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Post by Arjan Hut on Aug 3, 2023 8:20:30 GMT -5
553 Photo of and registration card for Atlanta KKK OswaldSee also:507 What Joseph Milteer knew508 Report of Don Adam's pre-Dallas Milteer investigationErasing the Past...DiscussionsA source of the Bureau who is serving as a Public Relations Director for Robert M. Shelton, Imperial Wizard, United Klans of America (....) has furnished information obtained by him during his contacts with Shelton. Robert M. Shelton, Imperial Wizard, in front of burning cross
According to Shelton, about two weeks before the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy, he was in contact with James Venable, a leader of another Klan organization. Venable told Shelton that he had been in contact with Lee Oswald and that Oswald had been active in some bombings in Alabama. Venable offered the services of Oswald to Shelton and stated that he could be used by both groups. Shelton stated that he declined Venable’s offer (....) Shelton also stated that according to Venable, Oswald was in Atlanta, Georgia, at a time when former President John F. Kennedy was scheduled to speak before a Georgia Tech Group. This speaking engagement was canceled and he did not appear in Atlanta; however, there was some picketing activity in Hurt Park, Atlanta, and the source got the impression that the Atlanta newspapers at this time contained information or a photograph that will prove Oswald was in Atlanta at that time. Shelton further claims that he saw a registration card for Oswald while he was staying in one of the Marriott Motels in Atlanta. ( HCUA Memo from FJ Baumgartner to WC Sullivan, November 5, 1965)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Aug 9, 2023 3:55:59 GMT -5
554 The origin of the S&W .38Related:73 Several Jim McCammon photo(s) and negatives417 The Mannlicher Carcano parcel post receipt457 The receipt for the Mannlicher Carcano[DA] Wade said [about Oswald’s arrest at the Texas Theater]: "At the time an officer of the Dallas police spotted him and asked him to come out. He struck at the officer, put the gun against his head and snapped it, but . . . the bullet did not go off . . . we have the snapped bullet there. It was a misfire. Then officers subdued him—some six officers—subdued him there in the theater ... " As usual, Wade's garbled syntax confused reporters who thought Oswald had put the revolver to his own head. The question was asked: "Was that an attempted suicide, sir?" and Wade replied: "Against the officer's head." (Joachim Joesten, Oswald: assassin of fall guy, p. 114) Oswald allegedly ordered a .38 pistol through an advertisement placed in an April, 1963 men’s adventure magazine by Seaport Traders of Los Angeles. Oswald supposedly sent an order form and $10.00 in cash or money order to Seaport, requesting that a pistol be shipped via Railway Express Agency to Lee’s post office box registered to his name in Dallas, Box 2915. Inexplicably, the coupon order form was dated 1/27 even though the order form was not published in True Adventures until March. (....) The evidence does not support that Lee Harvey Oswald ever purchased this gun from Seaport Traders, an accusation he denied before his untimely death at the hands of Jack Ruby in the basement parking garage of Dallas Police headquarters. The pistol apparently did wind up in his possession at the theater, but that is no proof he ordered the weapon. The origin of the S&W .38 Victory model pistol, serial number V510210, remains an unsolved mystery. (Jack Myers, How Oswald was framed for the murder of Tippit) The package allegedly sent by Seaport Traders via REA [Railway Express Agency] to "A.J. Hidell" in Dallas could not possibly have been delivered to PO Box 2915-only the United States Post office can deliver packages to postal boxes. When the package arrived at the REA office in Dallas they would have notified "A.J. Hidell" by sending a postcard to PO Box 2915. The date of mailing of the postcard would have been noted on their documentation, but there was no evidence that REA mailed a postcard to "Hidell." The package containing the pistol was allegedly picked up at the REA Office at 515 South Houston in Dallas. Yet the REA office had no notification card, no receipt for the payment of COD charges, no signed receipt for the package, no form 5024 as required, and no record of identification of the person who picked up the package. REA had nothing that showed either the identity of the individual who picked up the package or the date of pickup. The FBI failed to obtain proof that payment for either the pistol or COD charges were remitted by anyone to REA or that REA remitted payment to Seaport Traders. If the Warren Commission or the FBI wanted to prove that a package was sent from Seaport Traders to the REA office in Dallas they needed only to obtain REA Express bank records. They could have easily located a deposit which corresponded to payment and COD charges received for the gun by REA in Dallas and REA's remittance to Seaport. They also could have checked Seaport Traders bank records to confirm receipt of payment from REA. With a near total lack of documentation, there is no proof that "A.J. Hidell" or Oswald, picked up a package at the REA Express office in Dallas. (John Armstrong, Harvey & Lee, p. 483-4)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Aug 9, 2023 3:59:56 GMT -5
555 The origin of the .38 Special ammunitionRelated:505 The origin of the bullets554 The origin of the S&W .38Not a single person, barring the unproven claims of Marina, saw Harvey Oswald with a pistol, holster, or bullets during the next 9 months. Not a single gun shop was known to have sold Oswald .38 Special ammunition. No ammunition of any kind (.38 Special or 6.5 mm) was found among Oswald's possessions after the assassination. (John Armstrong, Harvey & Lee, p. 484)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Aug 28, 2023 10:32:19 GMT -5
556 One data sheet showing reception of JFK’s brain at army instituteRelated:4 John F. Kennedy's brain5 John F. Kennedy's second brain109 Vial containing part of JFK brain[Ken] Vrtacnik had been stationed at AFIP during the years 1964-65. He was interviewed by [the ARRB’s] Montague and Horne. (...) He said that he had seen Kennedy’s brain during the 1964-65 period, and he stated it had been kept in a locked room as part of the AFIP [Armed Forces Institute of Pathology] complex. Like Mastrovito, he said he knew it was Kennedy’s brain since it was labeled as such. He also added that it was under very tight control. But he said an AFIP employee, Joyce Manus, who ran the Pathology Data Division, could produce a data sheet which would show when the specimen was received, from whom, and its current status there. This writer has not been able to find any ARRB interview with Manus. ( Jim DiEugenio, The Mystery of Kennedy’s Brain Deepens) The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
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Post by Arjan Hut on Aug 30, 2023 10:53:24 GMT -5
557 Selected Secret Service files from other presidential librariesSee also:2 Presidential protection survey reports for President Kennedy's trips in the fall of 1963110 About five Secret Service JFK assassination related file cabinetsMastrovito said that after the assassination, the Secret Service changed its policy regarding its records in presidential libraries. Before November 1963, the Service had sent its records to the federal records centers and to presidential libraries. That is, Secret Service criminal files were available to the public, for example, in the FDR library and the Truman library. After the assassination, the Secret Service recalled its criminal files from the Truman library saying that the agency wished to review them in light of the assassination. Instead of returning these files to the Truman library as promised, as Mastrovito put it, “the Secret Service kept the files, and we destroyed them.” In those days, according to Mastrovito, the feeling at the Secret Service was that people’s criminal files should not be available to the public. The Secret Service also recalled selected files from the FDR library. ( MD 261 - ARRB Call Report of 4/01/97 Interview of James Mastrovito Re: Disposition of JFK Brain Tissue Reportedly Turned into the USSS by the AFIP) JFK and former president Harry S. Truman in the Oval Office.
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Post by Arjan Hut on Sept 17, 2023 7:41:56 GMT -5
558 The fate of the Landis bulletDidn't we already know that the ‘stretcher bullet’ is not CE399?18 The 0.30 caliber bullet that turned into CE399A bullet was alledgedly retrieved from JFK’s body at Bethesda:64 Nearly whole bullet removed from JFKAnother bullet was found in the limo:69 Bullet found in JFK's limousineA bullet was recovered near a sewer cover:229 Bullet / projectile recovered near sewer coverPerhaps the same bullet, or another one altogether?234 Bullet sent from Dallas by agents Barrett and LeeDid anyone of these bullets, or the Landis bullet end up as being presented as CE399, the nearly pristine magic bullet?
(...) Landis stood on the right rear running board of the Secret Service follow-up car, code-named “Halfback,” in the president’s motorcade as the vehicle headed from Dallas’s Love Field airport to a luncheon at the city’s Trade Mart. Landis was approximately 15 feet away when Kennedy was mortally wounded, a close witness to unspeakable horror. That horror was compounded when the president’s limo reached Parkland Memorial Hospital, where Landis and Clint Hill tried to coax Jackie to release the president, whom, by that point, she had cradled in her lap. Climbing into the back seat area, which had been spattered with blood and brains and bullet fragments, both agents, according to their subsequent accounts, gently encouraged the first lady to let go. As she did—standing up to follow Hill and another agent, Roy Kellerman, who lifted her husband’s body onto a gurney and raced into the hospital—Landis saw and did something that he has kept secret for six decades, he says now. He claims he spotted a bullet resting on the top of the back of the seat. He says he picked it up, put it in his pocket, and brought it into the hospital. Then, upon entering Trauma Room No. 1 (at that stage, he was the only nonmedical person in the room besides Mrs. Kennedy, and both stayed for only a short period), he insists, he placed the bullet on a white cotton blanket on the president’s stretcher. (....) Landis contends that he reached over, picked up the lone bullet nestled in the crevice, and decided to place it in his pocket, mindful that if it were left there, precariously, it might be overlooked, pilfered by an unauthorized passerby, or misplaced once the president’s body was removed. Accompanying the first lady into Parkland, he says, he brought the bullet with him and, without conferring with Mrs. Kennedy, his fellow agents, or hospital staffers, placed it on JFK’s stretcher, thinking it needed to be with the body for the autopsy. ( James Robenald, Vanity Fair, 2023) The autopsy should have taken place at Parkland, but instead JFK’s body was taken away to Washington. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Post by Arjan Hut on Sept 26, 2023 12:33:37 GMT -5
559 Who told “Oswald” that Azque was to be replaced?About Oswald’s alleged visit to Mexico City:29 The missing section from the Lopez ReportAbout the suspicious letter:48 The handwritten draft of the 'Comrade Kostin' letter to the Soviet Embassy174 Ruth Paine's handwritten copy of handwritten draft of the 'Comrade Kostin' letter
"Of course the Soviet Embassy was not at fault, they were, as I say, unprepared, the Cuban consul was guilty of a gross breach of regulations. I am glad he has since been replaced"
(From the typed 'Kostin'-letter) The letter, while apparently signed by Oswald, is typed and thus not amenable to a fuller authenticity test. A handwritten draft subsequently entered the record, but the story of its origins raises further questions. ( Mary Ferrell Foundation) Four years after the asssassination of President Kennedy, the FBI is still investigating a mystery involving the contents of the last letter Lee Harvey Oswald wrote before the Dallas tragedy. The correspondence, intercepted and read by the FBI before it arrived at its destination, was mailed to to the Soviet Embassy here in Washington on Nov. 12, 1963 - or 10 days before the assassination. Written as a request for a Soviet-visa, the letter contained a paragraph referring to the highly secret recall of a Cuban official in the Mexico City embassy days after Oswald had visited there and returned to Dallas. The baffling question the FBI is still trying to answer is: How did Oswald learn about this official’s unannounced recall? (....) Eusebio Azcue, former Cuban Consul, examining a photo book for the House Select Committee on Assassinations. HSCA Public Hearings Exhibit 437.
THe CIA’s memorandum to the commission, now declassified and on file in the National Archives, states: “We surmise that the reference in Oswald’s 9 November letter to a man who has since been replaced must refer to Cuban Consul Eusebio Azque, who left Mexico for Cuba on permanent transfer on 18 November 1963, four days before the assassination. Azcue was scheduled to leave in October but did not leave until 18 November. We do not know who might have told Oswald that Azque was to be replaced.” After receiving this reply ftom the CIA, the Warren Commission’s staff made no further inquiry on the Azque reference, but centered their probe on the circumstances under which the letter was prepared and later discovered. ( Oswald’s last letter still puzzles the FBI, Las Vegas Sun, 11-29-67)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Sept 28, 2023 12:15:26 GMT -5
560 Post-Bay of Pigs memo about the CIARelated:382 The 1956 Bruce-Lovett Report454 Jewel #1: the CIA's top transgressionErasing the Past...DiscussionsOne Church Committee document over which the CIA retains control - an entire section longer than a page is completely redacted - is deeply ironic. It is a memo from White House aide Arthur Schlesinger Jr. to President Kennedy, written after the Bay of Pigs debacle and entitled "CIA Reorganization." Section 3 begins with "The Controlled American Source represents a particular aspect of CIA's encroachment on policy-making functions." The next page-and-a-half of Schlesinger's complaint to Kennedy about the CIA is blacked out to this day, its declassification schedule now placed under control of the Agency itself. ( State of the JFK Releases 2023, Mary Ferrell Foundation) Arthur Schlesinger Jr., 1961.
Former President Truman, whose Administration established the C.I.A. in 1947, said in 1963 that by then he saw “something about the way the C.I.A. has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic positions, and I feel that we need to correct it.” And President Kennedy, as the enormity of the Bay of Pigs disaster came home to him, said to one of the highest officials of his Administration that he “wanted to splinter the C.I.A. in a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.” ( New York Times, April 25, 1966)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Oct 12, 2023 9:47:31 GMT -5
561 Record of 10-5-63 Jarnagin callRelated:11 Page 17 from Oswald's address book540 Who represented Justice For The Crew Of The Thresher?Carroll Jarnagin (1926-1998)JARNAGIN, CARROLL, Ruby witness; possible Oswald witness; Dallas attorney. On December 5, 1963, the FBI received the following letter/statement from Jarnagin: Dear Mr. Hoover,
On Oct. 4, 1963 I was in the Carousel in Dallas, Texas, and while there I heard Jack Ruby talking to a man using the name H.L. Lee. These men were talking about plans to kill the Governor of Texas. This information was passed on to the Texas Department of Public Safety on Oct. 5, 1963 by telephone. On Sunday Nov. 24, 1963 I definitely realized that the picture in the Nov. 23, 1963 Dallas Times Herald of Lee Harvey Oswald was a picture of the man using the name of H.L. Lee, whose conversation with Jack Ruby I had overheard back on Oct. 4, 1963. According to Jarnagin, Ruby was plotting to kill Connally because the governor would not cooperate with organized crime. The FBI sent a copy of Jarnagin's document to Dallas County District Attorney Henry Wade, who dismissed it with the statement: "It didn't ring true to me." Jarnagin was not called as a witness by the WC. Wade told the WC that Jarnagin had been given a polygraph examination, which indicated that he had been in the Carousel but had not heard a suspicious conversation. ( Who's who in the JFK Assassination, p. 217)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Oct 24, 2023 6:14:02 GMT -5
(562 Bill Alexander’s permanent pass to the Carousel Club)*More Bill Alexander:178 The source version of Oswald's diary216 Mary's Box of 33 docs linking Oswald-Ruby-Castro472 Records of a DPD inquiry at Red Bird Airport* Erasing the Past...DiscussionsALEXANDER, WILLIAM F. "BILL," Oswald witness; Ruby witness; Dallas assistant district attorney. Alexander talked briefly with Ruby on November 23. According to Alexander, the meeting was set up to discuss bad checks Ruby had received. Alexander was the assistant district attorney who most vigorously presented the case against Oswald to the public immediately following the assassination. (....) Detail from WCE 1322By November 23, Alexander said he was ready to prosecute Oswald "as part of an international Communist conspiracy." Alexander later prosecuted Ruby for Oswald's murder. During the Louisiana trial of Clay Shaw for conspiracy to assassinate the president, Alexander helped witness Sergio Arcacha Smith successfully resist extradition. Alexander's permanent pass to Ruby's Carousel Club, bearing Alexander's signature, was found among Ruby's belongings following Ruby's arrest. WCE 1322 describes all of the cards found and lists the names on them, including Alexander's. However, a microfilm of the actual cards shows all of them except Alexander's. ( Who’s who in the JFK Assassination, p. 8)
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