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). Staff at the depository had been given time off to watch JFK and his wife Jackie as their motorcade made its way through Dealey Plaza outside their building. Joseph Ball: When you got in the car did you say anything to him or did he say anything to you? 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. She ultimately brings Glenn onboard as a replacement narrator, which irks Frasier to no end. A: No, sir, I was not close enough to see. If not, why not?). Oswald had also placed a long package on the backseat of his Chevy. 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. Both insisted Oswald's parcel was a good eight inches shorter than the disassembled Mannlicher-Carcano. One day I was called into the office and told I was being let go. Frazier testified that Oswald was carrying a package when Frazier picked him up. He thought it might have been a motorbike in the presidential motorcade back firing. Atleast one of them would have come foward and saidthey rode with him if he was taking a bus. In all, Frazier - at 5'11 and 205 lbs., considered small for a heavywieght - won 32 fights: 27 by knockouts, losing four times (twice to Ali and also to George Foreman). How about Oswald ( O.H. 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." ", Mahoney gravitated toward acting fairly late in life. Buell Frazier is Lee Harvey Oswald's friend and coworker at the Texas School Book Depository. Within a few days, he began driving Oswald to Irving, Texas on Friday nights and back to Dallas on Monday mornings. For full article, click the link below https://quip.com/0y5LA34qWC7j/Unanswered-Questions-Concerning-Buell-Frazier. Photo by Author. In Stiers' 2003 episode, titled "Fathers and Sons,"he plays Leland Barton, the former research assistant to Hestor Crane, later mother of Nilesand Frasier. Joseph Ball: Do you have any idea of the date itself, do you have any memory of the date when you first saw him? 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. These early fights gave rise to some of boxing's first stars and a few of the boxers on this list dominated the sport during that time. Lee ) returning to the rooming houseafter work? (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 . 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. Paul Thompson In Dallas, Texas, For Dailymail.com, How the magic began: Rare photographs reveal the excitement and the chaos of Disneyland's opening day in 1955, Erased from history: Princeton president agrees to remove mural of 'racist Klansman' President Woodrow Wilson from campus to appease protesters who camped out in his office overnight. Hough. More significantly, "No other identifiable prints were found on the bag". 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. Like you stick it up under your armpit and the other part cupped in his hand. Wesley Buell Frazier was born in Texas in 1944. Two days later he was shot dead by nightclub owner Jack Ruby as he was being brought out of a police station. 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. Frasier was a spin-off of the wildly successful Cheers,which ended its run in 1993. Nor is there any testimony which claims that Wesley picks Oswald up daily unless you can point me to some. In addition to "Frasier,"LaMotta had racked up an extensive list of screen credits spanning several decades, ranging from "Dark Shadows"to "Baretta"to "Barney Miller"to "ALF,"in which he played the lovable alien's nosy neighbor. And a press photographer. [5] He was the executive producer for the feature film American Ghost Hunter, released in 2010. Despite this fall from fame, Frazier remains a boxing legend forever. "Frasier" attracted some A-list guest stars during its run. In this role, he would help to define the ethos of scientific skepticism, curate its scope and content, and communicate its values for almost five decades. The workmate was Lee Harvey Oswald and the package was the sniper rifle he had used to assassinate President John F Kennedy on the morning of 22 November 1963. championship at Madison Square Garden. He lived in Huntsville before moving to Irving where he stayed with his sister, Linnie Mae Randle. to the Woody Allen-directed "Mighty Aphrodite." 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. 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?" Buell Wesley Frazier: Like I say, I was watching the gages and watched the car for a few minutes before I cut it off. In the years since "Frasier" went off the air, some of the familiar faces from the show have since left us, including one of the show's series regulars and numerous guest stars. 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." Brother of AF General Charles Cabell, fired along with Dulles and Bissell over the Bay of Pigs 12/62. 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. So sayeth Buell Frazierand no one else. He went to work at the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas and in September, 1963 met and befriended Lee Harvey Oswald. Mr. BALL - Your memory is that he went,, he rode home with you every Friday and came back the following Monday? He lived in Huntsville before moving to Irving where he stayed with his sister, Linnie Mae Randle. As Deadline reported, Kramer died in early 2020 at age 74. "But if I don't, maybe I can find some sort of happiness and fulfillment in life.". In addition to playing Eddie, Moose had also played the titular dog in the movie "My Dog Skip.". 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. The bag found on the sixth floor was 38 inches long, and the disassembled rifle was 34.8 inches long. In the episode, titled "The Club,"Niles and Frasier attempt to sabotage the other's chances of being accepted into Seattle's prestigious Empire Club when they learn they're competing against each other for the sole vacant spot. It ruled Oswald had brought the gun to work with him that morning. He negotiated with Hough for another car. This was less than twenty-four hours of the assassination. By 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. She had never lived anywhere else. That never came up, and Kennedy was never mentioned,' said Buell. He added that Oswald had been driven to the driving range by "a man named Frazier from Irving". The same year he appeared on "Frasier," O'Connor also appeared in a guest spot on "The Nanny." 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.). Oswald told Frazier that the package contained curtain rods. 4 talking about this. I don't know how well Frazier may have known Oswald beyond the weekend rides. 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." Oswald's landlady Mrs.Earline Roberts came across as quite an observant woman ( maybe even snoopish? ) Betty White, 95, Honored for 60 Years in Television: 'Thank You for Spoiling Me Rotten', From MASH to Friends, How Some of TVs Popular Shows of the Past Might Make You Cringe Today, Japanese Game Shows Might Be the Wildest Programs in Television History. 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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. Moose also wasn't particularly fond of his onscreen owner, as the late John Mahoney recalled in an interview with Fox News. Peri Gilpin, who starred as Frasiers producer, RozDoyle, has since appeared in Greys Anatomy, CSIand Masters of Sex. One day I was called into the office and told I was being let go. Yet the freshest prints, those of the police, were not discovered. 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. Spot on `` Frasier '' attracted some A-list guest stars during its in... 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