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Post by Arjan Hut on Jul 2, 2019 11:44:44 GMT -5
155 Albert Guy Bogard's business card see also:44 Oswald's drivers licence On a Saturday early in November 1963 a young man came to the Downtown Lincoln-Mercury dealer about a five minute walk west of Dealey Plaza. He wanted to look at some cars and eventually test drove a Red Comet caliente with salesman Guy Bogard. The young man was reluctant to give any personal information to Bogard, but when the salesman insisted gave his name as Lee Oswald. Oswald had tested a car by driving over the Stemmons Freeway at high speed and had said that he would have the money to buy the car in several weeks. The Warren Report indicates that Bogard's story received corroboration from Frank Pizzo, assistant sales manager, and from salesmen Oran Brown and Eugene Wilson. Wilson related that another salesman at Dowtown Lincoln-Mercury, known as Al Bogard, on some day about the first part of November, 1963, beleived to be a Saturday, but exact date not recalled, came to him with a customer. The company had a policy that if a salesman had a prospective customer that the salesman could not sell a car, the salesman was supposed to bring the prospect to a senior salesman, before letting the customer go. ( … ) Wilson said that he talked to this customer for only a minute or so, and told him that if he did not have a credit rating, or a substantial amount of cash, and had not been employed on his job for some time, they would be unable to sell him a car. The customer then said, rather sarcastically, “Maybe I'm going to have to go back to Russia to buy a car.” ( FBI interview with Eugene Wilson, 9-9-1964) "On November 22, 1963, after President Kennedy had been killed, I heard a radio broadcast about Lee Oswald being picked up as a prospect, and thought about the man being In about two weeks previously. I found the card in my pocket, that had the name Lee Oswald on it. This was sometime in the afternoon of November 22, 1963. I mentioned this name on the card to some of the other people at the place where I was working, and showed the card to them,remarking, 'He isn't a prospect any more.' I then threw the card in the waste basket . ( FBI interview with Guy Bogard, December 9, 1963) The location of Downtown Lincoln-Mercury at Commerce & Industrial in 2017The salesman whose demonstrator car Lee Harvey Oswald supposedly sped down Stemmons Freeway when Oswald didn't know how to drive has told The News the FBI dismissed the incident because the FBI pegged it one week too late. Eugene M. Wilson insists Oswald knew how to drive and it was he who walked into the Downtown Lincoln-Mercury dealership to buy a new car on Nov. 2, 1963, not Nov. 9. The Warren Commission concluded that Wilson and several other salesmen had mistakenly identified Oswald as the man who test drove a Red Comet caliente hardtop several weeks before the assassination of President Kennedy. (Earl Golz, Salesman insists FBI discounted facts on Oswald, Dallas Morning News, Sunday, May 8, 1977) There is some ambiguity about the diligence of the search for Bogard's card. Pizzo is really the only authority for the assertion in the Report that a search took place. Bogard himself was never questioned by the Commission about an attempt to find the card or given an opportunity to comment on the fact that it was not found. The FBI agents who interviewed Bogard on November 23 and who were said by Pizzo to have made a thorough search for the card reported merely that they had asked Bogard to locate the card and that "he stated trash had been picked up by the janitor and placed in a large receptacle to the rear of the building, somewhat inaccessible for a thorough search. He did not locate the card." This hardly suggests that the FBI agents had made a search, or that Bogard did so. (Sylvia Meagher, Accesories after the fact, p.355) You could see the TSBD from Downtown Lincoln-Mercury.
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jul 3, 2019 11:54:32 GMT -5
156 Oran Brown's note with the name of OswaldRelated:155 Albert Guy Bogard's business cardMr. 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)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jul 4, 2019 12:17:42 GMT -5
157 Bogard / Oswald line-up confrontation See also:62 FBI Agent John L. Quigley's interrogation notes155 Albert Guy Bogard's business card156 Oran Brown's note with the name of OswaldErasing the Past...DiscussionsSomething that should have happened, could have happened, and right away on 23/11/1963: “If it is strange that the Commission exaggerates the loss of the card, it is stranger still that the FBI reacted to Bogard's story on the day after the assassination by focusing on a discarded bit of paper as if it were the only significant element. The really significant element was the report that a man who identified himself as "Lee Oswald," and whom Bogard firmly believed to be Oswald after seeing his likeness on television and in the newspapers, had indicated on November 9 that he expected to receive enough money soon to buy a car that cost from $3,000 to $3,500. The FBI received that information within 24 hours after the assassination by means of a telephone call at 11 a.m. on Saturday. (CE 3093) ( … ) "Maybe I have to go back to Russia to get a car" Frank Whaley as an Oswald-impersonator in the movie JFK
The 11 o'clock telephone call caused FBI agents Manning Clements and Warren De Brueys to go immediately to the auto agency and interview Bogard. They had Bogard drive them over the same route as "Oswald," noting in their report that it coincided closely with the route of the President's motorcade. (CE 3071) The re-enactment drive took Bogard and the two FBI agents within relative proximity to the police building, where Oswald was being questioned and appearing in identification line-ups. FBI Agent Clements had interviewed Oswald on Friday night, according to his report (WR 614-618); the interview had been interrupted twice when Oswald had been taken to appear in the line-up. (7H 320) Clements was a seasoned FBI agent with 23 years of service. De Brueys, for his part, was aware of Oswald before the assassination. An FBI report indicates that De Brueys had given information on Oswald's activities in New Orleans in a report dated October 25, 1963.1 (CE 833, question 13) Clements in the middle
Yet Clements and De Brueys did not take the elementary and logical step of bringing Bogard to the police building to see Oswald in a line-up and determine whether or not he was in fact the customer of November 9 who had called himself "Oswald." Nor did they inform Captain Fritz, as they should have done at once, of the information obtained from Bogard—information which not only incriminated the suspect but might have been a distinct lead to the source of the money that Bogard's customer was going to receive, the possible conspirators. Clements, like Bogard, was deposed by Commission counsel, on the same date in the same building and within the same hour (7H 318-322); he was asked no questions about Bogard's story and he volunteered no information on the subject. Warren de Brueys from New Orleans
The very fact that two experienced FBI agents, both already active and knowledgable in the Oswald case, avoided taking these steps is incomprehensible. The agents' failure to take the necessary and expected action upon interviewing Bogard must be regarded in the larger context of the over-all ambiguity of the relationship between Oswald and the FBI, as well as in terms of the specific prior contacts between each of the agents and Oswald. The reports on the interrogation of Oswald (WR Appendix X1) are remarkable in that they reflect no intensive questioning directed to uncovering his fellow assassins, if he had any. The very circumstances as they existed on November 23 inevitably should have made that line of questioning central to the interrogation. Yet it is difficult to find one direct question to Oswald based on the possibility of conspiracy. One might almost think that FBI Agents Clements and De Brueys were intent upon concealing rather than investigating evidence of a plot to assassinate the President.” (Sylvia Meagher, Accessories after the fact, p. 355/6)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jul 7, 2019 13:13:20 GMT -5
158 Unknown woman's pictures of 'sniper's window' 159 Moving pictures from upper window Dal Tex BuildingCompare:78 The missing Lumpkin photoTwo 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)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jul 8, 2019 13:00:43 GMT -5
160 NBC interviews with Downtown Lincoln-Mercury salesmenRelated:155 Albert Guy Bogard's business card156 Oran Brown's note with the name of Oswald157 Bogard / Oswald line-up confrontation“Word of this Oswald test driving incident reached NBC reporters from California, Gene Barnes and Ted Mann who heard that Bogard went to Shreveport on Saturday, November 23, 1963 and flew there to interview him.” (Joe Backes, summary of the 1996 Fourth Decade conference in Fredonia) From the declassified files. The Secret Service orders NBC to stick to the FBI-report."Isn't it true Mr. Chief Justice that a filmed interview with Mr. Bogard and other salesmen, one of whom was actually fired for tipping the Feds, has not been made public because some law men allegedly requested the network not to use it?" (Walter Winchell, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, October 13, 1964) FBI response to Walter Winchell, ADMIN FOLDER-W8: HSCA ADMINISTRATIVE FOLDER, LEE HARVEY OSWALD VOLUME X.
“An unnamed NBC representative telephoned the Passport Office in Washington, D.C. on November 26, 1963, “seeking to identify from passport files one JACK LAWRENCE, of Dallas, born about 1939, an alleged associate of JACK RUBY [but] passport files were negative, and no additional information had been located regarding LAWRENCE.” Two days later, NBC Correspondent Tom Pettit informed Joseph B. Abernathy of the Dallas FBI that he had recorded “a lengthy interview with Al Bogard” about the Oswald test drive. “Pettit quoted BOGARD as stating that JACK LAWRENCE, a former salesman for Downtown Lincoln-Mercury, had considerable additional information in this regard.” Lawrence postulates that Bogard mentioned his name to Pettit in retaliation for Lawrence reporting Bogard's encounter with “Oswald” to the FBI. He says that he was never interviewed by Pettit, but that three or four days after the assassination, Robert MacNeil of NBC showed up at the YMCA and interviewed him after being provided his name by a helpful FBI agent. Lawrence recalls that this agent was named Cunningham.” (Sheldon Inkol, Jack Lawrence responds, The Third Decade, September 1992, pp. 1-17 ) Tom Pettit covering the Oswald-transfer
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jul 9, 2019 12:26:30 GMT -5
161 The Posner/Bugliosi copper jacket related:97 James Tague May 1964 Dealey plaza color filmBoth 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.
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jul 9, 2019 13:00:29 GMT -5
162 Roy Truly's missing deposition(s)
Compare:134 One unidentified palmprintErasing the Past...DiscussionsTRULY, ROY SANSOM, a. w.; Oswald witness; TSBD superintendent; Truly, who had hired Oswald, watched the assassination from the north curb of Elm Street, in front of the TSBD. He told the WC that he thought the shots came from the direction of the concrete monument adjacent to the wooden fence atop the grassy knoll. Truly was the first known person to see Oswald after the assassination. At the time ( about 90 seconds after the shooting) Oswald was on the second floor of the building, calmly drinking a Coke. According to Oswald, a few days before the assassination, Truly was seen showing off a rifle inside the TSBD. ( Who's who in the JFK assassination) Truly passed away in 1985(Per Tom Sorensen:)
The index in Volume XV lists these entries for Roy Truly testifying: Truly, Roy Sansom: Testimony, vol. III, 212-241; vol. VII, 380-386, 591 In Vol. III 212-241 he appears before the commission, In Vol. VII 380-386 BALL takes his deposition, In Vol. VII 591 we have his affidavit regarding the door closing mechanism on the door to the vestibule on the 2nd floor. However, something is missing. This happened in the beginning of his Vol. VII deposition: Mr. BALL. Now, Mr. Truly, this is a continuation of your deposition. I took the last one and you have been sworn and I don't know that it is exactly necessary for you to take the oath again, since this is a continuation of the deposition. I took the last one, didn't I?
Mr. TRULY. Oh, no; I gave a statement that was under oath.
[BALL refers to a previous deposition taken by him that is now being continued. TRULY disagrees, so what statement under oath is he referring to?] Mr. BALL. Oh, no; this is a deposition. You appeared before the Commission--that's right.
Mr. TRULY. Mr. Belin took my sworn deposition also about a week before I went up there when you both were in Dallas and he also took a recorded deposition.
[BALL brushes him off saying the statement he refers to was his appearance before the commission (March 24th) but Truly will not keep quiet: "Went up there" must be referring to DC meaning that BELIN, not BALL, took the recorded deposition he's referring to.] Mr. BALL. Yes; but that was just an investigation, an inquiry. We didn't record that. You weren't under oath then. Will you stand up and be sworn? Do you solemnly swear that the testimony you are about to give before this Commission will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
Mr. TRULY. I do.
[Wow. Note how BALL cuts him off, basically telling him to STFU! But it's too late...even if BALL is correct in stating their little inquiry was not recorded, the first part of the current deposition is still missing] So we seem to have two serious discrepancies: 1/ A first part of a TRULY deposition taken by BALL missing 2/ Possibly another deposition taken be BELIN which BALL claims was actually an inquiry, and not recorded and not taken under oath. Was TRULY's memory really that bad?
BTW, we also have this weird reference: Mr. BALL. You testified before the Commission in Washington, you say, on the 24th of March 1964; did you not? Mr. TRULY. That's right. Mr. BALL. Your testimony is filed in volume 28, I believe, of the Commission here. There are certain matters which have come to the attention of the Commission since then that I would like to inquire about, and that's the reason we are taking your deposition, which will be in addition to the testimony you have already given. Do you recall anytime that you saw any guns in the Texas School Book Depository Building? Mr. TRULY. Yes; I did.
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jul 12, 2019 7:32:32 GMT -5
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)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jul 14, 2019 6:53:24 GMT -5
164 Emergency phone calls about stabbing at 10th & Marsalis related:163 Record for shoplifter arrested by JD TippitAt approximately 1:06 pm on 11-22-1963, officer Tippit stops driver James Andrews' car, and looks in the space between front seat and the back seat, without saying a word. Why did he do that? In his very interesting article, Why Officer Tippit Stopped His Killer, Jake Myers offers an explanation for Tippits behaviour:
(...) Approximately 1:04 p.m. Several blocks east of Top 10 and the Texas Theater, an unknown young white male about 5’8” to 5’10” and 165 pounds wearing a white shirt and light tan Eisenhower jacket begins to quickly walk west on East 10th Street. The man is in such a hurry that he catches the attention of those inside of Clark’s Barber Shop at 620 E. 10th as he breezes by that establishment’s storefront window. A pedestrian, Mr. William Lawrence Smith, passes the same man as Smith walks east to lunch at the Town & Country Café just a few doors west of the barber shop. (John Armstrong, Harvey and Lee, p. 841) Approximately 1:05 p.m.
10th & Marsalis in 2018
As the unknown white male proceeds west and crosses the intersection of 10th and Marsalis, a major disturbance suddenly breaks out at that corner. Bill Drenas, author of the 1998 article Car #10 Where Are You?, mentioned that a person near the scene of the Tippit shooting told investigator Bill Pulte that, “If you are planning to do more research on Tippit, you should find out about the fight that took place at 12th & Marsalis a few minutes before Tippit was killed.” The interviewee spoke only on the condition of anonymity. Harrison Livingstone, in his 2006 book The Radical Right and the Murder of John F. Kennedy,adds more crucial detail about this mysterious neighborhood altercation. “There are neighborhood reports of a disagreement at the intersection of 12th & Marsalis,” writes Livingstone, “a few minutes before Tippit was killed. Tippit was headed precisely toward 12th & Marsalis when he left Lancaster & 8th (the report of the 12th & Marsalis argument is from someone whose identity needs to be protected). “The late Cecil Smith witnessed this fight which was actually at 10th & Marsalis (my emphasis). One of the two individuals was stabbed, but it was never investigated, apparently … just two blocks east from where Tippit was shortly murdered.” The fight also occurred, let it be known, at the same time and location the unknown gunman in the light jacket, white shirt, and dark trousers is passing on his way two blocks west to the fast approaching scene of the fatal Tippit shooting. But it was not until Dallas researchers Michael Brownlow and Professor William Pulte made public their findings in a 2015 Youtube video that we get the full scoop on this most unusual so-called “fight.” Brownlow said it was actually three men and a woman who jumped on another man at the corner, who was then “violently” stabbed. The wounded man, bleeding profusely, was then inexplicably thrown into the back of a blue Mercury Monterey which sped away from the scene. Many people witnessed the assault. 10th & Marsalis was a commercial corner, with an auto parts store, a plumbing supply store, and other nearby businesses such as the barber shop and restaurant. It was Indian summer, pre-air conditioning days, and most of these businesses had telephones within easy reach. Neighbors and teens home from school also allegedly witnessed the noisy and bloody altercation. (See also, Joseph McBride, Into the Nightmare, pp. 447-48) Emergency phones calls were obviously placed to the Dallas Police, although you won’t find any mention of this incident in the DPD call logs for 11/22/63. Why not? ( Jack Myers, Why Officer Tippit Stopped His Killer, KennedysandKing, July 2019)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jul 14, 2019 12:11:43 GMT -5
165 Recording and written log of crucial Dallas WHCA transmissionssee also:Evaluation of Secret Service Performance in Dealey Plaza
Mr. McCLOY. Do you have a communications system with the Secret Service agents for this pilot car? Mr. LAWSON. Yes, sir; because the next car in the motorcade is what we call a lead car and it is actually a rolling command car. We try to have a command officer from every jurisdiction of police with a radio net of their own in that vehicle. Sometimes if you are in an area where there are State police and police and sheriff's and quite a few jurisdictions, where it is a long motorcade i and you are going through various counties you are not able to have a command officer of every jurisdiction in that. But in Dallas the lead car, the car that I was in directly ahead of the President was a police car, and of course it had a radio that was in contact with the pilot car and any other radio on the police net. In addition to that, I had a portable radio on the Secret Service White House network. (...) Mr. McCLOY. Did you see anybody in the School Book Depository? Mr. LAWSON. No, sir; at this point Just as we started around that corner I asked Chief Curry if it was not true that we were probably 5 minutes from the Trade Mart, and it is quite usual to make a radio call to your next point of stop that you are 5 minutes away. Therefore right about the time we turned that corner and were a little ways past it, I am sure I was speaking on the radio, because the White House Communications Agency has about the time I gave the 5 minutes away warning signal, and within seconds after that the shots were fired. (...) Mr. STERN. I think perhaps now you could tell us what you observed and what transpired from the time your car turned into Houston Street off of Main. Mr. LAWSON. As I have said previously today, right around that corner I gave this radio broadcast that we were 5 minutes away. Mr. STERN. Was this while you were on Houston or had you turned? Mr. LAWSON. We had turned the corner. We were either at the corner, I believe we were just about at the corner when I asked the question if I shouldn't give about a 5-minute signal now so we must have been around the corner then when I actually finished broadcasting. It doesn't take long. ( TESTIMONY OF WINSTON G. LAWSON, ACCOMPANIED BY FRED B. SMITH, DEPUTY GENERAL COUNSEL, TREASURY DEPARTMENT) Lawson behind JFKThe White House Communications Agency (WHCA), originally known as the White House Signal Corps (WHSC) and then the White House Signal Detachment (WHSD), was officially formed by the United States Department of War on 25 March 1942 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The organization was created to provide secure normal, secret, and emergency communications requirements in support of the President. The organization provided mobile radio, Teletype, telegraph, telephone and cryptographic aides in the White House and at "Shangri-La" (now known as Camp David). The organizational mission was to provide a premier communication system that would enable the President to lead the nation effectively. (...) WHCA has played an unremarked, but significant role in many historical events, including: World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, Panama and Guatemala, Operation Just Cause, Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, and Operation Restore Hope in Somalia. WHCA was also a key player in documenting the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the attempted assassinations of Presidents Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan. ( Wikipedia, retrieved 7-14-19)
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