Erasing the Past to Protect a Fairytale

319     Jackie's pink suit





"The real pink suit worn by Jackie Kennedy when John F. Kennedy was assassinated is currently held in the
archives in Maryland. According to family wishes, it will not be put on display for the public until 2103."

(Jackie [2016] - Trivia - IMDb)

321 The identity of the parking lot police officer


Related:
318    “Knoll shooter” crime scene evidence

Sheriff's department officer W. W. Mabra (201 Athens St., Dallas, CA 5-2682) who said he came
to this area immediately after the shooting testified that a "City Officer" whom he encountered
there said, "I was stationed in the rail yards and had this entire area in view, nobody came this
way." (XIX, page 541). This despite the fact that no officer was supposed to be stationed there.

(Penn Jones, Forgive my grief, p. 72)


William Weldom Mabra 1909-1999

Somebody then said, "The President just got shot and they headed for Parkland." By the time I got there,
the smoke had disappeared; evidently it was from a cigarette.

We didn't know whether the assassin had left the building, where he had been, or where he was. But I knew
that there was a parking area behind the knoll behind a wooden fence because I parked my car there, so
we went over and searched that. A uniformed Dallas police officer, whom I didn't know, was standing there
and said, "I don't know what's going on, but there hasn't been a thing move back here in an hour or more
because I've been here all that time." When he said that, I took it for granted that nobody had been there,
so I didn't search any further.

(Larry Sneed, No More Silence, p. 519)


The Parking Lot at nighfall, (c) Spacerjesusnet, 2009

323 The original negatives of photos of Donald Wayne House arrest


Compare:
89  Negative of Betzner #3 sold to LIFE
117 Pics and negatives by Dallas Morning News photographer Walter Cisco
245 Houston Chronicle Dealey Plaza photos


    "The director of the photo archives told me that it is much
more likely that the photographers did not turn them all in, or removed them
           after realizing that they may have some historical value."

Fort Worth police made an assassination-related arrest 90 minutes after
Kennedy was shot, and they remembered to take the suspect's name: Donald Wayne House, a man
who somewhat resembled Lee Oswald. House told the FBI he did not work that day
because of rain, and that he had driven more than 100 miles to Dallas from his home in Ranger, Texas
to visit an old army buddy. Arriving in Dallas about 10:30 a.m., he parked his car at an
unidentified location on Commerce Street and tried to telephone his friend, Randall Hunsaker, who
resided in the Dallas suburb of Mesquite. It is odd that House did not phone his friend prior to
driving such a distance.


Dynamite hauler House greatly admired JFK

Unable to reach Hunsaker, House decided to go to Fort Worth but traffic was heavy because of
the Presidential motorcade, so he parked his car and watched the parade before departing.
That afternoon at about 1:35 the Dallas Police dispatcher sent out an alert for a green and white
1957 Ford, Texas license #DT-4857. That vehicle was registered to House. The source of the report
was a Mrs. Cunningham, who called the Grand Prairie, Texas police and told them that the car had
been involved in the assassination and was en route to Ranger. Mrs. Cunningham is otherwise
unidentified and apparently there was no attempt by the FBI to locate or further identify her. Ten
minutes after the alert was broadcast, House was stopped on the east side of Fort Worth near Haltom
City. Tarrant County law officers booked House into the city jail where he was questioned by two
FBI agents and released upon the news that Oswald had been apprehended.

At 2:19 p.m. a Dallas Police unit was dispatched to 5818 Belmont, where someone had
been observed removing a rifle from a light green, two-tone vehicle. The car did not belong to House
but a second automobile at that location was registered to a George T. Hunsaker of Dallas. Is
this man related to House's friend, Randall Hunsaker? Apparently the FBI and Dallas Police
overlooked a possible connection, for there are no indications the lead was followed. And had they
checked they might have learned that in March, 1964, prior to license renewal, House junked his
six-year-old green and white Ford.

Erasing the Past...Discussions

(The author attempted to interview House in 1975 and was met with extreme hostility.)

A second Fort Worth arrest was made at the same time House was taken into custody but other
than photographs from the Fort Worth Star Telegram, there is no record of the arrest. The
original negatives of photos of both Fort Worth arrests are now missing from the Star-Telegram
photo files.

(Shaw/Harris, Cover Up, p. 88)


'The other arrest'

Some people have suggested that the Star-Telegram's negatives may have been
removed by the FBI as part of its official investigation, but there is no
evidence that this is the case. Some Star-Telegram staffers thought this
might be so, but the director of the photo archives told me that it is much
more likely that the photographers did not turn them all in, or removed them
after realizing that they may have some historical value. "We don't polygraph
them to make sure they do," he said. In any case, they were not removed by
any official body as part of either an investigation or a cover-up, nor most
certainly, to protect David Phillips.

(...)

At some point after the shooting, while House had been en route to Fort Worth,
Dallas police had contacted his mother_with whom he was living at the time_to
determine his whereabouts. After two or three such calls, Mrs House became
concerned, and called her niece, Mrs Wilson. (Mrs House is now deceased, so I
was unable to determine what DPD had talked with her about during those
calls.) Mrs House called the Wilsons' because, whenever Don came to Fort
Worth, he would spend the night with the Wilsons and she expected he would do
so this night too. After the calls from DPD, she became worried.

Shortly after the call from her aunt, Mrs Wilson heard a radio broadcast of a
suspect, identified as "22-year-old Donald House of Ranger, Texas" having
been arrested at 3408 East Belknap in Fort Worth. At first, she said, she
didn't recognize the name since "nobody called him Donald," but realized
after a moment that it had been her cousin who'd been taken into custody in
connection with the slaying.

She noted that the address was only a couple of blocks from where her husband
worked selling auto parts, and called to ask him to check on Don since it
appeared he was in some sort of trouble. He excused himself from work and
walked the short distance to where House had been arrested. There, he told
officers that he thought the car belonged to his wife's cousin, and was taken
into custody at 2:20 pm. "I was looking out for Don," Ken Wilson told me,
"and they ended up taking me to jail!"

He was not charged with a crime, and as the record of his arrest shows, he
was brought in solely as a witness. He was questioned about his relationship
with Don House and released 90 minutes later, at 3:50. He returned home
with his wife, where House joined them a couple of hours later (House wasn't
released until 5:15.

(M. Duke Lane, The Cowtown Connection)


Prescott Evening Courier - Sep 29, 1964

325  Footage of interview with unknown witness


A woman, at the killing site, still unidentified by us, was televised with a television camera, and she
said she saw a man fire at the President from the railroad overpass. We do not know her name, but a
young man told us he skipped high school, and was standing beside the woman as she told her story.
"I stayed up all night waiting to hear her story, because I wanted to see myself on television." he told us.
Needless to say, he has not yet seen himself on television, for the woman's statement was never used.

(Penn Jones, Forgive my grief IV, s.98)