Erasing the Past to Protect a Fairytale

156  Oran Brown's note with the name of Oswald



Related:
155 Albert Guy Bogard's business card

Mr. ORAN PAUL BROWN, 101 Savannah, Waxahachie, Texas, advised he was formerly employed as an
automobile salesman for Downtown Lincoln Mercury, Dallas, Texas. He is presently working as a trainee at
the Fine Service Station, 2681 Royal Lane in Dallas, and as soon as the Fina Service Station at Stemmons
Expressway and Inwood Road is completed he will be employed as manager at that location.

While working for Downtown Lincoln Mercury, one night about e week or two before President KENNEDY was
assassinated, BROWN vas scheduled to be on duty that night. Another salesman, ALBERT BOGARD, came by
and told him be had a prospect for the sale of a car, by the name of LEE OSWALD. BOGARD said that
OSWALD had been in looking at cars, but didn't have enough money for a downpayment, and was supposed
to come back when he got some money.

BOGARD asked BROWN to take care of OSWALD, if he came and they would split the commission if the car
was sold. BROWN then wrote the name "LEE OSWALD" down on something, and thought he wrote the name
down on the back of one of BROWN's cards. No one named OSWALD came in, and he forgot about the matter.



On the afternoon of November 22, 1963, after president KENNEDY had been killed, he came to work at about
3:00 PM, and BOGARD remarked to him that LEE OSWALD had been arrested in connection with the assassination.
BOGARD then said, "OSWALD was the name of the guy I was going to sell the car to, and I gave you his name as
a prospect." 

BOGARD also reminded BROWN that when BOGARD was talking to OSWALD at Downtown Lincoln Mercury, BROWN
started to walk into the office where BOGARD and OSWALD were talking, but BROWN walked away when he
noticed that BOGARD had a customer.

BROWN said he thought he remembered this incident, but didn't pay any attention to the customer BOGARD was
talking to, and definitely could not Identify this customer. BROWN stated he has Been the photographs of LEE
HARVEY OSWALD in newspapers, and on television and he could not say that he had ever seen LEE HARVEY
OSWALD before . However, BROWN was positive that BOGARD gave him the name of LEE OSWALD, as a
prospective customer, a week or two before President KENNEDY was assassinated.

When Brown got home on the evening of November 22, 1963, his wife asked him what he knew about OSWALD,
telling him that she had seen the name of OSWALD on a piece of paper among his effects. He told her that this
was a prospective customer, he thought he had written the name on one of his cards.

They both looked around the house, but could not find the card or a piece of paper, with the name of OSWALD
on it . On November 23, 1963, BOGARD told BROWN that he was sure that the LEE HARVEY OSWALD that be had
seen on television, was the same OSWALD that had been into see him about buying a car.

Mrs. ORAN PAUL BROWN, 101 Savannah, Waxahachie, Texas, advised that her husband was formerly employed as
an automobile salesman for Downtown Lincoln Mercury, Dallas, Texas. On the afternoon of November 22, 1963, she
watched the television news concerning the assassination of President KENNEDY.

When she heard that a man named LEE OSWALD had been arrested, she recalled seeing the name of OSWALD on a
piece of paper that her husband had left at the house. When her husband came home late that afternoon, she
asked him about it, and told him she thought she bad seen the name of OSWALD on a piece of paper, about two
weeks previously. Her husband then told her that one of the other salesmen where he worked, had given him the
name of OSWALD as a prospective customer . Mrs . BROWN said that she recalled the name on the piece of paper
was "OSWALD," and she thinks this name was proceeded by two initials, but she does not remember what the initials
were.

(FBI interview with Oran Brown and Mrs Oran Brown, 10 December 1963)

158 Unknown woman's pictures of 'sniper's window'
159 Moving pictures from upper window Dal Tex Building


Compare:
78 The missing Lumpkin photo

Two missing items in one:

Mr. BELIN. Is there anything else you can think of that occurred at the Texas School Book Depository that
afternoon while you were there that might have any relevancy about where the shots came from, other
than what you have told thus far?

Mr. SAWYER. Well, I had heard some of the officers come to me and said there was supposed to be,
somebody told them about a woman that had taken some pictures of that window, and then one of the
sergeants came to me, and I am not sure who the sergeant is now, but anyway he said that there was on
the building immediately west east, I am sorry cast [sic – east], of the Texas School Book Depository, that
a man up in one of the upper windows up there was taking some moving pictures of what had gone on. 


“ a woman that had taken some pictures of that window”
Could it have been her? (Left)
"man up in one of the upper windows up there was taking some moving pictures"
Could it have been him? (Right)

Mr. BELIN. Did you ever contact this man? Do you know what his name is?

Mr. SAWYER. No; I don't know his name. The sergeant told me that the man would not give them the pictures,
that he was waiting for the Secret Service or the FBI, I forget which now, and I sent the sergeant and two men
back over there with instructions to bring that man and his pictures to me. 


The Dal Tex Building

When they got back over there, Forrest Sorrels of the Secret Service was already there, and at least they so
reported back to me, and was talking to this man. So I told them to go ahead with their normal assignments
and since Forrest was already there and talking to him, I knew that that part would be taken care of. 

Mr. BELIN. You don't know what his name was or what the results of it was? 

Mr. SAWYER. I don't know. 


Inspector Herbert Sawyer of the Dallas Police


(Lost, Missing, Over-Exposed, Unavailable Photos and Films and Dubious Claims, Denis Morissette website)

161  The Posner/Bugliosi copper jacket



related:
97 James Tague May 1964 Dealey plaza color film


Both Gerald Posner (Case Closed, 1992, pp.324–326) and Vincent Bugliosi come to the
conclusion that the fact that no copper traces were detected in the bullet mark on the
Main Street curb can only mean one thing: the bullet or bullet fragment was stripped
from it's copper jacket after striking another object first.


James Tague was hit by a bullet or chip of concrete after a shot hit
the Main Street curb

“The probability is that a fragment of the bullet: Author Gerald Posner, pointing
out that the sniper’s nest is on a straight line with the oak tree and where Tague
was, theorizes that the bullet was “fragmented against a tree branch,” not the pavement,
and it was the copper jacket, separated from the lead core by the tree branch,
that struck the pavement on Elm. The lead core, he believes, remained on a straight
line in its flight and struck the Main Street curb near Tague over five hundred feet
away, sending a chip of concrete into Tague’s cheek.*


(*Although this scenario is possible, one should not forget that by all accounts the Carcano cartridge
was very strong and stable. Also, we know that Commission Exhibit No. 567, one of the two large bullet
fragments found in the presidential limousine, still had its copper metal jacket attached to its lead core,
and this was after hitting the president’s skull, which would probably be stronger than the branch of a
tree.)

( … )

The piece of the curbing containing the mark on the curb was removed by the
FBI on August 5, 1964, and examined in the FBI laboratory in Washington, D.C.
“Small foreign metal smears were found adhering to the curbing section within
the area of the mark. These metal smears were spectrographically determined to
be essentially lead [the core of all bullets] with a trace of antimony. No copper was
found”

( … )

The fact that no copper was present (the Mannlicher-Carcano bullets
were copper-jacketed) strongly suggests that a fragment from the lead core of a bullet
struck the curb. FBI agent Lyndal Shaneyfelt testified that “the absence of copper
precludes the possibility that the mark on the curbing section was made by an
unmutilated . . . bullet”

Contrary to the Commission’s conclusion, the second shot can at least be eliminated
as the possible source of the mark on the curb since this bullet was recovered
at Parkland Hospital. That means that the curb mark was caused by a
fragment from either the first or third shots fired in Dealey Plaza.”

(Vincent Bugliosi, Reclaiming History, End Notes p. 315-316)


Vincent Bugliosi, 1934 – 2015

No copper-jacket was ever retrieved from Dealey Plaza.

163   Record for shoplifter arrested by JD Tippit


See also:
73  Several Jim McCammon photo(s) and negatives

"The murder of Officer J.D. Tippit in Oak Cliff was famously cited by David Bellin, Assistant Counsel to the Warren
Commission, as being the “Rosetta Stone to the solution” of the JFK assassination. (Jim Marrs, Crossfire, p. 340,
all references are to the 1989 edition) “Once it is admitted that Oswald killed Patrolman J.D. Tippit,” the attorney
for the commission observed, “there can be no doubt that the overall evidence shows that Lee Harvey Oswald
was the assassin of John F. Kennedy.”

Following Mr. Belin’s questionable logic might also lead one to believe the opposite to be true. Once it is shown
that Oswald likely did not kill Patrolman Tippit, the case for him having shot President Kennedy and Governor
Connally is, therefore, demonstrably weakened.

(...)


The “strangeness” of Tippit’s actions on 11/22/63 appear to have begun even before shots rang out in
downtown Dallas. Tippit, whose normal area of patrol was in Cedar Crest, patrol area #78, was apparently
called to a supermarket in the 4100 block of Bonnie View Road. Respected Tippit researcher Larry Ray Harris
interviewed the Hodges Supermarket manager in 1978. As described in news reporter Bill Drenas’ oft-cited
1998 article Car #10 Where are You?, the manager told Harris he had caught a woman shoplifter on 11/22/63
and had phoned police.

It was Tippit who responded to that location at about noon, just a half hour before the assassination. The
manager knew Tippit, because Tippit routinely came to the market on calls for shoplifters. The interviewee said
Tippit placed the woman in his squad car and left. However, Tippit appears not to have brought the shoplifting
suspect back to his nearby base of operations. No record of the woman’s arrest or information on who she was
or what happened to her has ever surfaced."

(Jack Myers, Why Officer Tippit Stopped His Killer, KennedysandKing, July 2019)