669 Data, Facts, and Timeline about the JFK Assassination (Part 4 of 7)
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669 Data, Facts, and Timeline about the JFK
Assassination (Part 4 of 7)
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Facts About the JFK Assassination:
1. Lee Bowers a railroad tower man, observed two men running from behind the fence. They ran up to a car parked behind the Pergola, opened the trunk and placed something in it and then closed the trunk. The two men then drove the car away, east on the Elm Street extension.
He also observed from his control tower, two other men running down the railroad tracks and then climbing into a boxcar. He phoned the police, and they later searched the boxcar and found three men dressed as dirty hobos in one of the locked boxcar, but two of the men had walkie-talkies in their pockets.
On August 9, 1966, Bowers was traveling at about 50 miles per hour in rural Midlothian, Texas, when his car drifted off the highway and struck a concrete bridge abutment. Bowers died four hours later, claiming that someone had drugged his coffee in a diner just before the accident.
2. Bill Newman was with his wife and children standing on the curb waving at the President. When the car was about 50 feet in front of them they heard the first shot, and saw the President jump up in his seat; And as the car passed in front of them they heard another shot come from behind them, from the direction of the grassy knoll, and hit the president on the right side of the temple. William Newman was standing only 10 feet away from the President when he saw him shot in the right temple.
3. These are some pictures showing Bill Newman, his wife, and children standing right across from President Kennedy, when he told Dallas reporters on television that day, that he had seen the President shot in the right temple; and that the shot had come from behind him up on the grassy knoll. Look at the top of the picture you can see Zapruder and his secretary standing on the pillar taking their famous film, and in the upper left corner of the picture, you can see a gunmen standing behind the stone wall. The Warren Commission never asked the Newman's to testify.
4. Billy J. Martin said, "I couldn't hear the shots over the noise of my cycle, but I could see what was happening. "When that headshot hit Kennedy, I was sure it was coming from the right front because of the direction the blood flew. It looked to me like at least two people were firing from a forward position and I thought there might be as many as six in all."
5. Jean Hill said, "I saw a puff of smoke and a figure with a gun behind the wooden fence at the top of the grassy knoll, and I started running that way." Jean was wearing a red coat and was standing with Mary Moorman in the black coat, just a few feet away from Kennedy's limousine, taking pictures of the President when the fatal head shot was fired. After hearing the shots Jean Hill and Mary Moorman fell to the ground, then she got up and ran in the direction of the grassy knoll, because she thought she had seen someone firing a rifle from behind the fence, behind the Pagoda (Pergola).
She ran up behind the Pergola and she was looking all around for the gunman when a Secret Service man came up to her and showed her some identification and said: "You are coming with me!" And he wanted the pictures in her pocket. And she told him that she could not go with him because she was trying to catch the gunman, and he grabbed hold of her shoulder by the neck which she said was extremely painful and he said: "You will come with me!" Then she tried to jerk away several times, and another man came up and grabbed her other shoulder, and it was horribly painful and said: "You will walk with me. And said: Smile!"
They took her into custody and took her over to the courthouse building, and took her up to a room on the third floor where there were two men sitting at a table at a window that overlooked the seen. And they had seen where she had stood and they asked her some strange questions, like "What did you think when the bullet hit at your feet? And she told them that she didn't see a bullet hit at her feet. And they kept asking her how many shots did she hear? And she said 4 to 6, and they told her "No there was only three." They keep her there until 10 PM. and then released her.
She ran up behind the Pergola and she was looking all around for the gunman when a Secret Service man came up to her and showed her some identification and said: "You are coming with me!" And he wanted the pictures in her pocket. And she told him that she could not go with him because she was trying to catch the gunman, and he grabbed hold of her shoulder by the neck which she said was extremely painful and he said: "You will come with me!" Then she tried to jerk away several times, and another man came up and grabbed her other shoulder, and it was horribly painful and said: "You will walk with me. And said: Smile!"
They took her into custody and took her over to the courthouse building, and took her up to a room on the third floor where there were two men sitting at a table at a window that overlooked the seen. And they had seen where she had stood and they asked her some strange questions, like "What did you think when the bullet hit at your feet? And she told them that she didn't see a bullet hit at her feet. And they kept asking her how many shots did she hear? And she said 4 to 6, and they told her "No there was only three." They keep her there until 10 PM. and then released her.
6. Mary Ann Moorman was standing on the grass about 2 feet (61 cm) south of the south curb of Elm Street in Dealey Plaza, directly across from the grassy knoll and the North Pergola concrete structure that Abraham Zapruder and his assistant Marilyn Sitzman were standing on — during the assassination. Moorman stated that she stepped off the grass onto the street to take a photo with her Polaroid camera. Zapruder can be seen standing on the pergola in the Moorman photograph, with the presidential limousine already having passed through the line of sight between Zapruder and Moorman.
Both Moorman and her friend, Jean Hill, can be clearly seen in the Zapruder film. Between Zapruder frames 315 and 316, Moorman took a Polaroid photograph, her fifth that day, showing the presidential limousine with the grassy knoll area in the background.
Moorman's photograph captured the fatal head shot that killed President Kennedy. When she took it – about one-sixth of a second after President Kennedy was struck in the head at Zapruder frame 313, Moorman was standing behind and to the left of President Kennedy, about 15 feet (5 m) from the presidential limousine. Moorman said in a TV interview that immediately after the assassination, there were three or four shots close together, that shots were still being fired after the fatal head shot, and that she was in the line of fire. She later stated in a 2013 PBS documentary Kennedy Half Century that she was close enough to hear Jackie Kennedy exclaim that John had been shot.
Moorman stated she heard a shot as the limousine passed her, then heard another two shots, "pow pow," when the president's head exploded. She stated that she could not find where the shots came from and that she saw no one in the area that appeared to have possibly been the assassin. Moorman was interviewed by the Dallas County Sheriff's Department and the FBI. She was called by the Warren Commission to testify, but due to a sprained ankle, she was unable to be questioned. She was never contacted by them again.
In 2013, Moorman attempted to sell the original Polaroid through Cowan’s Auctions in Cincinnati. The photo was expected to sell between $50,000 and $75,000 but did not meet its reserve. She had previously tried selling the photo to Sotheby's in New York, but the auction house deemed it to be "too sensitive to auction". That same year, she expressed her opinion on the assassination; she was convinced that Kennedy was killed as a conspiracy. "I really don’t know what exactly happened, but I do know there is bound to be a lot more to the story that hasn't been told," she said. "I was hoping it would come out in my lifetime, but who knows. So much has been hidden by the government; anything can take place and it can be hidden. Oswald probably was not an alone person, he probably had backers. I really do think it was a conspiracy."
7. Kennedy was shot in the back and head. He then slumped over toward his wife.
8. When Kennedy was shot, Ruby was five blocks away from the Texas School Book Depository, distributing ads.
9. Dallas police officer Joe Marshal rushed up the grassy knoll he could smell the gun power, which he later reported to the Warren Commission. When he met a man in the parking lot behind the fence he pulled his pistol and the man quickly showed him his ID, saying that he was a secret service agent. They then spotted two men running across the railroad yard and chased after them, but he lost them.
10. Officer Douglas Jackson jumped the curb and rode his Motorcycle 2/3's the way up the grassy knoll till it fell over at the top of the steps and he jumped off and drew his gun and confronted one of the men behind the fence, who immediately showed him his Secret Service badge. Then they spotted two men running down the railroad tracks and he chase after them, but he lost them.
11. Dallas Patrolman Marion L. Baker had been assigned to serve as a motorcycle escort for the motorcade, and he was riding just behind the camera cars. He testified that the first shot he could hear was fired after he turned from Main St. onto Houston St. and had traveled approximately 60 to 80 feet along Houston as he approached the Houston and Elm streets intersection. Baker stated that he recognized the first shot he could hear as the report of a high-powered rifle and that he thought the shots had originated from the building "either right in front of me [the Depository] or the one across to the right of it" [the Dallas Textile Building (DalTex)]. He also said that he noticed pigeons take the flight up from the roof of the depository building and start flying around. Baker then quickly drove to the corner of Houston and Elm St., parked his motorcycle, then looked westward into the aftermath of persons screaming, running and laying on the ground. He then listened to Chief Curry's radio broadcast saying, "Get some men up on that railroad track."
Baker then ran to the entrance of the Texas School Book Depository, entered the building with his gun drawn, and led by building superintendent Roy Truly, made his way to the far northwest corner of the first floor. From there, Baker and Truly started yelling for someone to send an elevator down from a higher floor. When there was no response, the two men began climbing the stairs, with Truly in the lead. Approximately, 90 seconds after the shots rang out, Baker stepped out onto the second floor and a movement towards the lunchroom vestibule across from the stairs caught his attention. Baker confronted Oswald at gunpoint. He let Oswald pass after Truly identified him as an employee. According to Baker, Oswald did not seem to be nervous or out of breath. Truly said that Oswald appeared "startled" when Baker aimed his gun at him. According to the Warren Commission, Oswald was next seen by a secretary as he crossed through the second-floor business office carrying a soda bottle. He left the Texas School Book Depository through its front door at about 12:33 p.m.
12. Lee Harvey Oswald was confronted by an armed Dallas officer, Marion Baker, in the Depository second-floor lunchroom only 74 to 90 seconds (according to a Warren Commission time recreation) after the last shot.
13. Immediately after the shooting, two Policemen got off their motorcycles and ran up the hill toward the fence. Patrolman E.D Brewer called over the police radio saying. "We have a man here who says he saw a man pull the weapon back through the window off the second-floor from the southeast corner of the Texas School Book Depository."
14. Dallas officer J. M. Smith ran to the parking lot behind the grassy knoll immediately after the assassination. He suddenly met a stranger and pulled his gun. The stranger identified himself as a Secret Service agent and showed Smith his credentials (although Smith later could not recall his name). Smith’s account is corroborated to some degree by two other law officers—Deputy Constable Weitzman and Sergeant Harkness.
Sylvia Meagher, an independent researcher, made a meticulous check of Secret Service records and found that no Secret Service agent was on or near the knoll area at the time that Smith met the “agent.” Mrs. Meagher suggests that the assassin may have escaped by using fake Secret Service credentials.
15. Chauncey Marvin Holt was told that an incident was going to be created which could be laid at the door of pro-Castro Cubans.
Holt was picked up with Charles Harrelson and Charles Rogers as the ‘3 Tramps’ arrested in a railroad car and quietly released by Dallas PD a few hours after the JFK assassination. But in 1992, the Dallas Police Department revealed that the three tramps were Gus Abrams, John F. Gedney, and Harold Doyle.
The three men along with Jim Brading were interrogated by Gordon Shanklin of the FBI and then released.
16. A reporter asked Mr. Zapruder, "As you were standing on this abutment facing Elm Street, you say the police ran over behind the concrete structure behind you and down the railroad track behind that, is that right? Yes -after the shots, some of them were motorcycle cops- I guess they left their motorcycles running and they were running right behind me, of course in the line of the shooting. I guess they thought it came from right behind me.
17. The Secretary across the hall from the second-floor lunchroom testified that Oswald asked her for the change of a dollar so he could buy a Coke. This brief exchange must have taken at least a minute. Oswald then walked across the hall and bought a Coke in the second–floor lunchroom; And moments later, he met Roy Truly, the TSBD’s building supervisor, and Marrion Baker, the motorcycle police officer who ran into the TSBD within half a minute of the shooting.
18. Finally, Oswald chatted with his foreman for a few minutes before going home. The official account of Oswald’s activities has him leaving the TSBD at 12:33, just three minutes after the shooting.
19. Marilyn Sitzman who was standing behind Abraham Zapruder on the concrete pedestal said that there were two black teenagers sitting on a wooden park bench behind the white retaining wall, eating their lunch and drinking soda-pop. A shot was fired and the smoke rose, and she heard a bottle break. Then another shot was fired, the smoke rose, and both of the smoke clouds drifted out into the trees.
20. Evelyn + Arthur King brother and sister were sitting on the bench eating lunch, and a Dallas police officer fired a shot. Evelyn was 15 to 20 feet away, looking at the police officer right in the eye as he fired from the fence line. She said it was a Dallas cop. Before she could hit the grown, another person fired from behind the fence. She was eating her lunch and had a bottle of strawberry Ni-Hi that fell and broke, shattering on the sidewalk. When the shooting stopped, the black couple got up and ran through the Pergola.
21. Evelyn King said that there was a conversation with a police officer by a young man who was in an Army uniform. And she said this guy came in with a camera and stood at the fence line here, and that was Gordon Arnold.
22. Gordon Arnold was taking pictures of the Presidential Limousine as it was coming down Elm Street towards the triple underpass. Arnold started rolling his film, just as he "felt" the first shot come from behind him only inches over his left shoulder. He said: "I had just gotten out of basic training. In my mind, live ammunition was being fired. It was being fired over my head, and I hit the dirt. One shot went past my left ear, and the other went over me. I thought they were shooting at me."
23. Arnold said that the first two shots that he heard did not come from the Texas School Book Depository Building because you wouldn't hear a whiz go over the top of your head like that!
24. Arnold said the first two shots came from behind the fence, close enough for me to fall down on my face, and he stayed there for the duration of the shooting. "Eyewitness" by Ed Hoffman and Ron Friedrich, 1998, JFK Lancer Publications."
25. The next thing he knew someone was kicking him, and telling him to get up. Arnold said: "It was an officer, and I told him to go jump in the river. And then this other guy-a policeman comes up with a shotgun and he was crying and that thing was waving back and forth. I thought he was a police officer because he had a uniform of a police officer, but he didn't wear a hat, and he had a dirty hand. But it didn't really matter much at that time because with him crying like he was, and with him shaking when he had the weapon in his hand, I think I'd have given him almost anything except the camera because that was my mother's.
He kicked me and asked me if I was taking a picture. I told him that I was. I said you can have everything I've got. Just point it someplace else." Arnold took his film from the canister and threw it to the officer. "It wasn't worth three dollars, and something to be shot for. All I wanted them to do was to take the blooming picture film and get out of there, just let me go. That shotgun and the guy crying over there was enough to un-never me from doing anything." I gave the film to him, and he then went back off in this direction, and I went off in this direction.
Two days later, Arnold was on a plane reporting for duty at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, and he didn't come back to the United States for about eighteen months. He hadn't given his name to the police in Dealey Plaza, and he never told his story to authorities, because he had heard after that there were a lot of people making claims about pictures and stuff and they were dying sort of peculiarly.
He kicked me and asked me if I was taking a picture. I told him that I was. I said you can have everything I've got. Just point it someplace else." Arnold took his film from the canister and threw it to the officer. "It wasn't worth three dollars, and something to be shot for. All I wanted them to do was to take the blooming picture film and get out of there, just let me go. That shotgun and the guy crying over there was enough to un-never me from doing anything." I gave the film to him, and he then went back off in this direction, and I went off in this direction.
Two days later, Arnold was on a plane reporting for duty at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, and he didn't come back to the United States for about eighteen months. He hadn't given his name to the police in Dealey Plaza, and he never told his story to authorities, because he had heard after that there were a lot of people making claims about pictures and stuff and they were dying sort of peculiarly.
26. Witness Gordon Arnold described encountering 2 cops seconds after the assassination on the grassy knoll. One had ‘dirty hands’ while the other was ‘crying’ and holding a rifle. One of the cops kicked Arnold and took his camera film of JFK’s motorcade. These two cops were likely Roscoe White (wearing a DPD uniform without a hat) and J.D. Tippit.
27. Roscoe White claimed to have been one of the JFK shooters in his diary, while Tippit may have been there to keep nosy potential eyewitnesses and people with cameras away from the grassy knoll area before and after the assassination. No one can pin down his exact whereabouts until about 12:40 PM that afternoon, while JFK was killed at 12:30.
28. Roscoe White was the husband of Geneva White who worked in Jack Ruby's nightclub. Roscoe White was a CIA undercover agent and had been hired shortly before the assassination, by the Dallas Police Department as a clerk-photographer in October 1963, and was in training to become a police officer, which he did a year or so later. However, when Beverly saw him, he was wearing a policeman's uniform (which he had no right to wear, not being a police officer yet,) he had no policeman's hat, nor a gun and holster which all the officer's ware.
29. Robert G. Vinson was an Air Force Sgt. working in Colorado Springs, CO in 1963. He had gone to Washington, DC in the days before the JFK assassination to formally protest being passed over for promotion. On the morning of the JFK assassination, Vinson had settled his promotion troubles and hopped a flight back to Colorado from Andrews Air Force Base in MD before being swept up into history.
In Flight from Dallas, Vinson described being on an unmarked C-54 cargo plane with 2 pilots he did not speak with on his homeward flight. At 12:30 p.m, one of the pilots announced that JFK had been shot, and the plane suddenly made a 90 degree southward turn towards Dallas. The plane eventually landed on a road construction site on the Trinity River floodplain and picked up 2 mysterious passengers who were hiding near a tool shed near the landing site. Vinson described the first passenger as a tall, dark-complexioned man who looked Cuban or Latino. This person meets the description of the CIA’s David Sanchez Morales. More interestingly, however, the 2nd passenger struck the Sgt. as a spitting image of Lee Harvey Oswald!
Vinson further recalled that the 2 men were dressed as construction workers wearing coveralls and that they came aboard the plane and sat up front behind the cockpit without exchanging any words to anyone. This strange flight would go on to land in Roswell, NM, where Vinson’s fellow passengers rapidly departed the plane and scattered upon arrival. The Sergeant would have to hitch a bus ride from NM to CO to finish his trip home the next morning. From here, Vinson tells of being harassed and ultimately recruited by the CIA to work on several lucrative CIA spy plane projects based out of Roswell in trying to bribe/co-opt him and keep him silent about the things he saw that fateful day.
The aforementioned Oswald lookalike was likely accomplished Oswald impostor, Billy Seymour. He and David Sanchez Morales both lived in Arizona at the time, adding logistical plausibility.
30. Estimates of when the depository building was sealed off by police range from 12:33 to 12:50 p.m.
31. Although George H. W. Bush has admitted to being in Texas that day, he cannot account for his exact whereabouts at the time of the assassination. Some people say that George H. W. Bush was stopped and questioned by police as he was coming out of the Dal-Tex Building, where he identified himself as a Huston oilman, and they let him go.
Right after the assassination, Bush gets in his car and drives 1 hour 30 minutes to the east, where he makes the phone call from Tyler Texas so he has an alibi and can now say that he was in Tyler Texas when the assassination took place. But when Bush is asked where he was when Kennedy was murdered, he says that he can’t remember. How is it that he can remember making a phone call from Tyler Texas 1 hour 30 minutes after the assassination, but he can not remember where he was before that? If that doesn't sound suspicious, I don’t know what does!
Then Bush tells the FBI that he is proceeding to Dallas Texas and staying at the Sheraton Dallas Texas Hotel, where people had seen him the night before. George Bush was staying in Dallas at the downtown Sheraton Hotel and had spent the previous night of the 21st there. George H.W. Bush. Richard Nixon, Johnson, J Edgar Hoover along with 25 others were all mysteriously for some reason in Dallas the night before the assassination at the Murchison house for a meeting on Nov. 21, 1963, before Kennedy arrived the next day, according to an alleged co-conspirator and spotter Frank Sturgis.
32. Kennedy and Connally were rushed to the nearest hospital, Parkland Memorial Hospital. It just 3.4 miles (5.5 km) away.
33. His heart was still pounding when Kennedy was rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital.
34. The presidential limo arrives at Parkland Memorial Hospital on 12:35 p.m.
35. Secret Service agent Roy Kellerman, who is in charge in Dallas, calls the head of the Secret Service Jerry Behn to report that JFK has been hit at 12:35 p.m.
36. The ABC radio network broadcast that the president had been shot At 12:36.
37. The CBS television network broadcast the first nationwide TV news bulletin about the shooting at 12:40.
38. Witness Howard Brennan was sitting across the street from the Texas School Book Depository and watching the motorcade go by. He notified police that he heard a shot come from above and looked up to see a man with a rifle fire another shot from the southeast corner window on the sixth floor. He said he had seen the same man minutes earlier looking through the window. Brennan gave a description of the shooter, and Dallas police then broadcast descriptions between 12:45 p.m., 12:48 p.m., and 12:55 p.m. After the second shot was fired, Brennan recalled, "This man I saw earlier was aiming for his last shot... and maybe paused for another second as though to assure himself that he had hit his mark."
39. At about 12:45 p.m., Oswald boarded a city bus. Probably due to heavy traffic, he requested a transfer from the driver and got off two blocks later. Oswald took a taxicab driven by William H. Whaley to his rooming house at 1026 North Beckley Avenue and entered through the front door at about 1:00 p.m.
40. Cecil McWatters, the driver of the bus Oswald took from the Texas Book Depository Building, identifies Oswald. McWatters says that Oswald was wearing a jacket, though the Warren Commission (which investigated the assassination) said he was not. Also, later when testifying to the Warren Commission, McWatters says he was wrong in selecting Oswald in the lineup.
41. At 12:45 p.m., 15 minutes after Kennedy was shot, Tippit received a radio order to drive to the central Oak Cliff area as part of a concentration of police around the center of the city. At 12:54, Tippit radioed that he had moved as directed. By then several messages had been broadcast describing a suspect in the killing of Kennedy as a slender white male, in his early thirties, 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) tall, and weighing about 165 pounds (75 kg). Oswald was a slender white male, 24 years old, 5 feet 9 inches (1.75 m) tall, and an estimated weight of 150 pounds (68 kg) at autopsy.
42. Kennedy was operated on at Trauma Room 1 while Connally operated on Trauma Room 2.
Trauma Room 1 where Kennedy was operated on, was officially destroyed in 1972, for the expansion of Parkland Hospital.
43. At Parkland Memorial Hospital, while President Kennedy lay dying, LBJ, the frightened man who was to succeed him in only a few minutes stood in a hallway, muttering over and over, “The international Communists did it... The international Communists did it.”
44. A nurse who was on duty at the operating room told me how difficult it was to release the back support iron that JFK normally wears. President John Kennedy, who suffered from chronic back pain, wore a heavy, corset-like brace that went from his chest to below his waist.
45. Phyllis Hall, a nurse who handles JFK revealed that he was shot with a "mysterious bullet."
Hall told the Daily Mail, "I could see a bullet lodged between his ears and his shoulders, the bullet was about 1.5 inches long and the bullet was visible and showed no signs of damage."
What made Hall even more astonished was that this bullet was completely different from the bullet that was later made clear in the investigation of the Kennedy murder case.
46. Over 30 medical staff and doctors that worked on JFK that day agree that he had two entrance wounds from the front, and a large exit wound in the rear of JFK’s head. There was a small 5mm (3/8"in) bullet hole in the front neck, just below Kennedy's Adams-apple when he arrived at the hospital, which they cut to make larger to insert a tub in JFK’ throat to try to get him breathing again. An entry wound to the throat means that the shoot came from the front.
47. Over 30 medical staff and Doctors from Parkland Hospital in Dallas observed a head wound on President Kennedy in the rear of the head. None of the Treatment reports written at Parkland Hospital on 11/22/63 described any damage to JFK's head on the right side or on top of the skull. The Treatment reports from 11/22/63 described JFK's head wound as "occipital or occipital-parietal," or "posterior." The "occipital bone" is in the middle of the back of your head. An occipital-parietal wound would be in the right rear of your head. None of these Doctors used words to describe wounds to the top of the head, or to the right side. In fact, none of them saw any damage to the top of the President's head or to the right side; they only saw damage to the right rear.
48. Several treatment physicians also described seeing cerebellum tissue extruding from the President’s head wound. The cerebellum is a portion of the brain at the lower back of the skull.
49. Dr. Charles Crenshaw enters and notes there is a large wound on the back of the president’s head as well as a small hole in his throat. They use this hole to do a tracheotomy to open up Kennedy’s airway.
50. The bullet that destroyed a part of his head made all the relief efforts useless. Kennedy died.
51. Kennedy once predicted he wouldn't live past age 45. Kennedy died at the age of 46.
52. Doctor Kemp Clark said JFK had died on November 22, 1963, at 1:00 p.m. Then his body was taken back to Air Force One at Love Field in a bronze casket, accompanied by his wife and the Vice President.
53. Kennedy was the fourth American President to be killed after Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, and William Mckinley. It was the first since the Secret Service began protecting presidents.
54. The day he died we lost an invaluable treasure. We lost a man of peace, who tried to cool off the cold war, and to get the American people to see their Russian enemies, not as despicable inhuman monsters, but as people like us.
On November 22, 1963, you lost the man who saved your life on October 17, 1962. At the height of the missile crisis, Kennedy’s generals and advisors were urging him to launch a first strike attack against Cuba.
They assured Kennedy that the Russian missiles in Cuba were not nuclear and were not ready; but that he and they should quietly slip away to the safety of bomb shelters anyway, just to be safe; and then launch an attack, leaving the rest of us out to die. Kennedy thought about it. And then he told them that nobody was going anywhere.
If anyone died, they would be the first to go, sitting as they were in the Whitehouse, the prime target of those Russian missiles. Together they then figured out a safer plan. Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense at the time, recently learned from the Russians that the missiles were armed, were ready, were nuclear, and that their commanders were authorized to use them in case of an attack.
If you live in the northern hemisphere, the lives of your parents, and your future, were certainly saved by John Kennedy on that day. It matters that his killers be exposed.
55. At the time when Kennedy was assassinated, the murder of any United States President was not covered by any federal law.
56. A Catholic priest named Father Oscar Huber (1895–1975) was summoned to Parkland Hospital to do the last rites for President Kennedy. Father Huber, after administering the last rites to the president, told The New York Times that the president was already dead upon the priest's arrival at the hospital. Huber had to draw back a sheet covering the President's face so that the last rites could be given.
57. According to his housekeeper Earlene Roberts, Oswald immediately went to his room, "walking pretty fast." Roberts said that Oswald left "a very few minutes" later, zipping up a jacket he was not wearing when he had entered earlier. He takes back to his boarding house where he changes and gets his pistol. At 1:00 p.m., as Oswald left, Roberts looked out of the window of her house and last saw him standing at the northbound Beckley Avenue bus stop in front of her house.
58. Roscoe White asked Tippit to drive Oswald to Redbird Airport. Tippit balked, suspecting they were involved in the assassination he had just heard about, and White had to shoot him right then. Oswald ran away. There is a report that an extra police shirt was found in the backseat of Tippit's car, and we surmise that this belonged to Roscoe, who changed his clothes there. It is also thought that Tippit's car was the one that stopped at Oswald's house and beeped, and then picked him up down the street - Geneva White, the wife of Roscoe White, was interviewed by Harrison Edward Livingstone for the book, High Treason (1990).
59. Tippit may have actually picked up the real Oswald and driven him to the Texas Theater that day before doubling back to that same neighborhood where he would be shot and killed by Roscoe White and Oswald lookalike, Billy Seymour. The real Oswald arrived at the Texas Theater between 1:00 and 1:07 according to witness, Butch Burroughs, while Tippit was not shot until 1:15 p.m.
60. At about 1:11–1:14 p.m., Tippit was driving slowly eastward on East 10th Street — about 100 feet (30 m) past the intersection of 10th Street and Patton Avenue — when he pulled along a man who resembled the police description. Oswald walked over to Tippit's car and apparently exchanged words with him through an open vent the window. Tippit opened his car door and as he walked toward the front of the car, Oswald drew his handgun and fired four shots in rapid succession. One bullet hit Tippit in the chest, one in the stomach, another in his right temple (one bullet hit a button and did not penetrate his skin). Tippit's body was transported from the scene of the shooting by ambulance to Methodist Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 1:25 p.m. by Dr. Richard A. Liguori.
61. Twelve people who saw the shooting or its aftermath were mentioned in the Warren Report.
62. At 1:15 p.m., a memo records Bush’s phone call to the FBI, precisely an hour and fifteen minutes after the assassination.
63. At 1:15 p.m., about 45 minutes after the JFK assassination, Oswald shot and killed Dallas Police patrolman J.D. Tippit near the intersection of 10th St. and Patton Ave. This was 0.86 mile from Oswald's rooming house. Thirteen people saw Oswald shooting Tippit or fleeing the immediate scene.
64. After being told to patrol the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, Officer J.D. Tippit speaks to someone who fits Oswald’s description. Shortly after, police hear a civilian on the police radio line saying, “It’s a police officer. Someone shot him.”
Domingo Benavides saw Tippit standing by the left door of his parked police car, and a man standing on the right side of the car. He then heard shots and saw Tippit fall to the ground. Benavides stopped his pickup truck on the opposite side of the street from Tippit's car. He observed the shooter fleeing the scene and removing spent cartridge cases from his gun as he left.
Benavides waited in his truck until the gunman disappeared before assisting Tippit. He then reported the shooting to police headquarters, using the radio in Tippit's car.
65. By that evening, five of the witnesses had identified him in police lineups, and a sixth identified him the following day. Four others then identified Oswald from a photograph.
66. Frank Wright emerged from his home and observed the scene seconds after the shooting. He described a man standing by Tippit’s body who had on a long coat and who ran to a parked car and drove away.
67. Barbara Davis and her sister-in-law Virginia Davis heard the shots and saw a man crossing their lawn, shaking his revolver as if he were emptying it of cartridge cases. Later, the women found two cartridge cases near the crime scene and handed the cases over to police.
That evening, Barbara Davis and Virginia Davis were taken to a lineup and both Davises picked out Oswald as the man whom they had seen.
68. Helen Markham saw the shooting and then saw a man with a gun in his hand leave the scene.
69. Taxicab driver William Scoggins testified that he was sitting nearby in his cab when he saw Tippit's police car pull up along a man on the sidewalk. Scoggins heard three or four shots and then saw Tippit fall to the ground. As Scoggins crouched behind his cab, the man passed within twelve feet of him, pistol in hand, muttering what sounded to him like, "poor dumb cop" or "poor damn cop." The next day, Scoggins viewed a police lineup and identified Oswald as the man whom he had seen with the pistol.
70. Dallas Police officer J. D. Tippit was shot four times by Oswald. Four cartridge cases were found at the scene by eyewitnesses.
71. Critics have questioned whether the cartridge cases recovered from the scene were the same as those that were later entered into evidence. Two of the cases were recovered by witness Domingo Benavides and turned over to police officer J.M. Poe. Poe told the FBI that he marked the shells with his own initials, "J.M.P." to identify them. Sergeant Gerald Hill later testified to the Warren Commission that it was he who had ordered police officer Poe to mark the shells. However, Poe's initials were not found on the shells produced by the FBI six months later. Testifying before the Warren Commission, Poe said that although he recalled marking the cases, he "couldn’t swear to it." The identification of the cases at the crime scene raises more questions. Sergeant Gerald Hill examined one of the shells and radioed the police dispatcher, saying: "The shell at the scene indicates that the suspect is armed with an automatic .38 rather than a pistol." However, Oswald was reportedly arrested carrying a non-automatic .38 Special revolver.
72. The Warren Commission concluded that Oswald "killed Dallas Police Officer J. D. Tippit in a clear attempt to escape." The evidence that formed the basis for this conclusion was: "(1) two eyewitnesses who heard the shots and saw the shooting of Dallas Police Patrolman J. D. Tippit and seven eyewitnesses who saw the flight of the gunman with revolver in hand positively identified Lee Harvey Oswald as the man they saw fire the shots or flee from the scene, (2) the cartridge cases found near the scene of the shooting were fired from the revolver in the possession of Oswald at the time of his arrest, to the exclusion of all other weapons, (3) the revolver in Oswald's possession at the time of his arrest was purchased by and belonged to Oswald, and (4) Oswald's jacket was found along the path of flight taken by the gunman as he fled from the scene of the killing."
73. Some researchers have alleged that the murder of Officer Tippit was part of a conspiracy to kill President Kennedy. Jim Marrs hypothesized that "the slaying of Officer J. D. Tippit may have played some part in [a] scheme to have Oswald killed, perhaps to eliminate co-conspirator Tippit or simply to anger Dallas police and cause itchy trigger fingers." Researcher James Douglass said that "... the killing of [Tippit] helped motivate the Dallas police to kill an armed Oswald in the Texas Theater, which would have disposed of the scapegoat before he could protest his being framed." Harold Weisberg offered a simpler explanation: "Immediately, the [flimsy] police case [against Oswald] required a willingness to believe. This was proved by affixing to Oswald the opprobrious epithet of 'cop-killer.” Jim Garrison alleged that evidence was altered to frame Oswald, stating: "If Oswald was innocent of the Tippit murder the foundation of the government's case against him collapsed."
74. Some critics doubt that Tippit was killed by Oswald and assert he was shot by other conspirators. They allege discrepancies in witness testimony and physical evidence that they think to call into question the Commission's conclusions about the murder of Tippit. According to Jim Marrs, Oswald's guilt in the assassination of Kennedy is placed in question by the presence of "a growing body of evidence to suggest that [he] did not kill Tippit". Others say that multiple men were directly involved in Tippit's killing. Conspiracy researcher Kenn Thomas has alleged that the Warren Commission omitted testimony and evidence that two men shot Tippit and that one left the scene in a car.
75. "Tippit was shot by two men, one of whom was Billy Seymour… six witnesses, ignored by the Warren Commission, saw two men shoot Tippit. One of them resembled Oswald… Seymour ran toward the Texas Theater." – Richard Sprague, The Taking of America 1-2-3, 1976.
76. “The officer was getting out of the car, and apparently, he’d been talking to the man (Roscoe White) that was standing by the car. The officer got out of the car, and as he walked past the windshield of the car, where it’s kind of lined up over the hood of the car, where this other man shot him." – Witness Domingo Benavides to The Warren Commission.
77. The Warren Commission theorized that Oswald had traveled from the sixth-floor easternmost window, and hid an 8-pound, Italian-made 1940 Carcano, a 6.5-millimeter rifle equipped with a four-power scope along the way. The rifle was reportedly discovered near the sixth-floor northwest corner by a Dallas police detective at 1:22 p.m., having been placed down between stacks of boxes, balanced upright on the lowest edges of its barrel and wooden stock. After being discovered, the rifle was photographed before being touched and was filmed while it was being inspected by the police crime lab supervisor.
78. According to their last report, Oswald was seen by his housekeeper leaving his rooming house shortly after 1:00 pm and had enough time to travel nine-tenths of a mile (1.4 km) to the scene where Tippit was killed at 1:16 pm.
Some Warren Commission critics believe that Oswald did not have enough time to get from his house to the scene where Tippit was killed. The Commission’s own test and estimation of Oswald’s walking speed demonstrated that one of the longer routes to the Tippit shooting scene took 17 minutes and 45 seconds to walk. No witness ever surfaced who saw Oswald walk from his rooming house to the murder scene.
Conspiracy researcher Robert Groden believes that Tippit's murder may have occurred earlier than the time given in the Warren Report. He notes that the Commission established the time of the shooting as 1:16 pm from police tapes that logged Domingo Benavides' use of the radio in Tippit's car. However, Benavides testified that he did not approach the car until "a few minutes" after the shooting because he was afraid that the gunman might return. He was assisted in using the radio by witness T. F. Bowley who testified to Dallas police when he arrived to help, "several people were at the scene," and that the time was 1:10 pm.
Witness Helen Markham identified Lee Harvey Oswald as Tippit's killer in a police lineup she viewed that evening. Markham stated in her affidavit to the Dallas Sheriff’s department that Tippit was killed at "about 1:06 pm." She later affirmed the time in testimony before the Warren Commission, saying: "I wouldn't be afraid to bet it wasn't 6 or 7 minutes after 1." She initially told the FBI that the shooting occurred "possibly around 1:30 pm." In an unpublished manuscript titled When They Kill a President, Deputy Sheriff Roger Craig stated that when he heard the news that Tippit had been shot, he noted that the time was 1:06 pm. However, in a later statement to the press, Craig seemed confused about the time of the shooting.
79. Some critics dispute that Oswald shot Tippit, arguing that the physical evidence and witness testimony do not support that conclusion. Other critics state that Tippit himself was a conspirator, tasked to kill Oswald by organized crime or right-wing politicians to cover up the search for other assassins.
80. At 1:26 p.m., Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson leaves Parkland for Air Force One. As he and Mrs. Lady Bird Johnson are leaving, she sees the flags drop to half mast. Assistant White House Press Secretary Mac Kilduff confirms Kennedy’s death.
81. Although Kennedy was pronounced dead at 1:00 p.m., the official announcement would not come until more than half an hour later. After receiving word of the president's death, acting White House press secretary Malcolm Kilduff entered the hospital room where Vice President Johnson—who would be sworn in as the new President on Air Force One later that day—and his wife were sitting. Kilduff approached them and said to Johnson, "Mr. President, I have to announce the death of President Kennedy. Is it OK with you that the announcement is made now?" Johnson ordered that the announcement is made only after he left the hospital. When asking that the announcement is delayed, Johnson told Kilduff: "I think I had better get out of here... before you announce it. We don't know whether this is a worldwide conspiracy, whether they are after me as well as they were after President Kennedy, or whether they are after Speaker (John W.) McCormack, or Senator (Carl) Hayden. We just don't know."
82. At 1:33 p.m., Malcolm Kilduff entered a nurses' classroom at the hospital filled with press reporters and made the official announcement:
President John F. Kennedy died at about 1:00 today, here in Dallas. He died of a gunshot wound to the brain. I have no other details about the assassination of the president.
83. Walter Cronkite, a CBS Newsman, announcement to the world that Kennedy was dead came at 1:38 PM.
84. After killing Tippit, Oswald was seen traveling on foot toward the Texas Theater on West Jefferson Blvd. About 1:35 p.m., Johnny Calvin Brewer, who worked as a manager at Hardy's Shoe Store in the same block as the Texas Theater on Jefferson Blvd. saw Oswald turning his face away from the street and duck into the entrance way of the shoe store as Dallas squad cars drove up the street with sirens on. Hardy's shoe store manager Johnny Brewer observed Oswald acting suspiciously as police cars passed nearby with sirens blaring. When Oswald left the store, Brewer followed Oswald and watched him go into the Texas Theater movie house without paying while ticket attendant Julie Postal was distracted. It is playing the film “War is Hell.” Brewer notified Postal, who in turn informed the Dallas Police at 1:40 p.m.
Warren "Butch" Burroughs, who ran the concession stand at the Texas Theater where Oswald was arrested, said that Oswald came into the theater between 1:00 and 1:07 pm; he also claimed he sold Oswald pop-corn at 1:15 p.m. – the “official” time of Officer Tippit’s murder. Julia Postal told the Warren Commission that Burroughs initially told her the same thing although he later denied this. http://history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh7/html/WC_Vol7_0011a.htm
Theater Patron, Jack Davis, also corroborated Burroughs' time, claiming he observed Oswald in the theater prior to 1:20 p.m.
85. The police were notified by the theater's cashier and responded by surrounding the theater. Oswald is seen sneaking in, and police start to search the theater. Almost two dozen policemen, sheriffs, and detectives in several patrol cars arrived at Texas Theater because they believed Tippit's killer was inside. Oswald was arrested after a brief struggle.
86. The lights are raised and officer Nick McDonald spots Oswald in the seats. McDonald walks up to Oswald who says, “This is it!” and pulls out a revolver. When an arrest attempt was made at 1:50 p.m. inside the theater, Oswald resisted arrest and, according to the police, attempted to shoot a patrolman after yelling once, "Well, it's all over now!" then punching a patrolman.
87. As they fight, officer McDonald gets his finger in front of the pistol’s hammer so the gun will not fire. Oswald punches an officer in the face and the officer punches back, giving Oswald a black eye.
88. The removal occurred after 10 to 15 minutes angry confrontation between Kennedy's special assistant Ken O'Donnell (backed by weapons-drawn and/or aimed Secret Service agents) with Parkland Hospital doctors and Medical Examiner Dr. Earl Rose, along with a justice of the peace. The removal of President Kennedy's body may have been illegal according to Texas state law because it was done before a forensic examination could be performed by the Dallas coroner. The assassination of the president was, at that time, listed on the books as a state-level crime and not a federal one, and as such legally occurred under Texas jurisdiction. To this date, however, no official judge or court of law has ruled on this matter.
89. At 2:00 p.m, a Secret Service agent Roy Kellerman gets into an argument with Dallas Country medical examiner Dr. Earl Rose. The Kennedy party wants his body put in a casket and want to leave the hospital.
At this point, killing a president is not a federal offense. Because of this, the medical examiner argues that the autopsy has to be performed before the body is taken from Dallas.
Johnson orders the body to be released, but the medical examiner refuses. Finally, he is overridden by Dallas district attorney Henry Wade, who only agrees to release the body if Admiral Dr. Burkley, Kennedy’s private physician, promises to stay with the body until it is put in the casket for the last time.
90. At 2:07 p.m., Kennedy’s body leaves Parkland Hospital bound for Love Field. After news of the assassination, the stock market has dipped 24 points. It now closes, not to reopen until Tuesday, November 26.
91. The president’s body has been loaded to Air Force One with much difficulty. The casket they got from the funeral home was too wide for the plane door, and they had to break some handles off.
92. Despite what conspiracy theorists say, the damage to the casket was caused by the secret service, not the casket being opened and the body is altered.
93. According to the JFK Library, at around 2:15 p.m., police officers arrested Oswald in the back of a movie theater and held him for the fatal shooting of Tippit and the assassination of Kennedy.
94. Jacqueline refused to take off her pink Chanel suit, stained with her husband's blood. She told Lady Bird Johnson, "I want them to see what they have done to Jack." But she removes her wedding ring and put it on her husband's finger to be buried with him.
95. Jackie's pink Chanel suit has never been cleaned and lies in the National Archives. It will not be seen in public until at least 2103, according to Kennedy family wishes.
96. Johnson was convinced of the need to make an immediate transition of power after the assassination to give stability to a grieving nation in shock. He and the Secret Service were concerned that he could also be a target of a conspiracy and felt compelled to rapidly remove the new president from Dallas and return him to Washington. This was greeted by some with assertions that Johnson was in too much haste to assume power.
97. Simultaneously, Johnson phones grief-stricken Robert Kennedy, the president’s younger brother, and the Attorney General, to find out what his legal options are about taking the oath of office.
98. Judge Sarah T Hughes said to Johnson, "Mr. President, I'm really sorry but I could not find a copy of the Swearing-in Ceremony." And Johnson looked around at the people gathered there and said, "If any of you say anything about this I'll call you a liar." And he reached into his pocket and pulled out a copy of the Swearing-in Ceremony. So while they were standing there and Judge Hughes was reading it and preparing to give the oath of office; Johnson turns and looks back an Albert Thomson. And Thomson gives him a wink, and Johnson smiles.
99. In the rush, a Bible was not at hand, so Johnson took the oath of office using a Roman Catholic liturgical book, the Saint Joseph Sunday Missal from President Kennedy's desk.
100. Lyndon Baines Johnson is sworn in as the 36th president of the United States aboard Air Force One at 2:38 p.m.
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