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Post by Arjan Hut on Oct 26, 2020 14:08:07 GMT -5
438 Sergio Arcachia-Smith's maps of sewer system in Dealey Plaza See also:195 Oswald's paraphernalia at 544 Camp Street 244 FBI record of Cheramie's prognostication of the assassination 389 Tape recording of plotters meeting in New Orleans Arcacha Smith, as we have seen, was close to David Ferrie, Guy Banister, Carlos Quiroga, and Carlos Bringuier in New Orleans, and knew Harvey Oswald (thru Banister), Lee Oswald (at the training camps), E. Howard Hunt, and David Atlee Phillips. Richard Case Nagell, who successfully infiltrated the plot to assassinate the President, tape-recorded a conversation in which Sergio Arcacha Smith and "Q" discussed the assassination plot. Following the assassination Lieutenant Francis Fruge learned from DPD Captain Will Fritz that maps of the Dallas sewer system were found in Arcacha's apartment. These maps may have been in the package that was delivered to Arcacha by Thomas Beckham on behalf of David Ferrie approximately two weeks before the assassination. Arcacha had moved from New Orleans to Houston in late 1962 and then to Dallas, where he was living on November 22, 1963. (Armstrong, Harvey & Lee, p. 807) Lt. Francis L. Fruge
Mr. Fruge touched on a few other points that he remembered . There was a Dr. Silva who was born in Havana, Cuba, working at the East Louisiana State Hospital in 1963. That is the only year that he worked there and Mr. Fruge does not have information nor does he imply that the doctor was involved in anything illegal. Mr. Fruge only mentions him because he was from Cuba. Mr. Fruge asked if this Committee had found that diagrams of the sewer system in Dealey Plaza were found in Arcacha Smith's apartment in Texas. He thinks that Captain Will Fritz might have mentioned something about that, but Mr. Fruge was not sure on this point. (HSCA Contact Report, doc #014141, p. 7)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Oct 27, 2020 13:26:51 GMT -5
439 Report of police search of Sergio Archacha-Smith's appartmentContinued from:438 Sergio Arcachia-Smith's maps of sewer system in Dealey PlazaTwo weeks before the assassination Thomas Beckham, a runner for David Ferrie, Sergio Arcacha, Clay Shaw, and Grady Durham, was given $200 by Ferrie and told to deliver a package to a man at the Executive Inn Motel in Dallas. Beckham delivered the package, which contained photographs and street maps, to Lawrence Howard at the motel. When Howard opened the package he said, "This is not all of it. What is going on here?" Arcacha-Smith during the time Jim Garrison tried to extradite him
NOTE: This package may also have contained diagrams of the sewer system in Dealey Plaza, which Lieutenant Francis Fruge learned from Captain Will Fritz had been found in (Sergio) Arcacha's apartment following the assassination. QUESTION: What caused the Dallas Police to search Arcacha's apartment and why were no police reports filed? (Armstrong, Harvey & Lee, p. 807)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Oct 29, 2020 13:28:14 GMT -5
440 RCMP report of Similas related interview Context:205 Norman Similas' pictures and negativesOn September 1964, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police interviewed Toronto Telegram reporter Colin Davies about his meeting with Norman Similas. Similas claimed to have photographed the assassination and Davies saw the negatives, which consequently disappeared. You can read about this in Commission Document 1534. The Alternate Report of the Minority Members, a study commission on records and documents of federal officials, makes note of the fact that the original report from which the Commission Document quotes, is missing. Part of page 1 from CD 1534
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Post by Arjan Hut on Oct 31, 2020 14:30:21 GMT -5
441 List of license numbers of cars parked in Dealey Plaza area See also:318 Knoll shooter crime scene evidence 321 The identity of the parking lot police officer 354 One list of Texas Theatre patrons392 FBI/Police Records or reports regarding interviews with Carl Mather The committee also attempted to pin down information about cars which were parked in the area of the depository at the time of the Presidential motorcade for any further identification of cars reported fleeing from Dealey Plaza. Earle V. Brown was a Dallas Police Department patrolman at the time of the assassination who was assigned to stay on the railroad overpass over the Stemmons Freeway and to prevent any unauthorized persons from standing on the overpass at the time of the motorcade. In his testimony before the Warren Commission, Brown stated that he and Officer James Lomax had been ordered after the assassination to return to the area of the depository and list the license number of all cars parked in the vicinity. Brown was not asked during his testimony whether any further investigation resulted from the list of the license numbers or what had happened to the list. Brown was interviewed by the committee in Dallas on October 26, 1978. At that time, he recalled the assignment to get the license plate numbers about an hour after the assassination. He said that about four to five officers were involved. He believed he turned the list in to Sergeant Howard, who was his supervisor. He gave no further details concerning the list or the cars parked near the Texas School Book Depository. ( HSCA Appendix to Hearings - Volume XII, p. 18/19) Hughes film, car park. Credit: Gerda DunckelMy grandfather’s experience is immortalized in the Warren Commission’s report, and an actor portrayed him in a JFK documentary that recently appeared on the History Channel. I used to press him for more of his perspective. He believed wholeheartedly in the “single-shooter” conclusion of the Warren Commission. “The people who thought they heard shots from the grassy knoll were just hearing echoes,” he would say. But he was never one to elaborate much beyond that, or to speculate on the conspiracy theories. To my knowledge he never accepted media requests for interviews – the Dallas Police Department had instructed him and the other officers to refrain from speaking to the press, and my grandfather respected that for the rest of his life. (Rick Minor, A witness to the Kennedy assassination, Tallahassee Democrat)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Nov 2, 2020 11:27:25 GMT -5
442 Some 3000 Ruby-dollarsSee also:155 Albert Guy Bogard's business cardEugene M. Wilson, the salesman whose demonstrator car Oswald drove. was certain the date was November 2. According to Wilson, he tried to tell FBI agents that the incident occurred on the earlier Saturday; but they were already convinced it was November 9. Wilson said he told Oswald after the test drive that he couldn't see how they could make a deal, "looking at the credit statement and what he was trying to buy. He didn't have any money. It would be three weeks (November 23. the day after the assassination! before he would have any money." Jack Ruby at the Dallas Police StationThree weeks passed and Oswald failed to show up with the cash: but, several hours after the assassination, Jack Ruby had a wad of bills big enough to buy two Comets. Billy J. Cox, the loan officer who personally handled Ruby's bank account, said he saw the nightclub operator with about $7.000 in his hand in the bank lobby on the afternoon of the assassination, two days before Ruby was to shoot Oswald. In the ensuing two days prior to Ruby's arrest for murdering Oswald, about $3,000 of the $7,000 had unaccountably disappeared. Ruby had about $4,003 cash when he was arrested in the basement of Dallas police headquarters on November 24, 1963. Other than the purchase of a large amount of cold cuts and sandwiches a few hours after he was seen with the $7,000. Ruby was not known to have made any substantial outlay of cash during the two days preceding the slaying of Oswald. Was the $3,000 that inexplicably disappeared from Ruby's possession earmarked as a payoff to Oswald, or was it returned to parties unknown or put in "escrow" after Oswald was arrested and accused of killing Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit. Since the Warren Commission was unaware of Ruby's $7,000, it didn't ask these questions. Bank officer Cox said his story went untold because the FBI never questioned him after the assassination. (Earl Golz, FBI files part 2, Gallery, December 1982)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Nov 3, 2020 15:01:22 GMT -5
443 Oswald's whereabouts on the Sunday before the assassination
Within a week of Kennedy's death, according to Harold Reynolds, [...] Oswald [...] attempted to contact an anti-Castro Cuban exile leader in Abilene. about 185 miles west of Dallas. Reynolds, then a commercial photographer who had taken photos of Cuban refugee families in Abilene, had befriended Oswald's contact, former Cuban construction contractor Pedro Valerian Gonzalez. Reynolds believes that a meeting Oswald intended to have with Gonzalez in Abilene may answer the mystery of Oswald's whereabouts on the Sunday before the assassination, the only day the Warren Commission could not determine where he was. (Earl Golz, FBI files part 2, Gallery, December 1982) 444 Oswald's note to Pedro Valerian GonzalezReynolds said that in November 1963, he read a note left in the apartment mailbox of Gonzalez, president of the Cuban Liberation Committee in Abilene. "In handwriting it said something like 'call me immediately—urgent' and had two Dallas numbers written on it," Reynolds said. "I noticed the name Lee Oswald and asked Gonzalez who he was. Seems like he said, 'Some attorney from Dallas.' He looked nervous.. so I left to go up the street and deliver some photos. As I was coming back I noticed his car few blocks from his house and him standing in a pay booth." Since WWII, Abilene has had an Air Force BaseReynolds assumed Oswald left the card in Gonzalez' mailbox about two days earlier, on November 17, 1963, when Gonzalez and other Cuban refugees were at Reynolds' house for Sunday dinner. During the gathering, Reynolds recalls showing Gonzalez a story on the front page of a Dallas newspaper headlined, "Incident-Free Day Urged for JFK Visit." "Pedro got quite excited," Reynolds said, "and although he wasn't supposed to have much knowledge of English, he went into the other room and translated the article into Spanish for four or five other Cubans. They also got excited. He came back waving the newspaper and whistling 'Bridge Over the River Kwai. — (Earl Golz, FBI files part 2, Gallery, December 1982) After leaving Jack's Bar Lee Oswald either drove or was driven two hundred miles west to Abilene where he slipped a handwritten note under the apartment door of Harold Reynolds, by mistake. The note was intended for Reynolds' next door neighbor, Pedro Valeriano Gonzalez, a 38-year-old Cuban exile leader. (John Armstrong, Harvey & Lee, p. 777) 445 Reynolds photographs of Pedro Valerian GonzalezOn the Sunday following the Kennedy assassination, when a Dallas nightclub operator, Jack Ruby, shot Oswald to death in the basement of Dallas police headquarters, Gonzalez and a refugee friend came by the Reynolds home. Mrs. Reynolds said Gonzalez "wanted all the photos of his baby and all the party shots Harold had taken of them. He also asked for all the negatives. When I told him Harold usually released only the prints. Pedro repeated very firmly, 'I want the negatives, too. I figured he really meant it, so I gave them to him. " (Earl Golz, FBI files part 2, Gallery, December 1982) 446 FBI report of Reynolds tip
Gonzalez moved to the Los Angeles area, from where he made payments to the Abilene Teachers Federal Credit Union on a car loan until June 1964, when he disappeared. Friends say he left the United States that summer to join the anti-Castro movement in Venezuela and work in a sugar factory. Reynolds said he twice tried to tell the FBI about the Gonzalez incident in the months following the assassination. Both times, he said, federal agents showed no interest in even meeting with him because the Cuban Connection was not pro-Castro. Reynolds' story did not publicly surface until The Dallas Morning News published it in June 1979, six months after the House Select Committee on Assassinations went out of business. (Earl Golz, FBI files part 2, Gallery, December 1982) Gonzalez was friends with Antonio de Verona, who led the Cuban Revolutionary Council, which was backed by the CIA. (James Kelleher, He Was Expendable, 2016)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Nov 9, 2020 7:19:33 GMT -5
447 Onassis study of JFK assassination
Compare:115 CIA study of the Assassination200 William Manchester interviews with Robert Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy307 Rand Corp. study of assassination308 Documentation of Robert Kennedy's private investigation"It is certain that Onassis turned over copies of his investigators report to U.S. officials."Aristotle Onassis knows what many people suspect — that Lee Harvey Oswald was not alone in the assassination of former president John F. Kennedy.But unlike the countless others who share this view, the Greek shipping magnate who married JFK’s widow knows the identity of the real assassins. This and many other facts relating to Onassis and Jackie have been revealed by Christian Cafarakis, the former steward aboard Ari’s luxurious yacht Christina. Cafarakis is the well-known author of a revealing book about Jackie and Art. titled The Fabulous Onassis. But now he has written a sequel to that book called The Fabulous Jackie which was recently published in Paris. (…) The book appeared in French and Spanish[T]he most astounding of Cafarakis’s revelations about the private lives of the Onassis family deals with the assassination of John F. Kennedy. In a report in the Toronto Star Cafarakis is quoted as saying Ari knows the names of the real assassins of JFK. According to the report Onassis hired a team of private detectives who spent 19 months investigating the murder of President Kennedy. Ari’s investigators wrote a 27-page summary for the tycoon in which they concluded that the official Warren Commission report was a whitewash. What’s more the private investigators supplied Ari with the names of JFK’s real assassins. It is certain that Onassis turned over copies of his investigators report to U.S. officials. Yet not one word about it has been revealed by any American agency. (Bud Thomas, Onassis' Private Investigation Disclosed Names of JFK Killers, Midnight, March 1973)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Nov 11, 2020 13:48:50 GMT -5
448 Record of SS/FBI interview with Adele EdisenCompare:212 The identity of the mystery Oxnard area caller251 Papers compiled by crypto-code operator Eugene Dinkin foretelling a military plot against JFK"Write down this name: Lee Harvey Oswald. Tell him to kill the chief." Erasing the Past...Discussions Edisen claimed that in April of 1963 she met a person who apparently had foreknowledge of the assassination of President Kennedy, Dr. Jose Rivera. He gave her a phone number through which she contacted and talked with Lee Harvey Oswald in New Orleans in May, 1963. She called the Secret Service to warn them of the assassination and was interviewed by the Secret Service and FBI after the assassination. (Bill Kelly, A new Oswald witness, 1999) Edisen in 1966
In April, 1963, Adele met Jose Rivera at a biomedical scientific conference in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The conference had been organized by the Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biology. Rivera told Edisen that he been on the faculty of the biochemistry department at Loyola University in New Orleans, and that he was now living in Washington. Edisen was planning to visit Washington and so Rivera suggested she she telephone him when she arrived in the city. Col. Dr. José Rivera passed away in 1989
Adele arrived in Washington on 22nd April, 1963. She telephoned Rivera and had dinner with him at Blackie's House of Beef restaurant. During the meal Rivera asked Adele if she knew Lee Harvey Oswald. He also talked about the Carousel Club in Dallas. The following evening Rivera gave Adele a tour of Washington. When they passed the White House he asked Adele, "I wonder what Jackie will do when her husband dies?" After Adele replied "What!", Rivera said, "Oh, oh, I meant the baby. She might lose the baby." During the tour Rivera made several comments about John F. Kennedy. Adele later reported: "He asked me if I saw Caroline on her pony Macaroni, and all kinds of crazy nonsense, and I was beginning to think I was with an absolute madman.... Rivera's part of the conversation at times was difficult to follow, but many of his statements, such as the reference to 'Jackie,' seemed deliberately placed. When he spoke of President Kennedy, Rivera was extremely critical of Kennedy's position on civil rights. Rivera made many disparaging remarks about black people and the civil rights movement." Later that evening Rivera asked Adele to carry out a couple of tasks when she arrived home in New Orleans. This included contacting Winston DeMonsabert, a member of the faculty at Loyola University. He then asked her to call Lee Harvey Oswald at 899-4244. "Write down this name: Lee Harvey Oswald. Tell him to kill the chief." Rivera then said, "No, no, don't write that down. You will remember it when you get to New Orleans. We're just playing a little joke on him." ( Spartacus educational) When Edisen arrived in New Orleans, she called Oswald, as instructed, and spoke to him on the phone, but he denied knowing who Jose Rivera was, and Adele chose not to deliver the “kill the chief.” (J.L. Pattison, Thirteen People Who Had Foreknowledge of JFK’s Assassination) Agent Rice (hat, glasses) via Vince Palamara
In the office, Special Agent Rice identified himself this time as Secret Service Agent John W. Rice, in charge of the Secret Service's New Orleans office. He asked Adele to sit down. (…) Adele continued, after I sat down, agent Rice introduced me to a tall, heavy set, balding man with wire-rimmed eyeglasses. This was FBI Special Agent Oren Bartlett. He was FBI liaison with the Secret Service. There was no one else in the office with us that I saw. They interviewed me for about four hours, and I think that the interview was tape-recorded. Agent Rice sat at his desk and I sat to his right, and FBI agent Bartlett stayed standing most of the time. Several times, agent Rice got up and went behind a partition to check something, I think, I assumed this was a tape recorder.” Adele provided the two agents detailed background on herself, and then told them and then told them how she had come to meet Dr. Jose Rivera in Atlantic City, and about her two days in Bethesda and Washington D.C. She showed the agents her airline tickets, hotel receipts, and the notes she had kept, including the notebook page with Lee Harvey Oswald's name on it. (…) When Bartlett came back from behind the partition, he asked Adele if he and Rice could have the page from my notebook. Adele handed it over, realizing that her interview was over at this point. (Albarelli, A Secret Order, p. 144) Rivera told Edisen that he been on the faculty of the biochemistry department at Loyola University in New Orleans. Loyola's day school was integrated in 1962, yet persistent racism on and off the campus fueled discontent.Dr. Adele Edisen has written several letters to the Review Board and has also provided public testimony to the Review Board. In her letters and testimony, Dr. Edisen stated that, in New Orleans on November 24, 1963, she recounted to an FBI agent and a Secret Service agent her knowledge of apparent dealings between Dr. Jose Rivera, Mr. Winston de Monsabert, and Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963. The Review Board requested FBI records on these individuals from FBI Headquarters and field offices in Baltimore, Dallas, Denver, New Orleans and Washington, D.C. The FBI retrieved only a few records relating to the individuals referenced above, all of which the Review Board designated as assassination records. ( ARRB Final Report)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Nov 15, 2020 10:04:51 GMT -5
449 Vial with about ten pieces of shrapnel Related:64 Nearly whole bullet removed from JFK 69 Bullet found in JFK's limousine 105 a Four bullet fragments109 Vial containing part of JFK brain When the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) was created in the 1990s, its purpose was not to reinvestigate the Kennedy assassination, but rather to declassify the innumerable documents and materials tightly held by the U.S. Government. However, there were so many puzzles in the JFK medical evidence paperwork that the ARRB decided to conduct a series of interviews in an attempt to "clarify the federal record on the medical and ballistics evidence." The resulting interviews, while rarely reported in mainstream news sources, contained astounding revelations ( Mary Ferrell website) Tom Robinson photographed for the Herald & Review in 2013Tom Robinson was one of the three “hands on” embalmers at Bethesda who worked under the supervision of Joe Hagan on 11/22/63. According to Joe Hagan, Mr. Robinson is the one person who had the most to do with the reconstruction of President Kennedy's head, and should be able to give us the best description. Tom Robinson was interviewed by HSCA staffers and a transcript of their interview exists in the HSCA records. (...) Robinson said the same agent claimed to be a ballistics expert and showed him a glass vial, similar to a test tube, which may have had a cork stopper on it, containing several pieces of tiny bullet fragments which had been removed from the Presidents head by the pathologists, and that it contained “quite a few” fragments of “shrapnel”. Robinson said that these bullet fragments were very small. When asked by the ARRB staffers whether the number of fragments was closer to 2, 5, 10 or 15 fragments, he said the total number would be close to 10 fragments. ( ARRB MD 180 - ARRB Meeting Report Summarizing 6/21/96 In-Person Interview of Tom Robinson) Robinson: I think when that bullet hit that bone, it just shattered. Purdy: Do you feel that any significant portion of the bullet after it hit the head, exited from the head, not just being picked up by the doctors? Do you feel that possibly exited, where could some it exited from the head? If any. You mentioned one possibly was that right temple. R: Yes, that did go through my mind. Well they had the little pieces, -They,pickedthem out. P: So you feel that's the only place that size of the bullet could have exited. R: It was no bullet, it was a fragment or a piece of the bone. P: You would say that there is no other part of the head where that bullet would exited or a Part of the bullet? Were there other little holes anywhere? R: No. P: What is your understanding of what happened to once it hit the head? You say the bullet went into pieces. R: That's what I would say. P: You mentioned earlier that the FBI agents said to you about the bullets shattering. the bullet into pieces, something R: Yes, I was watching all this and I asked him about it. After he discussed with me the reason why all those people had to be there, I had questions for, I wanted to know. P: What did he say about the bullets shattering? R: He just explained to me that on occasion that happens. The bullet will smash into a great many pieces. P: You gathered from.what he said that it was his impression that that is in fact what happened in this case? That the bullet did shatter - R: Yes P: From your examination, that is what you have concluded as well. R: Yes, I watched them pick the little pieces out. They had something like a test tube or a little vile or something that they put the pieces in. ( HSCA, January 12, 1977, THOMAS EVAN ROBINSON Interviewed by Andy Purdy and Jim Conzelman) Illustration via Doug Horne
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Post by Arjan Hut on Nov 17, 2020 11:20:02 GMT -5
450 The bullet behind the ear Related:36 Withheld Regis Kennedy files 64 Nearly whole bullet removed from JFK's body 69 Bullet found in JFK's limousine 234 Bullet sent from Dallas by agents Barrett and Lee I talked to SAC Shanklin in Dallas. He said arrangements have been made with Carswell Air Force Base to fly one of our Agents up to Washington with the rifle that was recovered by the police together with the fragments of the bullet taken from Governor Connelly and the cartridge cases. I told SAC Shanklin that Secret Service had one of the bullets that struck President Kennedy and the other is lodged behind the President's ear and we are arranging to get both of these. I told him to notify us when the gun will reach Washington so we can have the Laboratory standing by. ( MD 176 - FBI Memorandum To: Mr. Tolson From: A. H. Belmont, dated November 22, 1963) I asked for “some decisive piece of smoking-gun evidence” that disproves the Warren Report. This morning Joe McBride, the longtime film writer and author of the recently released “Into The Nightmare,” sent me an image of an 11.22.63 internal FBI memo sent by Alan H. Belmont to Clyde Tolson, special assistant to J. Edgar Hoover. McBride referred me to page 556 in “Into The Nightmare” for an explanation. He writes on that page that the Warren Commission not the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations “never disclosed” that there was a bullet lodged behind the President’s ear. “This crucial evidence” — i.e., the Belmont memo — “invalidates the official version of the assassination that only three bullets were fired, all from behind, and that none was recovered during the autopsy at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland.” McBride writes he discovered the Belmont memo in 1985, “buried among the 98,755 pages of FBI documents released to the public in 1977-78.” ( Jeffrey Wells, Don’t Belmont That Memo, My Friend) Alan H. Belmont, 79, a retired top official at the FBI, died Saturday in Mountain View, Calif., after a long illness. He had retired in 1965 as an assistant to the director, the late J. Edgar Hoover. Mr. Belmont had been promoted to that position, the number three position at the FBI in 1961. Since retiring, Mr. Belmont had been an executive assistant to the director of The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University. (...) Mr. Hoover named Mr. Belmont assistant director in charge of the domestice intelligence division in 1951. (Washington Post, 8-2-1977) The review of the facts that follows shows that Alan Belmont, the number three man in the formal hierarchy of the FBI, was the primary official in charge of FBI activities following the assassination. It is Belmont, not Hoover, who ran the FBI cover-up... (Donald Gibson, The Kennedy Assassination Cover-Up, 2000)
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