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Post by Arjan Hut on Dec 6, 2023 14:09:29 GMT -5
573 Written report covering D.C. Tomlinson’s activitiesRelated:18 The 0.30 caliber bullet that turned into CE399360 Arlen Specter's stretcher-bullet evidence566 Connally bullet fragmentsDarrell C. Tomlinson, senior engineer, Parkland Hospital: Discovered [the] bullet on a stretcher in a corridor of the hospital emergency area between 1:00 and 1:50 p.m, November 22, 1963. Called O. P. Wright and pointed out bullet. Tomlinson testifies but is asked very little about his finding of the bullet; and nothing about its appearance or his handling and disposition of it. Unlike most other hospital personnel, no written report covering his activities appears in evidence.
Bardwell DeWitt Odum (1918-2010)According to CE2011, a document from the FBI located within the Warren Commission Volumes, “Darrell C. Tomlinson was shown Exhibit C1 (CE 399), a rifle slug, by Special Agent Bardwell D. Odum, Federal Bureau of Investigation. Tomlinson stated it appears to be the same one he found on a hospital carriage at Parkland Hospital on November 22, 1963, but he cannot positively identify the bullet as the one he found and showed to O.P. Wright.” (Volume XXIV; p. 412) During his Commission testimony Tomlinson is not presented with CE399 and asked to identify it as the bullet he discovered on 11/22/63. ( Johnny Cairns, Sixth Floor Evidence, KennedysandKing)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Dec 11, 2023 10:15:19 GMT -5
574 The complete NAA test dataRelated:339 Detective Dhority's 11-22-1963 description of the rifle566 Connally bullet fragments568 Bullet fragments from the windshield "Regrettably, the all-encompassing data yielded from Cunningham’s test - including unprocessed results,
spectrographic or neutron activation analyses, photographic proof,
and procedural documentation - remains unrevealed."
( Neutron activation analysis suggested that Lee Oswald had not fired a rifle on the day of the assassination, and at first appeared to prove that all the bullet fragments came from only two bullets, although this has since been debunked.) Paraffin wax casts were taken of the hands and right cheek of Lee Harvey Oswald, the only official suspect in the murder. The casts were tested by NAA [Neutron Activation Analysis] within weeks of the assassination to see whether they contained incriminating quantities of gunpowder residues. Similar tests were done on a controlled sample of casts from marksmen who fired a gun of the same type as that found on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository.  Fragments of bullets were recovered from President Kennedy’s car, from Kennedy himself, and from Governor John Connally, who had been sitting directly in front of the president. An almost intact bullet, Commission Exhibit 399, nicknamed the magic bullet because of the large amount of damage it is supposed to have caused and the elaborate trajectory it is supposed to have taken, had apparently been found on a stretcher used by Connally. In 1977, the fragments and CE 399 were tested by NAA to see: * how many bullets the fragments had come from; * and whether the fragments from Connally’s wrist had come from the magic bullet. Senior officials at the Atomic Energy Commission got in touch with the FBI, and made several offers to perform NAA tests on the paraffin casts and the bullet fragments. Grudgingly, the FBI agreed, noting that Oswald’s murder had ensured that the tests would never be examined at trial, and that “any such examinations will, of course, be with the strict understanding that the information and dissemination of the results will be under complete FBI control” ( FBI HQ JFK File, 62–109060–5). The tests were performed in December 1963 and January 1964. (....) WC-staffer Norman Redlich and FBI laboratory specialist John F. Gallagher had succeeded in: * minimising the significance of the lack of residues on Oswald’s cheek; * and keeping out of the official record the NAA tests on the bullet fragments. They had also neglected to mention that controlled tests had taken place on the paraffin casts. (....)  Harold Weisberg, perhaps the most dogged of the early researchers, sued under the Freedom of Information Act for the records of the various neutron activation analyses. The case dragged on for 17 years, with the Department of Justice claiming that public knowledge of the data was not in the interests of ‘national security’. Eventually, nearly twenty years after the assassination, some of the results of the NAA tests were made available to Weisberg. ( How Reliable is the NAA Evidence in the JFK Assassination?) During the Warren Commission hearings, [FBI Special Agent Cortland Cunningham] testified about the results of paraffin tests conducted on Lee Oswald. The specific tests in question were aimed at determining whether Oswald had recently fired a weapon, specifically the Mannlicher Carcano, C2766. (....) Regrettably, the all-encompassing data yielded from Cunningham’s test - including unprocessed results, spectrographic or neutron activation analyses, photographic proof, and procedural documentation - remains unrevealed. Which makes his testimony problematic to present at trial, especially with the countering evidence described above. That evidence appears to be exculpatory. ( Johnny Cairns, The contamination of the evidence, KennedysandKing)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Dec 11, 2023 10:24:06 GMT -5
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Post by Arjan Hut on Mar 5, 2024 13:08:00 GMT -5
576 Identity of the grassy knoll coupleCompare:71 Jim Hood Photograph325 Footage of interview with unknown witness569 Officer Haygood’s TSBD-shooter witnessA little over sixty years ago, two young black people in Dallas found themselves eyewitnesses to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy — yet their voices have never been heard. Indeed, more than a half century later, even their names are unknown. In the annals of black history, they are one hell of a missing page. These two young people sat in Dealey Plaza, in the vortex of history, in that very small, very famous piece of real estate immortalized in the phrase "the grassy knoll,” in that heart-stopping moment that novelist Don DeLillo dubbed “the six seconds that broke the back of the American century.” If you go to Dallas today, you can see the spot almost exactly — but not quite — as it was on the day of JFK’s assassination. Seated on a park bench, this young woman and her male companion had a hamburger lunch and a front row seat on the making of history. They might have been students at Bishop College, a historically black school in Dallas at the time. One bystander thought they were a couple. [...] [Marilyn] Sitzman had accompanied her boss, dressmaker Abraham Zapruder to Dealey Plaza to watch President Kennedy's mid-day motorcade. They found a spot on a marble wall atop a grassy embankment overlooking the parade route. Sitzman steadied Zapruder as he filmed the approaching motorcade. With his Super 8 movie camera , Zapruder captured the killing of the president. (Jefferson Morley, JFKfacts, 19 Feb 2024)  The area where the couple sat, as photographed in 2008. (Francois Gorik, CC BY-SA 2.0. via Wikimedia Commons)Josiah Thompson: Darn right. I know. I've seen the films too. Now, to get to this area between the stockade fence and the cement abutment, or small mall: Did you turn after the shot to look in this general area? Marilyn Sitzman: Yes. Thompson: And did you see anyone in this area? Sitzman: No, just the two colored people running back. Thompson: I see. They were already ... they'd gotten up from the bench and were now running around into the gap made between the stockade fence and the pergola. Sitzman: Either in the gap there or back in the alcove. I don't recall which way they went. I saw ... I heard the bottles crash, and of course I looked that way, to my right, right away, and they were getting up and running towards the back. And I turned back to see if there was anything in the front street, because then they didn't affect me one way or another.  A plaque commemorates the pedestal from which Zapruder
filmed the assassination. (Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC,
Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.)Thompson: To see if anything else was going on. Had you seen them sitting on the bench before you stood next to them? Sitzman: Oh year, yes. Everybody is ... oh, ten or fifteen minutes before, everybody was milling around down there, trying to find a place to stand and everything, and I know when we went over to get up on the marble thing, they were already sitting there. Thompson: Well, did you notice at any point whether either of these two moved up to the end of the, to the point of the wall? Sitzman: No. They may have. I don't know. Thompson: Of course, you were looking at the parade at that point, and you wouldn't have seen what they did. Sitzman: Yeah. I always have the feeling that they were still sitting on the bench, because when I looked over there, they were getting up from the bench. ( Josiah Thompson 1966 interview with Marilyn Sitzman)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jul 4, 2024 11:45:34 GMT -5
577 Original copy of Sgt. Boyajian’s Action Reportrelated:4 John F. Kennedy's brain104 Bethesda 22-11-63 Chief of the day-log387 JFK's bronze Dallas casketContext: An Action Report From USMC Sergeant Roger Boyajian made public by the ARRB seems to suggest that JFK’s body arrived at Bethesda Naval Hospital 20 minutes before the motorcade carrying the official coffin in a navy ambulance.  Body of JFK being placed on catafalque in East Room. Foto: Robert Knudsen, photographer, Public
domain, via Wikimedia CommonsI don’t know how many times I have to repeat this, but I will keep on doing so as long as I have to. Roger Boyajian and his so called report are not reliable evidence in this case. I have demonstrated this twice before and I now have to do it again. That report does not state that the casket picked up by Roger Boyajian’s detail was Kennedy’s casket. It only refers to it as “the casket”. The obvious question is this: if Boyajian knew it was Kennedy’s casket, would he not have acknowledged that? Secondly, the report was not signed by Boyajian, and there is no hint as to why he did not sign it. To make matters worse, there is a second page to the report that lists the 10 others in the detail—and none of them signed it either. But even that is not the end of it. For when the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) interviewed Boyajian about the matter, that is picking up Kennedy’s casket, he could not recall doing so. In fact, he could not recall much about that day--period. Finally, the document the Board had does not appear to be the original. This makes one wonder if it was ever filed with the military. (Harrison Livingtsone, Kaleidoscope pp. 140-46) (Jim DiEugenio, The Incredible Life and Mysterious Death of Dorothy Kilgallen)
Description of the Call Date: 09/05/97 Subject: Doug Horne and Joan Zimmerman Called Roger Boyajian
Summary of the Call: Following up on ARRB’s contact letter dated August 11, 1997, I called Mr. Boyajian today and , confirmed that he was indeed the USMC Sergeant who was the NC0 in charge of the Marine Barracks security detail that guarded the Bethesda morgue during President Kennedy’s autopsy. He said that he was “double-hatted” at the time: he was assigned to both the Marine Corps Institute (a correspondence school run out of Marine Barracks at 8th and I in Washington, D.C.), and to the ceremonial guard company at Marine Barracks. He confirmed that he had submitted a written report to his C.O. within 1 or 2 days following the President‘s autopsy; he has an onionskin carbon copy of it today. He said he would be happy to send us a good photocopy of the document, but was unwilling to part with the original. He said the report contains the last names of the people in his security detail on November 22-23, but that he was going to find it difficult today to try to remember their first names (as I had requested), since people who were not from his regular platoon were literally “yanked” from all over the Marine Barracks compound at the last minute to form this Bethesda security detail. He said he remembered very little about the events in question, except that their principal task was to keep media reporters away from the morgue. He said he never received any orders from the Secret Service that day--that a member of the Marine Corps ordered him to go to Bethesda, and that he was ordered to report to Admiral Galloway, the Admiral in charge of Bethesda. Once he got there, his working point-of-contact was a Navy LT or LCDR who was the Security Officer. He said that things were quite hectic that evening, with a lot of senior military officers and federal agents in suits entering the morgue, whom he assumes were Secret Service or FBI. He could not remember any of the names of the senior officers or the agents; he said none of his people checked anyone’s I.D. that night, and no one volunteered their names to the Marines. I asked him if he remembered the arrival of the President’s caskee&and after some thought, he said “no.” [Reportedly, according to Kathleen Cunningham, his report states that the casket arrived at about 1835 (6:35 P.M.)--we will have to check this when we receive the photocopy of his report.] Although he could not remember much at all about the events of November 22-23, 1963, except general impressions, he was cordial, and agreed to give us a tape-recorded interview (after we review his report) if we desire one in the future. END ( ARRC Library)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jul 22, 2024 10:36:52 GMT -5
578 Explanation for the movements of six patrolmen in Oak CliffRelated:181 The source of the 12.44 suspect description346 Harry Olsen's mysterious motorcycle policeman347 Call sending officer Mentzel to 1:11 pm traffic accident "Six patrolmen had unexplained movements that day:
Tippit, Nelson, Mentzel, Walker, Angell and Anglin."
 The corner of Tenth Street and Patton Avenue in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas, Texas, United States,
where Officer J. D. Tippit was murdered. Larry D. Moore, 2019.DPD Dispatcher Murray Jackson said he sent Nelson and Tippit to Oak Cliff at 12:45 pm, as it was depleted of officers, and Oak Cliff was where an assassin on the the run might go. Looking at the Dallas map and what routes spill from Dealey Plaza, then Oak Cliff – over the viaducts - does makes sense as a getaway zone; if downtown is to be avoided as well as the route north to Parkland Hospital where Kennedy was taken to. But as set out above, Jackson did not need to send any officers to Oak Cliff in reacting to the assassination. Instead, as set out below, the number of officers already there was half a dozen. Any dispatcher with ears could hear that. (....) Officer Walker at 12:30 pm was at the old Oak Cliff fire station at 706 E 10th (still there as Engine Co No 7), where 10th meets Lancaster, where he said he popped in to watch assassination coverage on their TV. That’s two blocks and 500 yards from where Tippit is shot at 10th and Patton.  Oak Cliff from the air, somewhere in the sixties - University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collection. It was not depleted
of officers on 11-22-1963 at all.
Patrolman Lewis call sign 35 per the tape (not transcribed) says at 12:47pm “105 Corinth”. That’s the south end of Corinth Viaduct, Oak Cliff. He is 7 miles out of his district in northwest Dallas next to Love Field Airport. Officer Parker, call sign 56, states at 12:42pm “56. E Jefferson”. East Jefferson becomes the Corinth Viaduct. He was 20 miles out of his northeast patrol district of Garland. All of this again scotches the line that Tippit and Nelson were called to Oak Cliff as it was depleted of Officers. It was not, not at all. Tippit, Angell, Mentzel, Walker, Lewis, Parker; and the viaducts are a common position: Tippit, Nelson, Parker, Lewis and then Angell. Then there was Olsen. The SW District Commander was William Fulgham, who was purportedly on other duties for the day. He was later promoted to Deputy Chief of Police, but then investigated for misconduct in October1972. Six of his 22 Second Platoon patrolmen had unexplained movements that day: Tippit, Nelson, Mentzel, Walker, Angell and Anglin. ( John Washburn, The Tippit Tapes: A Re-examination)
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