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Post by Michael Capasse on Jan 16, 2019 10:03:05 GMT -5
How easy it would have been for the Warren Commission to conclude one non fatal shot each; POTUS and the GOV, and then the head shot as the third.
James Tague destroys that possibility.
Mr. Tague had been driving to downtown Dallas to have lunch with his girlfriend (and future wife) when he came upon a traffic jam due to the presidential motorcade which was traveling west on Elm Street. Tague testified to the Warren Commission that the traffic jam caused him to park his car on the north curb of Commerce Street, where he then “got out of his car and stood by the bridge abutment”
Tague was a few feet north of the southern edge of the triple underpass railroad bridge, when he saw the presidential limousine and heard the first shot. Soon after the shots were fired, Tague was approached by Dallas Sheriff’s detective Buddy Walthers, who had noticed that Tague had specks of blood on his right cheek. Tague also had a small left facial scab, caused by an unrelated event that occurred a week prior to the assassination. The detective asked Tague where he had been standing. The two men then examined the area and discovered — on the upper, curved part of Main Street south curb – a “very fresh scar” impact that, to each of them, looked like a bullet had struck there and taken a small chip out of the curb’s concrete. They came to the conclusion that one bullet ricocheted off the curb and the debris hit Tague. This curb surrounding the scar chip was not cut out until August 1964 after Tague repeatedly reminded authorities that he had also been wounded during the shots, and it is now in the National Archives. The scar chip was 23 feet 6 inches (7.16 m) north of the south edge of the triple underpass railroad bridge, about 20 feet (6 m) from where Tague stood during the attack. The detective told Tague it looked like a bullet had been fired from either the Texas School Book Depository or the Dal-Tex Building. destroys that and when his story is picked up by the AP in early summer 1964 the WC cannot ignore him. [wiki] |
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Post by Michael Capasse on Jan 16, 2019 10:03:23 GMT -5
Tague was called July 23, 1964(WC on a schedule to already be finished)..BUT the below FBI memo (portion of pg. 3 unsigned) dated July 17th 1964references the photographers (Dillard and Underwood) that had also taken photos of a manhole cover struck by a bullet. 
Testimony: JW Foster / Member, Dallas Police Department
Mr. FOSTER – I moved down the roadway there, down to see if I could find where any of the shots hit.
Mr. BALL – Find anything?
Mr. FOSTER – Yes, sir. Found where one shot had hit the turf there at the location.
Mr. BALL – Hit the turf?
Mr. FOSTER – Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL – Did you see any marks on the street in anyplace?
Mr. FOSTER – No, a manhole cover. It was hit. they caught the manhole cover right on the corner and –
Mr. BALL – You saw a mark on the manhole cover did you?
Mr. FOSTER – Yes sir.
Mr. BALL – Went into the turf?
Mr. FOSTER – Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL – Did you recover any bullet?
Mr. FOSTER – No, sir. It ricocheted on out.
Mr. BALL – Did you have the crime lab make a picture of that spot?
Mr. FOSTER – I called them to the location.
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Post by Michael Capasse on Jan 16, 2019 10:03:42 GMT -5
But wait….by July '64, Tague was talking to press…. Any hit to the manhole cover and turf has now become his hit to a curb.
BUT that “nick” cannot be found...
It could be the weather….
“…it should be noted that, since the mark was observed on November 23, 1963 there had been numerous rains which could have possibly washed away such a mark and also that the area is cleaned by a street cleaning machine about once a week which would also wash away such mark…” |
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Post by Michael Capasse on Jan 16, 2019 10:04:04 GMT -5
August 05, 1964 Lyndal Shaneyfelt [FBI] was finally able to find a mark …. and what a mark it is !
Shaneyfelt comes up with a series of photos that have nothing to do with the original Dillard and Underwood subject..and the record is left with the mark on the curb that had been the ricochet that hit Tague. The concrete is cut-out and hauled off to the National Archives.
Once again Shaneyfelt is called back as late as Sept 1st to clarify
Mr. Shaneyfelt: Yes.
Using photographs made by Mr. Underwood and Mr. Dillard in November 1963, either the 22d or 23d, of this mark on the curb, I went to Dallas and was successful in locating a mark. Shaneyfelt Exhibit No. 29 contains the photographs used to locate the mark on the curbing on the south side of Main Street at the assassination site.
Photograph No. 1 of this exhibit is the photograph of the mark made by Mr. Underwood, the red arrow indicating the mark on the curb.
Photograph No. 2 is the photograph made by Mr. Dillard of the mark on the curb, and the red arrow again designates the mark.
Photograph No. 3 of Shaneyfelt Exhibit No. 29 is a photograph that was made by Mr. Underwood by placing his camera on the mark and pointing it toward the Texas School Book Depository Building, and he stated he did this so that the resulting photograph could be used to relocate this mark on the curb should it ever be necessary.
Mr. Redlich: I gather that without that photograph taken by Mr. Underwood it would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible, to have located this mark, is that correct?
Mr. Shaneyfelt: It would have been more difficult. Mr. Dillard’s photograph actually contained some background that was of value, and we would have found it without this, but this made it much easier. Photograph No. 3, which was made by Mr. Underwood, allowed us to go immediately within a foot to a foot and a haft of, the actual mark.
Tague always knew his story was a problem and the WC had to explain his hit:
“They had to go back and rewrite the Warren Commission,” Tague said. “That’s where the magic bullet came from. That’s the only thing they could come up with.
That one bullet went through two people.”
And the missed shot is the one that ricocheted a piece of curb that injured Mr. Tague….so what was that bullet that hit the manhole cover? |
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