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Post by Arjan Hut on Jan 13, 2021 11:01:55 GMT -5
One mystery solved, but others remain. The underlying question regarding post 476 Contemporaneous records of the Dallas pro-Castro demonstration is: Did the Dallas police know about Oswald before the assassination? In the Warren Report, it is claimed the police did not know about Oswald. If they did know about him, in what capacity was Oswald known to them? A subversive who needed to be monitored? An informer? A provocateur? Officer Finnigan started after the Castro-demonstrator, who fled into a department store. Sgt, Harkness told him to let the man go. Why? So it seems that the identity of the demonstrator is known. At least, Sylvia Meagher in her 1967 masterpiece Accessories after the fact believes it must be Oswald, based upon Oswald's letter to V. T. Lee in April '63. Therefore, I've crossed out nr. 464.
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jan 13, 2021 13:06:06 GMT -5
The 1964 report of sergeant D. V. Harkness:
Sir;
On some day in late spring or early summer of 1963, which was about a year ago, I received a call to meet Officer W.R. Finnigan at Main and Ervay Streets regarding an unidentified white male passing out Pro-Castro literature. I went to the Special Service Bureau and informed Lt. Jack Revill of the situation. I told him that I was going to Main and Ervay and that I was going to try to find out the name of the person. I went West on Main Street, as I approached Ervay Street, I pulled to the curb and got off of my three-wheel motorcycle. The white male ran into H. L. Green Department Store and fled. I could not get a good description of the man because he ducked behind a post in the entrance to the store, which was across the street on the northwest corner of the intersection. He was also going away from and I observed him very briefly. He appeared to be medium build and he had on a white shirt. I could not identify this man. Officer Finnigan was going to give pursuit, but I told him "let him go”.
D.V. Harkness
Officer Finnigan was going to give pursuit, but I told him "let him go”.
The "White Male" fled into H.L. Green Department Store. H.L. Green was the first department store downtown to desegregate their lunch counter, which I think happened somewhere in 1961-62. Just a thought that crossed my mind as I read this: if Oswald / the picketer was an agent provocateur, could it have been so that he / the DPD tried to link the desegregated store to communism?
Maybe stretching it. But the special significance / position of H. L. Green makes for an interesting side note.
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jan 13, 2021 13:07:43 GMT -5
The 1964 report of officer Finnigan:Sir, On a day in late spring, or early summer of 1963, which was approximately one year ago, I was on the northeast corner of Main and Ervay Streets and observed an unidentified white male on the northwest corner of Main and Ervay streets. This white male was passing out some sort of literature, and had a sign on his back which read "Viva Castro". I went to the phone in Dreyfuss & Son and called for Sgt. Harkness to meet me on the corner. While I was waiting for Sgt. Harkness, U.S Commissioner M. Madden Hill came across the street and said "Something should be done about that guy passing out literature. Mr. Hill seemed to be very angry. About this time, Sgt. Harkness drove up on his three-wheel motorcycle and stopped on the northeast corner where I was standing. We started to discuss the situation, the white male removed the Viva Castro-sign and ran into H. L. Green Company. I started after him but was told by Sgt. Harkness to let him go. Another unknown male told us that when Sgt. Harkness came up, this unidentified white male said "Oh, hell, here come the cops." This unidentified white male was of medium weight and height and had on a white shirt and was bare headed. I can not identify this white male because he was across the street and I was waiting for Sgt. Harkness to make the initial contact with him. W. R. Finnigan This white male was passing out some sort of literature, and had a sign on his back which read "Viva Castro".Compare: 202 Negatives of the Doyle film
"Speaking of the James Doyle film, Doyle's younger sister said Oswald's sign said "Viva La Fidel" (which is incorrect Spanish), and Mr. Doyle (iirc) said there was another demonstrator with Oswald, and that this other demonstrator had a sign on a wooden pole ... "
(Tom Graves, Photo and film analysis in the JFK assassination Facebookgroup, 9-4-19)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jan 13, 2021 13:11:01 GMT -5
Lee Harvey Oswald, four months later in New Orleans.
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