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Post by Michael Capasse on Jul 9, 2021 10:55:19 GMT -5
Two More than One The Attorney General later admitted Shaw was Bertrand, and when there was a lull in the case, the office went back to regular duties. Jim continued to spend his spare time studying the Warren Commission books, in particular the testimony. The possibility of a frontal shot always bothered him now he was looking at what he called an "admission note". "Cause of death", from Dr. Robert McClelland at Parkland Hospital, "...massive head and brain injury from a gunshot
wound of the left temple.” Jim began to wonder if Oswald had shot at the president at all. There were a number of witnesses that saw some strange movements on that floor before the motorcade arrived. The "Sniper's Nest" was in the southeast corner of the sixth floor of the building. The window was opened about 13 inches. About 15 minutes before the car got there, 18 year old, Arnold Rowland and his wife Barbara, were on Houston St. waiting with the crowd. Arnold looked at the face of TSBD and saw a "negro" man in the window of the snipers nest, then told his wife, he saw another man with a rifle in an upright position on the SW corner of the same floor . He later told the Sheriffs Dept and testified to the Warren Commission. Carolyn Walthers, worked at Dal-Tex and was on Houston St. before the motorcade arrived, she saw a man in a white shirt, pointing an unusually short rifle downward from the SN window. The man had blonde or sandy brown hair. There was also another man standing next to him, that wore a brown suit. Toney "Ruby" Henderson was on the east side of Elm st., when she looked up before the motorcade came, she saw two men in an upper floor window. One was a dark haired man with the white shirt, the other, "...possibly a Mexican, but could have been a Negro."Amos Euins, was a sixteen year old African American skipping school to go see the president. He was on Houston St., near the corner of Elm. When he looked up he saw a pipe sticking out the window, and told the Commission, he could see the gun all the way to the trigger. On the day of the assassination, he told a TV Reporter, the man in the window was a "colored man" but would not say for sure on the stand. Yet there were two things he stood strong on the stand, the man had a white or light colored bald spot on the top of his head, and that he had not told the Dallas authorities, that the man he had seen was white. Likewise, he would not say it on the stand. Deputy Sheriff Roger Craig, noticed a police officer speaking to a Latin man on Elm St, immediately after the shooting. The officer grew frustrated as the man gestured he could not speak English. A few moments later, Craig saw that same man driving a Nash Rambler down Elm St., then, suddenly stopped and picked up a man that looked like Lee Harvey Oswald. Richard Randolph Carr, probably saw the man that Carolyn Walthers saw standing next to the assassin's window. He looked up before the parade and saw a man in a tan jacket and horned rim glasses, he later saw that man run out of TSBD. He gave chase until the man jumped into the same Nash Rambler station wagon that Roger Craig saw a moment later. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On the Trail of the Assassins | Jim Garrison"It seemed fair to conclude from all the statements that a composite visualization of the Depository sixth floor just before—and during— the assassination added up to at least three different men: two white, one of whom was apparently youngish and either slightly blond or with light brown hair, and the other heavy-set with horn-rimmed glasses; and one distinctly dark-complexioned, very possibly of Latin origin. Whether they had one rifle or two was unclear. The youngish, thinner white man was seen holding one while he stood back of the westernmost window (at the opposite end of “the assassin’s lair”), whereas the dark-complexioned man was seen firing directly from the easternmost “lair." "...The appearance and reappearance of “dark-skinned,” “Spanish-looking” or “Negro” men in the descriptions of the witnesses intrigued me. Not only was the man in the lair identified this way, but the “epileptic” observed in Dealey Plaza was described as a Latin man wearing Army green combat garb.* That description reminded me of the anti-Castro Cuban exiles who were constantly traipsing through Guy Banister’s office on their way to guerrilla training on Lake Pontchartrain. It occurred to me that the “dark-complected” man whom some observers saw might well have been Cuban. Moreover, given what I knew about Guy Banister’s guerrilla training operation and Lee Oswald’s proximity to it, the involvement of anti-Castro Cuban exile guerrillas in the assassination of a President whom they despised for “betraying” them at the Bay of Pigs in 1961 and for ordering their training camps shut down in the summer of 1963 seemed a distinct possibility."
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Post by Michael Capasse on Jul 9, 2021 10:55:48 GMT -5
Darker than White On Nov. 22, Johnny Powell was a 17 year old inmate in the Dallas County Jail on a three day lockup for vagrancy. His cell was on the sixth floor facing Elm St. directly across from TSBD. Just about 5 or 6 minutes before the president arrived, Powell looked across the street and saw two men, "fooling with the scope on a rifle". He said there were several other inmates that saw the same thing. Powell told Dallas Morning News reporter Earl Golz, as many as 40 inmates were clamoring for a window view of the parade. He was sure quite a few saw the same thing, "...it was directly straight across". In June '64 one of Jack Ruby's attorneys, Stanly Kaufman, made a suggestion to Commission Assistant Counsel, Leon Herbert, that the prisoners, "...had a good view of what took place..." "it might be helpful to the Commission to know that there were people in jail who saw the actual killing." That suggestion was ignored. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dallas Morning News | Dec 19, 1978"Quite a few of us saw them (two men in the depository window), Powell said.
"Everybody was trying to watch the parade and all that."
"We were looking across the street because it was directly straight across.
The first thing I thought is, it was security guards...I remember the guys."
"The two men in the window across the street looked darker than whites and were wearing
"kind of brownish looking or duller clothes".....like work clothes, Powell said.++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Garrison Footnote"The greatest view by far of the Depository’s sixth floor was from the County Jail on Houston Street. The inmates had clustered at the windows to see the Presidential motorcade. Stanley Kaufman, an attorney who testified before the Warren Commission, described a client of his, Willie Mitchell, as not having seen anyone when he glanced over at “that window.” However, Kaufman went on to say that “there were people in jail who saw the actual killing.” The inmates of the jail were not called to testify by the Warren Commission. Nor were they questioned by the F.B.I. or the Secret Service. However, one of the inmates, John Powell, surfaced later. Powell, who was in jail for only several days on misdemeanor charges, did not thrust himself forward to testify. Rather, he simply informed acquaintances of what he had seen on the Depository’s sixth floor. Ultimately, one of them contacted the media. Powell and his fellow inmates were on the sixth floor of the jail, so they were able to look right into the sixth floor of the Depository, several hundred feet away. A few minutes before the assassination, Powell and the other inmates stared from their window into the window just across the way and watched two men with a rifle. At first they thought that the two were security guards—until the shooting began. Powell recalled that one of the two men had a very dark complexion."
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Post by Michael Capasse on Jul 9, 2021 10:56:18 GMT -5
No Resolve One issue that refuses to go away is the "Mauser". The rifle in the archives is an Italian made 6.5mm Mannlicher–Carcano, the rifle in question was a 7.65mm German Mauser. Although "mauser 'may be a generic term for bolt action rifle, it makes no excuse for 7.65, on five documents in three days by two men. Yet, the officers knew they were looking for a 6.5mm gun, that was clearly marked on the shells that were found before the rifle. Capt. Fritz: "...I am certainly sure that I never did give anyone any different caliber than the one that shows on the cartridges."
Two officers from the Sheriff's Dept, not the Dallas Police, recorded the rifle as 7.65 German Mauser. They wrote 7.65 on 5 affidavits for 3 days. One swore it to the FBI, while the Feds had the gun. The documentation of the rifle and the actions taken by the FBI and Commission in regards to this matter are clear indications of a coverup. There is no signed or sworn affidavit by any police officer involved in the finding of the rifle that listed it as a Mannlicher-Carcano–only as a 7.65 Mauser. Since 1964, this evidence has brought doubt to the authenticity of the Carcano. Seymour Weitzman was a gun expert that admitted the mistake, but there is no document where he was shown the correct gun. Eugene Boone was the other Deputy that recorded a Mauser being found that day. In 1986 he told Gerry Spence, GERRY SPENCE: And it wasn’t until after a certain gun in the possession of the FBI suddenly turned out to be a Mannlicher.
That it changed from being a Mauser to a Mannlicher. Isn’t that true? LT. BOONE: I would say that’s an accurate statement yes, sir.In Oct. '64, Gerald Ford gave the excuse to the press that a newspaper man was trying to get a quick story and reported it as a Mauser. But the issue is not about some other rifle being found or expected to be explained in some alternate narrative. It's too late for that. It becomes the doubt of authenticity for the Carcano. Strong evidence exists that there was another rifle, in addition to, or instead of. The rifle in evidence is clearly marked 6.5 CAL. The shells are clearly marked 6.5 at the base. There is no reason to report a 7.65 anything. In 1976 Chief Curry told the Detroit News "...that “it’s more than possible” the rifle could have been switched and that,
due to lack of security, anyone wanting to do so “could have gotten away with it at the time.” ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On the Trail of the Assassins | Jim Garrison"Officer Seymour Weitzman, part of the Dallas police search team, later described the discovery of the rifle on the afternoon of November 22. He stated that it had been so well hidden under boxes of books that the officers stumbled over it many times before they found it. Officer Weitzman, who had an engineering degree and also operated a sporting goods store, was recognized as an authority on weapons. Consequently, Dallas Homicide Chief Will Fritz, who was on the scene, asked him the make of the rifle. Weitzman identified it as a 7.65 Mauser, a highly accurate German-made weapon. Deputy Sheriff Roger Craig was also there and later recalled the word “Mauser” inscribed in the metal of the gun. And Deputy Sheriff Eugene Boone executed a sworn affidavit in which he described the rifle as a Mauser. As late as midnight of November 22, Dallas District Attorney Henry Wade told the media that the weapon found was a Mauser."
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Post by Michael Capasse on Jul 9, 2021 10:56:45 GMT -5
Double Down Connected
Another issue that refuses to go away, is a second parade route.
There is no need for any argument of a change in the parade route, but two of them were 2 prepared. Both were printed in various newspapers, leading up to Nov. 22 nd. One showed a turn onto Elm St., the other didn't. Therefore some kind of change was made at some point prior to 11/22, a change that broke normal safety and security protocol. That turn forced the car to slow down to less than 10 mph, directly below open windows of a building. If that is the only route that can be taken thru Dealey Plaza, then special arrangements should have been made at TSBD. When actually, the proper route should've been to continue down Main St. and proceed to Industrial Blvd. to the Trade Mart. That is what the map in the Dallas Morning News showed on the morning of 11/22. A picture the Report refused to reprint. Here again, Commission Exhibits failed to show an honest representation, this time, the maps printed in public for the parade route. ------------------------------------------------------------- When the President did a visit with a motorcade in 1963, Special Agent Winston Lawson was in charge of coordinating certain security measures with the local police. Taking parked cars off the street, keeping people off the overpasses and bridges, and securing the windows along the parade route. The special agent in charge of these duties failed in his actions. The Commission doesn't mind and brushes over this obvious safety violation without further inquiry. The car was forced to make the turn at Elm St, beneath a window that was not secured. It did not bother this man enough to seek out, "who did I I tell?", nor did it prompt the Commission to ask, "who would you have told?"Mr. LAWSON. I cannot say definitely that I told the police to watch windows. I usually do. On this particular case,
I cannot say whether I definitely said that. I believe I did, but I would not swear to the fact that I said watch all the windows.------------------------------------------------------ "President Kennedy was shot on Elm Street just after his car made that slow turn from Houston. Many have considered this to be a crucial piece of evidence that there was a plot to murder the President. It is considered crucial because the route was selected by the Secret Service, contrary to policy, and because this obvious discrepancy has been ignored by the Warren Report and all other investigations since then." Col. L. Fletcher Prouty served for the Joint Chiefs under Pres. Kennedy, +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On the Trail of the Assassins | Jim Garrison In Jim's office, with Asst Frank Klein“Where the hell were the Dallas police when they made that last-minute change in the route?” he asked. “Where indeed?” I asked. “And the Secret Service. And the F.B.I.” “And the city administration of Dallas,” he added. “Don’t they have a mayor over there in that damned place?” “Yes, they do. The mayor when this happened was Earle Cabell.” I buzzed the intercom and my secretary, Sharon Herkes, came in. I asked her to take a cab to the public library and find the latest volume of Who’s Who in the Southwest. “I’m sure you’ll find Earle Cabell in there. See if his article indicates any connections with Washington.” “With Washington?” Frank asked. “Of course,” I replied. “You can’t tell me it’s possible to hijack the President—with the whole world watching — unless there’s some kind of cooperation between the city administration and the federal government.”
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Post by Michael Capasse on Jul 9, 2021 10:57:08 GMT -5
Brother In Arms
There was a direct connection with the City of Dallas and the CIA, Mayor Earle Cabell.
Since 1956, he worked for the CIA, and was the brother of the agency's Deputy Director, Gen. Charles Cabell. In 1963, Dallas had two police jurisdictions, the City Police, under the Mayor, and the County Sheriff Dept, under State Atty General, Wagoner Carr. Oswald was being transferred to be processed by the County when he was killed. Sheriff Bill Decker, had tried unsuccessfully to get him out sooner. Clear indications of the Sheriff's Dept. trying to do the right thing time and again that weekend, could not break the controls of the City Police. A "Mauser" became an issue because two Deputy Sheriffs spoke up and were almost immediately silenced by City Police and FBI. Searches of the Paine residence in Irving were first done illegally by City Police, out of their jurisdiction, then corrected by Deputy Sheriffs. Oswald's attorney of his choice was being denied by City Police, while the bias line ups were being stacked against him with other officers. Manipulation of evidence by the Dallas Police in the Tippit case regarding how the shells were found, and then bullets held back for 114 days. Sheriff Decker was aware of threats to the prisoner and tried to get him moved in the night. His requests were denied. The brother of the Mayor was Gen Charles Cabell, and the Deputy Director of the CIA under Allen Dulles for nine years. The Washington connection. His failed attempt at the Bay of Pigs in April 1961, forced his resignation from JFK. His hatred for Kennedy was well known in Washington. Obvious changes to what is normal protocol in the president's security related to the City of Dallas, becomes suspicious under these circumstances. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On the Trail of the Assassins | Jim Garrison"In most countries, a powerful individual who had been in open conflict with a national leader who was later assassinated would receive at least a modicum of attention in the course of the posthumous inquiry. A major espionage organization with a highly sophisticated capability for accomplishing murder might receive even more. Certainly a powerful individual who also held a top position in a major espionage apparatus and had been at odds with the departed leader would be high on the list of suspects. However, General Cabell, who fit that description perfectly, was never even called as a witness before the Warren Commission. One reason may have been that Allen Dulles, the former C.I.A. director (also fired by President Kennedy), was a member of the Commission and handled all leads relating to the Agency. During the nine years that Dulles had been the C.I.A.’s chief, General Charles Cabell had been his deputy."
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Post by Michael Capasse on Jul 14, 2021 10:55:11 GMT -5
Patience Persists  Edwin Lea McGehee, was a barber in nearby Jackson LA., about 120 miles north of New Orleans, about 13 or 14 miles from Clinton LA On one unusually cool August afternoon in '63, he noticed an old green car, with a man and a woman, and what looked like a baby's bassinet in the back seat. A few moments later a man walked into his shop. With no one else around, he sat in the chair for about 15 minutes and got a haircut. McGehee was familiar with all the regular customers and had never met this man, so they started talking. The man was neatly dressed, and showed his Marine discharge card, then was asking about a job at the East Louisiana State Hospital, McGehee, said he should go and see Reeves Morgan, who was the State Representative there in the Parish. The man seemed surprised when McGehee told him it was a mental hospital, though he continued to pursue the job. The barber told him he would probably have a better chance if he were a registered voter. The Registrars office was in Clinton LA. Next, the man showed up at Morgan Reeves house, who also suggested he would have a better chance if he was registered. On a cool afternoon in Aug.'63, both later recognized the man as Lee Harvey Oswald, neither was called by the Commission. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On the Trail of the Assassins | Jim Garrison"The fact remained that Oswald had applied for a job at the mental institution, and that would have been all that his sponsors needed for another touch of sheep dipping. A few weeks of menial work there would have been enough to complete the picture of Oswald wandering haplessly from one job to another, each more obscure than the last. With a bit of luck and a little orchestration, it might even have been possible—with a switch of cards from “employee” to “patient”—to have the right psychiatrist at Jackson describe the problems he had in treating this strange outpatient named Lee Oswald."
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Post by Michael Capasse on Jul 14, 2021 10:55:44 GMT -5
To the Core  Clay Shaw David FerrieIn the Summer of 1963, the US Government began a program to better register black voters in the deep south. Parts of Mississippi, and Louisiana, still had Jim Crows Laws in place that, forced a Poll Tax, [pay to vote], and literacy testing, [w/ different degrees of difficulty] and voter ID restrictions. Congress of Racial Equality, [CORE] was an African American Civil Rights organization founded in Chicago in 1942. They were on the ground helping to protect the voters trying to get registered, while the locals were on the lookout to run these strangers out of town, while the police were watching both to maintain law and order. In the late summer of '63, in Clinton LA, a Black Cadillac was seen at the registrars office in town. It was strange to see in such a poor town. Several witnesses saw the 3 men that were in the car, one was standing in line to get registered, while the other two remained in the vehicle. -------------------------------------------- Corrie Collins was the CORE Officer for Clinton, he saw the car drive up, he saw all three men in the car, and identified Oswald as getting out. He said the driver was, "...heavy built, gray hair....between 40 and 50, somewhere in that area, and he had on a light color hat." The passenger, "...I would say he was medium built, but the most outstanding thing about him was his eyebrows and his hair.
They didn't seem real, in other words, they were unnatural, didn't seem as if they were real hair." -------------------------------------------- John Manchester, was the Town Marshall, Collins saw Manchester walk up to the car and speak to the driver. "...Yes, sir. He was a big man, gray-haired, ruddy complexion, a real easy-talking man."As the law, he was assigned to keep watch over the Registrars Office, and look out for strangers trying to disrupt the registration drive. Manchester was satisfied after speaking with the driver, "He said he was a representative of the International Trade Mart in New Orleans."He did not speak to the man on the passenger side, so he did not get a good look at him. But he clearly remembered the driver of the Cadillac. "Mr. Dymond, I don't forget faces; I might forget names but I don't forget faces."-------------------------------------------- Henry Earl Palmer, was the Registrar of Voters for the Parish of East Feliciana, in Clinton LA. He had immediate concerns about the vehicle. Once Mr. Collins called over Marshall Manchester to check the vehicle, Palmer was still curious why the Trade Mart from New Orleans would be there. The car was parked from about 9:30a until about 3:30p that afternoon. In the course of his travels that day, he saw the car about 6 times. He could only see the backs of the men in the car from about 20 feet, "...The man that was behind the wheel, I saw him sitting down.
He appeared to be a tall man, he had broad shoulders and quite gray hair, and his complexion was -- well, it wasn't light, in other words,
kind of ruddy complexion." He never got a good look at either man's face, so was not able to make out much detail about the passenger, "...Well, the man on the passenger side, all I can tell you about him, he appeared -- his eyebrows were heavy and his hair needed combing.
He had messed-up hair, I noticed that. That is all I could see of him." The other thing Palmer noticed, were two white men in line, they didn't appear to be together they were a few men apart. Palmer recalls walking directly passed them a couple of times to his office. When it came time to register the first white guy, he didn't have enough identification to prove he lived in the Parish long enough. The second guy, Palmer later recognized as Lee Harvey Oswald. When shown a picture of Lee at the Shaw trial, he told the jury that was the man he tried to register. Palmer said the man showed him a ID card, with the name Lee H. Oswald, and a New Orleans address, though he didn't remember the location. He told Palmer he was trying to get a job at the Jackson Hospital, "...His ID card didn't identify his living in the Parish of East Feliciana,
so I told him, asked him if he knew the business manager at the hospital in Jackson or if he knew the Mayor of the Town of Jackson or
if he knew the Representative of the Parish. He couldn't give me any proof that he was living in the Parish long enough, but I told him
he did not have to be a registered voter to get a job at the Jackson Hospital. He thanked me and left." ---------------------------------------------- William Dunn was another CORE member and was suspicious of the black Cadillac already parked in front of the Registrars office. He said the car was there when he arrived about 10:30a and was still there when he left about 3:30p. He only remembered the driver. "He was -- big shoulders, big man, and gray hair." He thought they were FBI. He could not see the other man well enough. All of these men corroborate stories of the Trade Mart, Jackson Hospital, distinguished gray hair, and painted eyebrows. They were sure they had seen Clay Shaw in the strange Cadillac. Each one pointed to him in court. MR. SCIAMBRA: Would you have the record reflect that this witness pointed to the Defendant Clay Shaw?
THE COURT: Let it be so noted in the record. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On the Trail of the Assassins | Jim Garrison"Perhaps the most important result of the Clinton work was that we had succeeded in connecting David Ferrie and Clay Shaw. Knowing that Shaw and Ferrie were friends, or even more, that they were jointly engaged in some clandestine association, gave us a better chance to develop information. To investigate Shaw alone—a highly controlled, discreet man with powerful connections—would have been difficult. Now, however, we had found a handle on Shaw. His name was David Ferrie."
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Post by Michael Capasse on Jul 14, 2021 10:56:50 GMT -5
Take a Ride George Wray Gill, Sr. was a high profile attorney in New Orleans in 1963. His most famous client was Mob Boss, Carlos Marcello. Gill handled many legal affairs for Marcello from 1951-1972, and was himself the target of criminal charges a few times in that period. In 1961, he handled the legal case for David Ferrie, then attempted and failed, to get him reinstated as a pilot at Eastern Airlines. Ferrie was suspended on suspicion of homosexual acts with young men while a pilot with the airline. From March '62 - Dec. '63 Ferrie actually worked for Gill as a both a handyman and private investigator. Jim went to his office to talk about David's phone calls. Gill's secretary reminded them both, he had actually let Ferrie go in Jan. '64. Once Gill was able to extract his normal calls, that left the Ferrie calls bare, Jim spent a tedious amount of time looking for a match. He was comparing known David Ferris calls with the numbers called by Jack Ruby. On Commission Exhibit 2350 he found one. On a phone call billed to WH4-4970 on Nov. 20 1963, to Miss A. Aase. The bill was from the company ERO manufacturing in Chicago IL. A very good friend of Jack Ruby, Lawrence Meyers, worked there. The phone call was person to person collect, charged to WH4-4970. Jim matched this to a phone call from David Ferrie to the same number. So, Ferrie to Meyers then Meyers to Ruby = Ferrie to Ruby. When Meyers testified to the HSCA in 1978, he described a WATS line he would use very much like what Jim called, a "message center". A. As far as long-distance phone calls are concerned, Ero had a WATS line which I used 99 percent of the time.
Q. How about when you were traveling?
A. I called on the WATS. I called collect, and whoever I called for was not in at that time,
obviously would return the call, call me back later on the WATS line. Miss Anne Aase (goes by Jean) was a 25 year old, unemployed woman living in Chicago. A few days before the assassination, Larry Meyers asked her to go to Dallas with him. They left on Nov 20 th, '63, stayed at the Ramanda Motel, then moved to the Cabana Motel as husband and wife. (though he was already married). +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ HSCA Testimony | Lawrence MeyersQ. Yes. When you stayed at the Ramada was there anyone else with you or did you know anyone else that was staying there? A. Well, I -- I didn't know anyone else. I don't remember whether that kid from Minneapolis with me or not to the Ramada, or whether she met me the next day at the Cabana. I can't remember. Q. She came from Minneapolis and not -- A. She came from Chicago, but she was from Minneapolis. Q. What is her name? A. I couldn't tell you. I can't remember. Q. Jean Aase, A-a-s-e? A. I just can't remember. Q. Or Jean West? A. West. That rings a bell of some kind. Q. Was that just a name she was going by or was that her real name? A. I don' t know. Q. Do you know if she was going by her real name? A. I have no idea. The night before the assassination, Larry asked her if she would like to meet his friend Jack, that owned a strip club. While there, they talked to a stripper Joyce McDonald, Meyers had already met McDonald in Oct '63 when he helped her with some money. Larry and his girlfriend then went back to the Cabana and met up with Larry's brother and wife. Meanwhile Jack arrived late and immediately had to leave to attend his club. The couple stayed in Dallas until Mon. Nov 25 th. Once back in Chicago, Miss Aase, became Jean West. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On the Trail of the Assassins | Jim Garrison"In the Army, a unit’s message center invariably is located by the nearest road of approach and identified for message couriers by a small sign alongside the road. On the other hand, American domestic intelligence does not like to advertise. So shy is it, in fact, that it claims it does not even exist. Nevertheless, its agents also have a need to communicate, and quite often, especially where the circumstances are delicate, they want to obtain indirection as well—as appears to have been the case where Jean West, who was contacted by Ferrie, ended up the day before the assassination talking to Jack Ruby."
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Post by Michael Capasse on Jul 14, 2021 10:57:43 GMT -5
Lawrence Meyers Larry Meyers was a businessman from Chicago and a good friend of Jack Ruby. He had known him for about 3 years. He came upon The Carousal by accident. In 1960, he was a salesman for ERO Manufacturing Co, they made custom upholstery. One night, while out in Dallas, he happened to wonder into the club, and after talking to Jack, realized he was also from the Windy City. They became very good friends and Larry always made sure he paid a visit to Jack when he was in Dallas. He had seen him about 20-25 times. Meyers testified on Aug 24, 1964, just about a month before the report was complete. He made no mention of who he had dinner with on the 21 st. He coyly asked, did I tell the FBI men where? Griffin replied, "No you didn't"., The attorney never revealed in the same FBI report, Meyers called his dinner date and faux wife that weekend, "...a rather dumb, but accommodating broad."It is beyond coincidence Miss Aase received a call two days before the assassination, from Jack Ruby, traced to a number used by David Ferrie, . Meyers is more than obliging in his answers, at the same time he gave the excuse that he travels so much he doesn't remember dates very well. He is very descriptive of Jack, but exaggerated or magnified, like when he describes Ruby, as "flipped his lid" on Saturday night... "He was--let me say it this way--in all of my conversations with him through the years that I have known him,
he had occasions to get to a degree overwhelmed, in other words, he would almost get incoherent because he was so anxious to get his
point over. I am sure you have talked to people who will do this. This night he seemed far more incoherent than I have ever listened to him.
The guy sounded absolutely like he had flipped his lid, I guess. Of course, you all have to understand I have read so much,
everybody swinging this way."There is no telling what role Larry Meyers played in any plot. It was obviously some kind of communication prompted him to go to Dallas. It is odd, he said he remembered so much detail about Jack, then when Griffin asks him to pin down events after Sept 26th he said he could not. After having seen Jack about 20-25 times, he suddenly cannot remember the times he met with Ruby in the weeks leading up to the assassination. He also told the Commission, he was driving to his plant in McKinney with his brother and wife, when he heard the president had been shot. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ What'd I Say FBI report 12/12/63:"...and in the evening following dinner .. he went to JACK RUBY's Carousel Club.
Mr. MEYERS stated that on this trip to Dallas he was accompanied by Miss JEAN WEST whom he had known casually as a resident of
20 East Delaware Street, Chicago, Illinois. He described Miss WEST as a "rather dumb, but accommodating broad".
He further pointed out that his association· with Miss WEST is not known to members of his family or to his business associates . .
When he and MISS WEST arrived at the Carousel Club he introduced her to the owner, JACK RUBY, and RUBY joined them at their table,
buying MISS WEST two champagne cocktails.----------------------------------------------- WC Testimony:Mr. GRIFFIN. To try to fix the time that you were at the Carousel Club, try to think where you had diner, if you can, on that Thursday night, and how long it was from the time you had dinner until you went to the Carousel Club. Mr. MEYERS. You know something, I haven't got the vaguest recollection of where I had dinner that night. I could have sat down in some real fine restaurant and had an excellent dinner. I could have stopped in some coffee-shop and had a sandwich and a cup of coffee. I haven't got the vaguest recollection. Did I tell the people from the FBI. If I did, then I possibly--possibly I remembered it a little better then. Mr. GRIFFIN. No; you didn't. Mr. MEYERS. I have no recollection of where I had dinner that night. ------------------------------------------------------ Mr. GRIFFIN. I want to pick up now your contacts with Jack Ruby after the 26th of September. Do you recall the first time that you would have seen him after that time? Mr. MEYERS. I couldn't. It would be so difficult I would have to go back through my traveling records to seen when I was in Dallas. Now, I could have seen him, and I repeat, I don't remember. I could have seen him once or twice between the 26th of September-- I don't know why you chose that date, I assume you have your reasons--and the 21st of November, but I frankly have no recollection of it. It just wasn't that important enough to me to make any--you know, to have any memory of it. ---------------------------------------------------------- Mr. MEYERS. "...Meanwhile, I had stopped in to Jack's place that evening. I don't know what time. I would venture to say in the neighborhood of 9 o'clock that night. This was Thursday night, the 21st. I think that is pretty accurate because it comes back to me now. I visited with Jack for about, oh, an hour, I don't know, just sat around there and yakked with him. Nothing of any consequence. He might have even brought up this amateur night thing again. Of course, you realize that was before any of this tragedy had struck. So then I told Jack that my brother and his wife were going to meet me for a drink at the Bon Vivant Room about 11 o'clock and if he had the time, why didn't he come over and meet us. So he said he would if he could. Well, I don't remember now-- I guess possibly around 11:15 or so my brother and his wife came by and within the next half hour or less, Jack came by. So we sat there, and if I remember right, he had coffee. I have never seen him take a drink." ---------------------------------------------------------------- Mr. MEYERS. "...Now, you say did I see Oswald in that club that night? This is a ridiculous thing for me to say. I didn't see him. He might have been there. I would have been the most surprised guy in the world if he was, but do you follow what I am trying to say ? Mr. GRIFFIN. Sure.
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Post by Michael Capasse on Jul 14, 2021 10:58:03 GMT -5
Stepping Stones Clay Shaw lived at 1313 Dauphine Street, in New Orleans LA. A private investigators report on David Ferrie ordered by Eastern Airlines, found a frequent visitor to Ferrie, was a David Marachini. Marachini had an address of 1309 Dauphine Street, [next door to Shaw] when Jim looked further, he found a James Lewallen at that same address. Lewallen, at one time was a roommate of David Ferrie. Sometime later, Garrison requested the names of co-workers of Oswald at Riley Coffee Co. Anyone that had anything to do with Lee was gone, but when Jim reviewed the list of former employees, there again was the name, David Marachini. Marachini was hired at Riley the same day as Oswald, He left to work at the Chrysler Aerospace Division at NASA. Alfred Claude, had hired Oswald also went to NASA. John Branyon and Oswald's immediate supervisor, Emmmett Barbee, all went to the space agency. When Jim saw this, he asked Lou Ivon to find out where James Lewallen went to work, and without surprise, Lou came back, "Boeing at NASA." ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On the Trail of the Assassins | Jim Garrison "Lou and I kicked this interesting situation around a bit, and then we both became curious about what had happened to Melvin Coffee, who had accompanied David Ferrie to Texas on the eve of the assassination. Ivon was back the next day. Melvin Coffee had been hired by the Aerospace Operation at Cape Canaveral. Perhaps it was mere coincidence that all these men associated with David Ferrie, Clay Shaw, and Lee Oswald ended up working for NASA, but I doubted it. I knew by now that when a group of individuals gravitated toward one another for no apparent reason, or a group of individuals inexplicably headed in the same direction as if drawn by a magnetic field, or coincidence piled on coincidence too many times, as often as not the shadowy outlines of a covert intelligence operation were somehow becoming visible."
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