Erasing the Past to Protect a Fairytale

107  Marvin Wise's handwritten note with the id's of two of the three arrested tramps


[Marvin Wise] parked near the railroad tracks. He was sitting in his car and A man working in the railroad
building waved at him. Wise and another officer (name forgotten) were told by the man that three men
got into a boxcar about four or five hundred yards down the track. Wise, in company with Bill Bass,
Vaughn and Middleton, went to the boxcars and took the men off the boxcar. Wise stated the men acted
scared, and he could smell wine on the breath of one of them. Wise took the men over to the Sheriff's
office and, while waiting to turn them over, asked the men for identification. Wise stated that he believes
two of the men had documented IDs. He wrote the identification down on paper and put it in his hat.

He turned the men over to the Sheriff's Office (Deputy's name unknown) and went back to his radio...
Wise stated that he put the paper with the tramps' identification on it in his locker, where it remained
for over a year. He cleaned his locker out, and just after that, people began asking him for information.
But he had thrown it out.

(November 14, 1977 HSCA interview with Marvin Wise).


Officer Wise leading the way

109  Vial containing part of JFK brain


Related:
2 Presidential protection survey reports for President Kennedy's trips in the fall of 1963
4 John F. Kennedy's brain
5 John F. Kennedy's second brain
76 The tissue slides of the wound margins prepared after JFK autopsy


“A vial containing a part of the brain was destroyed by the Secret Service some six years after
the assassination.”

(Anthony Summers, Not in your lifetime, p. 23)


"I asked Mastrovito if he had viewed or obtained any artifacts while he was in charge of the
assassination file. Mastrovito replied that he had received a piece of President Kennedy’s brain.
Mastrovito offered that this item was contained in a vial with a label on it identifying its contents.
The vial was the size of a prescription bottle. Mostrovito did not remember if it was glass or plastic.
The vial was from the Air Force (sic) Institute of Pathology. (Armed Forces Institute of Pathology)... .

Mastrovito said he destroyed the vial and its contents in a machine that destroys food."

(Assassination Records Review Board, Date: 04/01/97, Subject: USSS Records)


James Michael Mastrovito

111   “The Ralph Simpson movie”


Compare:
67 Bob Jackson’s Houston Street Picture

An unseen motion picture of the assassination?

In the wee hours of March 24, 1964, Duty Sergeant Patrick T. Dean received a collect call from
Victoria, British Columbia, from a man who identified himself as Ralph Simpson. Simpson
claimed to have been vacationing in Dealey Plaza at the time of the assassination and to have
filmed the assassination from a vantage point that captured the Texas School Book Depository
in the background. It was quickly determined that “Simpson” was actually one Ralph Henry
William Smele, who admitted to Canadian authorities that he had never been to Dallas, had
never had any film of the assassination, and had made the phone call to Dallas while watching
television and drinking.

(Dave Reitzes, Nowhere Man: The Strange Story of Gordon Arnold)


November 24, 1963 - Sergeant Patrick Dean interviewed in Dallas Police Department Basement

Dallas Police Sgt. Friend of Jack Ruby. Dean gave contradictory accounts. Died 8/13/88 in Tyler, Texas.
Survived by wife Shirley Dean of Tyler, daughter Tivilla Hoff of Dallas, sons Darrell and Tony of Tyler.
Wife supposed to have been daughter of O. P. Wright of Parkland Hospital. O. P. Wright's second wife
was Elizabeth Good, nurse who came to Parkland from Florida shortly before Assassination.

(Mary Ferrell website)

113. The license number of the getaway car reported by Tom Tilson



Compare
75 A Pennsylvanian Piece of Paper
82 James Powell's other 22-11-1963 Love Field/ Dealey Plaza photographs

Erasing the Past...Discussions

A RETIRED Dallas policeman, Tom Tilson Jr., recently told The News how
he chased a man who slid down the west side of the railroad embankment
from Dealey Plaza minutes after the presidential limousine sped by on its
way to Parkland Memorial Hospital.

Tilson said the man jumped into a dark car at the foot of the embankment near
the Elm Street underpass and drove west toward Industrial Boulevard.
Tilson, who was not on duty at the time, drove after the car while his
daughter, sitting beside him, wrote down the license number. He lost the
speeding car as it turned off Industrial onto the Fort Worth Turnpike, but he
reported the incident and the license number that day to the police homicide
bureau. He said he never heard whether the matter was investigated.

Although Tilson and Mrs. [Jean] Hill now know Dallas nightclub owner Jack
Ruby was m The Dallas Morning News building at the time, they insisted the
fleeing man they each chased closely resembled Ruby and wore dark, heavy
clothing.
 
(Earl Golz, SS 'imposters' spotted by JFK witnesses, Dallas Morning News, 28 August, 1978)



THE WARREN COMMISSION said Oswald traveled by taxicab after the shooting from downtown to
his boarding house in Oak Cliff. He then armed himself with a pistol, which he used minutes later
to shoot police officer J.D. Tippit, the commission concluded.

Tippit was covering Tilson's beat that day while Tilson was off work, he said. Three days later,
Tilson was a pallbearer at Tippit's funeral.

(Earl Golz, Ex-officer suspects he chased 2nd gun. Dallas Morning News, 20 August, 1978)


(pic Mel McIntyre)

According to his daughter who was riding with him, "seconds before she saw
the fleeing man, the presidential limousine had just sped past his parked car
on the grass... and the limousine was turning onto Stemmons Freeway."

This time roughly corresponds to the time that Mel McIntire took two photographs
of the limo emerging from under the railroad bridge and, shortly thereafter, the Secret
Service follow-up car turning onto Stemmons. In neither photo is there a "parked
car on the grass." With the rest of the motorcade still in Dealey Plaza, it is impossible
that a car could have gotten to that spot in time for Tilson to have seen it before
passing under the Triple Underpass. It simply wasn't there.

(M. Duke Lane, THE COWTOWN CONNECTION)


(pic Mel McIntyre)