both Frazier and Mrs. Randle swore that the bag Oswald carried was 27 or 28 inches long. 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. Shipping calculated at checkout. On 22nd November, 1963, Frazier gave Oswald a lift to the Texas Book Depository. Oswald told Frazier that the package contained curtain rods. 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. 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. She said one afternoon when I went home she told me she found out from one of the neighbors(Ruth Paine) there he came over for that interview with Mr. I know what I saw and the package was about two foot in length. Wesley Buell Frazier. 'Another time I was at a school reunion and a teacher came up to me and just said: "You should be ashamed of yourself. Both insisted Oswald's parcel was a good eight inches shorter than the disassembled Mannlicher-Carcano. DJ. 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. Buell, his mind in a whirl from the shocking events, left work and drove to visit his step-father who was in hospital. Add to Cart. Martin Crane's dog, Eddie, became one of television's most popular canine characters. Buell Wesley Frazier is a somewhat obscure figure in the murder of President John F Kennedy in Dealey Plaza in the City of Hate on November 22, 1963, but known as the man who drove Lee Oswald to work that day. You know, like I told you, you can go home with me any time you want to, like I say anytime you want to go see your wife that is all right with me.". Wesley Buell Frazier was born in Texas in 1944. "Oswald" carried no rifle into the TSBD and Frazier knew it. Back in 1963, he said, employees would have noticed a stranger in the building. David Hyde Pierce, who played Frasiers brother, Niles Crane, also continues to act in television and has appeared in The Good Wife, andNetflix's Wet Hot American Summer. Gave him a ride from the Paine house in Irving every day? 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." Despite this fall from fame, Frazier remains a boxing legend forever. About the only time you could get anything out of the talking was about babies, you know, he had one and he was expecting another, that was one way he had him get that job because his wife was pregnant and I would always get something out of it when I asked him about the babies because it seemed he was very fond of children because when I asked him he chuckled and told me about what he was doing about the babies over the weekend and sometimes we would talk about the weather, and sometimes he would go to work and it would be cloudy in the morning and it would come out that afternoon after work, sometimes during the day and it would turn to be just one of the prettiest days you would want anywhere, and he would say some comment about that, but not very much. Frazier's actual testimony proved entirely different. Both insisted Oswald's parcel was a good eight inches shorter than the disassembled Mannlicher-Carcano. Salinger), who befriends Martin at a sports bar and winds up scrapping his latest manuscript due to a critique from Niles and Frasier. The problem was that Doorman was on the top level, and there were no steps behind him. Thanks, we'll get right on that. This carried the sinister implication that Oswald was trying to sneak into the building so Frazier could not see him hide the rifle. The new series followed Frasier as he relocated to his hometown of Seattle, where the Harvard-educated psychiatrist took his skills to radio and offered advice to callers along with his on-air catchphrase:"I'm listening." 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). 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. Foreman's explanation for not attending the service was, in his words, "I loved this one," referring to his two . Likes. "I just absolutely refused to be beaten by it,"he explained, admitting he'd"made some of my biggest movies when I was diagnosed. Both times they accurately estimated a measured length of 27 to 27.5 inches. If he rode a busorwalked, the lack of any witnesses at all is suspicious. The Commission, which spawned a dozen conspiracy theories by ruling Oswald acted alone, found otherwise. The bag found on the sixth floor was 38 inches long, and the disassembled rifle was 34.8 inches long. Stiers also had recurring roles in "StargateAtlantis,""The Dead Zone" and the sitcom "Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place.". 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