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Post by Arjan Hut on Jul 15, 2019 12:10:10 GMT -5
166 The identity of the officer who found the "Westbrook"-jacketSee also
152 Tippit's clipboardErasing the Past...DiscussionsCaptain Westbrook and several officers proceed to the adjacent parking lot behind the Texaco service station, where the suspect lost his civilian pursuers, to conduct a further search. Quickly, an officer points out to Captain Westbrook a light-colored jacket tossed under the rear bumper of an old Pontiac parked in the middle of the parking lot. Westbrook walks over and inspects the clothing. Looks like their suspect has decided to change his appearance. Motorcycle officer J. T. Griffin reaches for his police radio to notify the dispatcher, and fellow officers, of the discovery. "We believe we've got [the suspect's] white jacket. Believe he dumped it on this parking lot behind this service station at 400 block east Jefferson. " (Vincent Bugliosi, Reclaiming History, p. 90)  Mr. WESTBROOK. Actually, I didn't find it--it was pointed out to me by either some officer that--that was while we were going over the scene in the close area where the shooting was concerned, someone pointed
out a jacket to me that was laying under a car and I got the jacket and told the officer to take the license
number. Mr. BALL. When did this happen? You gave me a sort of a resume of what you had done, but you omitted this incident. Mr. WESTBROOK. I tell you what--this occurred shortly--let me think just a minute. We had been to the library and there is a little bit more conversation on the radio--I got on the radio and I asked the dispatcher about along this time, and I think this was after the library situation, if there had been a command post set up and who was in charge at the scene, and he told me Sergeant Owens, and about that time we saw Sergeant Owens pass. (...) Mr. BALL. Was that before you went to the scene of the Tippit shooting? Mr. WESTBROOK. Yes, sir; that was before we went to that scene. Mr. BALL. That was after you left the library? Mr. WESTBROOK. After we left the library. I got out of the car and walked through the parking lot. Mr. BALL. What parking lot? Mr. WESTBROOK. I don't know--it may have been a used-car lot. (...) Mr. BALL. Behind the Texaco service station? Mr. WESTBROOK. Yes; behind the Texaco service station, and some officer, I feel sure it was an officer, I
still can't be positive pointed this jacket out to me and it was laying slightly under the rear of one of the cars. Mr. BALL. What kind of a car was it? Mr. WESTBROOK. That, I couldn't tell you. I told the officer to take the make and the license number. Mr. BALL. Did you take the number yourself? Mr. WESTBROOK. No. Mr. BALL. What was the name of the officer? Mr. WESTBROOK. I couldn't tell you that, sir. ( WC Testimony of Capt. W. R. Westbrook, taken at 9 a.m., on April 6, 1964)  Commission Exhibit 162 is a light-weight gray zipper jacket. In the view of the Warren Commission, it is a key item of evidence in the Tippit murder. The Commission contends that the gray jacket (1) belonged to Lee Harvey Oswald, (2) was worn by Oswald at the time of the Tippit shooting, (3) was described and identified by eyewitnesses at or near the scene, and (4) was discarded by Oswald during his flight and discovered minutes later under a parked car by Captain W. R. Westbrook of the Dallas Police. These, in substance, are the explicit or implicit claims made in the Warren Report. (WR 175-176, 653) A close examination of the testimony and documents discloses (1) that the ownership of the jacket is not established beyond reasonable doubt, (2) that the eyewitnesses' descriptions of the killer's jacket do not match the gray jacket and in some cases are completely inconsistent with it, (3) that some of those eyewitnesses were unable to identify the gray jacket when it was displayed to them, and (4) that the jacket was not found by Captain Westbrook, as the Report asserts, but by a man whose identity the Commission did not even try to establish. (Sylvia Meagher, Accesories after the fact, 1967, s.274)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jul 16, 2019 11:26:21 GMT -5
167 Beverly's Babushka camera
See also:135 Beverly Oliver's Super 8 Yashica color movie of the assassination 139 A study of Beverly Oliver's feetI never said that I used a Super Eight camera. That came from a man named Gary Shaw in a book that he wrote called The Cover-Up. I might have said to him, and this was 1970, Super Eight meaning eight millimeter. All I know is that it was a prototype camera that a man I was dating who worked for Eastman Kodak, by the name of Lawrence Taylor Ronco, Jr., gave me as a present the September before the President was killed in November, a brand new camera, a magazine load, and I had to send these little envelopes to Rochester to be developed. That's all I know about the camera, and it was a Yashika. When this came out about the camera, I called Yashika in New York and spoke to John Storch. I don't know what his position was. He was very excited to do research on the camera. Posner is right; that camera was not available to the general public in 1963, but it does not mean that I could not have had a prototype camera of it. I'm not saying it was Super Eight. I don't know what it was. He also made a statement, and I have it in writing, in talking to his supervisors and people of that time, that they felt like probably if I had used the word Super Eight in that interview, it's like people going today to get something Xeroxed. After they came out, they just became the nomenclature for any kind of an eight millimeter camera. (Beverly Oliver "The Babushka Lady" Interview, Gary James, Mobile Alabama Harbinger, 1998)  Ronco and Beverly
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jul 17, 2019 12:36:52 GMT -5
168 Six boxes of FBI files on the Fair Play for Cuba Committee
see also:62 FBI Agent John L. Quigley's interrogation notes77 File cabinet containing, “records that appeared to be names and activities of Cuban sympathizers”
80 Volume 5 of Office of Security-file on Oswald"We have learned a lot from what has already been released, but there are key files that remain unavailable. One example is the six boxes of FBI files on the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, which contain the names of all informants--Malcolm [Blunt] accidentally got a look at them on his first trip to the archives when a new employee accidentally pulled them from the classified files. We still haven't seen those files again since." (Martin Shackleford, 2-21-19 on the JFK: Hands on research Facebook-page) Lee Oswald handing out FPCC leaflets in New Orleans
Lee Harvey Oswald and others handing out "Fair Play for Cuba" leaflets in New Orleans, August 16, 1963.
One of Oswald's FPCC leaflets had the address "544 Camp Street" hand-stamped on it, apparently by
Oswald himself. This address was in the same building as the office of Guy Banister, an ex-FBI agent who
was involved in anti-Castro and intelligence activities.The Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC) was an activist group set up in New York City in April 1960. The FPCC's purpose was to provide grassroots support for the Cuban Revolution against attacks by the United States government, once Fidel Castro began openly admitting his commitment to Marxism and began the expropriation and nationalization of Cuban assets belonging to U.S. corporations. The FPCC opposed the Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961, the imposition of the United States embargo against Cuba, and was sympathetic to the Cuban view during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. ( Wikipedia, retrieved 17-7-19) 
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jul 18, 2019 11:08:39 GMT -5
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jul 19, 2019 13:55:59 GMT -5
170 Lincoln-Mercury records on Jack Lawrence
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155 Albert Guy Bogard's business card156 Oran Brown's note with the name of Oswald157 Bogard / Oswald line-up confrontation 160 NBC interviews with Downtown Lincoln-Mercury salesmen The FBI began investigating the Oswald test drive immediately. Bogard was interviewed for the first time on the very day of [co-worker] Jack Lawrence's call to the FBI.* On November 22, a customer had overheard the salesmen discussing Lawrence and the car behind the fence. This customer flew to Chicago that weekend and repeated the story in a Chicago bar. Early Monday morning, five or six FBI agents from Chicago arrived at Downtown Lincoln-Mercury. They confiscated all of the company records on Lawrence and never returned them. (Sheldon Inkol, Jack Lawrence: assassin or fall guy?, The Third Decade, 1992)  Downtown Lincoln-Mercury at the bottom of this 1963 Aerial photo.LAWRENCE, JACK, employee of Downtown Lincoln-Mercury, the same Dallas car dealership where, several weeks before, a man claiming to be Oswald had come in to wildly test-drive a car. Lawrence called the FBI to report that incident, against the wishes of his coworkers. According to author Gary J. Shaw, Lawrence borrowed a car from the dealership on the eve of the assassination and then did not show up for work that Friday morning. The next his fellow employees saw him was when "30 minutes after the assassination, Lawrence, muddy and sweating profusely, came running into the dealership and was overcome by nausea. His abandoned vehicle was later found parked behind the wooden fence on the Grassy Knoll ... ( WHO'S WHO IN THE JFK ASSASSINATION) *According to the FBI, Lawrence telephoned on the morning after the assassination at
11 o'clock. In a follow-up article bu Sheldon Inkol, "Jack Lawrence responds', Lawrence
himself says he called early in the evening of 11-22.
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jul 20, 2019 4:07:53 GMT -5
171 Chicago FBI interview(s) of Frank Pizzo
( continued from 170 Lincoln-Mercury records on Jack Lawrence) On November 22, a customer had overheard the salesmen discussing Lawrence and the car behind the fence. This customer flew to Chicago that weekend and repeated the story in a Chicago bar. Early Monday morning, five or six FBI agents from Chicago arrived at Downtown Lincoln-Mercury. (...) Frank Pizzo was apparently interviewed twice by a pair of Chicago FBI agents that day, but these interviews did not become Commission Exhibits and have yet to be made public. (Sheldon Inkol, Jack Lawrence: assassin or fall guy?, The Third Decade, 1992) Pizzo's account of the search for the card was given in his testimony, on March 31, 1964. (10H 340-351) His earlier statements on the subject as well as his earlier identification of the customer are beyond our reach, because the reports on his FBI interviews on November 25 or 26 and on January 8 (10H 350) have been withheld and are not among the Exhibits. (Sylvia Meagher, Accessories after the fact, p. 355) The FBI interview with Frank Pizzo dated Januari 8, 1964, which I though was unavailable, is actually an unpublished part of CD 329, specifically pages 77-78. James Rozzell was interviewed by FBI agents Arthur E. Carter and Will Hayden Griffin. Rozzell expressed great suspicions of Jack Lawrence, and he named Pizzo, Fowler, and Teter as the sources of this suspicions. (...) Even though the same two agent interviewed Pizzo on that very same day, there is not a single reference to Lawrence in this report! (...) The Pizzo interviews conducted by FBI agents from Chicago on November 25 or 26, however, are still missing. It is also apparent from Pizzo's testimony to the Warren Commission that Commission counsel had not seen these interviews. (Sheldon Inkol, Jack Lawrence responds, The Third Decade, 1992) PIZZO, FRANK, Oswald witness; employee of the Downtown LincolnMercury agency in Dallas. Pizzo's statements corroborate those of Albert G. Bogard; that Oswald came in and recklessly test-drove a Mercury Comet about two weeks before the assassination. This is odd because Oswald did not drive. Pizzo and Bogard were coworkers at the car dealership at the time of the assassination, along with the suspicious Jack Lawrence. ( Who's who in the JFK assassination)  "Why was Pizzo called to testify before the commission but Lawrence was not?" (Leslie Sharp, JFKfacts, July 20, 2016)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jul 21, 2019 9:46:22 GMT -5
172 "DPD arrest records for Jack Lawrence"Related:155 Albert Guy Bogard's business card156 Oran Brown's note with the name of Oswald157 Bogard / Oswald line-up confrontation 160 NBC interviews with Downtown Lincoln-Mercury salesmen 170 Lincoln-Mercury records on Jack Lawrence 171 Chicago FBI interview(s) of Frank Pizzo"Lawrence denies that he was ever reported to the Dallas police, taken into custody or questioned." (Sheldon Inkol, Jack Lawrence responds, The Third Decade, 1992)
"The Lying Car Salesman"Jack Lawrence was arrested later that afternoon and held in jail for 24 hours. Judging from his peculiar behavior on November 22, one cannot help but garner the idea that he was somehow involved in the assassination. Jack Lawrence, arrested by police because he behaved so suspiciously on the afternoon of November 22. In October, 1963 Lawrence had shown up at Downtown Lincoln-Mercury two blocks west of Dealey Plaza and obtained employment as a car salesman after presenting what appeared to be excellent references from an auto dealership in New Orleans; independent researchers have since discovered that the references were completely phony. He never sold one car, from the time his employment began until he abruptly quit on November 23. Lawrence came to Dallas from Los Angeles and was known· as an ardent right-wing speaker. According to the Babushka Lady, he was frequently seen in Jack Ruby's Carousel Club and was a close friend of Ruby's roommate, George Senator. On Thursday, November 21 Lawrence received permission to borrow a company car, after telling his boss that he had a "heavy date" that evening. Friday morning Lawrence failed to report to work and the supervisor became concerned about the borrowed car. Then, thirty minutes after the President was shot, Lawrence came hurrying through the showroom with mud on his clothes, pale and sweating profusely; he ran to the restroom and threw up. He told co-workers·that he had been ill that morning, tried to drive the car back to the dealership and finally parked it because traffic was so heavy; two employees went to get the car. Lawrence, an expert marksman in the Air Force, had parked the vehicle behind the wooden fence on the knoll, overlooking the assassination site. His behavior was so suspicious that one of his co-workers called police. Lawrence was taken in for questioning and held overnight. Following his release the next day, he immediately left Dallas and went to his parent's home in South Charlestown, West Virginia. (Shaw/Harris, Cover-Up, 1976, p.90)  Lawrence at home in the late 60s"As for Lawrence being an expert marksman in the AF, he told researcher Inkol that he almost didn't get to become an Air Policeman (his highest rank in the AF was Airman 2nd Class) because he was a "lousy shot." He also said that he was blinded in one eye by a rock at the age of 11. He said he didn't own a firearm of any kind. That said, according to Inkol's article there were some odd or interesting things about Downtown Lincoln Mercury where Lawrence worked. To begin with, it was from this dealership that an Oswald imposter took a car on a test drive, driving it along the same route through Dealey Plaza that the motorcade would take. The salesman on the test drive, Albert Guy Bogard, didn't want to get involved by reporting the incident after the assassination and arrest of Oswald, and the dealership thought that bringing attention to the incident would be bad publicity. Lawrence thought that the incident should be reported and made the call himself, which was what got him fired. The story of Lawrence running in muddy and throwing up after the assassination, which Lawrence says was nonsense, also had to come from personnel at the dealership. (...) Lawrence told the FBI that he and others in the AF would have liked to go to Cuba and help Castro in the Revolution, but that his discharge in 1959 came too late for him to do any good and he had never been to Cuba. He told Inkol that the reason for the emphasis on Cuba in the FBI reports is that the FBI agents keep asking him about it. Docs are in WC v. 26, pp. 452-453. According to Shaw's book Cover-Up (p. 90), Oliver said that Lawrence was frequently seen at the Carousel Club and was a close friend of George Senator. Lawrence denied these claims. There is no mention in Inkol's article of the Cabana or of dancing with Oliver. Lawrence said he went to "the piano bar" on the night of 11/21 with two other men from the dealership, stayed till closing time after the other two left, and had a bad hangover the next day." (Ron Ecker, Educationforum, June 26, 2005)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jul 21, 2019 14:40:14 GMT -5
173. The identity of "the Colonel"
Erasing the Past...DiscussionsSee also:
160 NBC interviews with Downtown Lincoln-Mercury salesmen 170 Lincoln-Mercury records on Jack Lawrence 171 Chicago FBI interview(s) of Frank Pizzo 172 DPD arrest records for Jack Lawrence"I awoke a little before noon and began getting ready to work," Lawrence recalls. (...) Lawrence left the YMCA between 12:35 and 12:40 p.m. He found that "as I pulled from the parking lot where I parked my car across from the YMCA onto Ervay and drove a few yards toward Main Street I encountered 'grid lock' traffic (...) I pulled my car to the curb at the corner of Ervay and Main and proceeded to work (about one mile distant) on foot."  Lawrence did hurry into the Downtown Lincoln-Mercury showroom about thirty minutes after the assassination, so that he would be on time for his 1:00 shift. (...) He knew that he had to get the car as soon as possible though, because he had left it in a yellow "No parking" zone and was afraid it might be towed. Lawrence was reluctant, however, to walk a mile back, "a block or so from the Y, to get the car." The salesman he was then sharing a booth with offered him a lift. Lawrence says that he cannot now remember this man's name, but he describes him as a retired colonel from California who for a hobby wrote novels about the Civil War in such detail that he would even research the kinds of buttons worn on the soldier's uniform. At first, Lawrence could not remember which branch of the military "the Colonel" had served in, and he described him as a balding man, mid-forties with wavy, reddish blonde hair.  Jack Map. Red circle = YMCA, red cross in blue circle - No parking zone with Jacks car.
Blue cross in blue circle = parking lot behind pikcet fence on grassy knoll
It could not have been retired Air Force Major Phil Willis, who also worked at the Downtown Lincoln-Mercury but was otherwise occupied that afternoon, having taken several photographs in Dealey Plaza at the time of the assassination. (Sheldon Inkol, Jack Lawrence responds, The Third Decade, 1992)  Phil Willis slide #4
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jul 23, 2019 8:40:57 GMT -5
174 Ruth Paine's handwritten copy of handwritten draft of the 'Comrade Kostin' letter Related:48 Handwritten draft of the 'Comrade Kostin' letter to the Soviet Embassy There is also another piece of evidence Ruth [Paine] turned over to the Commission that bolstered the CIA's version of Oswald in Mexico City. This is the handwritten draft, and handwritten copy of that draft, of a letter allegedly sent by Oswald to the Russian Embassy in Washington. This letter mentions his visit to the Cuban consulate and the Russian consulate in Mexico City. (...) [W]hoever wrote the letter had access to information that it is difficult to believe Oswald could have known, like the transfer of personnel from the Cuban consulate 7 weeks before it happened. Another notable oddity mentioned by [Carol] Hewett* is that the FBI returned the handwritten draft to Ruth Paine! While, as Hewett also notes, Ruth's handwritten copy of the first Oswald draft has disappeared from the National Archives.(Jim DiEugenio, Destiny Betrayed, 2nd edition, notes p. 425/6) 
The Soviet Embassy in WashingtonMr. JENNER - All right, go ahead. Mrs. PAINE - He was using the typewriter. I came and put June in her high-chair near him at the table where he was typing, and he moved something over what he was typing from, which aroused my curiosity. Mr. JENNER - Why did that arouse your curiosity? Mrs. PAINE - It appeared he didn't want me to see what he was writing or to whom he was writing. I didn't know why he had covered it. If I had peered around him, I could have looked at the typewriter and the page in it, but I didn't. Mr. JENNER - It did make you curious? Mrs. PAINE - It did make me curious. Then, later that day, I noticed a scrawling handwriting on a piece of paper on the corner at the top of my secretary desk in the living room. It remained there. Sunday morning I was the first one up. I took a closer look at this, a folded sheet of paper folded at the middle. (...)  Ruth on the right
Mrs. PAINE - At the top of what I could see of the paper. In other words, it was just below the fold. It said, "The FBI is not now interested in my activities." Mr. JENNER - Is that what arrested your attention? Mrs. PAINE - Yes. Mr. JENNER - What did you do? Mrs. PAINE - I then proceeded to read the whole note, wondering, knowing this to be false, wondering why he was saying it. I was irritated to have him writing a falsehood on my typewriter, I may say, too. I felt I had some cause to look at it. (...) Mr. JENNER - And you made a copy of the document? Mrs. PAINE - And I made a copy of the document which should be among your papers, because they have that too. And after having made it, while the shower was running, I am not used to subterfuge in any way, but then I put it back where it had been and it lay the rest of Sunday on my desk top, and of course I observed this too. ( Warren Commission testimony of Ruth Hyde Paine) *Carol Hewett, attorney who handled the mysterious package containing brown wrapping paper that was sent to Lee Oswald shortly
before the assassination, but never arrived. Hewett was interviewed by DiEugenio in 2012.
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jul 25, 2019 9:32:06 GMT -5
175 One Willis photo
See also:32 Unseen Darnell footage173 The identity of the ColonelPhil Willis, a witness to the assassination, told the author that police escorted from the [Dal-Tex] building a young man wearing a black leather jacket and black gloves. Willis photographed the suspect but says he destroyed the print so as not to embarrass the unidentified man. There is no mention of this suspect in police reports from that weekend. (Shaw/Harris, Cover-Up, 1976, p.84) 
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