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Post by Arjan Hut on Apr 19, 2020 13:03:35 GMT -5
347 Call sending officer Mentzel to 1:11 pm traffic accident
Related:113 The license number of the getaway car reported by Tom Tilson164 Emergency phone calls about stabbing at 10th & Marsalis166 The identity of the officer who found the Westbrook jacket 280 Official copy of the Dallas police dictabeltErasing the Past...Discussions[462] [Note: Unit 91, William D. Mentzel, and unit 222, Vernon R. Nolan, were sent to a traffic accident at 1:11:32 p.m. Unit 221, Howell W. Summers, checked out on a traffic stop at 1:10:32 p.m. There is no record of Summers clearing from this stop, although an interview of Summers indicated that he was available at the time Bowley radioed dispatcher Murray Jackson.] (Footnote from Dale Myers, With Malice, 2013 edition) Tippit, ostensibly pulled out of his own district, No. 78, reported at 12:54 from a location inside District 109. Some 20 minutes later he was shot to death on a street inside District 91, where the assigned officer, No. 91 (Mentzel), was present on duty in his squad car. The dispatcher, on receiving a citizen's report of a shooting on East Tenth Street, did not signal No. 91 (Mentzel) —he signaled Tippit, without any reason to believe that Tippit was the victim of the shooting or that he was the closest officer to the scene. Only after calling Tippit did the dispatcher signal and reach Mentzel, who, according to an FBI report: "Was eating lunch at 430 West Jefferson at time of assassination. Left restaurant to answer shooting call in 400 block East Tenth Street, Oak Cliff." (CE 2645) The transcripts of the radio log are studded with aberrations and inconsistencies, both in absolute terms and in divergence from each other. None of the many warning signals in the transcripts indicating that something more than meets the eye was transpiring in the hour of Tippit's death has been acknowledged or investigated by the Warren Commission. The assurances in the Warren Report that everything was innocent and routine are misleading. The radio log suggests irresistibly that Tippit was on something other than routine business, on his own behalf or under instructions, and that the truth of the circumstances which led him to the quiet street where he was shot to death has either not been ferreted out, or has been carefully concealed. (Sylvia Meagher, Accessories after the fact, p. 265)  William Duane Mentzel (1931-2002) at Tippit funeral
This reviewer would also like to point out that when T.F. Bowley reported the shooting to the DPD dispatchers, [dispatcher] Murray Jackson allegedly responded by calling out Tippit's radio number (78), because according to Myers, Tippit was "...thought to be the only available patrol unit in the Oak Cliff area." (ibid) By ignoring all the evidence that the DPD radio traffic tape recordings have been altered, Myers can pretend that Jackson really did call for Tippit. Furthermore, in an apparent attempt to explain why Jackson immediately thought of calling for Tippit instead of William Mentzel, Myers writes in his endnotes that Mentzel, and another officer named Vernon R. Nolan, were sent to a traffic accident at about 1:11 pm. Curiously, there is nothing within WCE 705* and WCE 1974* that Mentzel was sent to a traffic accident. ( Gokay Hasan Yusuf, review of Dale Myers, With Malice, part one) *WCE 705, all radio transmissions from the State Police capable of being received in Dallas)
**WCW 1974, transcripts of all radio transmissions from Channel I and Channel 2 of the Dallas Police Department radio station)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Apr 20, 2020 9:13:12 GMT -5
348 Oswald's wallet found at the Tippit murder scene
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147 Frazier's phantom polygraph 166 The identity of the officer who found the Westbrook-jacket 184 The source of the Tippit-shooting suspect description Erasing the Past...Discussions Agent Bob Barret also related his encounters with Oswald on Friday afternoon. When the report came over the radio that an "officer was down" in the Oak Cliff neighborhood, Barrett had sped to the scene. When he got there, the ambulance crew had already removed Tippit's body. Captain Westbrook and the Dallas Police were in charge, but Barrett set about inspecting the crime scene. Near the puddle of blood where Tippit's body had lain, Westbrook had found a man's leather wallet. In it, he discovered identification for Lee Oswald, as well as other identification for Alek J. Hidell. Westbrook called Barret over and showed him the wallet and identifications. Westbrook asked Bar- rett if the FBI knew anything about Oswald or Hidell. Barrett shook his head. Westbrook took the wallet into his custody so that it could be placed in police property later. Barrett told me that if I had been at the scene with Westbrook, I would have immediately known who Os- wald was. Although official police reports would later state that Oswald's wallet and identification were found on Oswald's person when he was arrested in the movie theater. Barrett insists that Westbrook found them near where Tippit was slain. I have to speculate that at the the- ater, Westbrook had handed the wallet to a lower-ranking officer, and in the confusion it was assumed that the wallet had been retrieved from Os- wald's person. The FBI decided to go with the official police version, even though Barrett's version was further proof that Oswald had in fact gunned Officer Tippit down. As Barrett said, the case against Oswald for killing Tippit was a "slam-dunk." (James Hosty, Assignment Oswald, p. 62) A second witness, patrolman Leonard Jez, told a conference in 1999 that the wallet was identified at the murder scene as belonging to Oswald. (Bill Simpich, Who found Oswald's wallet?)  Still from Reiland footage showing officers with wallet
"Photographer Ron Reiland, of WFAA-TV, was the only newsman at the Tippit scene who shot a motion sequence. Reiland exposed approximately two minutes of silent footage that covered the search for Tippit's killer, and the arrest of Oswald. The initial footage shot at Tenth and Patton correlates to police returning to the Tippit shooting scene following the investigation of a suspect at the Jefferson Branch Library. The opening sequence shows police gathered around Tippit's squad car questioning eyewitness Helen Markham. The officers depicted include Patrolman Joe M. Poe and Leonard E. Jez, Reserve Sergeant Kenneth Croy, and Sergeant Calvin 'Bud' Owens. Within seconds, crime scene search Officer W.E. 'Pete' Barnes and Detective Paul Bentley arrive at the scene. The arrival of Barnes and Bentley pins the time frame of these sequences to 1:42 pm--about eight minutes before Oswald's arrest at the Texas Theater.... "In the very next sequence Sergeant 'Bud' Owens is seen holding Tippit's service revolver in his left hand and a man's leather wallet In his right. Owens shows the wallet to Captain George Doughty, who is standing to his left. As Owens hold the wallet open, Doughty runs his finger along one of the celluloid photo slips which usually hold photographs or identification cards. As Doughty studies the item in the plastic sleeve, a third person approaches from Doughty's left. Doughty pulls his hand back and a plain clothesman reaches into the frame. Owens holds the wallet out toward the third man. Here, the tantalizing footage ends. Barrett, who was unaware of the existence of the footage at the time of our initial interview, confirmed that he spoke to Westbrook about the wallet near the front of Tippit's patrol car--where news film shows the men examining the wallet. Barrett said, 'It hadn't been very long when Westbrook looked up and saw me and called me over. He had this wallet in his hand. I presumed that they had found it on or near Tippit.' Westbrook asked me, 'Do you know who Lee Harvey Oswald is?' And, 'Do you know who Alek Hidell is?' And I said, 'No, I never heard of them.'" (Dale Myers, With Malice)  CROY, KENNETH HUDSON, DPD reserve. Croy was among the
policemen who stood in front of Jack Ruby, with his back to the
gunman, just before Ruby moved past to shoot Oswald.
SOURCE: WCH XII, 186 None of the witnesses saw a wallet on the ground. Ted Callaway said “There was no billfold on the scene. If there was, there would have been too many people who would have seen it.” It looks like someone planted a wallet with Oswald’s identification on the ground at the scene, framing him with a throw-down wallet much as others have been framed with a throw-down gun.(...) When Sergeant Kenneth H. Croy arrived as one of the first officers on the scene, an unknown man handed him a wallet. Croy handed the wallet to Sergeant Calvin Owens. Owens apparently gave it to Westbrook, who displayed it to Barrett. After the wallet was videotaped, it went back to Westbrook’s custody, and Hosty tells us that it was never seen again. Westbrook and Barrett were in charge of the scene at the Texas Theater when Oswald was arrested. (...) The “arrest wallet” appeared on videotape at the Tippit crime scene; we have discussed how no one knows how it appeared on the scene. This arrest wallet of Oswald’s was supposedly removed from his pocket by Officer Paul Bentley following his arrest and while on the way to City Hall, Bentley said that he reviewed the contents and saw the identification for Oswald and Hidell. Since Bentley’s recent death, FBI agent Robert Barrett now says that Bentley was lying. (...) “They said they took the wallet out of his pocket in the car? That’s so much hogwash. That wallet was in (Captain) Westbrook’s hand.” (George W. Bailey, Book Review: With Malice, Oswald's Mother blog)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Apr 21, 2020 13:50:54 GMT -5
349 Who was the second Officer at the Tippit scene?
1:19:59 Callaway uses Tippit's radio to contact the dispatcher. Callaway grabs Tippit's revolver, commandeers Scoggins' cab, and the two drive off in search of the gunman. Special plice officer Kenneth M. Holmes, Sr., and fire department dispatcher William J. Wheless arrive at the Tippit shooting scene, then leave immediately in pursuit of Scoggins' cab. The second officer, Howell W. Summers, arrives at the shooting scene. (Dale Myers, With Malice) Now if Summers was the second Officer to arrive, he waited for over five minutes before telling the dispatchers he arrived, which seems ridiculous. Although this reviewer doesn't know why Myers doesn't point this out to his readers, the fact that he doesn't speaks poorly for his credibility. But in order to bolster the notion that Summers was the second Officer to arrive, Myers writes in his endnotes that Officer Roy W. Walker, who broadcast the first description of Tippit's killer at about 1:22 pm, told him during an interview in 1983 that when he (Walker) arrived at the murder scene, there were two Officers already there. One of the Officers would undoubtedly have been reserve Sgt. Kenneth Croy. However, the identity of the second Officer to arrive (if Walker's recollection was accurate) remains an open question. (Gokay Hasan Yusuf, review of Dale Myers, With Malice, part one) Under examination, this new evidence seems to indicate the possibility that someone brought the billfold to the scene. That idea now focused attention on three people who had been more or less ignored prior to the discovery of the WFAA film. Those three are Westbrook, reserve officer Kenneth Croy and witness Doris Holan.  View of Holan's house opposite side of 10th StreetHolan was never called by the Warren Commission. Nor is there any evidence she was ever interviewed by either the Dallas Police or the FBI. Like many important witnesses in the JFK assassination, she was discovered by private citizens many years after the fact. Local Dallas researchers Bill Pulte and Michael Brownlow were the first to talk to her. Which is weird since she lived only one door down from the crime scene, at 409 10th Street, on the second floor. This placed her in a perfect position to see what she was about to disclose. The most remarkable information to come to the fore in the two interviews she granted was this: As she looked out her window upon hearing the shots, she saw a second police car at the scene. It was in the driveway between 404 and 410 East Tenth. This was adjacent to the spot on the street where Tippit’s car stopped. Knowingly or unknowingly, Tippit had blocked the driveway, which led to an alley at mid-block. She said a man got out of the car, looked at Tippit’s body and then went back down the driveway. He was alongside the car, which was retreating back toward the alley. She also saw a man fleeing the scene in a different direction. (McBride, pp. 494-95) (…) Holan’s revelation opened up a new vista for the Tippit case. Now writers began to focus on Westbrook and Croy, since Croy was the first known person to handle the wallet and Westbrook was the last. Of course, the Warren Commission did no inquiry into the existence of the Oswald wallet at 10th and Patton, even though there was a film available. (James DiEugenio, The Tippit Case in the New Millennium)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Apr 23, 2020 12:57:45 GMT -5
350 Secret Service men at the Jefferson Branch Library?
Related:166 The identity of the officer who found the Westbrook Jacket329 Who was the Secret Service agent in the parking lot?349 Who was the second Officer at the Tippit scene?
'Detective Marvin Buhk wrote that there were "Secret Service" men at the Library.
After Adrian Hamby came out of the Library, one of them claimed that Hamby was not the suspect.'(1.33 PM) After shooting Officer Tippit, the assassin reportedly goes south on Patton Street and turns west on Jefferson. Two used car lot workers named Warren Reynolds and B.M. Patterson see him and start to chase him. The gunman realizes that he is being followed and dashes behind a Texaco gas station, hiding among the cars of a parking lot. The parking lot behind the gas station is quickly becoming an inescapable trap, as police come swarming into the area. The capture of the gunman quickly becomes a foregone conclusion. A Dallas police radio dispatch reports, “He [the suspect] is in the library, Jefferson, East 500 block, Marsalis and Jefferson.” Minutes later, a follow-up dispatch says, “We are all at the library.” This radio dispatch immediately pulls the police out of the parking lot behind the gas station where the supposed assassin of Tippit is hiding. The police, some researchers speculate, are pulled out and sent to the library on a “wild goose chase” in order to allow the gunman to escape capture. LHO is actually making his appearance in front of The Texas Theater around this time. Again, minutes later, the police at the library broadcast: “It was the wrong man.” The Marsalis city bus LHO supposedly boarded and briefly rode passes this library at about this same time. It was due at 12:50 -- but has been slowed down by the traffic on Elm St. Who is this suspect, described as “the wrong man”? At this early stage, the only way they could have known it is the wrong man would be for them to know the right man. The library, located at the intersection of East Jefferson Street and Marsalis Avenue, is six blocks from Oswald’s rooming house and within only one block of Ruby’s apartment. Oswald is known to have frequented this library at least three to four times in a week. In the book, WITH MALICE, it is stated that Officer C. T. Walker mistakes Adrian Hamby, running into the Jefferson Branch Library, for the Tippit suspect. ( JFK Assassination Chronology)  Marsalis and Jefferson.Myers begins this chapter with a discussion of the false alarm at the Jefferson branch Library located on Marsalis and Jefferson streets, and concludes the chapter with Oswald's arrest inside the Texas Theater. The person who triggered the false alarm at the library was Adrian Hamby, who worked there as a page (With Malice, Chapter 6). Hamby was approached by two plainclothes DPD "detectives", and was allegedly told to go into the Library and inform management that a Police Officer was shot, and to have them lock all the doors and to not let anyone enter the Library until they secured the area (ibid). As Hamby was entering the Library, he was allegedly spotted by DPD Officer Charles T. Walker, after which Walker put a broadcast on the DPD radio that the suspect was in the library (WCE 705/1974). In his report to DPD Chief Jesse Curry, detective Marvin Buhk wrote that there were "Secret Service" men at the Jefferson Branch Library who informed DPD Officers at the Library that after Adrian Hamby came out of the Library, one of them claimed that Hamby was not the suspect (Dallas Municipal archives, Box 2, Folder 7, Item 56). In his endnotes, Myers writes that detective Buhk was the only officer to mention Secret Service agents being at the Library. As far as this reviewer in concerned, Myers is correct. Myers also writes that the "Secret Service" man referred to by Buhk in his report was actually one of the two "lawmen" who instructed Hamby to go into the library and have all the doors locked. The fact of the matter is that there is no known evidence that any genuine Secret Service agents were present at the Jefferson Branch Library on the day of the assassination. Furthermore, the identity of the two men who spoke to Hamby has never been determined, and if they were DPD detectives, then surely their identity would be known to Buhk and others, and surely Buhk would not have referred to them as Secret Service agents. (Gokay Hasan Yusuf, review of Dale Myers, With Malice, part one)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Apr 24, 2020 10:26:46 GMT -5
351 Oswald's ticket for the theater
Julia E. Postal, the forty-seven-year-old ticket-taker, has been listening to the radio too. Just before the Texas Theater opened for business at 12:45 p.m., her daughter called to tell her that someone had shot the president, and she has been listening right there in the box office ever since. Though most of the police cars had turned around, one continued on, its siren blasting as it shot past the theater box office. John Callahan, the theater manager, who is standing next to Mrs. Postal, says, "Something's about to pop." They both scramble out onto the sidewalk. The squad car looks like it's stopping up the street. Callahan gets into his car at the curb to go see what's happening. Shoe store manager Johnny Brewer, on the sidewalk east of the theater, sees the suspicious man, "walking a little faster than usual," slip into the Texas Theater behind Postal's back. For Brewer, it's all adding up. Postal watches her boss drive off, then turns to go back to the box office. Brewer is standing there, having walked up from the shoe store. He asks her if the man that just ducked into the theater had bought a ticket. "No, by golly, he didn't," she says looking around, half expecting to see him. She saw the man out of the corner of her eye when she walked out with Mr. Callahan. Brewer tells her the man's been acting suspiciously. He goes inside and checks with concessionaire Warren "Butch" Burroughs, but he was busy stocking candy and didn't see anyone come in. Brewer returns to the box office. "He has to be in there," Postal says. She tells him to go get Butch and have him help check the exits, but don't tell him why because he's "kind of excitable." Brewer goes back in and asks Burroughs to show him where the exits are. The concessionaire wants to know why? Against Postal's advice, Brewer tells him he thought "the guy looked suspicious. (Vincent Bugliosi, Reclaiming history, p. 96)  Julia Postal (1924-1995)[W]hen researcher Jones Harris allegedly interviewed Postal in 1963, Harris asked her if she had sold Oswald a ticket for the theater. Upon hearing the question, Postal burst into tears. When Harris asked her again if she had sold him a ticket, he received the same response. The obvious implication of Postal's reaction is that she did sell a ticket to Oswald. Although this reviewer discusses evidence further on in this review which casts doubt on Harris's credibility as far as the wallet containing identification for Oswald and Hidell is concerned, Postal's own testimony as described above suggests that she did in fact sell Oswald a ticket. In fact, in both her affidavit to the DPD and in her interview with the FBI on February 29, 1964, she claimed that she had seen/noticed Oswald duck into the Theater (WCD 735, page 264), (Dallas Municipal archives, Box 2, Folder 3, Item 21) . As the reader can see, Postal is a problematic witness. And it appears to be that she did sell Oswald a ticket. (Gokay Hasan Yusuf, review of Dale Myers, With Malice, part one)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Apr 26, 2020 12:38:18 GMT -5
352 Warren Burroughs' affadavit
A report came in to police dispatchers. It seemed a man had slipped into the Texas Theater without paying. Immediately carloads of officers, including one federal agent and an assistant district attorney, converged on the theater. The report had been instigated by a shoestore manager named Johnny Brewer. Brewer was listening to the radio when he learned of the Tippit murder. Hearing police sirens, he looked out the window of his store and saw a man duck into his doorway as a police car went by. Believing this to be suspicious activity, Brewer watched the man continue up the street to the Texas Theater, where he lost sight of him. Moments later, when Brewer asked the theater's ticket seller if she had sold a ticket to anyone, she replied she had not. Entering the theater, Brewer learned that the concession stand operator, W. H. "Butch" Burroughs, had heard the front doors open, but had seen no one enter the theater lobby.  Between the theater's front doors and a second set of doors were stairs leading to the balcony. Burroughs was convinced that whoever entered had gone up to the balcony since no one had passed his concession stand. Brewer asked the ticket seller to call police while he and another theater employee unsuccessfully looked for the suspicious man. (...) In a 1987 interview with this author, Burroughs, who is now an assistant manager at the Texas Theater, reiterated his story of someone slipping in the theater about 1:35 p.m. that day. However, Burroughs claims that it could not have been Oswald because Oswald entered the theater shortly after 1 p.m. Burroughs said Oswald entered only minutes after the feature started, which was exactly at 1 p.m. He said several minutes later, about 1:15 p.m., the man later arrested by police and identified as Oswald came to his concession stand and bought some popcorn. Burroughs said he watched the man enter the ground floor of the theater and sit down next to a pregnant woman. About twenty minutes after this, the outside doors opened and Johnny Brewer arrived. (Jim Marrs, Crossfire p. 350-353) Although Postal and Brewer were the two people who purportedly led the DPD to the Theater, the DPD never bothered to take affidavits from them on the day of the assassination. In fact, Postal and Brewer provided their affidavits to the DPD on December 4 and 6, 1963, respectively (Dallas Municipal archives, Box 2, Folder 3, Items 16 and 21). On the other hand, George Applin, who witnessed Oswald's arrest inside the Texas Theater, provided the DPD an affidavit on the day of the assassination (Ibid, Folder 2, Item 3). Similarly, many of the people who witnessed the President's assassination provided affidavits on the day of the assassination. Yet, incredibly, Postal and Brewer provided affidavits to the DPD over a week following the assassination. Curiously, there doesn't appear to be an affidavit from Warren "Butch" Burroughs amongst the Dallas Municipal archives. Furthermore, according to both Warren Burroughs and a theater patron named Jack Davis, Oswald may have been inside the theater much sooner than when Brewer allegedly saw him outside his store at about 1:36 pm looking "funny/scared" (Gokay Hasan Yusuf, review of Dale Myers, With Malice, part one)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Apr 27, 2020 12:45:21 GMT -5
353 Pregnant woman who sat next to Oswald in Texas TheaterContinued from:351 Oswald's ticket for the theater352 Warren Burroughs' affadavitBurroughs said Oswald entered only minutes after the feature started, which was exactly at 1 p.m. He said several minutes later, about 1:15 p.m., the man later arrested by police and identified as Oswald came to his concession stand and bought some popcorn. Burroughs said he watched the man enter the ground floor of the theater and sit down next to a pregnant woman. About twenty minutes after this, the outside doors opened and Johnny Brewer arrived. Several minutes after the man—identified by Burroughs as Oswald— took his seat, the pregnant woman got up and went upstairs where the ladies' restroom was located, said Burroughs. He said he heard the restroom door close just shortly before Dallas police began rushing into the theater. Burroughs said: "I don't know what happened to that woman. I don't know how she got out of the theater. I never saw her again." (Jim Marrs, Crossfire, p. 353)  Carolyn Arnold, shortly after the shooting at the TSBDThe twenty-year-old Mrs. Arnold was employed as a secretary at the Book Depository Building. She came into prominence for the first time in 1978, fifteen years after the assassination, when she told the Dallas Morning News that around 12:25 p.m. on the day of the assassination, five minutes before the shooting, she left the building to watch the motorcade. On her way out, she claims she saw Oswald in the second-floor lunchroom. "I do not recall that he was doing anything," she said. "I just recall that he was sitting there ... in one of the booth seats on the right hand side of the room as you go in. He was alone as usual and appeared to be having lunch ... I recognized him clearly. That same month, Arnold told author Anthony Summers that "she went into the lunchroom on the second floor for a moment" (she was pregnant at the time and had a craving for a glass of water) and saw Oswald there, alone and having lunch. (Vincent Bugliosi, Reclaiming History, p. 831)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Apr 28, 2020 13:21:37 GMT -5
354 One list of Texas Theatre patrons
Related:166 The identity of the officer who found the Westbrook Jacket348 Oswald's wallet found at the Tippit murder sceneBefore leaving the Texas Theater, Capt. Westbrook ordered Detective Taylor, Lt. Cunningham, and J.B. Toney "to take the names and addresses of the occupants of the theater." Detective Taylor noted in his report (CE 2003, page 97, at WCH 24/243) that he, Lt. Cunningham, and J.B. Toney remained at the theater following the arrest "and took the names and addresses of the occupants of the theater." These officers would likely have turned their completed lists over to the man who gave them the order, Captain Westbrook. But these lists of theater patrons, like the wallet produced by Westbrook at 10th & Patton, disappeared and were never seen again. There was no chain of evidence regarding the list of theater patrons or the wallet, no police reports, and both items simply disappeared. The WC, perhaps intentionally, did not take the testimony of Taylor, Cunningham, or Toney. They could have asked any of these officers what they did with their completed lists. The WC did ask Westbrook about the list of theater patrons . (John Armstrong, Harvey & Lee, NOVEMBER 22, 1963)  The Texas Theatre was designed by Howard Hughes
Mr. BALL. Did you look at any of the shells? Mr. WESTBROOK. No, sir. Mr. BALL. Did you look the gun over? Mr. WESTBROOK. No, sir. Mr. BALL. Do you have any questions? Mr. ELY. Yes; I have one. Captain, you mentioned that you had left orders for somebody to take the names of everybody in the theatre, and you also stated you did not have this list; do you know who has it? Mr. WESTBROOK. No; possibly Lieutenant Cunningham* will know, but I don't know who has the list. Mr. ELY. That's all. (WC testimony of Capt. W. R. Westbrook, April 6, 1964) * The Warren Commission did interview Cunninham, but did not ask him about the list
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jun 3, 2020 9:50:55 GMT -5
355 The identity of Johnny Brewer's IBM friends
"Belin however, didn't bother to ask Brewer who was in the store with him."
 Johnny Brewer: I was listening to a radio broadcast on a portable radio I had. Ian Griggs: I know this is a crazy question but is there any way of recalling which programme, which station, you were listening to? JB: A Dallas station. I have a feeling it may have been KLIF. That would be one of the stations that I would ordinarily be listening to, but I honestly don't know. It was just the normal run of the motorcade and all of a sudden you hear all the commotion, and then you hear something about shots being fired and then – you know. (…) IG: So, you would be there, listening to the radio, and you have got a view of the door and the street through it. JB: Oh yeah. There's the door right there. I have a full view of the front. IG: Now we're obviously leading up to your view of this man acting strangely. When this happened, John, were you in the shop by yourself? JB: There were two other men in there. They were from IBM – they were in the neighborhood. I had known them ever since I came there. IG: Customers? JB: No, they weren't customers. They'd just come in and kill time and lounge around. IG: Right. Were there any other salesman in the shop apart from yourself? JB. No there were not. (…) And they just stood around and talked, the IBM guys. (Ian Griggs, Interview with Johnny Calvin Brewer, Dealey Plaza Echo, Volume 1, Issue 3)  Mr. BELIN - You were made manager of the Hardy's Downtown Shoe Store? Mr. BREWER - Yes, sir. It wasn't April Fool's. I thought they were firing me, but it turned out they weren't. Mr. BELIN - Did he call you in yesterday to tell you? Mr. BREWER - Day before yesterday and told me to get ready for an audit, that I would be going to town, if I wanted it, and I said yes. Mr. BELIN - Would this be considered a promotion? Mr. BREWER - A better store, more volume, and make more money. It would be considered a promotion. (...) Mr. BELIN - I want to take you back to November 22, 1963. This was the day that President Kennedy was assassinated. How did you find out about the assassination, Mr. Brewer? Mr. BREWER - We were listening to a transistor radio there in the store, just listening to a regular radio program, and they broke in with the bulletin that the President had been shot. And from then, that is all there was. We listened to all of the events. Mr. BELIN - Did you hear over the radio that the President had died? Mr. BREWER - I heard a rumor. They said that----one of the Secret Service men said that the President had died, and said that was just a rumor. Mr. BELIN - Do you remember hearing anything else over the radio concerning anything that happened that afternoon? Mr. BREWER - Well, they kept reconstructing what had happened and what they had heard, and they talked about it in general. There wasn't too much to talk about. They didn't have all the facts, and just repeated them mostly. And they said a patrolman had been shot in Oak Cliff. ( Warren Commission testimony of Johnny Brewer, on April 2, 1964)  One important detail which Myers never mentions in his book is that Brewer told author Ian Griggs during an interview in 1996 that when he allegedly observed Oswald standing outside his store, there were two men from IBM in the store with him (Griggs, No Case to Answer, page 58). According to researcher Lee Farley, one of the two so-called "IBM men" was quite possibly Igor Vaganov (see the thread entitled Igor Vaganov on John Simkin's education forum). This reviewer believes that Vaganov was likely one of the two "IBM" men in the store, and that the purpose of these two men was to alert Brewer that they had seen a man enter the theater with a gun looking like he was trying to hide from the police, so that Brewer would then alert the theater staff to call the DPD in order for Oswald to be arrested. Readers should keep in mind that when Warren Commission counsel David Belin asked Brewer how he found out about President Kennedy's assassination, he testified that; "We were listening to a transistor radio there in the store..." (WC Volume VII, page 2). Belin however, didn't bother to ask Brewer who was in the store with him. (Gokay Hasan Yusuf, review of Dale Myers, With Malice, part one)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jun 5, 2020 12:57:46 GMT -5
356 The pointing man
Related:354 One list of Texas Theatre patronsAfter the police arrived at the Theater, the first Officer to approach Oswald as he was sitting down was Nick McDonald. Although Johnny Brewer was credited with pointing Oswald out to the DPD Officers inside the theater, Myers writes in his endnotes that the Dallas Morning News and the Dallas Times Herald published an article two days after the assassination, in which McDonald was quoted as saying; "A man sitting near the front, and I still don't know who it was, tipped me [that] the man I wanted was sitting on the third row from the rear on the ground floor and not the balcony." However, Brewer testified that he pointed Oswald out to the officers as he was standing on the stage of the theater (WC Volume VII, page 6) If McDonald's account is true, then the obvious implication is that Brewer wasn't the man who pointed Oswald out to the police. Myers evidently wants his readers to believe that the man was in fact Johnny Brewer, but doesn't mention that Brewer was standing on the stage when he allegedly pointed Oswald out to the Officers. (Gokay Hasan Yusuf, review of Dale Myers, With Malice, part one)
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